RE: Dateline NBC TMI special

["Sugarman, Steve" <SugarmaS@ORAU.GOV>]

If you missed it, it can be found in print on MSNBC.com.  It's the first

article you'll see if you click on their "Dateline NBC" section.



Steve Sugarman, MS, CHCM



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

From: maury [mailto:maury@WEBTEXAS.COM]

Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:58 PM

To: jbell

Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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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