RE: Letter to NPR

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

I am not claiming anything.  The news reports on NPR keep saying the
accident was not as bad as TMI.  I think, of course, in terms of deaths and
injuries and excursion, that this accident was much worse, because
essentially nothing happened as a result of TMI.  So I am taking the media
to task for reiterating that TMI was worse than this Japanese accident.
Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Clearly only my own opinion.

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Merritt [mailto:merritt9@llnl.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 10:03 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Letter to NPR


Just to clarify.  Are you stating that this accident is not as bad as TMI
or are they?  In either case I would have to disagree.  There will almost
surely be two deaths and possibly three from this.  Seems to me that that
is much worse than TMI.  Not as costly as TMI to the industry but the human
cost is much higher, which is more important?


>Good for you, Bernie!!  I was also appalled (and am contacting NPR) at (a)
>the reiteration that this accident "was not as bad as TMI" and (b) all the
>doomsday stuff that passes for reporting: e.g. people will suffer
horrendous
>consequences and all kinds of illness for many years.
>
>Clearly only my own opinion.
>
>Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
>Sandia National Laboratories
>MS 0718, POB 5800
>Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
>505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
>rfweine@sandia.gov
Kim Merritt
Physics Safety Support Officer
phone 3-9668
merritt9@llnl.gov
pager 01017
fax 2-7160
http://www-phys.llnl.gov/llnl_only/SafetySupportGroup
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