Epidemiological study on childhood cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants (KiKK) - 3602S04334
Salzgitter, 2007
Summary
The leukaemia risk for children below the age of 5 increases with decreasing distance of their place of residence from a nuclear power plant. This is the result of a study conducted by the German Childhood Cancer Registry, which was initiated and funded by the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). For the time period 1980-2003 and within a 5 km distance around the nuclear sites, 37 children came down with leukaemia, whereas 17 cases would have been expected. Thus, about 20 newly diagnosed cases are related to the fact of living within this distance from a nuclear site.
