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Article: Genetic damage found among N-test veterans.
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- PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association
- Article date:
- September 23, 2005
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23 SEPTEMBER 2005 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) -- New Zealand nuclear test veterans have suffered long-term genetic damage from their exposure to explosions nearly half a century ago, a university study has found.
"From the results we have obtained, we can conclude that the veterans have experienced genetic damage as a consequence of taking part in Operation Grapple," the lead researcher, Dr Al Rowland, told the New Zealand Herald.
Dr Rowland, of Massey University's Institute of Molecular BioSciences, and colleagues overseas have studied blood samples from veterans of the Grapple explosions.
In 1957 and 1958, 551 New Zealand naval men witnessed nine ...