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Staff at the Lucens power plant was examined at hospital (Hôpital Cantonal de Berne), which revealed that they had not been put at risk. The Atlas of Cancer Mortality in Switzerland prepared by Professors Schüler and Bopp shows an increase in intestinal cancer in the Broye region between 1970 and 1990. Professor Bopp interviewed in “Le Temps” on this subject mentions that “In men, the general excess mortality in the Broye region has the same components as in neighboring regions, namely diseases related to alcohol consumption, accidents and lung cancer. In women, heart disease was the cause of additional deaths. It is therefore impossible to deduce a link with the nuclear damage of 1969, especially since intestinal cancer is not one of the cancers suspected of being caused by radiation” [CAN 11].