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argument

then no matter how

based on consequences,

large the area of the evacuation, it is still not

enough. The resultant compromise is to assume that

in spite of all the safety measures built into the

system, somehow there is a reasonably substantial

leakage of radioactivity outside the containment and

yet it is assumed that such escape of radioactivity

would not necessitate evacuation of people exceeding

an area at a radius of say 10 miles in the U.S.A.

and 10 Km in France. To a nuclear

operator, such a

distance is

totally unreasonable

because he will

contend that it is perfectly safe even to live just

next door to a nuclear plant.

anti-nuclear groups such

But

to

the

a radius is totally

inadequate. And So one finds a very illogical

compromise.

It is significant that the experts

employed by the New York State

to study the

consequence of Chernobyl has recommended extending

the evacuation area to a radius of 30 miles.

Lessons to be Learned

13.

I set out some of the principal lessons

our situation which are contained

"Implications of

the Chernobyl-4

pertinent to

in the report:

Accident for

Nuclear Emergency Planning for the State of New

York" which MH B Technical Associates prepared for

the State of New York Consumer Protection Board.

The

all

partners of this organization are

experienced scientists having spent long years with