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Quoted: Michael Corradini, chairman of the nuclear engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, said, “You were doing a what-if calculation.”Corradini continued, “Thirty-two years ago, if Japan had done a what-if calculation about Three Mile Island and said all the Japanese living within 50 miles of Harrisburg should get out, what would our response be to that?” He referred to the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Huffington Post that the return of the western part of the state to the Democratic side was one of the most notable parts of Tuesday?s election.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Tuesday?s elections gave a boost to the recall efforts, but forecasting a recall?s ultimate success is tough to gauge.

Quoted: Not only is “gay” an oversimplification, “caveman” is flat-out inaccurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jaczko was a “socially conscious” student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said his thesis advisor Loyal Durand.

Quoted: A nuclear engineer from the University of Wisconsin-Madisonsaid the modeling exercise did not consider the various levels of risks at the plants. “It?s as if I was flying in an airplane and I lost a wingor two engines, and then asked, ?What would happen?? It?s a consequence thing,” Michael Corradini told reporters.

Quoted: “The surge in turnout is not only remarkably large, but also remarkably balanced between the two sides,” said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “The 50-50 split proves how evenly divided the state is over the Walker agenda. And the turnout shows how deep the feelings run,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: “It could be due to problems with a network, it could be due to problems with applications, it could be due to problems with servers that run those applications,” said Brian Rust of the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison.

Quoted: ?The way it looks right now, both sides are so motivated and so turned out that it would be very hard to forecast how a vote would go down the road,? said Charles H. Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Corradini, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, says first, engineers design for normal operating conditions. “Then with any engineering design, anything at all, you say, ?That?s fine, that?s what it operates on. But what if something happens that it experiences some unusual conditions?? “

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and former tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

Quoted: “The political impact is almost impossible to understate,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The defeat of Justice Prosser as a result of the blowback against the governor?s politics would send a powerful signal to Republicans across the state that the governor has overreached. … If Justice Prosser holds on, that says to Republicans that they can weather this storm.”

Quoted: Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and former tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, said the plaintiffs? attorneys should have revealed it to Congress and others in the lawsuit if they had some kind of agreement to recover more than $99.9 million in fees.

Quoted: The election will send a strong message, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison politics professor.