Re: "Anti-Nukes"

["Roger L. Sawyer" <RSawyer@UH.EDU>]

Are you one of those Mendez brothers?  I think you need help as you are a
sick puppy.  Radiation kills.  It's just that simple dude.  Now take your
bleediing heart big business attitude elsewhere.  At 06:34 PM 8/13/00
-0500, you wrote:
>first, so i may properly identify myself, and it's understood which side of
>the fence i'm on… i have previous experience as a rad safety tech here at
>the virginia tech RSO, and am currently a grad student studying, in a
>nutshell, the natural attenuation of rad waste in the subsurface.  i guess
>that classifies me as a 'non-anti'.  
>
>the continued dialog between radsafers and, shall i say 'non-believers',
>has prompted my first post to the list.  please help me with my
>questions/concerns.  i am all too aware of the science vs. emotion trend
>that has been played out in the previous dialogs.  it's sad that good
>science can be so easily ignored.  i see (read) such good, logical
>communication on our part to the list visitors; unfortunately to no affect.
> to what extent does this dialog go beyond radsafe to where it really
>matters?  they are the ones spreading the same emotionally-biased,
>scientific nonsense all over the place; media, uneducated (in the matter of
>concern) public, any type of organization that will listen (fund/donate),
>etc.  does our point get trapped in the radsafe vacuum.  what do we have as
>a defense against this nonsense, that operates in the same efficient manner
>as they do?  something beyond technical government and academic
>publications which the general public has no interest in.  how about even
>distributing these same dialogs that have been presented on radsafe to the
>PIs/adiministrators/funders of the TFP, the media, and good ol' brinkley
>and baldwin.  has something of this sort been done for the TFP(insert any
>other anti-nuke propaganda here)?  who do we have to represent us on the
>front that they fight?  i know we all have 'real' jobs that make it
>difficult to play the same games they play, but i sure would be able to
>sleep better at night if i knew we had someone on our side, or could we
>could at least stoop to their level.
>
>PS- don't get me wrong, i'm all for saving the world; but let us think
>before we act.
>
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>Eduardo Mendez III
>Graduate Research Assistant
>The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
>Virginia Tech
>Blacksburg, VA  24061-0105
>email emendez@vt.edu
>ph    540.231.3913
>fax   540.231.7532
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