RE: NG blast (again)

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>]

Thanks for your brilliant insight Bill.

I didn't realise I was "whining" or that I used the word "only" (please indicate when you quote others, and when you make things up).

Maybe you can even answer the questions I asked: are we going to hear about the NG blast in four years, like we keep hearing about Tokaimura and is the NG blast going to have any impact on the NG industry ?

 

I could also add the oft-cited question, if one is interested in safety and human welfare in general, would one not be compelled to expend scarce resources in those areas where most lives are saved per dollar spent ?

 

Jaro 

-----Original Message-----
From: William V Lipton [mailto:liptonw@dteenergy.com]
Sent: Monday April 28, 2003 10:12 AM
To: Franta, Jaroslav
Cc: Radsafe (E-mail); multiple (E-mail); Ans-pie (E-mail)
Subject: Re: NG blast (again)

I hope that your whining does not represent the 

consensus of the nuclear industry; and that most of us have learned, by now, 

that comparative body counts will NOT win public acceptance.

Tokaimura is being shut down, not because they killed "only" two persons, but because their repeated gross  violations of basic safety procedures caused the loss of public acceptance.

We should be demonstrating that we meet the highest standards, not whining for the right to be as careless as someone else.

Our critics make us stronger.

Our "friends" will put us out of business.

The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
 

"Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:

 

Just last week there was another news report about the Tokaimura criticality accident.
Last Friday's NG blast in Toronto killed more than three times as many people, but I doubt you'll hear about it four years later, or that there will be any impact on the Canadian (or any other) NG industry....

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WNA News Briefing 03.16 (for the period 16 - 22 April 2003)
[NB03.16-5] Japan: JCO Co has abandoned plans to restart its uranium conversion facility in Tokaimura, the site of a criticality accident in September 1999. The move follows the recent court ruling that found the company and six of its employees guilty of neglect that led to the death of two of its workers. The company - a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co - had been trying to gain regulatory approval to reopen its fuel processing facility since being stripped of its licence to operate the plant in March 2000. (Ux Weekly, 21 April, p4; also News Briefing 03.09-3)

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Jaro
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