[ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy"

[John Jacobus]

No, and there are certainly efforts to restore shark
populations.

Do you have proof that there is an effort to eliminate
nuclear energy?  I see a constant nit-picking effort
that is perceived to have influence beyond its real
influence. (Most of the crying about anti-nuclear
influence is on list like this.) I also see power
companies recognizing the economic advantages of
supplying energy using nuclear power.

--- "Bailly, Helen A" <Helen.Bailly at icp.doe.gov>
wrote:

> True, but is there a well funded, propaganda
> supported movement afoot to
> eliminate sharks?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: Steven Dapra; Bob Cherry; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You
> Are Anti-Nuclear
> Energy"
> 
>  
> 
> It is usually more complex than numbers and
> 
> statistics.  Consider how many people who are killed
> 
> by sharks.  Now ask the first 10 people you meet if
> 
> they are afraid of sharks.
> 
>  
> 
> We are all familiar with cars, electrical outlets,
> 
> turning on the gas stoves.  So why should we be
> afraid
> 
> of them?
> 
>  
> 
> These are not new issues.
> 
>  
> 
> --- Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> > Nov. 21
> 
> > 
> 
> >          Perhaps this is the journalists' way of
> 
> > showing us they don't know 
> 
> > enough elementary arithmetic to calculate
> 
> > proportions.  (Can anyone devise 
> 
> > a more plausible explanation?)
> 
> > 
> 
> > Steven Dapra
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > At 06:14 PM 11/21/07 -0600, Bob Cherry wrote:
> 
> > >Subject opinion article in the New York Times
> 
> > quotes our Bernie Cohen who
> 
> > >researched stories by the New York Times about
> 
> > different types of accidents
> 
> > >between 1974-78 (prior to Three Mile Island):
> 
> > >
> 
> > >On an average, there were 120 entries per year on
> 
> > motor vehicle accidents,
> 
> > >which kill 50,000 Americans each year; 50 entries
> 
> > per year on industrial
> 
> > >accidents, which kill 12,000; and 20 entries per
> 
> > year on asphyxiation
> 
> > >accidents, which kill 4,500; note that for these
> 
> > the number of entries,
> 
> > >which represents roughly the amount of newspaper
> 
> > coverage, is approximately
> 
> > >proportional to the death toll they cause. But
> for
> 
> > accidents involving
> 
> > >radiation, there were something like 200 entries
> 
> > per year, in spite of there
> 
> > >not having been a single fatality from a
> radiation
> 
> > accident for over a
> 
> > >decade.
> 
> > >
> 
> > >Another problem, especially in TV coverage, was
> use
> 
> > of inflammatory
> 
> > >language. We often heard about "deadly radiation"
> 
> > or "lethal radioactivity,"
> 
> > >referring to a hazard that hadn't claimed a
> single
> 
> > victim for over a decade,
> 
> > >and had caused less than five deaths in American
> 
> > history. But we never heard
> 
> > >about "lethal electricity," although 1,200
> 
> > Americans were dying each year
> 
> > >from electrocution; or about "lethal natural
> gas,"
> 
> > which was killing 500
> 
> > >annually with asphyxiation accidents. (Bernard
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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