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Nuclear Safety > Childhood Cancer and Nuclear Power Plants
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Childhood Cancer and Nuclear Power Plants
The epidemiological study on childhood cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants (KiKK) resulted in the finding that in Germany children under 5 years of age contract cancer, in particular leukaemia, more frequently the nearer they live to a nuclear power plant. Earlier ecological studies already showed an increased risk of children under 5 years of age living within the 5-km-zone around a nuclear power plant site contracting cancer. Since it was designed in a more elaborate way (case-control study) than earlier studies, the KiKK study provides a more reliable database. On the basis of the more exact methodology it could be shown that the childhood cancer incidence rate depends on the distance of the home to a nuclear power plant site and that the increased risk prevails in the entire study region, i. e. also outside the 5-km-zone.
In the study other risk factors were examined, too, which have been known for having a carcinogenic effect or of which this has been assumed. However, no indications could be found that other risk factors can explain why children under 5 years of age living in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant have contracted cancer more frequently than children living farther away. Due to the fact that the risk clearly depends on the distance to the nuclear power plant sites, the study thus provides indications of possible interrelations but it does not provide any proof.
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Statement by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection on the KiKK Study
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On behalf of BfS, the German Childhood Cancer Registry in Mainz carried out an epidemiological study about childhood cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants, in short KiKK study, which was published in December 2007. Subsequent to the publication, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety charged the Commission on Radiological Protection with the evaluation of the study.
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Ergebnisse der Qualitätsprüfung der Kinderkrebsstudie
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Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) hat zusätzlich zur Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse der epidemiologischen Studie zu Kinderkrebs in der Umgebung von Kernkraftwerken (KiKK-Studie) eine Qualitätsprüfung der Studie in Auftrag gegeben. Die gutachterliche Stellungnahme von Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Professor Eberhard Greiser und Professor Wolfgang Hoffmann hat das BfS dem Umweltausschuss des Bundestages zugeleitet.
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Häufigkeit von Krebs bei Kindern in der Umgebung von Kernkraftwerken - atw 53 vom März 2008
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Die jüngst vorgestellte Epidemiologische Studie zu Kinderkrebs in der Umgebung von Kernkraftwerken (KiKK) hat zum Ergebnis, dass in Deutschland Kinder unter 5 Jahren häufiger an Krebs, insbesondere Leukämie, erkranken, je näher sie an einem Kernkraftwerksstandort wohnen. Das BfS stellt die zentralen Ergebnisse der Studie in einem Artikel der Fachzeitschrift atw dar. Den vollständigen Artikel aus der atw 53 vom März 2008 finden Sie hier.
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Background information on the KiKK study
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The discussion about increased cancer rates in the vicinity of nuclear power plants has continued since the use of nuclear energy has been considered to be a problematic issue. In 1987 and 1989 British studies reported a statistically significant increase of childhood leukaemia around nuclear facilities in England and Wales. In 1992, an analogously performed ecological study observed a statistically significant increased incidence rate for leukaemias among children below five years of age within the 5-km-zone around the sites.
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BfS and GCCR jointly support results of the childhood cancer study
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The main results of the KiKK study are reliable, and are shared by all parties involved in the study. That is the result of a meeting between the contractor of the study, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) and the authors of the investigation, the German Childhood Cancer Registry (GCCR).
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Federal Office for Radiation Protection demands an objective discussion of the KiKK study findings
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The Federal Office for Radiation Protection demands an objective discussion of the KiKK study findings. The BfS declares that the study is not suitable for ideological arguments and that the findings must be discussed in an open and non-judgemental way. In particular comments made by Katharina Reiche, Deputy parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group, are not suited to a matter-of-fact examination of the finding, demanded by herself.
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