Re[2]: Long term effects from ionizing radiation

[Ruth Weiner <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

Let me add to what Emelie Lamothe said, and add a small correction:  American 
Nuclear Society does have a Women's Committee, but it is not a separate 
organization.  I would guess that Kim Kearfott (are you out there, Kim?) is 
probably a good source of information.

If it's of any help:  during my first pregnancy I took data in the nuclear 
physics lab -- we worked around the clock til the liquid He ran out.  I was also
incidentally exposed to a veritable miasma of PCB vapors in the electronics lab 
as we routinely (accidentally) burned out components.  During my second and 
third pregnancies I set up and taught the radiochemistry lab, and was in charge 
of the isotope vault.  I also did my dissertation work using a Co-60 source to 
irradiate crystals, and worked with tritiated glycine.  All four of my children 
(now grown) are (and were) normal and healthy.  One has a minor hereditary 
genetic defect that I can trace through four generations of my family, so I am 
certain it is not due to any exposure.  I might add that my thesis professor, 
who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, as well as all his graduate 
students (most of them men) all had three or four children, all of whom were 
healthy and normal.


Clearly only my own opinion

Ruth Weiner
Sandia National Laboratories
rfweine@sandia.gov
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Subject: RE: Long term effects from ionizing radiation
Author:  lamothee@aecl.ca at hubsmtp
Date:    3/12/98 12:22 PM


There are many studies out there but probably would not give her the 
exact type of information and reassurance that she is looking for.  Most 
of it deals with radionuclide transport, transplacental transfer, 
modeling and doses, some effects of huge amounts of administered 
activity, some human data (very little) for large acute doses (e.g. 
exposure during nuclear medicine examination), etc.
     
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