Re: Practically workable? (formerly "ALARA What?")

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

While I agree with Glenn, that simply providing slogans that in 
comparison, we're not worse, doesn't really address the real issues. 
The fact is that when it comes to legislation, radiation is treated 
based not on the reality of the topic, but rather on the perceptions 
of the topic. This has been and will continue to be the way radiation 
is treated. It only took our industry 25 years of dealing with the 
public with a "need to know" mentality, to put us in this current 
state. Promises and secrecy have fuelled the flame, and a few 
accidents along the way certainly haven't helped.

It will take another generation or two of dispensing with the 
promises, the rhetoric, but real dialogue, to bring back the pro-
nuclear mentality in this nation. We're not alone .. look at the rest 
of the world. 

Did LNT cause us to be where we are today. I don't believe so. The 
public started turning against nuclear options way before the LNT 
acronym even became a household word. It may be discussed within 
Congress and at symposiums, but the average person doesn't fear 
radiation because of it, but because of the way the energy option was 
handled by the executives, the scientists and the politicians. 

Debating won't help. Education and honesty are the only viable 
vehicles to perhaps, bring back a positive nuclear option.

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