Re: Davis Besse Hole is full of questions

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Norm,

 

Nobody in their right mind would think it's "all the fault of the anti's for

spreading fear and propaganda."  That's the fault of DOE, NRC, EPA, and the

responsible "scientists and science organizations" that produce the

self-serving lies to the gullible. The "anti's" are just gullible stooges.

Follow the money. Who's making big money. The anti nuke org leaders

certainly do their little bit for the money, but that's just drops off the

100s billions that DOE and its contractors get.



And you certainly can't really blame the victims (the willingly uninformed

media and the public), for simply believing the lies they are told.



Regards, Jim







on 10/21/02 8:08 PM, Norman Cohen at ncohen12@comcast.net wrote:



> Ruth,

> Public perception of nukes is different than these other examples you

> list. That was implied in my statement but not made clear. It wouldn't

> take too much to push public concerns "over the edge". I see it in our

> interaction with folks this summer. We table at farm fairs, 4H fairs,

> city days, etc. Even accounting for some internal anti-nuke biasa on our

> part, large numebrs of people come by our booth to sign unplug salem

> petitons, and to express how worried they are about the nukes in their

> backyard.

> 9-11, the KI giveout, the fears that terrorists might attack nukes, Pres

> Bush's speech on security, all these things have moved

> a public that is already 50-50 on nukes to be more concerned and

> worried. A LOCA at DB could well be the proverbial straw.

> 

> Now I know many of you will respond that the above is all the fault of

> the 'anti's' for spreading fear and propaganda.  But that's not true and

> its not that simple. The media did the job for us.

> 

> norm

> 

> RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:

> 

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Was Bhopal "devastating" to the chemical industry?  Fatal  E. Coli

>> infection, to the Jack-in-the-Box hamburger chain (or any other fast

>> food outlet serving hamburgers)?  The Baltimore Tunnel fire, to

>> transportation of organic chemicals through tunnels?  The putative

>> carcinogenesis of Carbona, to the sale of home shoe cleaners?  The

>> Texas City tank farm explosion, to the sale of gasoline (or to storage

>> in tank farms)?

>> 

>> So now it's not that it's really a dangerous problem, but that the

>> industry guys should be worrying about the future of the industry

>> because of the manner in which Lochbaum et al hype disasters "that

>> could happen but didn't"?

>> 

>> Ruth

>> 

>> Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 

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