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Re: Dateline NBC TMI special
Try dateline@nbc.com also an article from the program is at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/612236.asp (usually it follows the program
verbatum).
Pete
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----- Original Message -----
From: "maury" <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>
To: "jbell" <jbell@ADCOSERVICES.COM>
Cc: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Dateline NBC TMI special
> 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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