Re: Why nuclear is a "no-win" in the USA -Reply

["Ron Amoling" <AMOLINGR@JOSLAB.HARVARD.EDU>]

Hello

First of all, I didn't "castigate" anyone....By the way, I had to 
look that one up.....at first glance I thought you meant I went 
around mutilating men.....but I looked up castigate, and it means 
severely criticize.....see what I mean?

I don't profess to know how to educate the public....like with any 
other issue, the public only seems to get excited when something is 
going wrong.  

I think part of the problem with communicating with the public is 
that we might talk to them in the same manner in which we speak with 
the regulators, ie, when we have a release we may say "yeah, there's 
a release, but it's below the regulatory limits"....to a regulator, 
that may suffice, but to the facility's neighbors, it may not!

Or perhaps we're hesitant to make public comments...because as we all 
know, our comments are ours alone and have not been reviewed nor 
approved by our employers....or something like that....

Ron Amoling
amolingr@joslab.harvard.edu