Re: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain

["Syd Levine \(AnaLog\)" <AnaLog@logwell.com>]

I had contact with him concerning oil well logging sealed sources.  The

questions showed the clear bias of where the proposed piece was heading.  I

don't think they ever aired the segment.



Syd H. Levine

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

From: "BERNARD L COHEN" <blc+@PITT.EDU>

To: <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>

Cc: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>; "Susan L Gawarecki"

<loc@icx.net>; "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:12 PM

Subject: Re: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain





>

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:

> > Because I am very familiar with the project, I recognize the bias and

>  distortion in the program.  It makes me wonder about the 60 minutes and

similar

>  programs for which I am not so familiar with the subject matter.  Are

they

>  really biased also?  I think they probably are.

>

> --"60 minutes" has a long history of bias against nuclear energy.

> One of the worst was a segment on the 1957 explosion in the waste

> storage facility at the Soviet nuclear weapons complex in Siberia. Their

> expert was Ralph Nader, who claimed that a similar event could occur in

> U.S. doing similar damage!! I don't think he knows that U.S. handles waste

> much more cautiosly, and the millions of viewers were not told that.

> I had a confrontation with the 60 Minutes producer, Don Hewitt,

> when we both spoke on reactor safety at a AAAS meeting. Before our

> session, we had lunch together, including his wife, who seemed

> especially interested in the subject. It was quite friendly.

>    But in the session, after I spoke, he showed a movie which

> claimed that a single incompetent welder could easily cause a disaster.

>   I didn't have a chance to respond there, but I sent him a lot

> of info on the inspection procedures and lots of other measures to protect

> against incompetent welding, but he never responded.

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