#245 - More Dangers From Nuclear Radiation
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The study's authors believe that children near Sellafield are getting cancer as a result of their fathers' exposure to radiation at work before the children are conceived. They believe children are inheriting a genetic defect caused by radiation exposure of the fathers' sperm. An alternative explanation is that the fathers become contaminated at work and somehow carry radioactivity home (perhaps on their clothing), thus irradiating their unborn children during pregnancy or very early in life. In any case, the exposures to the children are small but the effects are grave, so this bodes ill for nuclear technology and for its promoters.
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