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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
"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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