Re: [Phys-l] The West Wing

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I don't know about industry, but my experience at the U is they've gone 
overboard the other direction;   mainly, as I discovered, because of the 
IRRATIONAL public fear.  I think a bit of scientific accuracy would 
result in a lessened evil belief.

bc, who attempts to add a bit a of rationality when he demos and mentors 
high school radiation experiments.

p.s.  Anyone see the China Syndrome, which fortuitously(?) was released 
w/ 3 mi. island?

p.p.s. I couldn't believe it;  EH&S managed to talk the advanced lab. 
out of their 2 Ci Pu-Be neutron source!!!!!

John Clement wrote:

> I don't think it just a liberal bias against nuclear power.  The general
> public is quit afraid of radiation.  I also have a friend who worked for a
> short time at a nuclear power plant as a radiation physicist, and he
> witnessed outrageous disregard for safety, including an elevator located
> where there was a radiation leak.  He came away from the experience fairly
> anti-nuclear power because he thought that power companies were incapable of
> maintaining a high standard for safety.  To my knowledge he still works as a
> physicist at Los Alamos.  This was in the early 70s.  Has industry acquired
> a higher regard for safety since then?
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
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> > > "The message which was
> > > delivered is the PC liberal dogma that anything nuclear (or should I
> > > say "nuculer"?) is evil, and scientific accuracy could be justifiably
> > > sacrificed given the unquestionable nobility of that message."
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