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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Stacey Singer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Tests by a privately funded anti-nuclear group found that South Florida children's baby teeth contain concentrations of radioactive Strontium-90 that rival those measured in the early 1960s, when the United States still conducted above-ground nuclear weapons testing, a study released Wednesday says.
The group responsible for the findings, the Radiation and Public Health Project, believes that emissions from South Florida's two nuclear power plants _ Turkey Point and St. Lucie _ are the only plausible source of the man-made carcinogen. The plants' owners, Florida Power & Light, dispute the study's accuracy.
The study collected 86 baby teeth from Miami-Dade children born between 1980 and 1994. Those teeth showed an average Strontium-90 concentration...
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