Medical experience and preparedness for handling radiation injuries.

Medically significant overexposures have not occurred in 30 years of operating commercial nuclear power plants in this country. However, the medical communities around reactors in Georgia as well as the rest of the country, maintain a vigilance and preparations to handle these cases through semi-annual exercises using simulated patients. The programs at the Hatch and Vogtle plants provide not only for local care but also for specialty medical teams to arrive and assist in the triage and evacuation of casualties to definitive care centers for complete evaluation and treatment. This is not unlike the plan the Soviets used so successfully at Chernobyl.