Re: Japanese criticality accident - update of health effects

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 09:27 27.02.2000 -0600, you wrote:

>I checked some of the Japanese news media a few days ago but found
>nothing directly related to technical or medical aspects of the
>Tokaimura accident.

I take this as a confirmation that the mass media of a few countries had
their sensation, which they kept artificially alive for a few weeks. Now
the whole story is of no more interest. This does not apply to the
massmedia of my country. In TV I have not heard anything about the case,
but I am not a passionate TV watcher. The print media had at most a short
message at page 15 or 17 that an accident had occurred and later that one
person died, though our mass media are extremely anti-nuclear.

I would like to draw the conclusion that if the mass media do not write
about a story, people are not interested in it any more. So let us just
wait every time until the stormy times are over.....

Franz



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