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Re: ENN news article
> Although a questionable practice, most other industries do it too. Just
> the other day I was drinking from a public water fountain that had a
> sticker prominently declaring the water to be "Certified Lead-Free." Now
> I know that no purifying process is 100% efficient at removing anything,
> so what this probably meant was that the lead concentrations were below
> some government-set limit and therefore, for all practical purposes, is
> "Lead-Free." Now, if I were an anti-lead activist, I could sample the
> water, analyze it, and more-than-likely find insignificant traces of lead
> in it. Then I could contact the local press and declare that the
> government was lying to the public about dangerous, toxic, poisonous lead
> contamination in public drinking water advertised by the government as
> Lead-Free!!! Sound familiar?
>
> Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT
> 84u@bechteljacobs.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hardeman [SMTP:Jim_Hardeman@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:15 PM
> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; tjsav@LYCOS.COM
> Subject: Re: ENN news article
>
> Colleagues -
>
> Maybe "CO2-free", but this sort of "emissions-free" rhetoric is what keeps
> getting us in a crack when there's a minor incident, such as IP2, when
> spokespersons have to explain that yes, there was a release of radioactive
> material to the environment, but it was within technical specifications.
> It's difficult to explain tech specs without eventually getting around to
> the concept that nuclear plants constantly release small quantities of
> radioactive materials to the air and to the water. These too are
> "emissions", even if they are trivial, as compared to the tons of NOx, SOx
> and COx released by fossil plants. The media's response, understandably,
> was ... "<gasp> You mean to tell us that nuclear plants are releasing
> radiation ALL THE TIME??!! <gasp>"
>
> Why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot this way?
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