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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10898
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) nuclear

Rivasi wants change in radioprotection standards

Brussels, 29/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - The French MEP Michèle Rivasi (Greens/EFA) has criticised the “rejection” this week by France, both by the health minister, Marisol Touraine, and the French radio protection and nuclear safety institute (IRSN), of Italian research noting a sharp increase in thyroid disease in Corsica after the radioactive cloud following Chernobyl accident passed over in April 1986.

Rivasi, a founder of the French independent committee for research and information...