Re: FLYOVER SHOWS INDIAN POINT'S A SITTING DUCK

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

O.K., that makes sense.  I agree that many people were

harmed as a result of Chernobyl due to nothing but

stress.  Heck, thousands of unborn children were

harmed when their mothers aborted them.  Then you have

the grieving that goes along with such a loss.  That

can be a harm also.



The question is, though, was more harm done as a

result of unsubstantiated, groundless, and baseless

fears of all things nuclear or were the actions taken

by people warranted?  Was some of it warranted but

other actions not?  How much of the unwarranted

actions were a direct result of the anti-nuclear

fearmongerers?  How much of that harm can you lay at

the feet of the anti-nuclear movement and how much can

be laid at the feet of the USSR?  I'd say they are

equally culpable...more so the USSR government since

it was their lackluster attitude towards safety that

caused the accident to begin with.



I firmly believe that the RBMKs were a disaster

waiting to happen and if it would not have been

Chernobyl, it would have been another one of their

plants sometime later.



Despite all the arguments about the effects of

Chernobyl, I still would not have wanted to have been

around the plant when it blew.  I defy anyone to

honestly say that, knowing then what they know now,

they would not have minded one bit to have been

travelling near the plant when it blew.



Tim



--- Franz Schoenhofer <franz.schoenhofer@chello.at>

wrote:

> 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>

> An: radsafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Datum: Sonntag, 28. April 2002 22:14

> Betreff: Re: FLYOVER SHOWS INDIAN POINT'S A SITTING

> DUCK

> 

> 

> >Just out of curiosity, were you implying that

> >radiation can cause a myocardial infarction (MI)? 

> I

> >always thought that an MI was due to restricted

> >cardiac arteries as a result of a thrombus (such as

> >plaque - e.g. arthlerosclerotic coronary artery

> >disease) thereby decreasing the blood flow to the

> >myocardium and resulting in an infarct (e.g. heart

> >attack).

> >

> >Or was this just a general discussion of how

> someone

> >could be harmed from something and not necessarily

> >limited to harm from radiation?

>

--------------------------------------------------------------------

> 

> No, I was not implying, that radiation could be the

> direct cause of a

> myocardial infarction - unfortunately I have had to

> inform me carefully

> about this topic. My comment was clearly directed to

> the definition of

> harm - and that harm does not only mean death. Harm

> can also be, if you have

> to leave your home, if you loose your social

> connections, if you cannot live

> and behave the way you used to do. That such stress

> can also cause clinical

> illness is on the other side well known - starting

> from alcoholism even to

> cardiac infarction. The social disaster and most of

> the health problems

> after the Chernobyl accident were caused by the

> situation after the accident

> and not the radiation. That the thyroid problems of

> children were caused by

> I-131 and its radiation is a fact, which probably

> only a few real hardliners

> dispute.

> 

> Best regards,

> 

> Franz

> 

> 

> 

> 





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