Telegraph | Connected | Did Sellafield workers seed leukaemia?
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- Slavos1 on 2006-07-12 - Tags sellafield
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What emerged
has confirmed his suspicions: it is no surprise that the effects of
the factories on the risk of leukaemia could not be detected in the
work of Comare and the Leeds team. Wartime records and electoral
registers reveal that Seascale was relatively unaffected by the
construction of the ordnance factories and remained a small village
during the war.
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carried out more
detective work to find out what really happened during the war years
when those factories were built.
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studied childhood leukaemia in
Orkney and Shetland during the Second World War when around 60,000
troops were based there to guard against invasion from
German-occupied Norway.
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He compared the leukaemia mortality among around 12,000 wartime
children with that in the more than 6,000 children born between 1946
and 1955, when the visiting servicemen had left and the local
population fell to its normal level. There was a 3.6-fold increase
in the risk of leukaemia among the wartime children, compared with
post-war children.
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on 2006-11-08 by slavos1