FALLOUT from the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine may have led to hundreds of deaths and deformities among babies in Britain.
In April 1986, one of Chernobyl’s reactors exploded and showered a swathe of Europe with radioactivity. Although most experts say the fallout had a detectable impact on human health only in the Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, studies in Germany, Greece, Scotland and Wales have suggested links between the accident and increases in infant leukaemia.
Now research by John Urquhart, a statistician based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has discovered high rates of infant deaths and birth defects in…
