RE: University of Georgia To Build Lab Near Chernobyl

[nolan Hertel <nolan.hertel@me.gatech.edu>]

Perhaps it is because they have world-class ecology scholars.  They also
operate the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory -- so they have a "few" years
of experience.  

 >I sure hope they employ Americans there. And why is the U. of Georgia being
>funded to do this (who is paying for this?)?  Why isn't it one of the
>National Laboratories? Would someone tell me why we are financially
>supporting Russian science and letting U.S. scientists, many of whom have
>spent the bulk of their careers winning the Cold War for the U. S., be
>unemployed, underemployed, or forced into early and inadequately funded
>retirement?  
>
>Clearly only my own opinion.
>
>Ruth F. Weiner
>Sandia National Laboratories 
>MS 0718, POB 5800
>Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
>505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
>rfweine@sandia.gov
>
>
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Director, Neely Research Center
Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics
G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0425
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