[ RadSafe ] Overcoming America's nuclear power phobia

[John Jacobus]

If you have such a strong case against the
anti-nuclear crowd, sue them in court.  Passing
messages back and forth on this list server will
certainly not influence the decision making process.

As for the salvation of the nuclear power industry, it
will be economics.  If companies can make a profit,
they will invest in new nuclear plants.  As it stands
now, the plants that are in operation are doing quite
fine.  We are willing to pay for more imported oil and
gas.  Are you willing to pay more for fuel to drive
your car?  What is the incentive to change things?

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
> John, I disagree with you and I support Luan.
>  
> If anti-nucs are shown to harm others by depriving
> them of radiation and its benefit to longevity and
> prevention of cancer, we take the high ground those
> anti-nucs now claim. 
>  
> I believe that hormesis should be the salvation of
> the nuclear power industry and thus of the entire
> USA economy.
>  
> Howard Long
> 
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you are really interested in promoting nuclear
> power and uses of ionizing radiaton, maybe you
> should
> be focusing on the fact that no demonstrated harm
> has
> been shown. This is the stand that has been taken by
> many professional societies and organizations. 
> 
> http://hps.org/documents/radiationrisk.pdf
> 
> There is certainly less controversy and a ready
> audience in the these societies. It sounds like an
> easier battle to win.
> 
> --- yuan-chi luan wrote:
> 
> ---------------------------------
> 
> If the international radiation scientists and
> communiies would like to prove the chronic radaition
> experienced in Taiwan (with dose-rate <1 mSv/hr) and
> tell the world that the chronic radaition received
> by
> people is always beneficial to them, there will be
> no
> nuclear power phobia to nuclear workers and pulbic.
> If
> they know that health effcts of chronic radiation
> could reduce their cancer mortality as I described
> in
> the 1999 ANS annual meeting in Boston, they would
> eagerly to recieve more chronic radaition from the
> nuclear power plants and associated radioactive
> wastes. But I am terrible sorry that many policician
> for the some kind election are just in sitting on
> ground in front of the Legislative yuan(similar to
> US
> senate ) for demonstration and creating the phobia
> of
> nuclear power plants to the population in Taiwan.
> and
> this is why I am so old but still want to go to the
> international conferences in USA and Canada, for 
> presentation of what I kown about the beneficial
> effects of chronic radation. Once when the
> experience
> of radiation in Taiwan could be internationally
> accipted. The nuclear power phobia produed by the
> politicioan in Taiwan might be forgetten, and Taiwan
> might give up its non-nuclear land policy and turn
> to
> be like a country of Japan to develope its own
> energy
> sources .
> 
> Y.C. Luan 
> 
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> 
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"Embarrassed, obscure and feeble sentences are generally, if not always, the result of embarrassed, obscure and feeble thought."
Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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