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Eugene H. Kone, Public Relation Consultant
National Academy of Sciences
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Reseased for MORNING of WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1956
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REPORTS ON
"THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATIONS"
Washington, D, C,, June 12--: The National Academy of
Sciences in releasing a report on a year-long study of the
biological effects of atomic radiations, warned todry that
radiation from any source--bombs, nuclear reactors, the
natural environment, even medical Xrays--is harmful to life,
The report emphasized that exposure of individuals and of the
world's population as a whole be carefully controlled and
regulated and it recommended that individual records be kept
of the lifetime radiation expesure of all persons,
With proper safeguards, the report added, a full-scals,
worldwide, peaceful atomic energy ~rogram should not bring
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with it undue blological hazards.
f vigorous program of research
is needed, however, to make clear what the necessary safeguards
are,
Research is also pointing the way to dramatic benefits
which radiation techniques can being in mary fields such as
medicine, biology and agriculture,
These major conclusions were announced at the headquarters
of the Academy by its president, Dr, Detlev W. Bronk, and by
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six committee chairmen who are leading more than one hundred
U.S,
scientists in a continuing study of radiation problems,
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