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R E Linnemann

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PubMed1989

Medical experience and preparedness for handling radiation injuries.

Medically significant overexposures have not occurred in 30 years of operating commercial nuclear power plants in this country. However, the medical communities around reactors in Georgia as well as the rest of the country, maintain a vigilance and preparations to handle these cases through semi-annual exercises using simulated patients. The programs at the Hatch and Vogtle plants provide not only for local care but also for specialty medical teams to arrive and assist in the triage and evacuation of casualties to definitive care centers for complete evaluation and treatment. This is not unlike the plan the Soviets used so successfully at Chernobyl.

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PubMed1987

Soviet medical response to the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

The nuclear accident at Chernobyl was the worst in the history of nuclear power. It tested the organized medical response to mass radiation casualties. This article reviews the Soviet response as reported at the 1986 postaccident review meeting in Vienna and as determined from interviews. The Soviets used three levels of care: rescue and first aid at the plant site; emergency treatment at regional hospitals; and definitive evaluation and treatment in Moscow. Diagnosis, triage, patient disposition, attendant exposure, and preventive actions are detailed. The United States would be well advised to organize its resources definitively to cope with future nonmilitary nuclear accidents.

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Medical aspects of power generation, present and future.

It can be seen that the radiation emissions of nuclear power plants are small indeed, compared to natural background radiation and other man-made sources of radiation. For example, the poulation is exposed to 100 times more radiation from television sets than from nuclear power reactors. The assumed risks to the people in this country from nuclear power reactors are also small compared to the normal risks which are tolerated in this society. The complete elimination of all hazards is a most difficult if not impossible task. If we need and desire a certain level of electrical energy, if we must choose between alternative sourves of the energy, then it is apparent that the total impact on our health from nuclear power generation of electricity, under normal operations and in consideration of catastrophic accident probabilities, is significantly less than that of continuing or increasing use of fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Abnormalities, Radiation-Induced↗