I doubt there really is an increased cancer-risc for following reasons:
1) In a cirkular accelerator all the synchotron radiadion goes off radially outwards - since the collider is built underground no one is affected above or on the inside of the ring.
2) The kind of leukemia statistics you mention is most certainly flawed/biased and is worthless unless you quote the uncertainties with it. I belive we have heard a lot about this kind of "research" claiming that everything from cellphones to electrical systems cause cancer - if they alle were true humanity hadn't survived the last 100 years:-)
the reason they build the next accelerators on the same spot is, that they have the tunnels allready.
btw: The new hadron collider will cause less radiation than a electron collider does because of the much higher mass of the hadrons.
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Here is the entertaining version of this important discovery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
whooosh
oups - sorry, you are right.
But this doesn't change my statement, that any radiation from the accelerator will end up in the surrounding earth.
Jonas
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I doubt there really is an increased cancer-risc for following reasons:
:-)
1) In a cirkular accelerator all the synchotron radiadion goes off radially outwards - since the collider is built underground no one is affected above or on the inside of the ring.
2) The kind of leukemia statistics you mention is most certainly flawed/biased and is worthless unless you quote the uncertainties with it. I belive we have heard a lot about this kind of "research" claiming that everything from cellphones to electrical systems cause cancer - if they alle were true humanity hadn't survived the last 100 years
the reason they build the next accelerators on the same spot is, that they have the tunnels allready.
btw: The new hadron collider will cause less radiation than a electron collider does because of the much higher mass of the hadrons.
Jonas
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