The message about a damaged nuclear power plant in India ( Kalpakkam )

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Radsafers,



I dug up the TT message that had the headline as: "Nuclear power plant in 

India damaged".

As I reread the short text I realize that besides the headline, the text it 

is just speculative in its character. To get this more clear for anyone 

interested I have decided to translate the text.



Even though the message is in Swedish, I here give you a link to one 

newspaper where the TT message appeared (page 2, the small thing in the left 

corner at the bottom):

http://www.metro.se/content/acrobat/stockholm/SESTO_20041228_A_Metro.pdf



Translation:



"NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN INDIA DAMAGED



INDIA. In the South Indian State Tamil Nadu there are fears (//"there is 

worry about the possiblility..."//) that the giant waves have damaged a 

nuclear power plant.



According to the newsagency PTI, the Prime minister Manmohan Singh, has 

called for a meeting to investigate/analyze possible damages to the 

facility.



The damages are said to have appeared / arisen when the giant waves hit up 

against the nuclear power plant, which is located on the coast, so that 

water came (//pressed itself//) in."



----

This is perhaps not the best translation but you get the essence:

A headline which is wrong and then speculative and unclear ("how much water 

and where more exactly?") text.



A TT message reaches a large fraction of our population - perhaps as much as 

half of it. Most people will only grasp the headline (as I myself more or 

less did - I don't trust TT about nuclear power - if one wants clear facts 

they must often be searched for more directly) - and in this case (Metro 

Newspaper link above) many may have just seen that headline without 

critically reading the speculative characer of the rest - and then switched 

over to reading the main article above (it says 10 dead Swedes by the way - 

now it seems more like we will find the order of 2000 (??) killed).



My personal initiative only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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