Re: nuclear safety groups?

["Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

> They say that the plants are unsafe if operating, unsafe if

> shutdown, and unsafe if the utility tries to remove the

> radioactive material.

> What is their solution? THERE IS NO SOLUTION!!!



Steve is quite right here. Norm complains that we attack the messenger, but

that's fair game when the messenger plays disingenuous games in taking

advocacy positions. We criticize politicians and other interest groups for

the same sins. The UCS and some other groups have an agenda - which in

itself is OK - elimination of nuclear power, food irradiation, basically all

things nuclear regardless of their benefits to humanity. If they would

simply say that, explain why, and defend their reasoning in a fair way, no

one would attack them. But they play these endless legal and public opinion

games, trying to just create so many problems for things nuclear that they

hope that this will accomplish their objective of eliminating them from

society. In doing so, they lose credibility with thinking persons and become

yet another interest group, armed with earplugs and megaphones, advocating

an extreme position in order to move the solution in their direction. The

same can be said of some groups that are pro-nuclear, pro-life, pro-choice,

pro-labor, pro-business, etc, etc, and every one of these groups that

practices this should be criticized for it. When they resort to violence -

bringing lawsuits against those who disagree with them, slandering them

publicly, or in some cases, physical violence (putting bombs in scientists'

cars or nails in trees to injure loggers) - they should be prosecuted for

it.



Mike







Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Vanderbilt University

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Nashville, TN 37232-2675

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