Hypothesis of excess cancer clusters down wind of a NPP

My apologies if I have this in the wrong forum, finding someone capable of discussing this subject has been very difficult.

Having read various cancer cluster in vicinity and down wind of nuclear power station reports and also Chernobyl Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment by
ALEXEY V. YABLOKOV
VASSILY B. NESTERENKO
ALEXEY V. NESTERENKO

The evidence of increase in ill health with close proximity to NPP and the Environmental monitoring appears on the face of it to show insignificant exposure to the public and baffling increases in desease.
Here in the UK there is an institutionalised view that public exposure must be exterior and there is very little consideration to internal metabolised chemical and radiological toxicity effects.

Previous testing has focussed on urine and blood containing highly mobile Uranium and Plutonium etc which may over time be expelled in urine or metabolised to continue irradiating and poisoning internally at far higher rates than external dose given

An analogy would be looking for evidence of a melted frost and ignoring the frost damaged brickwork.

With the vast evidence of contamination effect in Chernobyl affected environments and the papers on blood chemistry damage. Blood chemistry changes and DNA / chromosome damage would seem to be the logical permanent record of exposure as pre cursors to increased susceptibility to chronic diseases.

Blood tests for specific compounds would be expected not to show high levels- we are looking for accumulative damage when compounds have been metabolised in which case the radiological and chemical toxicity can be many times higher that the official exterior background doses.

“Among biological methods of dosimetry the cytogenetic method is undeniable the most widely spread and best studied. This method is based on the analysis of the frequency of chromosome aberrations in blood lymphocytes of the human organism exposed to radiation. Standard dose effect curves are obtained after in vitro irradiation of blood cells for quantitative determination of the doses of exposure. By comparing the data on the frequency of cells with chromosome aberrations with a calibration curve it is possible to estimate the irradiation dose. Radiation may cause two types of chromosome aberrations: unstable (dicentrics, centric rings) and stable (translocations). The most often used for the purposes of biological dosimetry is the frequency of dicentrics and centric rings in peripheral blood lymphocytes. As a rule, the frequency of dicentrics permits estimating the dose of irradiation at early periods after exposure.
· Retrospective dose assessment by the frequency of dicentrics is unfortunately not always possible. This is first of all due to the elimination of cells with unstable chromosome aberrations with time. However, the cytogenetic method for retrospective assessment of irradiation doses is analysis of stable translocations by the FISH method. The frequency of translocations remains constant during a long period (years) after irradiation.”

With any accumulative exposure there will be lag period from initial exposure to illness.
This would be difficult to determine on the face of things,but if a pattern of either moving into the area or period of exposure v initial onset of illnesses in people considered low risk by their lifestyle and occupational exposure could establish a data set and look for correlation of exposure and onset of illness.

While down wind is increase is known, geology of some area's could act like a basin concentrating exposure dose rates and the hills as a ramp effect which would affect any cluster information gathering.

A consideration would be to look at high volume industrial air systems and compressor filter systems used on factories that hours run and volume of air can be calculated to use as a model of inhalation of air by occupants in locality over time if it assumes any environmental pollution remains at a near constant.
Used filters could be obtained as waste product for testing.

Regards Daniel Somersetlevels at googlemail.com