Re: Update (10/15): Status of patients from the JCO Criticality

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>program as a whole.  They try to take advantages in situation of >crisis, 
>like a nuclear or radiological accident. In democratic >country, this 
>creates an open atmosphere for polemic midia >discussion and 
>misunderstandings.

It is a problem that some major Swedish media are strongly anti-nuclear and 
simply don't want to write anything positive about anything nuclear. It 
doesn't matter what the facts are - there is a whole language (anything 
"atomic" is about nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons) and set of 
techniques to make the general public confused about nuclear/radiation. This 
includes never reporting about K-40, U, Th, Ra in the nature etc.

>the best to Regulatory Authority is to provide all possible >information as 
>soon as possible,
Our Radiation Protection Institute ("SSI") is always fact oriented and that 
is a good reason to refer media people to them - but some of these people 
aren't too interested. Sometimes the SSI has not even been allowed to 
correct misunderstandings/errors about radiation in the major newspapers etc 
(one important issue was about magnetic fields - claimed to cause asthma, 
heart disease, cancer... this was ten months ago in our largest morning 
newspaper). Our former minister of the environment (now foreign minister) 
said a few years ago that she didn't know who to believe (work conditions in 
uranium mines) - Greenpeace or the SSI (governmental authority...).

My opinion only,
Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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