Sunday, October 24, 2010

Radiation research on humans staged in Richland

Radiation research on humans staged in Richland
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/10/24/1222171/us-research-on-effects-of-radiation.html

"The rows of freezers in a new metal building near the Richland airport hold tissue samples from the women who used radioactive radium in the 1920s to paint the glow-in-the dark dials of watches and clocks.

With them are organs waiting to be processed and tissue samples from their more recent counterparts -- former DOE nuclear weapons workers, including those at Hanford, who were exposed to radioactivity on the job and later volunteered to donate their bodies to science when they died."

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