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Re: Dateline NBC TMI special
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maury
<maury@WEBTEXAS.COM> To: jbell <jbell@ADCOSERVICES.COM>
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owner-radsafe@list.vand Subject: Re: Dateline NBC TMI special
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08/15/2001 01:57 PM
Please respond to maury
Well, it's letter time again and my email server is back on line. Does
anyone
have handy an appropriate address for Dateline/NBC? This thing needs to at
least be answered. Thanks,
Maury Siskel maury@webtexas.com
jbell wrote:
> Kind of curious if anybody saw the scathing report on the Three Mile
> Island incident aired last night by Dateline on NBC. I tuned in a little
> late but what I got out of it, the main person being interviewed by the
> commentator, their "expert" if you will, was none other than the man who
> wrote the screen play for the movie "The China Syndrome". The gist of
> the show was that TMI was basically 30 minutes from meltdown at one
> point and could have even exploded spewing "deadly radioactive debris"
> over a 10 mile radius around the plant. It was even mentioned at one
> point by one of the so called experts that there probably wouldn't be
> anybody killed beyond the 10 mile radius. The show made the folks at Met
> Edison look like criminals, the NRC look inept, the media champions of
> justice, (as usual), and the State government officials poor uniformed
> "mushrooms". This show made Chernoybl look like a day at the park
> compared to TMI!
>
> I find the timing of this show interesting. Now that President Bush has
> at least acknowledged that nuclear power should play a part in our
> overall energy program, a 1 hour special is broadcast basically trying
> to scare the American people back into submission regarding nuclear
> energy. Without a doubt the anti-nucs have the ear of the media and
> have once again got their message across. I would venture to say that
> the 59% in favor of building new nuclear power plants that a recent poll
> showed, has probably once again dropped below that all important 50%
> mark. It's just a shame that one-sided programs like this are allowed to
> air on national TV and we in the nuclear industry have to "grin and bear
> it".
>
> Comments?
>
> Jim Bell
> Adco Services, Inc.
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