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[i]What about long-term effects? Weren't the doctors worried about radiation damage to your reproductive system? "In those days we knew little about the Van Allen radiation belts and other sources. And the radiation experts, in order to be very conservative, were putting the risks very high. So we were making plans to set up a bone-marrow bank with marrow taken from the sternum so that if we did get severe radiation, we could reintroduce our own tissue to replace damaged marrow. A number of us decided we didn't want to take any chances with our offspring. So we had vasectomies."[/i]
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