[cdn-nucl-l] Story about Chernobyl on Thurs 26 April about 5:50PM EDT

["Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@home.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Muckerheide" <muckerheide@mediaone.net>
To: "Maury Siskel" <maury@webtexas.com>; <live@foxnews.com>; "radsafe"
<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Cc: <rad-sci-l@ans.ep.wisc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: [rad-sci-l] Re: Re; Story about Chernobyl on Thurs 26 April about
5:50PM EDT


> Tony Snow,
>
> Supplementing Dr. Siskel's link to Zbigniew Jaworowki's article, the
> official June 2000 release by the United Nations Scientific Committee on
the
> Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), along with a letter to Secretary
> General Annan on a UN report providing misinformation similar to the
> erroneous CNN report on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, can be
> found at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/Other%20Docs/UNSCEAR%202000/
> Note that Dr. Jaworowski is a long time member, and former Chairman, of
> UNSCEAR; and that UNSCEAR still supports the false presumption that
> radiation dose is harmful down to zero dose.
>
> You will also be interested in the link in the left column of the above
web
> page to an English translation of the Jan 2001 article in WPROST on the
> "Chernobyl Bluff."
>
> Also see other scientific papers on Chernobyl effects, especially in the
> 'liquidators,' in Section 1.2.5.2.1 at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/
>  See also section 1.9
> (Note we have issued the March 2001 Rev. 4 so the web site is not
current.)
>
> You will also find other scientific and analysis documents at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/
>
> You may also want to see:
> http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/nuclear.html
>
> and Dr. Jaworowski's article in the Sep '99 Physics Today:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/JA99_Radrisk.htm
>
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> Radiation, Science, and Health
> Center for nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
> Mass. State nuclear Engineer
> jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu
> 1-781-449-2214 fax 449-6464
> ============================================
>
> > Attn: Tony Snow
> >
> > Dear Tony,
> >
> > I was dumbfounded to see and hear your story (cited above) claiming
> > 30,000 or 4,000 deaths and other current urban legends on the
> > anniversary of that event. Please, for heavens' sake get this thing
> > straight and stop misleading the public. Fox News of all organizations
> > has too much to lose over this kind of gross untruth. And of all
> > people, your industry has ready access (or you surely should have) to
> > all kinds of scientific experts in nearly any field. The link to the
> > story on your web site follows. There were distinct differences
> > between the reporter's voice report compared with your internet link.
> >
> > http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,16816,00.html
> >
> > The following internet link will show you an article with photos from
> > Chernobyl prepared by a scientist who has worked first
> > hand with such problems.
> >
> > http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/chernobyl.html
> >
> > There are other extensive reports available; the IAEA (International
> > Atomic Energy Agency) of the UN conducted in-depth investigations of
> > the Chernobyl disaster ten years after the event. A second such
> > investigation was done fourteen years after the event and recently has
> > been published. "Thirty thousand deaths" indeed!!! What a cruel hoax
> > with no supporting evidence for such a claim.
> >
> > Please perform due diligence on this story and do not permit such
> > utterly unfounded crap to stand in the public eye. Tony, I am
> > astonished that you would permit something so poorly done to get past
> > you! If you need or want more scientific information to place
> > Chernobyl into a more accurate perspective, I will be glad to provide
> > further references or suggest scientists active in health physics who
> > would gladly speak with you.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Maury Siskel
> > Ft. Worth TX 76180
> > 817-498-7135
> > maury@webtexas.com
> >
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