[ RadSafe ] Approaching nuclear power dialogue

[Jeff Terry]

I agree that people must always be engaged with science. However, I  
agree with Ahmad that it should not be the nuclear industry itself  
that does the engagement. This tends to look self-serving.

There are plenty of loud-mouth academics who should actually be  
speaking to the public and politicians. In fact, most people take  
kindly to education efforts of this type. I honed an energy policy  
talk featuring nuclear energy by speaking to groups that I thought  
would be overtly hostile.

One of the best comments that I received was that "no one had ever  
said things like that to us before." It does take some effort to set  
the talks up, but most groups like to have free speakers.

Jeff

Jeff Terry
Asst. Professor of Physics
Life Science Bldg Rm 166
Illinois Institute of Technology
3101 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago IL 60616
630-252-9708
terryj at iit.edu




On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Perle, Sandy wrote:

> Franz is absolutely correct. One cannot ignore those opposed to  
> nuclear power. One must engage them with scientific basis and facts,  
> not simply idle debate. In the end, the public and politicians will  
> react, and we have seen that those reactions have been negative to  
> our industry, hindering the world's ability to meet not only future  
> energy demands, but current demands in specific geographical areas.  
> Let's not make the same mistakes in the future.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sandy
>
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> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu 
> ] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:57 AM
> To: 'Ahmad Al-Ani'; jsalsman at gmail.com; jdaitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com
> Cc: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Salsman warning
>
> Ahmad,
>
> This is in my opinion one of the most foolish approaches.
>
> First of all you have to distinguish between different countries and  
> their
> approach to nuclear power. .......
>
> Etc. etc. I am not going to waste my time on this topic.
>
> Topics have to be discussed in detail, on a country specific basis.  
> There
> are so many factors for such a decision, public opinion being just  
> one of
> them! To ignore the anti nuclears is just another way of showing  
> them that
> you do not take them serious, enhancing their efforts. In my home  
> country
> Austria we did not take them serious before the (silly!) referendum  
> in 1978,
> we ridiculed them with correct arguments etc. and then the  
> referendum was
> against the opening of the NPP in Zwentendorf.
>
> Do you want to repeat this disaster somewhere else??? Or do you want  
> to have
> a dictatory governement which would simply declare what is good for  
> their
> citizens?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
> MinRat i.R.
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
> AUSTRIA
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