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- From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.160020.17605@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 16:00:20 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Summary: Reference provided
- References: <p2qrxnc@dixie.com> <louis.725821348@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <svtrpg@dixie.com>
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- In article <svtrpg@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
- >
- >>I agree that one of the options which has to be taken seriously by the
- >>environmental community is nuclear fission reators.
- >
- >>But how are we to proceed. A first step here would be to quit calling
- >>us names, and realizing that there are deepseated fears of reactors
- >>even among otherwise rational people. I tried last night to convince
- >>a couple of friends that Chernobyl could not happen with a Candu type
- >>reactor, or for that matter with any of the reactors designed outside
- >>the former Soviet Union. I failed... There was nothing that I could
- >>point them to for reading. Where is the non-doctrinaire, non-PR
- >>type of literature explaining the benefits of nuclear power to the
- >>general thinking public?
- >
-
- "Radiation and Health Effects", a report on the TMI-2 Accident and
- Related Health Studies, published by GPU, authors, Behling and
- Hildebrand.
-
- With a foreword by Fabrikant, Auxier, and Eisenbud.
-
- GPU Nuclear Corp.
- Middletown, PA 17057
-
- -------
-
- A p-r document of sorts, but available for review and shot-taking, which
- is the way things should be done.
-
- Those who do obtain a copy should note the summaries of "other studies",
- which generally report/verify that the average dose to the 541,000
- persons living within a 50-mile radius was about 4 mrem...about 10% of
- the annual _incremental dose_ for those of us who live in the
- intermountain region (compared to sea level).
-
- Also, the summary of the Aamodt study, p. 41-2, is a giggle. They found
- that the cancer rate in a population they studied was 5.2-6.5 times
- higher than expected. They "selected" four streets in Newberry Township
- (of 14); curiously these were the only ones with cancer deaths (4),
- while the other 10 had none.
-
- Of such high standards of integrity are public fears built and
- propagated. The only question was whether they were dishonest or stupid.
-