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Tin and Radiation (1990)

Auteur	Minewatch
Datum	augustus 1990
Classificatie	6.01.4.20/26 (STRALING - RADON/ACHTERGRONDSTRALING)
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INFORMATION FROM MINEWATCH

MINEWATCH SPECIAL REPORT. Ref NRPB/SURRC/CAPPER PASS August I990 TIN 
SMELTING/RADIATION EXPOSURES TO WORKERS AND PUBLIC AT LARGE

Background to enclosed documents

Four years ago, public alarm was generated in Britain at the discovery of an 
apparently quite abnormal (and abnormally high) incidence of rare childhood 
leukaemias, in a relatively small part of north Humberside (north east England.)

Further research - including studies by the University of Leeds leukaemia 
Research Fund Centre - failed to correlate the cancers with the operations of the 
nearby CAPPER PASS TIN SMELTER (100%) owned by RTZ, or Rio Tinto Zinc.) 
However, contrary to claims made by the company at that time, the research did 
not conclude that there was no link between childhood cancer incidence (including 
deaths) and the smelter. Instead, it urged further research.

This research was carried out and published in the form of the BAXTER REPORT, for 
the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre (SURRC) in early 1990. 
The broad conclusions of this report have already been reported in 
Partizans/MINEWATCH BRIEFING PAPER No.7 (see Appendix)

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