Re: A Reporter Questions Rokke

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Self-perpetuation is a fundamental characteristic of all bureaucracies. If

the general public perceived that radiation exposure was not really all that

dangerous, or that depleted uranium was essentially non-radioactive, how do

you think the NRC, or EPA budget would be affected. I somehow doubt the

public would tolerate major government expenditures to protect them from

what were believed to be minor or trivial hazards.





----- Original Message -----

From: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>

To: maury <maury@webtexas.com>; <BobCherry@AOL.COM>

Cc: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:39 AM

Subject: RE: A Reporter Questions Rokke





> Amen, Maury.  We've got to stop blaming the public for believing what

> they've been told, when no one denies it.

>

> At the beginning of the French nuclear program, the head of EDF reported

> that his apartment was bombed and his life threatened.  He wrote the

French

> President who promptly sent out a public statement that the nuclear

program

> was not a project of private corporations but was a government-sponsored

> program in the national interest.  The threats and heckling stopped.  We

> have never had such simple declarations made here by any institution,

public

> or private.  It's about time.

>

> Ted Rockwell

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