Re: More on "Mobile Cherobyl" and PTSD

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/11/02 9:35:37 AM Mountain Standard Time, ncohen12@comcast.net writes:



> However, since you assure me that the transports are 100% safe, and that
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> this accident will never occur, you have nothing to worry about, and
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> thus there will be no PTSD from Yucca/Mobile Chernobyl..



I never assured you of any such thing!!!!!  I never said 100% safe! Nor would I.  Moreover, I never said accidents won't happen -- I spend a lot of time analyring accidents, as I have written on RADSAFE.  I am co-author of a document analyzing spent fuel behavior in an accident (NUREG/CR-6672).  I don't even know what "100% safe" is supposed to mean. I said "Mobile Chernobyl" couldn't happen, which means that in a transportation accident involving spent fuel, a criticality wouldn't and couldn't occur because the spent fuel would be dispersed and one would not get a critical mass.   Your statement is typical anti-nuke distortion.  Why are you surprised that some of us are angered when our words are twisted this way?


> PTSD has been caused by the government as well. There are some people
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> who were affected by the civil defense/air raid drills of the 1950s,
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> where kids were told how to "survive" an atomic blast. So, when you all
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> sue Public Citizen and Greenpeace, please sue surviving members of the
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> Eisenhower adminstration as well. ;-)


Could you cite an actual case, please?  I was there.  Whose suing?  Did I ever say I would sue?  I wouldn't waste my time.



> As far as NIRS's website, I'll look when I get the chance. You could
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> always email them. I'm sure they'd welcome your comments.


I doubt it.  


Now, could you please address my question:  If media presentations cause PTSD, do you think using the phrase "Mobile Chernobyl" would?



Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com