Re: nuclear accident, medical issues

["E. F. Forrer" <forrere@ccmail.orst.edu>]

          One of my nuclear engineering professors assigned his grad
          students an interesting project shortly after Chernobyl.
          Their task was to design a method to make a Chernobyl type
          plant as safe as a similar American design and to make the
          American plant as dangerous as a Chernobyl type.  This was
          to be accomplished without completely tearing either plant
          apart.  The conclusion of the project was that while they
          could make the Chernobyl plant safe, because of the inherent
          safety factors designed into the plant they could not make
          the American plant as dangerous as the Chernobyl type.

          Gene