Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

["Raymond Shadis" <shadis@ime.net>]

Sandy,

 Perpetuating complacency does even less good. My point is that the Taiwan

numbers are relatively new and just maybe as good as their socket wrenches.

Let's not put the flouroscopes back into shoe stores just yet.

Ray



----- Original Message -----

From: Sandy Perle <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>

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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:20 PM

Subject: Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?





> > The numbers

> > on exposures and cancers in Taiwan, for example, are far from complete

> > or authenticated. Citing them, it seems to me, borders on rogative

> > incantation....er ,wishful thinking.

>

> Ray,

>

> I would think that more than a decade of almost continual

> exposure, for a large number of the inhabitants, is quite powerful

> data and evidence. When we have some attempting to demonstrate

> cancer effects when there is truly low dose exposure, how can we

> ignore the fact when we actually have extremely high dose rates,

> over a long period of time, and very few cancers, that perhaps the

> risk estimates of many may be off, a tad.

>

> Perpetuating fear does no one any good. Perhaps the true victims

> would be those who would lose all of the grant $$ if the hypothesis

> they have been trying to prove, demonstrates that the null

> hypothesis is the actual case.

>

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