Word: cyclotrons
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...level of radiation is Harvard's cyclotron today is certainly different from the amount of radiation in the laboratory in 1942. The old laboratory, in fact, was shipped in pieces to Los Alamos in 1948 to be used in the government's Manhattan Project, according to Gottschalk...
While naive in its pre-Cold War understanding of radioactivity, Warren's study at the cyclotron evidences a concern for workers at the laboratory. And it serves to balance recent portrayals of Warren in the national press...
...Warren's cyclotron experiments, most of the workers showed no significant changes in health due to their exposure to radiation. Four showed minor variations in white blood cell count because of the radiation, according to Warren's published results...
...study, which measured white and red blood cell counts in both Harvard and MIT workers, determined that "the precautions for the safety of these two groups of cyclotron workers appear adequate." The MIT group included 51 workers...
...Bernard Gottschalk, who is one of four chief scientists at the Harvard cyclotron, says Warren's study is likely "hocus pocus...