[ RadSafe ] Suggestion - Contact News Media - Comment on theWebsites and Contact the Broadcasters

[Jeff Terry]

I don't know where FOX is getting their "experts" but they had a doctor on this evening who said that everyone in the control room would be dead in a month. 

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On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Bob Hearn <rhearn at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Same rbid anti-nukes I have been blasting FOX about on their broadcast all
> day! Union of "Concerned Scientists" is long-standing anti-nuke group with
> the ticking clock symbol with hands approaching midnight...Cirincione is
> billed as  "expert on nuclear materials..." - B.S. psychology, 10 years
> later MS Foreign Service Program, no work except in political
> circles...President of Ploughshares Fund - "a firm involved in security and
> peace funding"
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Helbig" <rhelbig at sfo.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:11 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Suggestion - Contact News Media - Comment on
> theWebsites and Contact the Broadcasters
> 
> 
> Here is where to comment on ABC's "Breaking News" story about the second
> reactor at Fukushima having a cooling problem
> 
> Read this 4 page story too - it is probably the text of this evening's ABC
> Evening News broadcast - what do you members know about the "experts" that
> ABC has consulted -
> 
> Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
> Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund ( does not appear to
> be a scientist - see below)
> 
> http://abcnews.go.com/International/fukushima-emergency-reactor-japan-earthq
> uake-tsunami/comments?type=story&id=13120666
> 
> 
> Roger Helbig
> 
> http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us
> 
> Ploughshares Fund is engaged in an aggressive strategy to seize the
> unprecedented opportunities before us to achieve a safe, secure, nuclear
> weapon-free world. Combining high-level advocacy, an enhanced grantmaking
> capacity and our own expertise, we are helping to fundamentally change
> nuclear weapons policy.
> Ploughshares Fund is the largest grantmaking foundation in the U.S.
> dedicated exclusively to security and peace funding. For more than 25 years
> we have identified and supported the smartest people with the best ideas for
> preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons and building stability in
> regions where nuclear weapons may be factors.
> 
> Joseph Cirincione
> President
> Washington, D.C.
> Joseph Cirincione is President of Ploughshares Fund, a global security
> foundation. He previously served as Vice President for National Security and
> International Policy at the Center for American Progress and Director for
> Nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is
> the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and
> Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats. He is a member of
> the Council on Foreign Relations, and he serves on the World Economic Forum
> Global Council on Catastrophic Risks.
> Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the
> professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
> Government Operations. He is the author of hundreds of articles on nuclear
> weapons issues, the producer of two DVDs, a frequent commentator in the
> media, and he appeared in the films, Countdown to Zero and Why We Fight. He
> has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the U.S. Information
> Agency and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He teaches at
> the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
> 
> Lyman is not a member of the two-person Nuclear staff at Union of Concerned
> Scientists
> 
> Nuclear Power Staff
> 
> Dave Lochbaum
> Director, Nuclear Safety Project
> Ellen Vancko
> Nuclear Energy & Climate Change Project Manager
> 
> He is on the Nuclear Weapons & Global Security staff
> 
> Jonathan Dean
> Adviser on Global Security Issues
> Laura Grego
> Senior Staff Scientist, Global Security Program
> Teri Grimwood
> Global Security Program Researcher
> Lisbeth Gronlund
> Senior Scientist & Co-Director, Global Security Program
> Gregory Kulacki
> Senior Analyst, China Project Manager
> Edwin Lyman
> Senior Scientist, Global Security
> Sean Meyer
> Manager of Strategic Campaigns for Global Security
> Nickolas Roth
> Policy Analyst
> David Wright
> Senior Scientist & Co-Director, Global Security
> Stephen Young
> Senior Analyst & Washington Representative, Global Security Program
> 
> 
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