Re: Response to Ted Rockwell's article

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

TMI and Chernobyl no more caused health physics to lose credibility than, "British Intelligence has learned -" caused President Bush to lose credibility. They underline the rarity of inaccuracy in either! The Spinners have a Goebbelsproblem.



Frequent coal mine cave-ins kill many. Statistically (using real data, no extrapolations beyond from LNT assumption), more people were saved and benefited from TMI and Chernobyl hormesis than were killed or harmed - although I do not recommend repeating them.



Too "safe" is damaging, as with medical regulation.



Credibly, Howard Long 

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

  From: William V Lipton 

  To: John Jacobus 

  Cc: radsafe ; know_nukes 

  Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:59 AM

  Subject: 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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    -- John 

    John Jacobus, MS 

    Certified Health Physicist 

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