Re: Nuclear Reactions program

[stephane_jeanfrancois@Merck.Com (Stephane Jeanfrancois)]

Bias: Don't ask people who depend on Nuclear Power (for a living and for
" energetic survival") what they think of nuclear energy ! We all know
that nuclear industry pays better (at least it is true for engineers)
Why someone would be complaining  about their bread and butter ? OK the
"nice" and I-sure- don't- work- in- the- Nuclear- Plant  lady was a
symbol of "Jane Public" but Iscincerily think that anyone in a city with
a big industry will cope with minor inconvenients (smells, visual
pollution etc.)

Here in Quebec Canada, we only have one commercial powerplant that is
located in a heavy industrial site (with all kind of "nasty" chemical
plants) Almost all the people who work on the industrial site (probably
2/3 of the nearby city) fear most a chlorine or peroxyde catastrophy
then any event from the CANDU  reactor. Of course you may still find
some people hunting for 5 leaves clovers or ready to swear that they saw
a two headed cow eating the 5 leaves clovers near the exclusion zone...

Other Bias: People who were against nuclear energy didn't have any time
to bring a scientific argument (if any...). We only had common fear of
nuclear energy (panelists) or extremists (the now famous lady who don't
fear radon...any dose I understood). Is it another conspiracy of
Pro-Nukes ?  :-)

Stephane Jean-Francois, Phys. Eng.
RSO
Merck Frosst Canada
stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com
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From: JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactions program
Date:  April 23, 1997 13:49

> The public need to see that" nuclear" sounds good with "medicine" and
> not only with "reactors"... We do use nuclear energy to find treatments
> for AIDS, Asthma, Heart Diseases...

Amen!

> The comparison with France was interesting but maybe a little bit
> biased...

Can you explain the "bias" that you perceive?

> Stephane Jean-Francois, Phys. Eng.
> RSO
> Merck Frosst Canada
> stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com