Re: British Radioactive Pollution

[Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 19:36 19.06.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>GACMail98@aol.com wrote:
>
>> BRITISH RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION CONTAMINATES NORDIC COASTS; GREENPEACE
>> CALLS FOR END TO SELLAFIELD DISCHARGES
>> (http://www.greenpeace.org/pressreleases/nucreprocess/1998jun16.html)
>
>It would be appreciated if anyone would forward to the list any statement on
>this dishonesty, on the measurements, and/or on discharges.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards, Jim Muckerheide
>muckerheide@mediaone.net
>========================


The discharges from Sellafield are well known. It is well known since
decades, that Tc-99 is discharged and it is as well known, that it
accumulates in certain plants. The accumulation properties of for instance
Fucus Vesiculosus are also well known. 

So there is nothing new in these "news", but if Greenpeace announces this
as something which will destroy our world and which has been measured by
"independent laboratories" it will be worthwhile to be distributed as the
most frightening story, which puts our future at risk. 

That's the way it is in the mass media - I cannot feel angry about this
nonsense any more. 

Franz


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