dr. coleman. caller: good morning. i am old enough to remember the world war ii f x of atomic radiation. has there been any use of the studies made in the 1960's on radiation -- chernobyl, three mile island, and for the japanese earthquake and radiation fallout from the plants, the effects of that situation will not be available for 20 years, as was the result of chernobyl and what were ii and three mile island. there is no sense making predictions today on what will happen 20 years from now and complimenting people in japan on the great job. the effect will come out in 20 years, good and bad. guest: thank you for that question. the answer is, we have made incredible use of all of the information from what were ii, chernobyl. the people who are most expert on the brake -- radius and effects are the japanese. the question i was addressing is whether there were acute deaths from radiation, and the answer is there were not. what one worries about next is the probabilistic and sex of, if you had radia

dr. coleman? guest: it sounds like you are the perfect caller to reassure people there is progress and for this. i am not a nuclear engineer, but what i do know, from what i said in fukushima, it takes a while before these things have problems -- it could be hours or days. and even with three mile island, a lot of the precautions built into the plants shut them down and as contained the release. again, there may be more expert than i am -- but these can take hours, days, or longer before plumes get released, and that is why you can do evacuation's. and you can find out which way the plumes are going. but with nuclear power plants, they connected to u.s. releases. with a nuclear detonation everything happens quickly. but with a nuclear power plant you have to watch the releases over time. that was an issue in japan, too. what are happy to have the expertise of the u.s. what. one can map plumes and whether the infection -- directions and knowing what is coming out, there are pretty good models of wh

dr. norman coleman is our guest. health and human services' office of prepared as where he serves as senior medical adviser. vernon, conn., peter is on our line. caller: good morning, dr. coleman. i am old enough to remember the world war ii the effects. chernobyl, three mile island, and the japanese fallout from the plant, that information will now be available for 20 years as was the result for chernobyl and world war ii and three mile island. those making predictions say on what will make -- those making predictions on what will happen 20 years from now and patting each other on the back for what a great job japan did the summit cents. guest: -- does not make sense. guest: first, you have the acute exposure where there have not been any cases. next, you have studies being done to follow that. in fukushima, where they are in fukushima, where they are making

dr. norman coleman from the health and human services' office of prepared this will discuss how the u.s. would provide medical care to victims of a radiation-