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To: Krowbar who wrote (21119)	4/29/1998 2:11:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Del!! Well, yes, peeing is a very limited subject. Once all the guys SHARED and there were a few jokes, there was very little left to conclude, really. But it was a lot of fun for a silly weekend. I was not goading you!!! I just continue to believe you are absolutely wrong, and someday I will be able to prove it!!! Do you want to look at some more pictures of the children dying of cancer at Chernobyl, or read their poems or look at their paintings, again? I continue to believe that the earth would be a better place if we forgot we ever knew about any and all nuclear technologies. Then China could not sell India nuclear bombs to aim at Pakistan, for example. And I guess I must have misunderstood you, because I thought you said the damage there was OVERestimated, and that small rodents and everyone else was having a gay old time reproducing without mutations.

To: Krowbar who wrote (21119)	4/29/1998 4:31:00 AM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del, In case you missed it, it was here: Message 4242675 I became involved in the nuclear accident biz in 1982 when I was hired as a scientific programmer/analyst to work for Sandia National Labs to develop a computer program to calculate the health and economic effects that would result in the area surrounding a nuclear power reactor that had a severe accident, or containment failure. The program was developed for the NRC. It was named MACCS. The coding was in FORTRAN and it was about 25,000 lines of code and 5000 lines of comment cards. MACCS was used to do a big study for the NRC to estimate the risks of severe reactor accidents. That work came to an end in 1990. In the late 1980s, there was quite a big shakeup at the Department of Energy (DOE) facilities involved with running reactors and making all the stuff and doing all the things they need for nuclear weapons. Many of the DOE sites started using MACCS for their calculations. But because MACCS was intended to be used just for reactors, they had problems using the code and asked for enhancements to make it general purpose, so it could be used for most any nuclear facility. So I got the DOE to fund an improved version, named MACCS2. Eventually the NRC joined in for joint sponsorship of the new code. MACCS2 is widely used, both in the U.S. and in Europe. After the code development work was done I got involved in consulting work. That's a brief summary. A big project on cleanup costs is discussed in the link above. If anyone wants the full text of the report on cleanup costs, SAND96-0957, I can e-mail it as an attached file, or it can be purchased from National Technical Information Service; ntis.gov (?) The code manual for MACCS2 is available from NTIS as well: it's SAND97-0594. David