RE: Dateline NBC TMI story - A different evaluation

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Hello Bob,



> The question at hand, Sandy, is "Why resurrect fears that were

> exaggerated to extremes over 2 decades in the past when, as you

> mentioned, major provisions were established in the aftermath and

> maintained to the present to avoid the many problems encountered with

> the situation at TMI, including improvements to address scenarios far

> above and beyond that of TMI or even possibility!?"



I agree with the above. If you recall, I started by comments 

"Regardless of the facts of the story, let's not forget that during 

the entire TMI incident..."  The primary reason I even posted to this 

topic, was because in my opinion, what was happening once again on 

Radsafe, was a movement to attack an article (that in reality, had 

much accuracy) and for the most part, attempted to ignore that there 

were problems in the first place. The sole purpose of the attack was 

to condemn MSNBC for the piece. In fairness, and I did not see the 

piece, but did read the transcript afterwards, the story did say that 

the systems in the end worked, and .. so on. However, all 

documentaries have emotionalism added in .. this is the nature of the 

beast. Regardless of the emotionalism, TMI did happen, there were 

serious problems, we did not do well, and, the systems themselves 

avoided what could have been a real disaster, root cause would have 

been "human factors". We can not argue that. The facts speak for 

themselves. 



In conclusion, I'll only add, TMI did happen, there were serious 

potentials for disaster that did not happen, and we all learned a lot 

from that experience. Those who want to defend each and every thing 

that happens in the nuclear industry, be in nuclear power, medical or 

industrial .. I say, get over it. We're not a perfect industry. We 

are not infallible. Don't promote us as if we were.



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