U.S. nuclear evacuation order based on risk assessment (AP)

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.