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Re: Response to Ted Rockwell's article
Many thanx for posting this article. This is the "voice of reason" we need, but find so rarely.
IMHO, the public relations disasters for nuclear power occurred for just the reasons cited. Instead of trying to be the
voice of reason, many nuclear power proponents took the opposite extreme from the antinukes, i.e. that there is no
risk. Then when supposedly "impossible" events, such as TMI and Chernobyl occurred, we lost credibility.
As I've said before, our critics make us stronger. Our "friends" are killing us.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
John Jacobus wrote:
> This letter appeared in today's Washington Post
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> Radiation: The Real Deal
>
> ...
>
> Rockwell is right that "if you tell people there is
> no danger, and they have no reason to disbelieve you,
> they will remain calm."
>
> But if you tell people there is no danger, and
> instead there is only a small one, they will lose
> faith, assume the worst and panic. The real dangers of
> dirty bombs and power-plant attacks are not nearly as
> horrific as many imagine. We should be able to calm
> people by simply telling them the truth.
>
> -- Michael A. Levi
>
> Washington
>
> The writer is science and technology fellow in
> foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution.
>
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> "Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
> Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. U.S., 1928
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> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
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