[ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing

[Muckerheide, James]

Thought it was "a civilization"??  :-)
 
Regards, Jim 

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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of jjcohen at prodigy.net
Sent: Tue 6/28/2005 4:50 PM
To: Stabin, Michael; Flood, John; John Jacobus; Stewart Farber; George
Stanford
Cc: radsafe
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing



I believe there is a quote from G.B. Shaw that states," A newspaper is an
institution that is incapable of distinguishing between a bicycle accident
and the collapse of civilization."


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu>
To: "Flood, John" <FloodJR at nv.doe.gov>; "John Jacobus"
<crispy_bird at yahoo.com>; <farbersa at optonline.net>; "George Stanford"
<gstanford at aya.yale.edu>
Cc: "radsafe" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:13 AM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing


> Bob writ:
>
> "we have more reporters than we have news"
>
> I would just qualify that to say that "we have more reporters than we
> have news that people wish to hear about".
>
> Also the thrust of Stew's comments. We have 24 hour coverage of OJ
> Simpson, Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson while tribal wars change
> borders and governments on many continents, wholesale slaughters of
> ethnic groups continue until they reach some numerical value that
> warrants our attention, disease and famine affect the poor but not the
> rich in many places, and so on. There is plenty of news out there, but
> people simply don't have the stomach for the unpleasant news nor the
> intellectual stamina to listen long enough to understand the
> complexities that cause the changes in the world that we live in. "A
> speck of plutonium can cause cancer" and "everyone who worked at this
> plant deserves a sack of money because they worked around a radiation
> source" - this is easier to deal with, and far more fun. Reporters, on
> the whole, can probably understand and report on the real world more
> effectively than they do, but, like cocaine dealers, they are bound by
> the need to make profits and must feed the preferred habits of their
> users. If they don't, their competitors will.
>
> Mike
>
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Vanderbilt University
> 1161 21st Avenue South
> Nashville, TN 37232-2675
> Phone (615) 343-0068
> Fax   (615) 322-3764
> Pager (615) 835-5153
> e-mail     michael.g.stabin at vanderbilt.edu
> internet   www.doseinfo-radar.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Flood, John
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: 'John Jacobus'; farbersa at optonline.net; George Stanford
> Cc: radsafe
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Minute amount of enriched uranium missing
>
> The fundamental problems are two-fold: 1) in a free enterprise economy
> with a free press, bad news is big business, and 2) supply and demand -
> we have more reporters than we have news, hence we have a news industry
> that cannot survive financially on the naturally-occurring supply of
> news.
>
> Bob Flood
> Nevada Test Site
>
>
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