Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Risk perception - a bloody mess

[AtomicRod@aol.com]

Morgan:

The worst part of the "risk perception mess" is that there will probably be 
more than a few potential blood recipients that die because of a lack of 
available supplies. The bureaucrats that make the donor rules, however, will 
not blame their rules, they will self righteously proclaim that at least 
their blood did not cause any deaths. Of course, that argument can be taken 
to its extreme -- if we do not take blood from anyone no one will die from 
diseases caused by blood transfusions.

I think that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission uses a similar logic. i. e. If 
we do not approve any new nuclear power plants, we can be certain that no one 
will ever be hurt by an accident in a new nuclear power plant. (Any deaths 
caused in a war to protect oil resources are not their fault and neither are 
any deaths caused by exposure during a period of tight electrical supplies or 
deaths caused by constant exposure to coal dust.)

Rod