This is *very* interesting to me.

http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/12/powerline_radiation_and_ch=
ildh.html

"the distribution of leukemia among children living hear high voltage
power lines or transformers is not random; rather, it affects children
carrying a certain genetic variant=97that is, the ability to repair DNA
breaks=97vastly more often."

"Researchers have long thought that EMF radiation caused DNA breaks,
but couldn't figure out how. Shen's research points to a different
mechanism; the EMF radiation doesn't cause the breaks, but inhibits
DNA repair, particularly in children that have a weakened repair
mechanism to begin with."

We're going to be adding significant transmission infrastructure over
the next century - are we going to write regulations that require
magnetically shielded, buried transmission lines going forward?  Or
just tell people not to sleep or spend significant time under them?

-Adam

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