Nuclear: This Increase in Deaths Near Power Plants Worries in Silence

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Nuclear power plants are re-emerging in global energy plans in the face of the climate emergency, boasted for their low carbon emissions, but their ability to achieve climate goals is being questioned. But a long-standing question is now on the front line: the health effects of nuclear facilities on populations living nearby.A recent research conducted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has attempted to measure these effects on a scale…

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A study published in Nature Communications shows a correlation between cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States. The researchers published in Nature Communications an article relating to the correlation between cancer mortality and proximity to a nuclear power plant. From Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, they collected mortality data from the national registers of the Centers for Disease Control and P…