Re: Urgent Request for Medical Isotope

[xat@inel.gov (Alden Tschaeche)]

jacobus%nihrsb.dnet@dxi.nih.gov wrote:
> 
> Al Tschaeche wrote:
> 
> >I have known Lash's works for 20 years and he is definitely anti-nuclear
> >whether or not he was a former director of the Illinois department of
> >nuclear safety.  And, yes, when one looks higher one sees Bill Clinton.
> >Bill is the one who told his secretary of the interior not to do the
> >land transfer for Ward Valley.  No good will come to the nuclear
> >industry until Clinton and the Democrats are out of that office.
> >Remember that Carter canceled reprocessing!  But enough politics on
> >RADSAFE even if it has direct impact on our livlihood.  Sorry Mellisa.
> 
> I really dislike simple solutions to complex problems.
> 
> Do you have proof of this anti-nuclear bias from Bill Clinton, et. al.?
> Is he and his administration acting in a vacuum?
> 
> While you may disagree with the present political climate, how much of it
> is our own making.  Again, we talk of educating the public.  When the
> public hears about FBI raiding the nuclear facility at Rocky Falls,
> human "guinea pigs", NRC "complicity" of unsafety conditions at nuclear
> power plants in New England, what do you think they should think?  That
> DOE and NRC are acting in the interest of the public?  I think we have to
> recognize that the public is very suspicious of government and what it tells
> them.  Faith in government was lost a long time ago.  The findings of the
> Warren Commission are still being questioned.
> 
> Also, I certainly don't see Congress taking any firm "pro-nuclear" actions.
> Do you think that elimination of DOE and reductions in research will help?
> Dispite all of the retoric, I see a very anti-technology, anti-science bias
> in the Republican Congress.  And they represent their constituents.  I do
> believe that we get the kind of government that we vote for, good and bad.
> 
> It is easy to place blame.  But how do you fix the problem?  And I think the
> real problem is (1) lack of trust in leadership and (2)  lack of a vision of
> a future based on acquiring knowledge and putting it to work.
> 
> John Jacobus
> john_jacobus@nih.gov
> 
> With the usual disclaimers about what my bosses know about what I think and
> say.

I replied directly to John so we wouldn't clutter up radsafe with
politics.  If anyone wants to see what I said, ask and I will send a
copy.  Al Tschaeche xat@intl.gov