| The article is about weapons rather than power. Weapons dont attempt to contain anything. Power plants do so pretty well. I wanna see what effect Nuclear Power has on the health of the average French citizen. If we're going to examine power, the US is hardly the place. Only around 20% is from nuclear. France, on the otherhand - home country to Areva, (Westinghouse's main competition for fuel supplier here in the US) gets ~75% OF Their power from nuclear reactors. There's a couple upstarts each from Britian and East Asia, but they're not working with our 1950s-70s standards within boiling water reactors. I dont know about much with them and their fuels. So, here in the States, we have the same companies (Westinghouse and Areva,) operating in a similar regulatory environments with similar technologies... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267445/
Here's a link where our NIH disputes previous findings about French Lukemia. Confounding factors were later discovered in the initial study which caused the panic; this study also used a terribly small sample size. Spain is in a similar Nuclear "envelope" of the industry. Both Westinghouse and Areva operate there. http://www.foronuclear.org/es/ask-the-expert/121594-epidemio...
no risk found in the Spanish study. |