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- W183155906 abstract "In October 1993, a year from the commencement of court proceedings, Judgment was given in the High Court of Justice, London, for the Defendants, British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) in cases brought by two individuals claiming compensation for the causation of leukaemia/lymphoma. This review will examine the events leading up to the trial and the scientific issues which were raised then, and subsequently, in addressing the question of a possible role for ionising radiation in excesses of childhood leukaemia occurring around nuclear installations. Ten years earlier a television documentary “Windscale the Nuclear Laundry” had drawn attention to an apparent excess of childhood leukaemia in the coastal village of Seascale 3 km from the Sellafield nuclear installation in West Cumbria. The “cluster” consisted of 6 cases which had occurred since 1950, when nuclear operations commenced at Sellafield. This number of observed cases was about 10 times the number expected on the basis of national rates. The documentary suggested that exposure to radiation from radioactive discharges from Sellafield might be responsible for this excess of childhood leukaemia. The concern generated by this programme prompted the UK Government to set up an Independent Advisory Group, chaired by Sir Douglas Black, to enquire into these claims, and in 1984, the Group confirmed the excess of childhood leukaemia. However a radiological assessment carried out by the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) found that radiation doses to the children of Seascale from Sellafield discharges were several hundred times too small to account for the excess. This led to speculation that the risk of radiation-induced childhood leukaemia in Seascale had been greatly underestimated and a programme of scientific work was recommended to clarify" @default.
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- W183155906 title "Childhood Leukaemia and Radiation: The Sellafield Judgment" @default.
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