RE: NIMBY for Nevada residents

["Jim Muckerheide" <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>]

Hi Ruth,



What you're fighting for is also to make reality perceived. :-)



Regards, Jim



-----Original Message-----

From:	RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

Sent:	Mon 11-Mar-02 1:15 PM

To:	liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM; blc+@PITT.EDU

Cc:	dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject:	Re: NIMBY for Nevada residents



In a message dated 3/11/02 9:25:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, 

liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM writes:





> , 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.

> 



More than 99% of all accidents are preventable, in the sense that actions 

could have been taken to prevent them.  Automobile accidents that kill 40,000 

people a year in the U. S. are almost, but not quite, entirely preventable.  

The fact that accidents are preventable doesn't mean they won't ever happen, 

and has nothing to do with changing perception.  To take this out of the 

nuclear realm, and to point up once again that perception is NOT reality, 

look at the history of automobile seat belt use in the U. S.  As Consumer 

Reports once put it "Americans think they are immortal until the moment of 

impact."  The totally unrealistic perception that seat belts were unnecessary 

has been dramatically contradicted by the markedly reduced death toll where 

seat belts are required.  Sooner or later, reality wins.  What Bernie and I 

and others are working for, I believe, is to make the perceptions realistic.





Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com







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