Re: Fw: Nuclear experts doubt terror risk

[tristan@blackhat.net]

Heres a link to the article, but you need membership to get it, so could

someone paste the contents in a message and send it to the list?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/297/5589/1997



>I think we should all congratulate Ted Rockwell for his work in getting this

>work published.  We always talk about educating the public, and the public

>needs to know that there are many competent experts who disagree with the

>statements made by the UCS and others that the world will end if nuclear

>facilities and waste are attacked.

>

>We need to get away from statements that are simple black-and-write, and say

>that there is a lot of gray in the world.  I think the public can be

>educated, but not by strident statements based on fear.

>-- John

>

>John Jacobus, MS

>Certified Health Physicist

>3050 Traymore Lane

>Bowie, MD 20715-2024

>jenday1@email.msn.com (H)

>

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>> From: Susan L Gawarecki[SMTP:LOC@ICX.NET]

>> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:30:49 PM

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>> Subject: Nuclear experts doubt terror risk

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>Nuclear experts doubt terror risk - Group of scientists downplays threat

>to nation's plants

>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0209200257sep20.story

>

>By Julie Deardorff

>Tribune staff reporter

>September 20, 2002

>

>Fears about the calamitous effect of a terrorist attack on a nuclear

>power plant or its fuel are exaggerated, more than a dozen of the

>nation's experts on nuclear energy said in a policy statement published

>Friday in the journal Science.

>

>Though it pulls together an esteemed group of authorities, the statement

>received a mixed reaction from within the field. In June the National

>Academies' Committee on Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism

>published a report with several findings contrary to the statement in

>Science.

>

>Basic engineering and the laws of nature limit the amount of damage

>terrorists can wreak on nuclear power plants and their fuel, according

>to the statement, which was spearheaded by Theodore Rockwell, a retired

>engineer, and signed by 18 of his nuclear power colleagues. All are

>members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

>

>. . .

>

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