WORKERS exposed to radiation in uranium processing plants may run an
increased risk of developing lung cancer two decades later, according to a study
commissioned by British Nuclear Fuels.
Although there is some evidence that uranium miners can contract lung cancer
from the dust they inhale, there is scant evidence that workers in facilities
where the radioactive metal is processed are at risk. But now David McGeoghegan
from Westlakes Scientific Consulting in Cumbria has found a link between
radiation and lung cancers at the Springfields uranium fuel fabrication plant
near Preston in Lancashire.
He analysed the health records of 19…
