Re: Stop the madness

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

--- William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> wrote:

> As I've said all too often, "We have met the enemy

> and he is us"  ("Pogo").  Our near total lack of

> credibility is not due to the anti's seeing our

> "playbook", or some media conspiracy, but, primarily

> to the knee jerk responses we give, such as the one

> from Mr. Frey.  We've been hurt not so much

> by any outlandlish statements of the anti's, but by

> our saying that "it can't happen" and then finding

> that it does, eg, TMI, the "slow motion TMI" at

> Hanford,  Chernobyl, the recent Japanese criticality

> accident,....  We seem to be the ones with closed

> minds.



I have to take issue with one point above.  Neither

the designers of TMI nor GPU Nuclear ever said that an

accident couldn't happen.  They simply said that an

accident where people were injured was highly

unlikely.  History has proven that statement to be

correct.  Nobody was injured save psychological

distress brought on by ineffective (bordering on

pathetic) communications and PR skills of the utility.

 

> I welcome the participation of antinukes in this

> forum.  We have a lot more to learn from them, than

> they do from us.



I agree.  By researching many of their claims, I have

learned quite a bit.  After all, it takes sound facts

and analysis to counter anectdotal evidence.



Regards,

Tim Steadham, P.E.



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