Check out this new study: Living Near Nuclear Power Plants Linked to Higher Cancer Mortality Nationwide

"The closer a county is to a nuclear power plant, the higher its cancer death rate appears to be—raising new questions about nuclear energy’s hidden health costs."

Full report available here: Reference: “National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States” by Yazan Alwadi, Barrak Alahmad, Carolina L. Zilli Vieira, Philip J. Landrigan, David C. Christiani, Eric Garshick, Marco Kaltofen, Brent Coull, Joel Schwartz, John S. Evans and Petros Koutrakis, 23 February 2026, Nature Communications.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69285-4