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Re: perception and reality regarding tool boxes on trucks
on 8/14/02 10:35 AM, William Stewart at william.stewart@usask.ca wrote:
> What if one of those evacuated individuals suffers from "Radiation induced
> Stress"? Who is to blame, the transport company, the owner of the
> radioactive items, the E.R. team or the media???
> Just my $0.0126 worth (Canadian) :-)
Bill, None of the above. They are mostly as gullible as the public. The
fear-mongering comes directly from the NCRP et al. On behalf of the
fund-generating/dispensing agencies, and cash-grabbing "review body"
groupies whose first principle is personal advancement and second is nice
meetings in nice places. :-)
When the truck carrying new fuel to VY had a fire near Springfield Mass in
'92(?), we couldn't explain that "IT'S NEW FUEL!" over the din of every
dimwit with a Geiger counter in 5 states and 5 corporations racing to the
scene! Understand that the public learns from the adage "Don't listen to
what they say, watch their feet!" Gov't knows.
That's why they make the "debate" over Yucca Mt. into a publicly visible,
very high cost, exercise, led by the contractors who are filling their
pockets with the funds defrauded from the gullible public: "If they're going
so far, and spending so much, and calculating 10s and 100s of thousands of
years into the future, and escorting spent fuel, etc., etc., it must be
inconceivably dangerous - despite the fact that the doses are non-existent,
and worst-case trivial, relative to background radiation, and there's more
"risk" in the diesel fuel in the truck or train engine than in the fuel
cask!
Regards, Jim
> William Stewart
> Radiation Safety Manager
> University of Saskatchewan
> 306-966-8494
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William V Lipton [SMTP:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:08 PM
> To: Ruth Sponsler
> Cc: caspar@AECOM.YU.EDU; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: perception and reality regarding tool boxes on trucks
>
> Not quite; we "deal with it" by recognizing that the fears of the
> general public, even tho not rational for a "scientifically trained
> person", are real and must be respected. If someone is ordered to
> evacuate his home because of a radioactive materials accident, I don't
> blame him for being concerned. BTW, this evacuation is one of the
> actions recommended in the DOT, "Emergency Response Guidebook."
>
> Dismissing people with concerns as stupid or inferior will only
> reenforce their fears.
>
> My humble request to those who want to continue their elitist and
> condescending approach to public concerns: "Don't just do something,
> stand there."
>
> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
> It's not about dose, it's about trust.
> Curies forever.
>
> Bill Lipton
>
> Ruth Sponsler wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> 'Just deal with it.'
>>
>> How are we to deal with this? I presume that you want
>> us to 'deal with it' by reinforcing and supporting the
>> distortions...in other words, in other words, to
>> create a Big Lie. ...
>>
>> ~Ruth 2
>>
>> --- William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> wrote:
>>> Perception is reality; just deal with it.
>>>
>
>
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