1.   All the clothes that were affected by radiation had to be incinerated.

2.   John Frederick, leader of the Chicago team, said it was not clear how the increased ultraviolet radiation had affected the population.

3.   He faces a future full of unknowns from how childhood cancer survivors will age to how radiation affects the body years after it is used.

4.   No one knows how many people have been affected by radiation.

5.   Now, a rat study has raised the possibility that the radiation might adversely affect learning and memory.

6.   Somehow the radiation had affected the mouse sperm, and as a result mutations were handed down to future generations.

7.   A government spokesman, meanwhile, denied reports that a government medical team had been sent to the Pokaran region to determine whether villagers had been affected by radiation.

8.   Doctors in Pokaran told The Associated Press last week there were no immediate signs that the residents of the town and surrounding villages had been affected by radiation.

9.   Earlier, a government spokesman denied reports that a government medical team had been sent to the Pokaran region to determine whether villagers had been affected by radiation.

10.   Vast areas in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were affected by radiation.