Re: Genetic Effects?

["Reuven" <reuven99@newsguy.com>]

O sancta simplicita!!!!......



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Subject: Genetic Effects?





> 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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