Chernobyl radiation damage ‘not passed to children’
A study found no mutations associated with a parent’s exposure in the 1986 nuclear accident. …
The new study was led by Prof Meredith Yeager, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), in Maryland. It focused on the children of workers who were enlisted to help clean up the highly-contaminated zone around the nuclear power plant, and the children of evacuees from the abandoned town of Pripyat, and other settlements within the 70km zone around it.
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