[ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking tritium --- time to panic(?)

[William Lipton]

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

You can argue health effects all you want, but that doesn't stop public
concern.

The question is not whether the industry is harming the public, but whether
the industry can be trusted to properly manage the technology.

BTW:  This is industry policy, see the NEI announcement of it's groundwater
protection initiative:
http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/newpolicyreleases

Bill Lipton
doctorbill at post.harvard.edu


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jerry Cohen <jjc105 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> An almost unique property of Tritium is that it is detectable even in
> miniscule quantities. Somehow there is a tendency, particularly among
> non-technical people, to equate detectability with hazard. Paradoxically,
> tritium, under almost any credible exposure scenario is essentially
> innocuous. Can anyone suggest a credible accident sequence involving tritium
> that might lead to health consequences worthy of concern?
> Jerry Cohen
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> From: "edmond0033 at comcast.net" <edmond0033 at comcast.net>
> To: dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com
> Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl; radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 11:02:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking tritium --- time to
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> What do we do about K-40??  How about the difference in exposures in places
> like Denver??  Places in India and Brazil where they have higher than normal
> levels of background?  Is this like the Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
>  Must we stop breathing?  The more 'intelligent' these people think they are
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> Ed Baratta
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> From: dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com
> To: "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com>
> Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl, radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 8:54:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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>  "But in 2005, the National Academy of Sciences concluded after an
> exhaustive study that even the tiniest amount of
>  ionizing radiation increases the risk of cancer."
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>  From the article, the voice of authority as understood by the public.  Of
> course, the statement, once made was not carried
>  to its logical conclusions.
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>  Don Kosloff
>  License Renewal
>  Oak Harbor Ohio
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>             02/01/2010 08:50          [ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking
>             PM                        tritium --- time to panic(?)
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_leaking_nuclear_plants
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> Steven Dapra
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