While these days are chasing voices concern (to be said, promptly denied by the alert every time mayor of the town) about a possible future reopening of the nuclear Caorso, MZ Cremona offers an interesting article by Marco Ghisolfi on health risks, as evidenced by a recent study by the University of Meinz, associated with the activity of nuclear facilities.
Perhaps drunk to celebrate the endless April 25, few people remember what happened the next day, exactly 22 years ago: the largest nuclear accident in history. In fact, April 26, 1986, during an experiment, the operators of the Chernobyl lost control of the reactor that exploded emitting a huge amount of riadioattività that in the days immediately following the disaster contaminated half of Europe. In Italy it was the fear that through a referendum was prohibited custruzione new nuclear power stations on Italian soil. After the fear, it seems that today the nuclear lobby is raising its head. First, the representatives of the new government have not ruled out investment and research in the energy sector. To take two concrete XAMPLES explaining the situation, Edison, March 13, has publicized a study that provides prorprio costruziuone 5 to 10 nuclear power plants by 2019, then was circulated a map of 10 sites deemed suitable to house, finally, the Milan-Brescia A2A announced that he had given to five universities in Milan
a study that suggests ways the government and time for the return of Italy nuclear. While the Italian media are sharpening their weapons for an upcoming debate filonucleare, came here from Germany in complete silence Meinz a University study, published last December on "European Journal of Cancer," which shows that children living in a radius of 5 km from a nuclear plant are at higher risk of developing early and severe form of cancer. Meinz researchers have focused in particular on the area adjacent to the Krummel nuclear power plant, where it was detected a dramatic increase of leukemia, especially childhood, as in adults. A study applied to all other 16 German nuclear power stations and gave the same results (incidence of leukemia: 37 cases out of 16 expected).
Faced with these results is confirmed once again that even low doses of radiation leaking from nuclear installations during normal operation are, however, leachate and emissions. While they are uncontested, the damage to human health caused by an accident at a nuclear plant, the normal operation of a nuclear power plant takes into consideration is harmless. A myth to be dispelled, even in Italy waiting to be opened a dossier on consequences of "low doses of radiation." A new battle is looming anti-nuclear. Let us not be found unprepared.
Marco Ghisolfi
