AW: News report on the National Geographic Basin MT "USA Zip" article

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

Jaro,



I received a few days ago what I call the "current issue" for April 2004. I

have subscribed to the US edition. I have not noticed any letter about a

radon mine in it, and the ZIP USA article is mostly about worms. Maybe the

Canadian NG is different from the US edition? The German edition is for

sure.



Nevertheless I can tell you that I do not have bad feelings about the

Nuclear Waste Article. I believe that it was at least a trial for a balanced

view and as a whole provided at least for me interesting information and

pictures. After having been treated with the most hair-rising stories in

Austrian journals and papers this one was a relief. Readers are not

interested in hairsplitting arguments - and I would put many of the then

comments on RADSAFE into this category. I refrained from comments then. My

experience is, if you show people the facilities, the cleanliness of the

storing places, the shining aluminium- or whatever tubes, the well

maintained and newly painted valves etc. etc. then they will understand,

that nuclear energy is not a case for gamblers who put mankind to the eve of

destruction. This is also true for the storage places of intermediate and

low-level waste I visited in Spain and Japan. One of the many campaigns of

Austrian anti-nuclear groups against Czech NPP's was using pictures of

devasted scrap-yards, which they claimed was the interior of the NPP.



Finally, Jaro, I would like to tell you that many months have gone now,

without severe attacks about the Temelin NPP in Austrian news papers.



Best regards,



Franz



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    FYI, an EPA anti-radon scarecrow has a letter about the Basin MT radon

mine printed in the current issue of NG (sorry, I don't have a copy of the

text in electronic form).



    This makes for an interesting comparison with NG's earlier article,

"Nuclear Waste - Seeking Solutions" NG July 2002, following which NO letters

pointing out the various errors & misconceptions in it were published.



    Jaro



    http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html



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    From: Jim Muckerheide

    To: RAD-SCI-L

    Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:13 PM

    Subject: News report on the National Geographic Basin MT "USA Zip"

article



    Friends,



    See the following news item in the Helena (MT) Independent Record,

    Friday Jan 9, reporting on the National Geographic "USA Zip" feature on

    Basin Montana and the radon mines. It adds to the content about the

    radon mines, and highlights the author's "field notes" about becoming "a

believer."



    http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/01/09/montana/c01010904_03.txt



    Thank you.

    Regards, Jim Muckerheide

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    Mining for Miracles

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