Re: Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

[Robert A Scott <bobscottchp@juno.com>]

	Consider one other point: Power Outages.  If, as noted below, the infant
mortality rate drops the second the plant is closed, then such rates also
should drop the second the plant goes down for a refueling or scheduled
maintenance.  Why hasn't that been shown to occur?

> Brinkley told viewers that a report would be released that 
> "indicates 
> very, very heavily that the second you close a nuclear reactor, I   
> mean, immediately, infant mortality rates go down."

Bob Scott, Esq., CHP
Roger Williams Medical Center
Providence, Rhode Island
bobscottchp@juno.com
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