07-07-2006, 05:50 PM
Quote:So how does one educate, or is it indoctrinate, a public soaked in "nukes are evil" folk lore for the past 20 years? Why are the MSM not all over this?
Occhi
I've been wondering that myself. Part of it seems to be that the Nuclear Industry in the US refuses(d) to challenge the lies and half-truths that have been plastered by much of the Ant-Nuclear crowd. (Hell, they didn't even try to correct what was reported as the radioactivity at the plant gate of TMI when TMI-2 melted down. The reported radioactivity at the gates to TMI was the radioactivity at the pressure release valve on the pressuizer in the containment building, the actual radioactivity at the plant gate was the normal background level and all radioactivity was contained within the containment building.)
One of the things I find funny is that if you have an accident at a nuclear plant where a turbine throws blades, causes no injuries, does a little structural damage, and has nothing to do with the nuclear side of the operation, it makes front page news all over. OTOH, if you have a boiler explode at a Coal fired or Oil fired power plant, 40 works die, it languishes 10+ pages back in the newspaper or isn't even reported. It's sad that people dying is less newsworthy than some equipment being destoryed... :wacko:
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.