Re: Experts differ on radiation releases

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Well, if does not have the expertise to say that a

greater release will result, I say it will be less. 

Why is my guess less credible than his!



--- Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> wrote:

> Experts differ on radiation releases

>

http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~1877575,00.html#

> By TOBY HENRY

> Brattleboro Reformer Staff

> 

> Thursday, January 08, 2004 - BRATTLEBORO -- A 20

> percent power boost for 

> the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant could mean 40

> percent more 

> radiation released into the environment in the event

> of an accident, an 

> expert witness in the "uprate" case has warned.

> . . . 

> In his testimony, Resnikoff admits that he "does not

> fully understand 

> the intimate details of the Vermont Yankee reactor,"

> but maintains that 

> the consequences of an accident "will be greater

> than calculated by 

> Vermont Yankee."

> . . .



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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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