RE: Article: How I set off the subway radiation meter

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

Nope--tangible benefit. The public sees nuclear power as a commodity. You

flip the switch and it comes on. Whether it's a nuclear plant in someone

else's back yard or a coal plant downwind, as long as the price is in line

w/ everybody else's, it just doesn't matter. (Remember, we're the people

willing to pay 40-50 percent of our income in taxes.) But they don't view

nuclear medicine the same way. Then it's personal, and if the best chance

comes through nuclear medicine (and the insurance company is footing the

bill), then do whatever it takes.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





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Subject: Re: Article: How I set off the subway radiation meter





The general public isn't likely to stop being more concerned about nukes

than 

nuclear medicine unless the media and anti-nukers starts reporting on the 

danger of people undergoing nuclear procedures blowing up.  Then Joe public 

will become concerned about his own safety.  ;)



Tom Hazlett

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