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Re: loosing, Tooth Fairy Project
I read this "eye-opener," and it certainly didn't tell me anything I haven't
heard many many times from people who are trying to tell me how to
communicate with the public. You know: talk in plain language, etc. The
problem is not, I insist, communication. When the word "sesquipedelian"
appears in the morning newspaper comic strips (Nine Chickweed Lane, Albuq.
Journal, Aug.3, 2000), and when I can find "rem," "becquerel," etc. in
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, I don't think there is a problem with
language as such. The antinukes' insistence that scientists don't know how
to talk to "the public" is a cover story for the firm anti-nuclear stance
that they are not going to believe anything they don't want to believe, not
going to be rational if they don't feel like it, not going to engage in
reasoned discussion, not going to admit anything, and it's all under the
guise of "if you only knew how to talk to us everything would be OK, but you
don't, so keep on trying."
Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dhr. Van rooyen <rooyen@aib-vincotte.nl>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, August 04, 2000 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: loosing, Tooth Fairy Project
>To radsafers who are willing to open up their eyes,
>
>and with an interest for the subject 'radiation protection and public
>information'
>I suggest to download IRPA 10- Eye Openers number EO7 (pdf file)
>
>http://www.oita-nhs.ac.jp/%7Eirpa10/EO/index.html
>
>
>Paul van Rooijen
>Manager HSE
>AIB-Vinçotte Nederland BV, Postbus 6869, 4802 HW Breda ,
>The Netherlands
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>
>
>At 15:30 3-8-00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Definitely. During my attendance at this week's Nuclear Energy
>>Institute Health Physics Forum, one primary factor discussed during
>>the workshop on Risk Communication, was the nuclear utility executive
>>management's lack of understanding the public, how to talk to them,
>>how to deal with them, and to address the public's primary concerns
>>and perceptions.
>>
>>In order to determine appropriate counter,measures, one must first
>>identify the root causes. There are many. We have only identified the
>>tip of the iceberg. To be successful, we need to address all of the
>>primary root causes, honestly and candidly, and where there are real
>>issues, we need to effectively mitigate them.
>>
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