Re: Federal Guidance Report No. 11

[William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>]

Obviously, you have not heard of:



Three Mile Island - There was no excessive dose to the public, yet nearly fatal consequences for the nuclear industry.  Why?  I'd say a loss of trust.



Shoreham - Even though the reactor was built to applicable standards, the people of Long Island wouldn't let it run.  From the statements I heard at the

time, the average Long Islander would sooner have his first born son crawl across the Long Island Expressway at rush hour than let Shoreham run.  Lack

of trust?  (Please don't try to be the victim by blaming the media, Christie Brinkley, Mario Cuomo, the tooth fairy, etc.  They wouldn't have been

listened to if there weren't an underlying lack of trust.)



Rancho Seco - The owners (the voters of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) voted to shut down the plant, even though it had fixed it's

problems.  A loss of trust?  (CA could sure have used a few hundred extra megawatts, last year.)



BNL - High Flux Beam Reactor - A fuel pool leak resulted in a tritium plume.  There was virtually zero dose to the public, yet political pressure forced

DOE to close the facility, with a severe economic impact on the local area.  Loss of trust?



Yucca Mountain - Why is NV so dead set against this huge economic benefit which has been demonstrated to have virtually no environmental impact?. (It is

difficult to imagine how any activity short of more weapons detonations could make NTS any worse than it already is.)  Lack of trust?

...



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Let's look at the real problem, for a change.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com





hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:



> Bill,

> Your statement, "It's not about dose, its about trust."

> is incorrect. If you know that and repeat it, ----.

>

> Dose is everything in medicine

> (life or death).

> Likewise with radiation - also now a medicine, which HP's can help individualize.

>

> Howard Long

>

>



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