MEASURING FALL-OUT
View Of Sir E. Marsden
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON. July 10.
The amount of fall-out which could be said to originate from a nuclear bomb explosion was a question of the delicacy of the instruments used to detect it, said Sir Ernest Marsden in Wellington tonight He had been asked to comment on the possibility of fall-out from Monday night's high-altitude test reaching New Zealand. “In a few weeks we shall get some fall-out, but it will be recorded only by way of the most sensitive instruments available,” said Sir Ernest Marsden Asked whether any detrimental effects could stem from the nuclear tests, he said that the work was safe as far as the next few years were concerned, but that if the tests were continued at their present rate for about another 20 years, the results plight well involve genetic impairments "The cumulative effects could well be serious," said Sir Ernest Marsden. He added that since the testing of hydrogen bombs was first begun, the amount of carbon-14, a product of radiation from these bombs, had increased in the atmosphere by fully 25 per cent
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 15
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