Re: From NCI- News Hours Transcript 11/2/01; Focus- Nuclear Safeguards

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

I sent a message to NCI asking them why they used a

"nuclear engineer" who equated ANY AMOUNT OF spent

fuel to a 10 kilton nuclear bomb.  Maybe NCI was not

the author or background consultant on this piece, but

their name was all over it so I sent them the message.



In it, they interview a guy (foget his name) from the

UCS who claims to be a nuclear engineer.  What is

scary is that this "nuclear engineer" thinks that it

is possible for fuel (spent or not) to explode.  If he

is a nuclear engineer, I think he needs to send his

degree back to the college that gave it to him along

with a post-it note attached saying, "I apologize for

wasting your time and I regret to inform you that I am

too stupid to have this degree."  I wonder if he would

be sending his degree back to Sally Struthers....



Of course, he is probably an engineer (like

electrical, industrial, civil, whatever) who works for

the UCS and they gave him the title "nuclear engineer"

becuase he has read a few things on the internet and a

few Greenpeace pamphlets and thus is not a real

nuclear engineer.



I am yet to receive a response from them about this

"minor" error but I'll be sure to let people on this

list know how they defend that idiot.



Regards,

Timothy C. Steadham, P.E.



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