Radioactive Field with Workers

(Original Caption) Upton, New York: Center of the new radiation field at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is shown. In the wedge-shaped trays, plants can be placed for near-maximum irradiation by the 165 curie radioactive cobalt source located in the seven-foot iron pipe. Before Laboratory personnel enter the field, they lower the source into the ground from the remote control shed, (rear). Exposure of crops to radioactivity may save plant breeders years of time in improving plant strains, Dr. W. Ralph Singleton, Brookhaven Biologist, told members of the American Society of Agronomy at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, today, (August 29). typical effects of radiation on living cells include changes in chromosomes, the reproductive units in cells. Other effects are comparatively numerous mutations or changes in cell structure, some of which may eventually le (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Upton, New York: Center of the new radiation field at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is shown. In the wedge-shaped trays, plants can be placed for near-maximum irradiation by the 165 curie radioactive cobalt source located in the seven-foot iron pipe. Before Laboratory personnel enter the field, they lower the source into the ground from the remote control shed, (rear). Exposure of crops to radioactivity may save plant breeders years of time in improving plant strains, Dr. W. Ralph Singleton, Brookhaven Biologist, told members of the American Society of Agronomy at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, today, (August 29). typical effects of radiation on living cells include changes in chromosomes, the reproductive units in cells. Other effects are comparatively numerous mutations or changes in cell structure, some of which may eventually le (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)
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