Nuclear weapons and pollution linked to 65 million deaths

    Pollution from nuclear energy and weapons programmes up to 1989
    will account for 65 million deaths, according to a European
    scientific committee headed by an adviser to the British
    Government.

    Research published yesterday by the European Committee of 
    Radiation Risk claims that previous figures massively 
    underestimate the nuclear industry's impact on human life.

    The ECRR is an international body of 30 independent scientists,
    led by Dr Chris Busby, a member of the Government's radiation
    risk committee and adviser to the Ministry of Defence on the
    use of depleted uranium.

    It concludes that the cancer epidemic is a result of pollution
    from nuclear energy and of exposures to global atmospheric
    weapons fallout, which peaked in the period 1959-63. The
    research cites evidence such as the levels of breast cancer in
    women who were adolescent between 1957 and 1963, when nuclear
    weapons testing was at its peak.

    Dr Lucas said: "The fact that existing analysis could not account
    for the abnormally high local levels of illnesses like childhood
    leukaemia was more a reflection on the research methodology than
    the acclaimed safety of the nuclear project."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=374164

By Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor
31 January 2003

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