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Guilty as charged

By Rob Edwards and Duncan Graham-Rowe

10 March 2001

THE radiation given off by pylons, power cables and electrical appliances may
be giving two children in Britain cancer every year. A new study commissioned by
the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) says that the 1 in 200
children exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation in their homes
could be doubling their chances of contracting leukaemia.

For years controversy has raged over the possible links between
electromagnetic fields and cancers, fuelled by a series of contradictory and
inconclusive investigations worldwide
(Âé¶¹´«Ã½, 9 August 1997, p 16).
This week, however, the argument has shifted significantly in favour of…

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