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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . This is not the first time the specter has been raised. The study's authors believe that children near Sellafield are getting cancer as a result of their fathers' exposure to radiation at work before the children are conceived. They believe children are inheriting a genetic defect caused by radiation exposure of the fathers' sperm. In any case, the exposures to the children are small but the effects are grave, so this bodes ill for nuclear technology and for its promoters.