Re: Response to Norman Cohen

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 03/30/2002 7:57:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, ncohen12@comcast.net writes:



> I'm no expert, but I understand that there are small reactors like the
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> one in Australia, who's purpose is to make medical isotopes. 


Hmm...could this be the same reactor against which California's own Mr. Daniel Hirsch traveled thousands of miles to try and prevent its modernization in favor of doing away with it all together?  The same reactor located in Lucas Heights that is primary source for Australian nuclear medicine isotopes?   I believe that you, Mr. Cohen, may simply be against commercial power generating plants, but that is not the case with many, if not most, other nuclear opponents.  


On a lighter note, I loved what the Sydney Herald columnist had to say with respect to Mr. Hirsch, "But one suggestion I liked from Mr Hirsch was an adjudicatory hearing in which experts for all sides would testify under oath, and be subject to cross-examination. And I wonder who would have most to lose in such a hearing: the scientists from ANSTO, with their facts and their safety record; or Sutherland Shire Council, whose "high-profile US nuclear expert" turns out to have no scientific qualifications whatsoever?" 


Barbara