By Prof. Dr. Edmund Lengfeld, University Institute radiobiological Ludwig-Maximilian Munich:
Following the unusual number of leukemia cases children in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant and the nearby Krümmel Research Center Geesthacht east of Hamburg, commissions of scientists and researchers to inquire into the causes of this phenomenon.
The Ministry of Environment informed the German population on the outcome: in an area of \u200b\u200b15 km. around nuclear power stations, there had been an increase in cases of cancer and leukemia among children up to 14 years. However, a performance monitoring by members of the Commission of Schleswig-Holstein leukemia (active from 1992 to 2004) was the following diagnosis:
In an environment of 5 km, there was a significant increase leukemia cases in children under 4 years. In an area of \u200b\u200b5 to 10 km, there were fewer cases, and the environment from 10 to 15 km, even less. The
operating nuclear power plants, the National Childhood Cancer Registry in Mainz and the Kohl government's policy, they saw no link between cancer and radioactive emissions from nuclear plants.
The graph illustrates the central result of childhood cancer study (KIKK). This proves that a closer between housing and the nuclear power station, raising the risk of cancer in children under 5 years. The increase mainly concerns the typical leukemia by ionizing radiation. A similar curve is expected as distance principle in relation to the broadcast site. Even at 50 km away, beyond the normal values \u200b\u200bfor childhood cancer.
The high values \u200b\u200brecorded by members of the committee on the environment Krümmel / Geesthacht were either denied, or simply attributed to the Chernobyl disaster.
In 2004, following pressure from groups in society, numerous medical and high number of inhabitants in the vicinity of German nuclear power plants, the Ministry of Environment charged back to the National Childhood Cancer Registry in Mainz, to make a thorough research on childhood cancer in children under 5 living in the vicinity of nuclear power plants Germany.
In December 2007, the new director of the Childhood Cancer Registry, Mainz, Prof. Blettner, announced the result:
" Our study has confirmed that in Germany there is a relationship between the distance of the house with respect to nuclear next [...] and the risk for children of cancer or leukemia within 5 years of age. [...] Exposure to ionizing radiation has been neither measured nor evaluated (modeled) [...] ionizing radiation emitted by nuclear power plants in normal operation can not be interpreted primarily as a cause . "
In 2006, the same authors described their methodology in a "Report on an epidemiological study in progress." They clarified in detail, to replace the lack of individual data on radiation damage in children, determining the individual distance between home and the nuclear plant, and with the help of the principle of distance can be approximated relationship dose-effect.
But, the present results "unexpected," the study authors say KIKK now, that radiation can not be considered to cause cancer and leukemia in children. So simply contradict the method they had previously set , ie the distance from the central measurement replacement of radioactive exposure. This approach reflects a scientific fraud.
With asbestos, passive smoking, the consequences of Chernobyl and other examples, is indeed found to circles of influence in politics and economy, scientists make use of "adequate" to downplay or deny, for two or more decades, serious damage to health that are evident, and so deceive the public.
Prof. Dr. Edmund Lengfeld Strahlenbiologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Schillerstr. 42, D-80336 München Tel
: 0049 89 430 December 19
Fax: 0049 89 430 41 21
E-mail: Lengfeld (at) lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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