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Is Nuclear Power Dangerous to Your Health?
(by Lea Wood Montpelier - March 04, 2009)
Editor:
Recently I listened to a pediatrician from Germany tell an audience about a German study of cancer in children under five living near nuclear power plants. I learned that cancer increased 30% and leukemia 120% in these children. The closeness of the plant produces a higher rate as well as the younger the child, the higher the rate. Embryos have the highest rate. The study covered 24 years, 1980 to 2003, and was published in December 2007.
The study supports the supposition that children living near nuclear power plants develop cancer and leukemia more frequently than those living farther away. Yet Vermont Yankee is one block from an elementary school!
Some scientists believe there is no safe level of radioactive emissions from nuclear power plants for anyone. There is also the double edge of their plutonium byproduct used for weapons. The only reactor that is not a cancer risk is a decommissioned one.
Entergy, the nuclear industry, and the governor all push for nuclear energy. Most people are against it in spite of the mainstream media keeping us in ignorance of its deadly consequences. The consequences of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, are ongoing. What a legacy for our children.
Lea Wood
Montpelier
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