[ RadSafe ] An article from globeandmail.com

[Philippe J. Duport]

Thank you Colette,

The case of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission would have been
stronger had it been accompanied by a detailed cost-benefit analysis,
i.e. a comparison of the severity, probability and immediacy of the
risks posed to public health by present non-compliance with regulatory
requirements (backup pumps not yet operational in case of power failure)
on one side and the severity, probability and immediacy of the risks
incurred by patients, worldwide, in need of potentially life saving
medical radioisotopes on the other side.

Philippe Duport



-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Colette Tremblay
Sent: December 12, 2007 11:37
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] An article from globeandmail.com



Colette Tremblay (colette.tremblay at ssp.ulaval.ca) thought you would be
interested in the following article from globeandmail.com, Canada's
leading source for online news: 

"Ottawa thwarts nuclear watchdog" 
A Three-Mile-Island-type of nuclear accident could occur at Canada's
Chalk River reactor unless a backup power supply system, capable of
withstanding natural disasters such as earthquakes, is installed,
according to an assessment by the president of the Canadian Nuclear
Safety Commission. 
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071212.REACTORS12/Em
ailTPStory/TPNational> 

Note from  Colette Tremblay: I didn't know that Steven Harper was a
nuclear scientist :-) 
 
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