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Re: Criticality accident
Comparative body counts are even less useful than "cool alliterations," and
should NEVER be used to justify preventable accidents.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Gary Isenhower wrote:
> Paul lavely wrote:
>
> >
> > What number of accidental criticalities and deaths would be needed to
> > qualify as "many"?
> >
>
> Clearly, one death is one too many. But that is a misleading
> perspective. A better question perhaps is whether such activities are
> as safe as comparable activies like hydroelectric generation. I don't
> have exact numbers, but I believe that deaths due to hydroelectric power
> generation are far in excess of deaths due to accidental criticalities.
> The construction of Hoover dam alone killed several tens of workers.
>
> If we forbid activities which might result in a single death, we will
> become a very primitive, paranoid, and paralyzed society.
>
> pretty cool aliteration, huh? :)
>
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