RE: Tokaimura and the media

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

> Susan Gawarecki[SMTP:loc@icx.net] wrote on Tuesday, October 26, 1999 5:42
> PM
> 
> Below is an editorial from the October 26 Oak Ridger--informed
> commentary on the state of reporting nuclear accidents. --Susan
> Gawarecki
> 
> Tokaimura and the media: A search for improvement in nuclear accident
> reportage 
<sinp>
> Also on the plus side, none of the reports I read or heard used the word
> "meltdown," of which there was, of course, utterly no danger -- not even
> any relevance -- at Tokaimura. A nuclear reactor was not involved there
> other than
> indirectly as the materials being reprocessed had come from spent
> reactor fuel.
> 
> Thus more the happy surprise that "meltdown" did not erroneously creep
> into the reporting, especially considering how this term has now entered
> the language in a wide variety of non-nuclear references, of which I've
> amassed a small collection.
<snip>
> Richard D. Smyser is founding editor of The Oak Ridger.
<snip>

COMMENT: but the word "explosion" DID erroneously creep into the reporting,
as did a fictitious hole in the roof.

Jaro
frantaj@aecl.ca
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