Re: Just what is SAFE?

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 08:08 11.02.1999 -0600, you wrote:
>If you want to get a good feel for the absurd lengths that we have
>gone to in PROTECTING people from radiation/rad. materials...
>compare the monies spent in implementing OSHA (occupational
>safety) regulations and RadCon regs  AND THEN compare the
>incidence and severity of injuries that occur in both areas.
>
>Sure radiological injuries do occur --- predominantly in the
>industrial radiography and medical fields --- but they pale in
>comparison to the sheer volume of occupational injuries that occur
>weekly throughout the U.S. and the world.  
........................................

You brought it to the point. I want to add one more point, which is so
difficult to understand for me: "Everybody" at least in Europe is scared to
death by the  p o s s i b i l i t y  that a nuclear accident may occur and
that people would be "irradiated" and papers are full with these scenarios.
But when  r e a l  accidents occur, where people really suffer from
radiation and even are killed, then our media either do not even report it
or you find a short notice on page 37 in the newspapers. This is true for
Goiana, for the recent event in Turkey, the molten Co-60 source from
Mexico, the accidents in irradiation facilities and industrial radiography,
the Estonian accident. 

Franz


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