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RE: pstd

"Mobile Chernobyl" is a way to "yell 'Fire' in a theater" - for profit.



Regards, Jim





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



In a message dated 3/11/02 5:09:33 PM Mountain Standard Time, 

lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu writes:



> Should? To be able to?

> 

> 

> Ethical? Being in accordance with the accepted principles of right and 

> wrong that govern the conduct of a profession (or group).

> 



Let me put it another way.  Once again, let me repeat that characterizing 

spent fuel transportation as "Mobile Chernobyl" is an egregious 

mischaracterization.  I will add that it is a deliberate distortion intended 

to produce fear.  Mr. Lavely, do you agree with these two statements?  If 

not, I'd like to know the basis for your disagreement.



If you agree with these two statements, do you consider it ethical for anyone 

to characterize spent fuel transportation this way?  In other words, do you 

consider it ethical to promote a deliberate distortion in order to frighten 

people?  I am not asking whether this is ethical in the absolute sense -- no 

one can make that judgment -- but whether YOU consider it ethical.  



Clearly anyone can say anything they want.  But the anti-nukes keep insisting 

that they occupy some sort of moral or ethical high ground, and I find this 

irreconcilable with deliberate distortion of fact.



"and we should try and reach the same people with our side of the issue"  

Well we, or at least I, do.  But that's not the point.  The point I am trying 

to get at is: here is a deliberate distortion being trumpeted by a group -- 

the anti-nuclear movement -- that purports to be concerned about 

post-traumatic stress induced by media reporting of events.  Are they doing 

the same thing with "Mobile Chernobyl?"  





Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com







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