Re: NIMBY for Nevada residents

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

Give me their names and e-mail addresses, and I'll see what I can do.



BTW#1, comparative body counts (eg., nuclear power only killed 10% as many

people as the Titanic, go nuclear.) is NOT the way to go.



BTW#2, if you had been "fighting with all your might" to actually improve

nuclear safety, eg., preventing TMI and Chernobyl (both of these were 100%

preventable), instead of "perceptions," you would have been a lot more

effective.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

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

Curies forever.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com



BERNARD L COHEN wrote:



> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, William V Lipton wrote:

>

> > Perception is reality; just deal with it.

>

>         --Are you implying that we should not fight like hell to correct

> it? If you are, let me propose an exercise for you.

>         Public perception is that nuclear power is much more dangerous

> than coal burning power. But scientific analyses show that a coal burning

> power plant, over its life time will kill about 1000 people, while a

> nuclear plant would kill an average of less than one. The exercise I

> propose is for you to picture yourself explaining to each of these 1000

> people that they must die because public perception is wrong. How would

> you do it? If it were me I would say that I have been fighting with all my

> might to change that public perception, and that is all I can do.



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