My point tho' was that I'm more concerned with the aging commercial reactors than with small ones that make medical isotopes and that I understand the medical value of nuclear technology. Electricity is a different story, one doesn't have to split atoms to boil water.
norm
g2v13a@swbell.net wrote:
Norm,Please be specific --- what are the "alternative methods for making these isotopes" ?
Please [clearly] address how these [medical use] isotopes can be produced
[and in the quantities that are needed to address the existing patient demand].In making the statement(s):
"I also understand that there are alternative methods for making the isotopes."
and "Either way is fine with me."
You are stating that you know of an alternative method [for making these isotopes
in the quantities that will meet the current patient demand] that is at least equal or
superior to the current [commercial reactor] method.What is the alternative method?
Doug
Douglas D. Jackson
Medical Physicist & consumer of isotopes
St. Louis, MO
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Norman Cohen wrote:3CA5DCB9.142440D0@comcast.net">Ruth, I'm no expert, but I understand that there are small reactors like the one in Australia, who's purpose is to make medical isotopes. I also understand that there are alternative methods for making these isotopes. Either way is fine with me. My focus is the commercial nukes. As far as NIRS, again, I'm not NIRS' representative to Radsafe, so feel free to take it up with them. As far as my humor, I know you don't find it funny, so I'm sorry, but no free tickets for you when I start my new career as a stand-up comic after I've gotten Salem shut down. ;-) norm RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 3/29/02 2:41:39 PM Mountain Standard Time, ncohen12@comcast.net writes:that I support nuclear medicine.If nuclear reactors are all shut down, how do you propose that medically used isotopes be made? NIRS's "explanation" of their use of "Mobile Chernobyl" greatly distorts what would happen to a spent fuel cask in an accident. They know it is a distortion. Besides, even their scenario would not duplicate the Chernobyl accident because the latter involves fuel in the reactor, and cooled fuel that has been out of the reactor for at least several years is what is transported. Certainly you believe them. You want to. And to the uninformed person, their explanation might even make some sense. A colleague of mine used to give a very convincing lecture about phlogiston, too. Sure, if an organization distorts the facts sufficiently then they can justify any term they want. This does answer my question: NIRS does use the term, and justifies its use with a made-up, disingenuously distorted scenario. For the r ecord, I don't find your "humor" funny, though I may be alone in this.. Ruth Weiner, Ph. D. ruthweiner@aol.com-- Coalition for Peace and Justice and the UNPLUG Salem Campaign; 321 Barr Ave., Linwood, NJ 08221; 609-601-8583 or 609-601-8537; ncohen12@comcast.net UNPLUG SALEM WEBSITE: http://www.unplugsalem.org/ COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE WEBSITE: http://www.coalitionforpeaceandjustice.org The Coalition for Peace and Justice is a chapter of Peace Action. "First they ignore you; Then they laugh at you; Then they fight you; Then you win. (Gandhi) "Why walk when you can fly?" (Mary Chapin Carpenter) ************************************************************************ You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/
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