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另外一篇文章,2004年发表在HPS《物理学健康协会》:$ {. ?& z# I7 @# o6 U# C
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Health Risks Associated with Living Near High-Voltage Power Lines, F) S, P5 Q: s2 n( D
Gary Zeman, Sc.D., CHP
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Potential health concerns about power lines were first raised in a 1979 study which associated increased risk of childhood leukemia with residential proximity to power lines. Since that initial study, numerous other investigations have attempted but failed to clarify whether observed associations between electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and various health effects were causal or coincidental. Some scientists have argued the physical impossibility of any health effect due to weak ambient levels of EMFs, while others maintain that the potential health risks should not be dismissed even though the evidence remains equivocal and contradictory.
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To address public concerns about power line EMFs, a national program in electric and magnetic field research was authorized by Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 1992. This program was called EMF-RAPID (Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination).
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_1 D1 N+ `1 g( PIn 1995, the American Physical Society (APS) spoke out on the question of power line EMFs and health effects. The APS policy statement reads, in part: "The scientific literature and the reports of reviews by other panels show no consistent, significant link between cancer and power line fields. While it is impossible to prove that no deleterious health effects occur from exposure to any environmental factor, it is necessary to demonstrate a consistent, significant, and causal relationship before one can conclude that such effects do occur. From this standpoint, the conjectures relating cancer to power line fields have not been scientifically substantiated." (See APS Policy Statement 95.2.)
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In 1999 the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council (NRC) published a review of the evidence from the EMF-RAPID program and concluded: "An earlier Research Council assessment of the available body of information on biological effects of power frequency magnetic fields (NRC 1997) led to the conclusion ‘that the current body of evidence does not show that exposure to these fields presents a human health hazard. . . .' The new, largely unpublished contributions of the EMF RAPID program are consistent with that conclusion. . . . In view of the negative outcomes of EMF RAPID replication studies, it now appears even less likely that MF's [magnetic fields] in the normal domestic or occupational environment produce important health effects, including cancer." (The NRC reports are accessible by searching for EMF at the NAS Web site.)
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While the NRC review is fairly decisive in giving power line EMFs a clean bill of health, a 1999 report by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) concluded as follows: "The scientific evidence suggesting that ELF-EMF exposures pose any health risk is weak" but goes on to state "The NIEHS concludes that ELF-EMF exposures cannot be recognized as entirely safebecause of weak scientific evidence that exposure may pose a leukemia hazard." (The NIEHS report is available on its Web site.)5 A- m0 o" n J( i7 [, H3 Y
- _0 A! d2 l7 W+ N2 O. a# _Most recently, a leading EMF investigator has been charged with faking experimental results in two published papers on low-intensity EMF health effects (see e.g., Scientific American: Science and the Citizen: Fat in the Fire: October 1999). This charge may further weaken the case of those who urge caution regarding potential health risks of EMFs.
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: E& L f% [! y/ S2 Z8 @/ FIn conclusion, there are no known health risks that have been conclusively demonstrated in relation to living near high-voltage power lines. But science is unable to conclusively prove that anything, including low-level EMFs, is completely risk-free. Most scientists believe that exposure to the low-level EMFs near power lines is safe, but some scientists continue research to look for possible health risks associated with these fields. If there are any risks such as cancer associated with living near power lines, then it is clear that those risks are small.
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这篇文章就看结论吧 :-) ) @; c0 k' v( d/ T1 q* z$ A
总结而言, 居住临近高压线并没有确定性的健康威胁. 但是科学并不能严格证明任何东西,包括低频电磁辐射, 是完全安全的. 大部分的科学家认为暴露于低频电磁辐射环境是安全的, 但也有一些科学家正寻找相关健康威胁的证据. 如果高压线确实能够导致健康威胁的话, 这种风险很显然是非常微小的. |
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