Incidence of leukaemia in young people around the La hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant: A sensitivity analysis

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Abstract
The objectives are to investigate the incidence of childhood leukaemia in young people around the French nuclear waste reprocessing plant (La Hague, Normandy) for the period 1978–1992, and to check the sensitivity of the results to the choice of disease clustering tests and reference rates. The performance of three statistical procedures are compared: a conventional approach; a Poisson maximum test, and an extraction mapping technique. On the whole, the results are in general agreement and demonstrate the apparent existence of a distinct cluster of childhood leukaemia, contiguous and south‐east of the La Hague nuclear facility.