Dr. Yair Reisner, the Weizmann Institute biophysicist who flew to Moscow to help Soviet doctors treat victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident earlier this month, received personal and apparently impromptu thanks from visiting British Prime Minister Margaret
Reisner, an expert on tissue-typing and bone-marrow transplants, said on his return from the USSR that not only the Soviets but the Western nations lacked the necessary facilities and techniques. He expounded in detail on the
In her after dinner remarks, the British Prime Minister thanked him. She said his report would help her “to see if we (in Britain) have all the contingency plans on the medical side.”
Reisner, in his report to the Israeli authorities, and at the luncheon, stressed that people who work in nuclear power stations or at other facilities with a high risk of radiation exposure, should
Reisner told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency later that he believed these precautions were not anymore adequately taken in the U.S. and other countries than in the Soviet Union.
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