[ RadSafe ] Mangano's New Study -the nuclear debate & public impact

[Steven Dapra]

July 3

         Thank you, Stewart for a very informative message.

         It just slays me the way anti-nukers claim industrialists have so 
much power and run roughshod over the little guy.  Then we see examples 
like this of rank cowardice.  Where do these oh-so-powerful chairmen of the 
board obtain their backbones of over-cooked spaghetti?

Steven Dapra



At 12:42 PM 7/3/07 -0400, stewart farber wrote:
>Hi all,

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>In another situation, while working for another utility corporate office, 
>I was asked to debate an anti-nuclear physician who had made exagerated 
>and worthless claims about excess leukemia due to radiation exposure at 
>the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard --later proven totally false.  I requested 
>permission in written form per company procedure, to do this sort of thing 
>on my own time -perhaps one day every few months, where I would make it 
>clear that any opinions I expressed were my personal views, and time would 
>be taken off only with the permission of my supervisor so as not to 
>conflict with work duties.
>
>As a result of this [what to me seemed like a simple]  request, my 
>employer at the time summoned me into a meeting with the Chairman of the 
>company --a dozen attorneys at his side,  to make it quite clear that if 
>it ever got back to him that I made any statement in any public forum that 
>could be considered as pro-nuclear, I would no longer by an employee of 
>this State Power entity. When I asked the Chairman if I might ask "why?" I 
>was told that the Governor of that very large Northeastern State was not 
>in favor of nuclear energy and that if any of the Power entity staff made 
>a pro-nuclear statement, it would embarass the Chairman of this company 
>with the Governor to whom he reported.  Hmmm.
>
>This ostrich approach was being pursued by this utility even tho' it had 
>several nuclear stations which were subject to constant criticism by the 
>public, and in the media -- presures that were adding greatly to costs, 
>and to many vocal calls to shut down one of their units.
>
>Efforts to counter anti-nuclear activities has to be long-term and 
>creative, something which the nuclear industry has shown little 
>inclination to do.

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>Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
>Consulting Scientist
>Farber Technical Services
>Bridgeport, CT 06604
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