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Dennis Nelson <innrcrcl@erols.com> wrote:

>No.  The true source of terror is that another human being would not hesitate
>to expose you and your city, town or state to invisible, undetectable environmental
>toxins which could seriously impact your health, without exhibiting a single pang of
>social conscience.  The fear of other humans doing nasty things to you unbeknowns
>to your is much greater than the fear of everyone living with the same natural
>uncertainty.

Dennis,  what you seem to be missing here is that the problem
with radioactive material is not that it is undetectable, but
rather that it is so easily detected.

Radioactivity is among the most easily detectable environmental
"toxins" known.  No other chemical toxin can be detected at parts
per quadrillion (10e-12) or less, yet this is easily done with
radioactive pollution.

One of my pet peeves is constant reports of "newly discovered"
health risks that have been there all along.  The only thing that
is new is the ability to detect them.  Fortunately, exposure to
radioactivity is easily detected and controllable.

Those who work in the nuclear power business know this all too
well and do all in their power to prevent detectable releases.
When they do detect the occasional release, it gets blown out of
proportion to the true health risk and splattered all over the
newspapers as if it is some conspiracy of gross mismanagement of
the resource.

If the routine risks we are all exposed to on a daily basis were
as easily detected as radiation, we would all be hiding in caves.


dewey@televar.com