One of the University's seven day-care centers is looking for a new home because of increased radiation from Harvard's Oxford St. electron accelerator.
Increased use of the cyclotron by the Massachusetts General Hospital for cancer treatments has raised radiation levels to the point where the Harvard Committee on Radio Isotopes recommended earlier this year that a new location be found for the Oxford St. Day Care Center.
Daniel Cantor, Harvard's director of personnel, said yesterday, "We think this will be the center's last school year spent at its present site. From the long-range point of view, it isn't the best thing to have a day-care center near a source of radiation."
Just a little
Jacob Shapiro, radiation protection officer for the University, said yesterday the cyclotron has been letting off about five millirems of radiation, measured in exposure units. He said the amount has not been proved harmful and is actually negligible because there are always about
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