Nuclear power and leukaemia in children

A summary is given of a session entitled ''Nuclear Power and Leukaemia in children'' held at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society and the Society for Social Medicine in June 1985. The first part of the session was devoted to summarising the principal findings of the Black Report on the Investigation of the Possible Increased Incidence of Cancer in West Cumbria'', and to a description and critical review of the main evidence presented to the Committee. Later, further epidemiological studies arising out of and related to the Report were described. The meeting was useful in identifying areas of uncertainty in environmental modelling, radiobiology and epidemiology. (U.K.)