High voltage power lines and risk of cancer

Inspection of High Voltage Power Lines – a New Approach

This paper presents the “Cable Crawler”, a mobile teleoperated robot to inspect high voltage power lines. Its mechanism allows riding on the topmost ground cable of high voltage power lines and crossing a set of mast tips as well as smaller obstacles autonomously and thus is not limited to just move from mast to mast. The robot consists of an aluminium chassis, six propulsion units and two spac...

Are children living near high-voltage power lines at increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia?

In the National Cancer Institute/Children's Cancer Group case-control study of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (1989-1993), living in a home with a high-voltage wire code was not associated with disease risk. To further investigate risk near power lines, the authors analyzed distance to transmission and three-phase primary distribution lines within 40 m of homes and created an exposure i...

Electromagnetic fields and cancer in children residing near Norwegian high-voltage power lines.

The aim of the nested case-control study reported here was to test the hypothesis that exposure to electromagnetic fields of the type generated by high-voltage power lines increases the incidence of cancer in children aged 0-14 years. The study population comprised children who during at least one of the years 1960, 1970, 1980, 1985, 1987, or 1989 had lived in a census ward crossed by a high-vo...

Effects of Dietary Green Tea Polyphenol Supplementation on the Health of Workers Exposed to High-voltage Power Lines

Locating Critical Lines in High-voltage Electrical Power Grids

Nowadays the issue of vulnerability and protection of critical infrastructure is attracting a great deal of attention among scientific researchers. One of the most used approaches is that of complex networks. A critical infrastructure (e.g. a power grid) is represented as a graph in which nodes represent the main components of the network (e.g. power plants or trasmission substations) and edges...