Media Exaggerations of Nuclear Power Plant Events

[Steve Frey <sfreyohp@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

My favorite media exaggeration about a nuclear power plant event occurred 
in the Fall of 1981. The local newspaper in Stuart, Florida ran a small but 
very noticeable front-page story entitled "NUCLEAR THEFT". Was the story 
about a pilfering of nuclear material? Nope. It was about 
the stealing of a pair of hardhats by a disgruntled worker who had been 
fired from Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear power facility on 
nearby Hutchison Island. Hardhats! Nuclear "theft" indeed.....



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Steve Frey, Head
Operational Health Physics (OHP) Department
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
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E-mail address: sfreyohp@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
 
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