tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post4402817161354841304..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: No Fear DetectedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-69846118602467177392011-04-27T04:43:58.474-04:002011-04-27T04:43:58.474-04:00I would not just let Lauri Keagle and hit and run ...I would not just let Lauri Keagle and hit and run outfits like NWI.com sashay away whistling after making such a coyly slanderous accusation. I'd royally call them on the carpet in spades to back-up what they reported because they irresponsibly and maliciously fan the flames among the largely science ignorant public which know more about the newest American Idol than what makes the lights go on in their homes. Ditto the slings of anti-Millstone Nancy Burton. I'd have such "activists" whip up more proof than fear that nuke plants are inherently imminent hazards via the plausibility of an asteroid strike. I want to call out their standards of safety concern to range across the full spectrum of the energy industry in injuries, deaths and property destroyed. I'd even go beyond that and ask whether they're as concerned of super-pathogens stored at medical and bio research centers which if escaped might generate plagues more horrid and inescapable than any nuclear event. I wonder -- are there any evacuation plans set around these research facilities?<br /><br />More over, most all school teachers indiscriminately pick-up what's cited by anti-nuclear power people more than the government or industry or scientific literature. While the atom is the ultimate core of nature ("green"), children are discouraged from presenting nuclear energy as science fair projects. The mostly nuclear-clueless public, whose concepts of radioactivity stem from anti-corporate activists to 1950's B-movies, is tossed catchy fear phrases such as "The reality and scientific fact of nuclear energy is what I call the three C's, You can't control it, you can't contain it, and you can't clean it up. These are three facts you have to accept if you support nuclear power." I don't know what rock such quoters have been living under to state that atomic power hasn't overwhelmingly been successfully controlled (hence contained) nearly sixty years from power plants to seagoing vessels. One would have to be zealously and implacably philosophically anti-nuclear to overlook such. Nor have I heard that residual radioactivity has exactly left Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Three Mile Island's local communities sterile glowing deserts.<br /><br />Such disinformation needs to be countered by factual information and education, but those facts are useless locked up within one church. More than ever nuclear power and research is fighting for acceptability and its life and such an't be left to the media to correct the activities and pitchforks of fear legistation popping up to abolish nuclear power. This Blog and NEI have superb nuclear facts vs myths entries of enormous fair and factual educational quality, but they're virtually quarantined from enlightening the public where it counts. I'd like to see their articles -- even just as a gesture -- sent to major media outlets just to see the response they'd receive -- if they receive any notice at all much less are responsibly and fairly featured.<br /><br />Then we can proceed with the most basic question of all, why not?<br /><br />James Greenidgejimwghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06964988758509076556noreply@blogger.com