Newsweek (Where is the next Chernobyl?)

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

Interesting to see the followup of the previous Newsweek story about the 
next Chernobyl. It is quite obvious that a lot of "nuclear" is not in its 
best condition in former Soviet Union (new report about the Semipalatinsk 
area in Radiat. Environ. Biophysics BTW). What Newsweek did, however, was to 
spice their articles with errors (like the "exploding cesium and strontium") 
and misinterpretations - probably partly because the writer was too lazy to 
check the facts.

When the feedback now is there ("Letters") Newsweek acknowledges that most 
of the responses were in favor of nuclear power which is the political 
bottom line but they avoid publishing errors - which most readers therefore 
are not protected from - they now "know that strontium can explode because 
they read it in some respectable article somewhere". The good thing about 
participating with responses - even if you don't get them published is that 
it gives you insight into the newspaper/magazine politics.

My ideas and opinions,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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