RE: Resnikoff on SNF transport to YMP [FW]

Ted de Castro wrote:

Yes - I quite agree! BUT look closely - these people are 'reported as
using' official data from NRC and DOE in their citing of potential
effects.

Be it the NRC report which they purport to claim that a loss of water in
a spent fuel storage pool will cause an "explosive fire" and a
radioactive plume of contamination similar to a Hiroshima bomb (thus the
10 kiloton reference) - OR this DOE report that supposedly predicts
exposure rates that DOT doesn't allow.

No wonder these people come up with these ideas?? They don't seem to be
getting their data from tabloids - but from the very government agencies
that are supposed to have access to all the experts.

So - where is all this coming from??? Inept official scientists?
Verbal diarrhea? Mad musings or mis understanding and mis quoting of
the remarks in these reports? It is so hard to evaluate without the raw
data - and for those who have no idea of the science and how to verify
the calculations and conclusion themselves - just what are they supposed
to do?
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Ted,

I for one have noticed that at least in some cases these "official data from NRC and DOE" are reports prepared, on contract, by people like Resnikoff -- we may be seeing some cases of the antis simply citing each-other's stuff, legitimised by the DOE/NRC banner. Evidently the DOE/NRC either don't know who they're dealing with, or it could be a case of awarding contracts in a "fair way" -- ie. some for real scientists and some for phoneys (this sort of thing goes on all the time in public hearings before committees -- anybody can go and rant total nonsence, and later quote themselves under fancy high-level government committe titles...).

BTW, FYI, here is a telling selection of bibliography, from Resnikoff's company web site ( http://www.rwma.com/ - RWMA - Radioactive Waste Management Associates ):

#R97-12 Fairlie, I., and Resnikoff, M., No Dose Too Low, article prepared for "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists," November/December 1997. 5 pp. $3.00

#R97-9 Resnikoff, M., and Champion, A., Transportation Accident of Ship Carrying Vitrified High-Level Radioactive Waste: Part 1. Impact on the Federated States of Micronesia, prepared on behalf of Greenpeace Pacific, July 31, 1997. 42 pp. $7.00

#R96-6 Resnikoff, M., "Decommissioning of Big Rock Point," prepared for Don't Waste Michigan-Northern Chapter, July 1996.20 pp. $4.00

#R93-8 Resnikoff, M. Statement on behalf of the Saskatchewan Uranium Coalition before the Rabbit Lake panel, June 15, 1993.12pp $3.00

#R93-7 Resnikoff, M. Statement on behalf of the Interchurch Uranium Coalition to the joint federal provincial panel on uranium development in northern Saskatchewan, May 5, 1993.8pp $3.00

#R92-3 Minard Hamilton, Low Level Waste Facilities in Canada and the U.S., prepared on behalf of Northwatch Coalition, April 22, 1992.115pp $15.00

#R92-2 Richard Leigh, Marvin Resnikoff and Anne behVanrenterghem, Environmental Impacts of Elliot Lake Mill Tailings, prepared on behalf of Northwatch Coalition, March 30, 1992.42pp $6.50

...........and so on..... (you get the picture).

Jaro