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Nuclear Power Opponents Cite Link To Infant Death Rates

Laptop Battery Antinuclear campaigners plan to announce today that a new study shows that infant death rates downwind of eight American nuclear power plants dropped significantly after they were shut down.

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Thinkpad Some plan to use the findings to support calls for closing the nuclear reactors at Indian Point, the plant closest to New York City, in Westchester County.

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Microsoft But federal officials, some radiation experts and representatives of the nuclear power industry said that there was no evidence to link illness and proximity to nuclear plants and that minute, occasional releases from such plants were much lower than natural radiation levels.

Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from more than 5.7 million live births and nearly 12, year period. Overall, neonatal (younger than 28 days) risk women. The rate was about one death per 1, 000 live births. However, the study found that the death rate among neonatal infants delivered by Caesarean section was more than twice that of infants delivered vaginally. demographic and medical risk factors.

Laptop Computers The new statistical study, which is being published in the next issue of The Archives of Environmental Health, was conducted by a group of scientists who for many years have purported to show a link between mortality and illness and low levels of radiation from power plants, bomb tests and other sources.

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Laptop Computer But their past work has never been replicated by federal health researchers, and the statistical analysis they used in some earlier studies has been challenged by the National Cancer Institute.

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Desktop Computer The study said the infant death rate in communities for two years preceding the plant shutdowns averaged 8.44 deaths per 1,000 births and, when all the mortality data for two years after the plant shutdowns were combined, the infant mortality rate dropped to 7.01 per 1,000 births.

Notebooks The difference was statistically significant, the authors said, and the drop was greater than the general drop in infant death rates around the country in recent years.

Lenovo The scientists, from the Radiation and Public Health Project, a nonprofit group, defended their new findings and cited the need for much more research.

Hard Drive Joseph J. Mangano, a public health statistician and the national coordinator for the group, said a statistical link does not prove a cause and effect, but points to the need for more work.

Travelstar "A lot of things could affect infant deaths," he said. "The list is literally endless. This doesn't mean we've proved anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, but what I will say is we really need to do more follow-up."

Gateway Among other things, the study examined statistics from counties and cities downwind of eight nuclear plants that shut down either for a prolonged period or permanently in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Laptop Parts Dr. John Boice Jr., who directed a 1991 National Cancer Institute study of disease patterns around nuclear plants and other institutions using radiation, said no link emerged.

Software "There are so many other important things to worry about in terms of radiation like what are we doing to do with the waste and the terrorism issue," he said last night.

Hard Drives By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times - 4/30/2002

Topic: Nuclear

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