RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:
--- The apology should be for assuming that Norm Cohen sent the virus and for stating to the list that you wouldn't open any of my emails. ---sorry about the virus -- wrong cohen? something else? I just delete attachments if I don't expect them
---- I will do my part to be civil. Thats all I ask of anyone on radsafe. ------
However:In a message dated 2/6/02 8:21:54 PM Mountain Standard Time, ncohen12@home.com writes:
(1) I wasn't being snide. It may have been a poor attempt at humor, but wasn;t snide. I was implying though,
that if I posted "hey guys, the sky is blue", you'd find some fault with that statement. It is a shame that we are unable to have a civil conversation.Yes it is. I believe I have done my part to be civil and straighforward. Maybe if you could refrain from making comments like "I was implying though, that if I posted "hey guys, the sky is blue", you'd find some fault with that " we could be civil. Maybe if you are just as straightforward wiith me as I am with you we could be civil. Civil, not friendly. I believe that your anti-nuke groups do a great deal of harm.
---- Then what we ae discussing is perception, acceptance, and tolerance of risk. If you'd re-state your Mobile Chernobyl question, I'll do my best to answer it. ---
(2) As far as Yucca, you can go to www.nirs.org for most of the major concernsabout Yucca and about the traansport off waste there. As I have stated before, I am of a divided mind on this issue. There clearly (to me at least) are transport risks, as enumerated by Leventhal. With around 50,000 shipments, the odds of an accident
seem real. You are OK with transport, saying that everything is safe. I'm not so trusting in DOE experiments and tests.I am well aware of NIRS's position, and the distortions that come from groups like that. Have you read the Yucca Mountain DEIS (www.ymp.gov)? No one, least of all DOE ever claimed that an accident couldn't happen. To say that they did is a flat untruth. On the contrary, accidents are analyzed in detail (one of the things I do for a living). All your anti-nuke groups know this, Resnikoff knows it, the State of Nevada knows it. By the way, I never did get an answer to my mobile Chernobyl question.
As far as the site itself, while it looks to me that in the short term the storage of--- Yes, its another pathetic attempt at humor. It was a quote from his song, where he was taking garbage to the dump on Thanksgiving. The question I look at is: should we have 100 waste dumps or just one, and how dangerous is it to geet all the garbage to one dump, and why should we do that if the waste just piles up again atwaste there should be OK, I am not satified with the site for long term storage - volcanos, earthquakes, water flow, etc.
However, the great scientist Arlo Guthrie once said in Alice's Restuarant, that "rather than have two piles of garbage, we threw our on the other pile."I suppose this is another attempt at humor. Is Arlo Guthrie in your science pantheon along with Jane Fonda, Alex Baldwin, and Christie Brinkley?
--- No I am not aware of that. Back in 82 I was working mostly in the peace/anti nuke weapons area.I was not particularly environmentally aware. Anyway, to say that ALL the enviro groups supported the act may be a stretch. And are you saying that they are not allowed to change heir minds? ----
And so the idea of getting all the waste to one place is appealing,
Are you aware that in 1982 all the environmental groups, including Sierra Club, SUPPORTED the Nuclear Waste Policy Act?
peace,
norm
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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