Studying life in the shadow of nuclear plants
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BURR RIDGE — The girl’s voice shook as she stood in front of some of the world’s top scientists and told them “I am one of the statistics that you will be studying.”
Sarah Saurer was seven years old when she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Her parents soon found out that several other children in their small town — which sat just miles away from two troubled Illinois nuclear power plants — had been diagnosed with brain cancer and leukemia.
Then news broke that one of the plants had been leaking radioactive water for years before it was detected. A quick survey by concerned mothers found that every single home within a quarter mile of the spill housed someone who’d been diagnosed with cancer.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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