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Study finds no genetic effects of radiation in hibakusha offspring

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiteru Okubo (R), chairman of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, speaks at a news conference in Hiroshima on Feb. 28, after the foundation released a study concluding that there is no evidence linking the degree of radiation exposure suffered by people in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki and lifestyle-induced illnesses among their children.

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Hiroshima foundation to release blood data on Chernobyl firefighter

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Akio Awa, 72, retired chief of the Department of Genetics at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, speaks in Hiroshima. Awa will soon release the test results of blood samples taken from the chief firefighter in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster that have been kept at the institute. The test conducted three and a half years after the accident showed that Leonid Telyatnikov was developing chromosomal abnormalities in 40 percent of his lymphocytes, a result never made public before.

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Hiroshima foundation to release blood data on Chernobyl firefigh

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Akio Awa, 72, retired chief of the Department of Genetics at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, speaks in Hiroshima. Awa will soon release the test results of blood samples taken from the chief firefighter in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster that have been kept at the institute. The test conducted three and a half years after the accident showed that Leonid Telyatnikov was developing chromosomal abnormalities in 40 percent of his lymphocytes, a result never made public before. (Kyodo)

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Study finds no genetic effects of radiation in hibakusha offspri

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiteru Okubo (R), chairman of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, speaks at a news conference in Hiroshima on Feb. 28, after the foundation released a study concluding that there is no evidence linking the degree of radiation exposure suffered by people in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki and lifestyle-induced illnesses among their children. (Kyodo)

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Radiation effects study lab in Hiroshima

A girl observes blood cells through a microscope at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 5, 2019. The research lab, set up in 1975 for joint studies by Japan and the United States on the harmful effects of radiation on people's health, will open to the general public for two days through Aug. 6, the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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RERF chief expresses regret over past stance

Radiation Effects Research Foundation Chairman Otsura Niwa addresses a ceremony in the western Japan city of Hirohsima on June 19, 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of its launch. Niwa expressed regret over the foundation's past stance of studying rather than treating atomic bomb survivors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo