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LUCAS HEIGHTS HIGHER —_—_— The recent fire at suburban Lacus Heights Reactor in Sydney has released yet more radioactivity into Sydney's environment, Their "Hot Box", used for the actual handling of radioactive isolwpes, had another fire and contaminated four workers. The spill was "minor" ording to the Lucas Heights P.R. Unit and a good test for new emergency procedures, which had forty firefighters and a speciai chemicals team called in. Lucas Heights has had _ jiterally thousands of “incidents’ over ihe past decade, and housing is encroaching ever more quickly on the reactor snd the waterways which surround it. ——————— LINKS Electro-magnetic fields put out by powerlines can be responsible for high incidences of childhood cancer, according to a $US750,000 detailed study carried out at the Universities of North Carolina and Colorado. The Washington State Health Department found high rates of leukemia among workers in power stations, aluminium plants (which ase enormous amounts of electricity), power and telephone linesmen. A Melboume inner urban planning group is using the findings in its fight against the construction of a proposed 220- KV, eight-km long powerline which would stations, 12 pass near two primary schools and over