Study by Greek Harvard Professor Says Those Living Near Nuclear Power Plants Have Higher Cancer Mortality Rates

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The impetus for the study came a few years ago, when a group of doctors noticed an increased number of cancers in the Massachusetts county where a nuclear power plant operates.

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"Nuclear energy poses a significant risk to public health," notes the head of the research, Professor of Environmental Health and Human Settlement at Harvard, Petros Koutrakis.

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A research team, led by Petros Koutrakis, decided to study all US nuclear power plants to draw conclusions.

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Residents of counties in the United States of America who live near nuclear power plants have higher cancer mortality rates than those who live further away. This is revealed by a study by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, published in the journal “Nature Communications”. “Nuclear energy poses a significant risk to public health,” the head of the study, Petros Koutrakis, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Healt…