[ RadSafe ] FW: Nuclear Nightmares: the long silence

[Falo, Gerald A Dr KADIX]

All,

FYI.


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bramhall [mailto:bramhall at llrc.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:51 AM
To: info llrc
Subject: Nuclear Nightmares: the long silence

Nuclear Nightmares: the long silence

 28th December 2006 update.

A response to LLRC's complaint about Nuclear Nightmares is more than two
months overdue. 

 

Nuclear Nightmares, a programme in the BBC's Horizon series, was
broadcast on BBC 2 tv on 13th July - the day before the UK Government
announced that a new generation of nuclear power stations would be
built. It presented arguments and evidence (much of it relating to
Chernobyl) suggesting that the dangers of nuclear power have been
over-estimated by the conventional Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model of
radiation risk. It was far from agnostic on the disputed scientific
theories of radiation risk, and it dismissed evidence of adverse health
effects as "having no credible scientific support." 

Nuclear Nightmares attracted a number of complaints. We have no idea how
many, as the BBC doesn't release this information. 

At the beginning of September LLRC sent a substantial complaint about
the programme's lack of balance. We outlined the theoretical arguments
it had ignored or, in our view, misrepresented and the evidence it had
left out or dismissed. The BBC said the complaint would be answered by
24th October. Subsequently they have said it's a complex issue and would
take longer. There are indications that the matter is being dealt with
thoroughly but, of course, we reserve judgement.

 

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Gerald A. Falo, Ph.D., CHP
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U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine - Health
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