fallout and USA today

["Bruce A. Busby" <bbusby@umich.edu>]

Hi all,

Anyone see the front page of USA today? It is an article on  Fallout

the URL for it is

 http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovfri.htm

here is the preview of the article:

Study to measure effects of fallout on USA

                 WASHINGTON - Forty years after the government's atomic
bomb tests spewed radiation into the Nevada skies, a new
federal study will pinpoint communties as far away as New York where
people were exposed to potentially dangerous fallout. The
still-unreleased study, by the National Cancer Institute, shows
county-by-county exposure to iodine 131, the predominant radioactive
isotope that rained down on  the USA in the 1950s. In essence, the NCI
study is a first step in solving one of the most daunting medical
mysteries of the nuclear age:  Did the radioactive fallout
from the Nevada bomb tests cause an increase of cancer among people who
were exposed?                      


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