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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: NEWS: Radioactive Sand Proves Nuclear Reprocessing Unlawful
- Message-ID: <53130@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:59:52 GMT
- References: <Greenpeace.1Sep1992.8am1@naughty-peahen.org> <1992Sep8.190417.29216@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- In article <1992Sep8.190417.29216@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- >Gotta love Greenpeace propaganda. See below.
- >
- >In article <Greenpeace.1Sep1992.8am1@naughty-peahen.org> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Greenpeace via Jym Dyer) writes:
- >>[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
- >
- >>RADIOACTIVE SAND FROM SELLAFIELD PROVES NUCLEAR REPROCESSING IS
- >>UNLAWFUL
- >
- >>GERMANY, August 18, 1992 (GP) In an old bunker in the free port
- >>of Hamburg Greenpeace is today presenting to the press
- >>radioactive sand contaminated with plutonium.
- >
- >How contaminated is it? There is a big defference between detectable
- >levels of contamination and dangerous levels of contamination.
-
- Really? What's the safe level of plutonomium contamination? Please
- provide references.
-
- >
- >>Sand from the shore
- >>in the area around the Sellafield reprocessing plant in England.
- >>Sand in which children play and families have their picnics.
- >
- >Note the brazen scare tactics.
-
- If, in fact, public beaches are dangerously contaminated with plutonium,
- then it would be rather wierd not be be alarmed.
-
- >
- >>Many people have become ill with cancer in this region.
- >
- >Of course. Many people have become ill with cancer in every region.
- >Note how the carefully avoid saying that radiation is the cause -
- >being caught in blatant lies is embarrassing.
-
- It is a matter of controversy in the scientific literature right now.
- Check some back issues of Nature for details on the Sellafield cancer
- controversy.
-
- >
- >>With THORP the total emissions from
- >>plants at Sellafield will increase by 1,000 per cent.
- >
- >1000 per cent is much scarier than 10 times, even though 10 times is
- >clearer. And so what? If current levels are a million times less
- >than regulatory limits who cares about a ten times increase?
-
- Apparently you don't know anything at all about the Sellafield plant.
- The plant features a pipe which has been pouring Pu wastes into the
- Irish sea for some decades. "Regulatory limits" are not very strict.
-
- >
- >>Up to 27.5 million curies of radioactivity will then be
- >>released annually. This may be compared with
- >>the approximately 50 million curies which, according to
- >>official data, were released at Chernobyl during the
- >>accident.
- >
- >Now why do I think that something in that paragraph smells fishy?
-
- Beats me. Got something more substantive to say?
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