Is there any correlation between strontium levels in children’s teeth and power station operation?
The discharges from nuclear power stations are carefully monitored and must be kept within very low limits. Radioactive strontium is one of the by-products of nuclear fission but remains within the fuel and is not discharged to the environment. Routine monitoring of the environment, including sampling of milk, shellfish and crops is also carried out and reported publicly by government agencies. There is no evidence of a harmful build up of any radioactive elements as a result of power station operation in the UK. The exposure of members of the public to radioactivity arising from the operation of nuclear powers stations is a tiny fraction of the natural background radiation to which we are exposed.
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