Their and Our additudes.( Re: Ignored consumers goods).

[Kerembaev@cs.com]

Mr. Hoover,

I have a similar impression that these people hate them selves and trying to 
blame on anything they can, their very personal things. I have suspected for 
a few years that it is a psychological problem rather than a luck nor 
existence of scientific evidences discussion. They are (some of them very 
sincere, some just used it to get to the political power, " A string wheel" 
and everybody wants to drive) generally trying to blame humanity as a whole. 
A nuclear fear happened to be around in that particular moment and the 
nuclear industry was a very VULNERABLE. It could be anything else: cell 
phones, immigrants or coca cola. They just have to blame something. 
Haven't saying that. 
The "fathers of the nuclear industry" could have a little more of common 
senses. 
I understand it is very hard to keep a common sense around when there was a 
Cold War and everything which had a name with "nuclear" or "radiation" 
automatically receives a national security status and unlimited budget 
foundlings. People working those jobs calls national heroes. It was that way 
on both sides of the nuclear front. I cut the end of that Era, sitting in 
Chernobyl tranches.
Nuclear industry was a favor and because of that a very spoiled child and 
behaved as the one supposed to behave.
When the President Carter came in the office, he as an insider, he knew the 
child's behavior and PROPERLY
as a Father and a Chief and Commander put stops on all those wrong practices 
and of course took away a new and very dangerous toy, the breeder reactors.
May be, Carter....... prevented America from its Chernobyl. Unfortunately, 
the Soviet Union did not have somebody like Carter, so it had to have 
something to a degree of Chernobyl happens to have an awakening.
I do NOT want to blame nor to praise anybody. It was in that time and people 
did what they thought is okay for that time. We need to MOVE ON. Now the 
industry needs to grow up, get rid of its childish behavior and a nostalgic 
attitude, take responsibilities for the past mistakes, admit them, pay off 
liabilities, if they are REAL and not hypothetical and move on.
If the nuclear POWER industry is competitive, as many of us think it is, then 
it should be able, without that special treatment, to live and to develop as 
any other industry until a something newer will come and replace it. The rest 
of the industry is very competitive but we need to change the image of 
"nuclear" and "radiation". Make it more personal and friendlier. 
It is always hard to go thru the changes generally, it is hard to accept the 
changes.

I hate to bring the next and I am, honestly, afraid to bring "THIS SUBJECT" 
but it would be dishonest not to bring it, so I cannot avoid this part. We 
need to look at our selves more closely.
Even if I may never have another nuclear related job again. Is it all about 
the jobs, is everything about the jobs? May be it is and I am a very naive 
person.
But so far I have NO regrets but appreciation for what I went thru. Americans 
are right, change is GOOD, it makes us stronger if we go thru with it. ;-)

The top positions in the industry are holding by those who grow up in those " 
Great and Old Times" and they for a different and a very personal reasons do 
not want or cannot change their attitudes. It is a very old "FATHERS AND 
SONS" citation.
I am not asking for the revolt or something like that but for the fresh and a 
good not frighten blood with new attitudes in the system.
We need those who remember how it WAS (that will prevent us from mistakes of 
the past to be repeated) and be able to bring new ideas. 
It is a very selfish and suicidal for the industry to keep US away. It is 
unnatural to skip one generation and hoping that next one will come and do it 
well, they will do the same mistakes.
Please, look on the nuclear engineering departments enrollment.
Those which are still around trying to survive by adapting new more 
competitive on the today's job market programs. An HP is common one, a 
Medical Imaging is a very hot right now too.
And it is GOOD, SOMEBODY is doing something!
Please, look at the nuclear physics departments. Enrollment is almost to 
nothing, 
I haven't seeing any faculty's children in those departments...............
This kind of attitude is "we do not care what will be after us"
Well, may be, I was and I am selfish too, may be I also would not like to 
advice my children, when I will have them, into a profession which has NO 
FUTURE. 
May be, it has no future because these people do not see any future without 
them on the scene, something familiar, isn't?
Happy Monday to everyone!

Emil.
kerembaev@cs.com

Why people cannot write what they say when they say.
"Unknown Author"


In a message dated 2/7/00 12:30:00 Pacific Standard Time, 
hoover@sip-pmu.slavutich.kiev.ua writes:

<< 
 Having actually talked to people who believe as Al states, I feel I must 
 point out that their are people in the anti movement who truly believe 
 these things.  I once had a fellow tell me that humanity needs to return 
 to a simpler life style.  When I pointed out that using, say, 17th century 
 technology farming could support maybe 3 billion people and then asked 
 what was to happen to the other 3 or so billion, his reply was, "They will 
 simply have to die."  Many of the anti's truly believe that humanity is a 
 disease that needs to be controlled.  So I must agree that Al has a valid 
 point.
 --= >>
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