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RE: Criticality accident
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> From: Gary Isenhower [mailto:garyi@BCM.TMC.EDU]
>
> 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? :)
Portends the 'paradoxical perils of the precautionary principle'
(promulgated by Frank Cross. :-)
Jim Muckerheide
Frank B. Cross, Paradoxical Perils of the Precautionary Principle, 53
Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 851, 854 (1996).
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