Genetic Effects?

["Estabrooks, Bates (IHK)" <estabrookshb@Y12.doe.gov>]

Radsafers,



I imagine this topic has been worked over on this forum before, so I ask

your forbearance as I pose this question.



The Sep. 2004 issue of Science & Technology Review from LLNL includes a

primer on radiation in a sidebar on p. 6.  In it, the following statement is

made: "Exposure to large amounts of ionizing radiation (on the order of

hundreds of times the natural exposure levels) increases the risk of. . .

genetic mutations that can be passed on to future generations."



Is there any evidence of this (genetic effects) in humans?



Thanks.



Bates Estabrooks

BWXT Y-12  

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