Fallout, radiation doses near Dounreay, and childhood leukaemia. by Darby, S, Doll, R

“…Possible explanations for the recently reported increased incidence of childhood leukaemia around Dounreay were examined in the light of changes in the national incidence of leukaemia that occurred during the period of exposure to fallout from international testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. …”

Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site. by Kinlen, L, O'Brien, F, Clarke, K, Balkwill, A, Matthews, F

“…They also suggest that the recent excess in the Dounreay-Thurso area is due to population mixing linked to the oil industry, promoted by certain unusual local demographic factors.…”

From fishing village to atomic town and present: A grounded theory study. by Elfriede Derrer-Merk, Lakshay Jain, Omid Noori-Kalkhoran, Richard Taylor, Drury Mike, Trevor Stain, Bruno Merk

“…Participants fondly recalled the hey-day when the Dounreay site was built and the population increased rapidly. …”
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Childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma in young people living close to nuclear reprocessing sites. by Kinlen, L

“…An increased incidence of leukaemia and NHL has been recorded close to Britain's two nuclear reprocessing sites at Sellafield in West Cumbria and Dounreay in Northern Scotland. Two hypotheses have been advanced to explain the excesses - paternal preconceptional irradiation (PPI) and an infective basis promoted by population mixing. …”

Temporal trends in childhood leukaemia incidence following exposure to radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing by Wakeford, R, Darby, S, Murphy, M

“…Notably raised rates of childhood leukaemia incidence have been found near some nuclear installations, in particular Sellafield and Dounreay in the United Kingdom, but risk assessments have concluded that the radiation doses estimated to have been received by children or in utero as a result of operations at these installations are much too small to account for the reported increases in incidence. …”

Temporal trends in childhood leukaemia incidence following exposure to radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. by Wakeford, R, Darby, S, Murphy, M

“…Notably raised rates of childhood leukaemia incidence have been found near some nuclear installations, in particular Sellafield and Dounreay in the United Kingdom, but risk assessments have concluded that the radiation doses estimated to have been received by children or in utero as a result of operations at these installations are much too small to account for the reported increases in incidence. …”

Evidence for an infective cause of childhood leukaemia: comparison of a Scottish new town with nuclear reprocessing sites in Britain. by Kinlen, L

“…Increases of leukaemia in young people that cannot be explained in terms of radiation have been recorded near both of Britain's nuclear reprocessing plants at Dounreay and Sellafield. These were built in unusually isolated places where herd immunity to a postulated widespread virus infection (to which leukaemia is a rare response) would tend to be lower than average. …”

Nuclear power plants and childhood leukaemia: lessons from the past and future directions by Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni, Ben Daniel Spycher

“… In the 1980s, leukaemia clusters were discovered around nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in Sellafield and Dounreay in the United Kingdom. This raised public concern about the risk of childhood leukaemia near nuclear power plants (NPPs). …”
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Social Value in Construction / by Raiden, Ani, author, Loosemore, Martin, author, King, Andrew, author, Gorse, Chris, author

Vented Inverted Fuel Assembly Design for an SFR by Vitillo, Francesco, Todreas, Neil E., Driscoll, Michael J.

“…Venting is a concept studied during the past and its major past application in sodiumcooled fast reactors was in the Dounreay Fast Reactor in the United Kingdom. In this work the inverted assembly approach was adopted because it allows high fuel volume fraction, reduction of the coolant void reactivity, less neutron leakage, the reduction of the enrichment and lower pressure drop for the same channel length because grids nor wire wraps are no longer necessary. …”
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