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`Dome`d to death

`Dome`d to death A NUCLEAR reactor in your vicinity could be the best way to contract breast cancer, as the latest Greenpeace report reveals. The report titled, "Nuclear Power, Human Health and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning in the Great Lakes Basin", endorsed by 13 us cancer experts, indicates that toxic chemicals including radioactive emissions from nuclear reactors have led to a sharp increase in the occurrence of breast cancer in the Great Lakes Basin. Current death rates of women in the 81 us counties bordering the Great Lakes is 27.8 deaths compared to the 24.6 for the rest of the country.

Greenpeace recommends that nuclear reactors be phased out, considering that alternate benign energy sources exist. Nuclear power production, with all its attendant benefits, can play havoc on human lives.