Activist Questions Isles' Cancer-Risk Figures

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Marshall Islands residents exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing in the Pacific face a 9 percent increase in total number of cancers, according to a recent federal study.

But when the National Academy of Sciences reviewed a different federal draft report, the NAS said Americans have only a 0.03 percent chance of increased cancer deaths attributable to fallout, including that from the Nevada Test Site.

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Activist Questions Isles' Cancer-Risk Figures

That difference -- between 9 percent and 0.03 percent -- seems strange to Vanessa Pierce, program director for the activist group Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah.

"I think that they've averaged th...

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