Re: Mobile Chernobyl - what is this?

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

I didn't think"bureacrat" was a term of opprobrium -- I just thought it
described a position.  I apologize if anyone read it as an insult.  It is
however rare to hear a public servant speak so plainly, although it is very
gratifying.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Clayton" <zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Mobile Chernobyl - what is this?


> Ruth Weiner wrote:
> >The anti-nuclear people like to refer to spent nuclear fuel that is being
> >transported by rail or on trucks, in Type B casks, as"Mobile Chernobyl"
> >because it is both catchy and scary.  I believe Marvin Resnikoff coined
the
> >phrase. I once actually heard a bureaucrat  say in a public meeting that
the
> >phrase was both misleading and wrong.
>
> That was no Bureoucrat!  That was  an informed public servant doing their
job to
> the best of their ability and not bowing to popular pressure or lazyness.
They were
> speaking to accuracy, and not pop culture.  They should get an attaboy,
not be
> disparaged as a "bureaucrat".
>
> Just my opinion.
>
>
>
> Zack Clayton
> Ohio EPA - DERR
> email:  zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us
> voice:  614-644-3066
> fax:        614-460-8249
>
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