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> wrote:
>Ok, so while meandering around online, I managed to find your website.
>
>I continue to be shocked and awed by the absolute idiocy of this country.
>
>Speaking as a radiation worker, your website is doing nothing but
>continuing fears that are left over from the '50s. I've been in
>containment, looked into spent fuel pools, and I say now: there is
>little any hostile force could do to create a major radiological
>crisis from a power plant.
>
>If NOTHING else, Three Mile Island should prove that even when
>everything goes wrong, up to and including the fuel melting, the
>accident is contained and people can walk next to containment safely.
>
>Furthermore, the NRC is an organization almost independent of the
>rest of the government. They are not shy about shutting plants down
>that they think are not making the cut. Not ONLY that, there are
>other regulatory committees at work. It would do you well to look up
>INPO, and WANO. And perhaps do some research into the industry.
>
>Also, if you knew ANYTHING about the alternate power sources you are
>suggesting, you'd know that they are not truly viable alternatives.
>
>Your fear mongering will only work on the ignorant.
>
>Have a nuclear day.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Amy Meister
>Nuclear contractor
>
>
Dear Ms Meister,
Thank you for your email regarding the nuclear industry's self-perpetuating "co-ops" for training newbies and reviewing operator errors, design failures, and how to lie to the public (and to government) about the dangers of so-called "low-level radiation." INPO and the world-version, WANO, are nothing more than cabals of criminals, now that you mention it.
Sometimes the NRC won't get involved because they're too lax (this comes as no surprise to me but obviously is a big shock to you) and the operators KNOW they have to work some problems out for themselves and they need each others' help. Like, how to explain to the public that Three Mile Island was both a big accident ("as bad as it can get in America" according to Amy Meister (isn't that what you're saying in your letter, above?)) and a tiny accident that didn't actually amount to anything but raised blood pressure for Edward Teller (and isn't that ALSO what you are saying, above?). Never mind the billions that have been paid out in "shut up or we'll take the money back!" deals that never made it to court to become Supreme Court test cases. Never mind a lot of things.
Pro-nukers just don't get it. They think technology -- their technology -- is ALWAYS good and always misunderstood. As if any of you really even TRY to grasp ALL the important issues -- the economic issues, the biological ones, and so forth. Each pro-nuker relies on other pro-nukers to fill in the full picture. So they (you) won't look at a three-year-old child with leukemia who lived a dozen miles from a nuclear power plant -- downwind, even -- and ever wonder if there is any connection. Because after all, the child was more than 10 miles away, so therefore it couldn't possibly be the plant's fault. Even in a meltdown the child wouldn't have been evacuated.
But you've already admitted in your letter, though not in so many words, that you're NOT a medical biologist specializing in cellular and sub-cellular measurements of the damage from radiation, and, especially, the epidemiological basis for the current standards.
Below is an article with a very specific complaint: Namely, that the standards for tritium are way too lax.
http://animatedsoftware.com/environment/tritium/2006/EPATritiumStandard.htm
Are you technically qualified to answer it? If so, then let's talk. But if not...
Interesting how your letter didn't mention how close to a meltdown Davis Besse came in March 2002 (and that wasn't the first time Davis-Besse nearly suffered a meltdown).
The industry wants the public not to know about Davis-Besse's "near-miss," mainly because it plainly shows the incompetence of the industry AND the NRC. To even so much as mention it is, undoubtedly, "fear mongering" to you.
And you would surely call it fear-mongering to mention that there are 10s of thousands of nuclear weapons, any ONE of which could destroy any nuclear facility it happens to go off near. However, despite your wishes to the contrary, telling the public the truth is NOT fear-mongering.
If the public knew the truth about nuclear power, you'd be shut down immediately.
WHEN the public knows the truth, you'll be shut down forever.
Hopefully you'll reconsider your position at some point, as I have tried to reconsider mine. Letters like yours don't help since they contain no actual correction to anything I've written.
Some URLS of additional things I've created are given below.
Best wishes,
Ace
Please visit these additional web sites (all created by "Ace" Hoffman):
POISON FIRE USA: An animated history of major nuclear activities in the continental United States, including over 1500 data points, accurately placed in time and space: www.animatedsoftware.com/poifu/poifu.swf
How does a nuclear power plant work (animations of the two typical U.S. reactor designs): http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/nukequiz/nukequiz_one/nuke_parts/reactor_parts.swf
Internet Glossary of Nuclear Terminology / "The Demon Hot Atom," a look at the history of nuclear power: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/hotwords/index.htm
NO NUKES IN SPACE (what was on board Columbia?): http://www.animatedsoftware.com/mx/nasa/columbia/index.swf or try: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/mx/nasa/columbia/index.html
SCE Memo / One Bad Day At San Onofre (roll mouse over ONE BAD DAY and leave it there for a minute or two to watch an animation of several disastrous events take place at San Onofre): http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/onofre/2005/sce_memo/sce_memo_2004.html
List of every nuclear power plant in America, with history, activist orgs, specs, etc.: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist.htm
List of ~300 books and videos about nuclear issues in my collection: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/mybooks.htm
Learn about The Effects of Nuclear War here: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_war.htm
Depleted Uranium: The Malignant Bullet: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environment/du/dumb.html
Nuclear Power Kills: Here's How: http://www.counterpunch.com/hoffman06272007.