Re[2]: Japanese Accident

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Alex Zapantis wrote:
 
> Don't be too quick to "call the kettle black." I have seen equally misleading
> quotes from the nuclear industry. My favourite relates to "minor radioactive
> aerosols and effluents" released from power reactors. I agree that the impact of
> these releases on the environment and on human health is minor, even negligible,
> but I would not call these releases "minor" due to the activities involved!
> 
> Just my probably misinformed opinion!

No; it seems to agree completely with the "informed" media opinion:  A
radiation hiccup is *major* because it happens at a nuclear plant (while an
event that is 1000's of times more detrimental to human health is of NO
interest - like a truck backfire in a city!  or like drilling a water well and 
creating a *continuous discharge* of actual, deadly, radioactivity - right
into peoples *homes*!?  :-)  

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com

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 > Subject: Re: Japanese Accident

> From:    radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at mgdestmx01
> Date:    11/3/97  7:29 PM
> 
> >  A small amount of radiation were released into the  
> >environment, he said. 
> 
> NO, it wasn't.  A small amount of radioactivity, maybe.  Or did they mean
> that a few alpha particles and six or seven gamma rays escaped into the woods?
> 
> Alex Zapantis