Re: Media Coverage on Japan incident -BBC Contact for KnowledgeableInput

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In a message dated 9/30/99 12:27:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, magna1@jps.net 
writes:

<< Subj:     Re: Media Coverage on Japan incident
 Date:  9/30/99 12:27:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  magna1@jps.net (High Plains Drifter)
 Sender:    radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
 
 Jim Hardeman wrote:
 > 
 > RADSAFEr's --
 > 
 > This seems to be one of the most
 > comprehensive sites for media coverage
 > from multiple outlets.
 
 Jim, very good site.  BBC even has a video that shows the
 hole blown in the roof by the accident.  "4,000 times safety
 limits" could infer a very big problem inside.
 
 --  >>

Radsafers:
Please note. I just received a call from a reporter at BBC, Ms. Ali McConnell 
looking for input about the accident in Japan. I referred her to the NRC and 
IAEA and offered a few very general comments as best I was able given the 
limited information available to me regarding site boundary doses, etc. 
reported to date.

The BBC called me because of my recently having been interviewed by BBC radio 
about the issue of Nasal Radium Irradiation which had been covered in various 
national news stories in late July concerning both WW.II era veterans and 
children post-WWII. 

If any radsafe members have any specific technical contacts they may wish to 
provide to the BBC about the situation in Japan,  or any input on specific 
technical points the email address for the reporter involved is:

ali.mcconnell@bbc.co.uk
Ms. Ali McConnell
Phone: 44 171 557-3663

Regards,

Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
Public Health Sciences
172 Old Orchard Way
Warren, VT 05674

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