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

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

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 07:46:32 -0500

From: "dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>

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

Safeguards



Mr. Lochbaum is not a "nuclear engineer", he is an engineer who has been

trained to work in nuclear facilities.  He is probably a mechanical

engineer, based on what I have seen about his experience in the nuclear

industry.  He has also been trained as a reactor operator.



I think that is an important distiction that the general public does not

understand.  However, he also has a current employer which has specific

anti-nuclear and fund-raising goals.  In order to please that employer and

its ignorant or dishonest contributor base, he must walk a thin line between

truth and not-truth or less-than-truth.



I was an anti-nuke and an active supporter of the UCS for several years.

However, I had the opportunity to compare what they wrote with hard evidence

that I could see and touch.  What they wrote did not match the facts.  That

is why I am not pro-nuke.



Don Kosloff

dkosloff1@msn.com

2910 Main St. Perry OH 44081

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

From: "Tim" <tstead@ntirs.org>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 11:48 AM

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

Safeguards





> 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.

>

> __________________________________________________

> Do You Yahoo!?

> Find a job, post your resume.

> http://careers.yahoo.com

> ************************************************************************

> You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

> send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

> radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.