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    1. COMARE 12th Report: The impact of personally initiated X-ray computed tomography scanning for the health assessment of asymptomatic individuals
    2. COMARE 11th Report: The distribution of childhood leukaemia and other childhood cancer in Great Britain 1969-1993
    3. COMARE 10th Report: The incidence of childhood cancer around nuclear installations in Great Britain
    4. COMARE 9th Report: Advice on a report by the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE)
    5. COMARE Statement on the radioactive particles found in the local coastal environment resulting from operations at the Dounreay facility
    6. COMARE 8th Report: Review of pregnancy outcomes following preconceptional exposure to radiation
    7. COMARE Statement on Green Audit Occasional Paper 2002/5: Cancer in Burnham on Sea North
    8. Cancer Mortality Around Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, Essex
    9. COMARE 7th Report: Parental Radiation Exposure and Childhood Cancer
    10. COMARE 6th Report: Radioactive Particles at Dounreay
    11. COMARE/RWMAC Report: Radioactive Contamination at a Property in Seascale, Cumbria
    12. Further recommendations on the work to identify the source and possible health effects of the radioactive particles found in the environment around the UKAEA site at Dounreay

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    1. COMARE 12th Report: The impact of personally initiated X-ray computed tomography scanning for the health assessment of asymptomatic individuals
    2. COMARE 11th Report: The distribution of childhood leukaemia and other childhood cancer in Great Britain 1969-1993 - 19 July 2006
    3. Joint COMARE/DPAG Report on "Experimental Validation of 'Groundhog' Beach Monitoring Systems" - July 2006

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