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Kakadu’s higher cancer rates not linked to radiation from Ranger Uranium Mine, report finds
A six-year investigation by the Northern Territory Government into an apparent cancer cluster in Aboriginal communities near the Ranger Uranium Mine in Kakadu has found “no evidence that environmental ionizing radiation was responsible for the excess cancers or fetal deaths”.
Key points:
- Higher cancer rates in the Kakadu region have been confirmed in the report
- No certain explanation for the higher incidence of cancers was found
- The report found that “little, if any,” of the higher cancer incidence was due to radiation exposure
The investigation, overseen independently by epidemiologist Professor Bruce Armstrong, was triggered by the Northern Territory’s Chief Health Officer in 2014 when evidence of a cancer cluster in the vicinity of the…
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