Radiation Exposure and Risk
Ionizing radiation damages living things and contaminates the environment, sometimes permanently. Studies have shown increases in cancer around nuclear facilities and uranium mines. Radiation mutates genes which can cause genetic damage across generations.
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Radioactive contamination from Soviet atomic bomb testing still contaminates the Kazakh steppes. Sixty years on, the cancerous legacy is still being felt. Read the inquiry by the U.K.'s Independent newspaper.
September 15, 2009