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...NDRC commandeered Harvard's cyclotron for fulltime use in atomic experiments...
Current safeguards include film badges which detect gamma ray and neutron emissions, regular monitoring of areas around the cyclotron and special locks on doors to ensure the cyclotron cannot run if there is an exposure risk. Workers are checked monthly...
...When the cyclotron is running, there are areas near the machine which have intense radiation but there are safeguards against those areas to make sure no one is exposed," Gottschalk says...
Gottschalk acknowledges, however, that the cyclotron can propel some neutrons a great distance and raise radiation levels at nearby buildings. But the emissions do not pose any health or environmental hazard, the professor says...
...Joseph P. Ring, lecturer on radiological health in the Exposure Assessment and Engineering Program, says the levels of current exposure to workers at the cyclotron are "very small...