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From the Des Moines Register yesterday, the above, and:

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Nuclear Energy Task Force released a final report that encourages more nuclear power plants in Iowa.

This report makes no mention of cancer increases in communities that are near nuclear power plants. At a time when Iowans are deeply concerned about having one of the nation’s highest rates of increases in cancers, the last thing we need is another source of new cancers.

I urge every Iowan to review a study that was published in February 2026, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. This study, “National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States,” shows that U.S. counties located closer to operational nuclear power plants have higher cancer mortality rates than those farther away.

Iowa and the United States do not need nuclear power. We already have wind, solar and battery storage that is field-tested and in use. They can be scaled up quickly, they do not have a toxic waste stream like nuclear waste, and they can meet all of Iowa’s electric power needs. Wind, solar and battery storage can do it for far less cost, with none of the risks and toxic waste problems of nuclear power.

Patrick Bosold, Fairfield

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/cancer-concern-increasing-nuclear-power-233905829.html

Meanwhile in Scotland?

On the 40th Anniversary of Chernobyl, how a Labour First Minister’s ‘day one’ plans for nuclear power will ‘present an existential challenge for local policing’ and expose our children to thyroid cancer

Shocking latest US research finds 80 000 unnecessary breast and other cancers near nuclear power stations to further condemn Scottish Labour’s energy strategy

Energy Minister shanks hails Scots having to clean up after a French-owned nuclear power station where some of the remaining radioactive isotopes in the soil will last in excess of 13 billion years and which caused the highest cancer level in Europe

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