Re: German police guarding convoy fear radiation danger

[denison.8@osu.edu (Eric Denison)]

Hmm ... scientific information from a police UNION official.  What's next?
Instructions on open-heart surgery from the head of the German Bricklayers'
Union?  It's a shame that they can't get their people to keep their
comments within their area of expertise (or at least accurate knowledge).
Of course, we have the same problem with the media over here (e.g. Alec
Baldwin and Montel Williams discussing cancer on Long Island when it's
likely that neither of them went past first-year physics or biology).

Nothing like the blind leading the blind (to the detriment of all but the
fear-mongers).

>You will all just love the following article. In this interview we
>have the senior Police Union (GdP) official addressing long term
>effects of radiation, I quote: Wimmer said radiation from the waste
>could cause "miscarriages and cancer, especially leukemia," and that
>these diseases could occur up to 15 years later as a result of
>exposure. Below is the entire article:
>
>
>                   COLOGNE, Germany, March 20 (AFP) - German police
>                   say they are worried about radiation risks from
>                   guarding a convoy of nuclear waste and are asking
>                   environmentalist protesters to help them keep a
>                   safe distance from the train.
>
>                   "It is not entirely clear if the containers
>                   (carrying the waste) are truly safe," said senior
>                   Police Union (GdP) official Hans-Dieter Wimmer in
>                   an interview with the Cologne newspaper Express
>                   published Friday.
>
>                   The union has called on the interior ministry to
>                   take full responsibility for any radiation damage
>                   to the some 30,000 police involved in providing
>                   security for the waste, which was being transported
>                   Friday to the Ahaus storage center near the Dutch
>                   border.
>
>                   GdP chief Hermann Lutz called for an alliance
>                   between police and peaceful anti-nuclear
>                   demonstrators saying in interview in the
>                   Hannoverschen Neuen Presse Friday that both wanted
>                   life and health,
>
>                   He said it would be "helpful if there could be a
>                   coalition with anti-nuclear protestors who are
>                   opposed to chaos."
>
>                   He said demonstrators who cared about health and
>                   life should not force policemen too close to the
>                   containers.
>
>                   Wimmer said radiation from the waste could cause
>                   "miscarriages and cancer, especially leukemia," and
>                   that these diseases could occur up to 15 years
>                   later as a result of exposure.
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