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Article: BENEFITS SEEN FROM CHERNOBYL DR. GALE SPEAKS AT ALBANY COLLEGE.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- May 22, 1987
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Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer
The Chernobyl power plant disaster, which killed 31 people, hospitalized 500 and contaminated an entire city last April, will eventually turn out to be a benefit to mankind, said an American doctor who treated patients there.
"The ultimate fallout from Chernobyl may well be more good than evil," said Dr. Robert P. Gale, the bone- marrow specialist who has spent about half his time in Chernobyl since the accident, treating patients and collecting data.
Gale said Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, will help scientists find ways to avoid similar disasters and will become a laboratory for the study ...