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Re: Federal Guidance Report No. 11 and the Truth
Why do you folks have such a strong desire to be a victim?
"Selling fear" would not work unless the underlying distrust is already there. Without belaboring where we screwed up (hint: It's not LNT or radon,
or even some media conspiracy - try arrogance, greed, premature commercialization, or a willingness to overlook less than adequate work to be a "team
player."), please accept that we screwed up big time, and, no matter how strong our case, we cannot turn this around overnight.
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
Daniel Mackney wrote:
> A lack of trust is not the problem. The main problem is how well you can
> sell fear. The politicians sell fear because people want to listen to them
> and the news will cover them. The activists sell fear because they get a
> spotlight and money from donors. And the news media sell fear which gets
> more viewers and in turn gets advertising revenues. Many of the places I
> have been (Indian Point, Perry, Shoreham, West Valley, WIPP) have all been
> attacked from the fear stand point. Shoreham got shut down and sold for a
> buck. Even though NYS knew from experience that nothing would happen. WIPP
> was held out like the sacrifical lamb until Congress provided the states
> with sufficient money to outway the "votes' generated by the fear mongers.
> We all know fear sells. That's why we have "amusement" park rides that
> hurtle you to the edge and movies that do nothing more than slash and kill
> people. That's why some people on this site are able to substantiate
> consistent replies to all the "crap" they portend as problems. If it was so
> bad to have all these reactors and to handle and dispose of the waste, they
> would be actively fighting all the hospitals in the world from using
> radiation to take "x-rays" , cat scans, or provide medical treatments. But
> they don't. Because the public has constantly been told that use of
> radaition is good. But never told that the handling and disposal is under
> the same practices as the power generating business. These people won't even
> face the fact that the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernoybl did not
> blow up and wipe out the eastern part of Europe making that area a totally
> iuninhabitable waste land that no living thing can be in.
> So how do we sell facts? The Discovery channel has no where near the number
> of viewers that even Fox has, and the latest science fact is always a small
> article in the 12th section back page of your Sunday newspaper. We see a
> decline in those people studying HP or radiochemistry because there is no
> perceived future in a science that is "dangerous". Yet, everyone that I've
> taken from Environmental Science, Biochemistry, and even Engineering and
> shown the TRUTH about radiation has stayed here.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William V Lipton" <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>
> To: <hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net>
> Cc: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Federal Guidance Report No. 11
>
> > 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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