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

[Steven Dapra]

Feb. 3

         Who is this "public" who is so concerned?  A bunch of aging 
hippies and ill-informed college students who constitute an 
infinitesimally small percentage of the general population.  Their 
chief credential is that they know how to make a lot of noise.  They 
also excel at guerrilla theater.

Steven Dapra


At 01:52 PM 2/2/2010, you wrote:
>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
> >______________________________
> > 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
> > panic(?)
> >
> > 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
> > , the siller the Reports.
> >
> > Ed Baratta
> >
> > edmond0033 at comcast.net
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking tritium --- time to
> > panic(?)
> >
> >
> >  "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."
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >  Don Kosloff
> >  License Renewal
> >  Oak Harbor Ohio
> >
> >             Steven Dapra
> >             <sjd at swcp.com>
> >             Sent by:                                                   To
> >             radsafe-bounces at r         radsafe at radlab.nl
> >             adlab.nl                                                   cc
> >
> >                                                                   Subject
> >             02/01/2010 08:50          [ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking
> >             PM                        tritium --- time to panic(?)
> > Feb. 1
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_leaking_nuclear_plants
> >
> > Steven Dapra