Intense leukaemia cluster in Fallon, Nevada
DU, not "population mixing"
(Whatever Richard Wakeford says)

In December 2002 a citizens' group doing a door to door study to investigate rumours of a cancer excess in Churchill County, Nevada, USA released their findings.
They confirm that the rumoured high rates are real. A local press report can be seen at this link

Despite routine denials by local health officials a further investigation (Ref. 1) found 11 cases of childhood leukaemia during 1999–2001 when less than one case would be expected. The Poisson probability (p = 4.3 × 10^-9) makes this cluster the most extreme ever found anywhere. It would happen by chance in the USA once in every 22,000 years.

BNFL's Richard Wakeford, writing in the Journal of Radiological Protection (Ref. 2) thinks this

may lend further weight to the idea that population mixing increases the risk of childhood leukaemia.

However, Leuren Moret, in an article cited in this site, points out that

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs .... Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.
Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults.
Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade.

See this link to Dr. Wakeford's full whistling-in-the-dark article.

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References

1 Steinmaus et al. 2004 Environ. Health Perspect. 112 766–71).

2 J. Radiol. Prot. 24 (2004) 183–188 www.iop.org/Journals/jr