Re: Scientist have problem movie natural reactor

["Michael G. Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

> > I guess it is nice to know that other science disciplines besides those

associated with nuclear physics and radiation safety have

> > problems with facts in movies.

>

> The difference is, these scientists were invited to critique the

> film, which they did. You don't however notice all of the "up in

> arms" rantings that we observe here on Radsafe, in other professional

> journals or listservers, due to the movie's scientific short-comings.



The difference is that no one is suggesting we shut down the earth's core. I

think most of the people making the off-base anti-nuke movies are just

making movies. Some, like China Syndrome and Silkwood were full of

inaccuracies, and were made by people wanting to make a political point. In

either case, activists latch onto them to fan people's fears and achieve

political ends, with people perhaps being deprived of needed electric power,

medical exams, perfectly safe irradiated food, and so on. So some ranting

(which doesn't help much) and letter writing (which might) are in order.



Mike





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