Radiation and the population

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Douglas Grahn Norman Ross Herman Slatis David McElroy Clifford Braun John Suchy Russell Hunt Ross-McElroy Productions Argonne National Laboratory

Format: 16mm

Description: Points out that genetic damage is one of the most serious effects of radiation and shows how the Atomic Energy Commission's genetics research program is geared to learn how radiation damages cells and what the long term effects of such damage might be. Presents Douglas Grahn, a geneticist in the Division of the Biology Medicine, explaining how radiation causes mutations and how these mutations are passed on to succeeding generations. Describes the work of Herman Slatis, also a geneticist in the Division of Biology Medicine, with fruit flies and induced mutations. Discusses fallout and its implications.

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