Frank von Hippel, "professor of public and international affairs at
Princeton and a former assistant director for national security in the White
House Office of Science and Technology", has also done a podcast on this for
the IEEE.
The Future of Nuclear Power - IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/nuclear/the-future-of-nuclear-power
MK
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] British journalists spiralling out of control -
hysteria sweeps across newsrooms
I thought people might be interested in the Op-Ed piece in
today's NY Times from Frank von Hippel. He is quite an
expert in this field and no great friend of nuclear
energy. Amongst other things, he points out the following:
"From one perspective, nuclear power has been remarkably
safe. The 1986 Chernobyl accident will ultimately kill
about 10,000 people, mostly from cancer. Coal plants are
much deadlier: the fine-particulate air pollution they
produce kills about 10,000 people each year in the United
States alone. "
Some perspective on the tabloid coverage we get and all
the fear mongering.
DW
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:32:49 +0100
Sebastian Olenyi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the context of discussing Sir John Beddingtons
>communication on the
> nuclear meltdown, allow me to point to the interesting
>Nature
> correspondence about scientific intolerance around some
>of his earlier
> comments:
>
> " [Beddington] urged his audience of 300 government
>scientists to be
> “grossly intolerant” of “pernicious” and “fatuous”
>“pseudoscience” "
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7338/full/471305a.html
>
> And Beddingtons answer in this weeks edition of Nature:
>
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7339/full/471448d.html?WT.ec_id=N
ATURE-20110324
>
> By the way: Thank you for being allowed to be part of
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