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)