Re: Frontline Comment

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

Jonathan Dyer stated the following:

> This show demonstrated the ignorance of the general public in regards to
> radiation safety, and more importantly the POWER of that ignorance

This is a very true statement. What concerns me even more is the same 
"ignorance in regards to radiation safety, and more importantly the 
POWER of that ignorance" displayed by many who ARE part of the 
nuclear worker establishment, be it medical workers, industrial 
workers, etc., who have an inherent "FEAR" of radiation and do not 
understand what a dose report is telling them. The dose could be 10 
mreme or 5,000 mrem, it's all the same to them.  The most ludicrous 
call I've received to date is one whereby an individual said they 
were sending back the Control Badge that was sent to them, in a 
separate plastic bag, because they did NOT want that thing near them 
.. WE could match up their personnel badge to the Control Badge when 
we received it. It was obvious that this individual expected that the 
Control Badge was in fact irradiating them .... how pathetic!!!

If we, who are nuclear workers, can't understand what we are working 
with, how do we expect the general public to?

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