How easily they try to deceive!
According to Eugene Grecheck (Dominion Power’s V.P. for Nuclear Support Services) in the May 2 C-VILLE Weekly article “The Greening of Nuclear Power,” “The reactor meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island is actually a success story…not a black mark of failure. The plant’s containment vessel worked exactly as it was designed to, and no radiation escaped into the environment.” [Emphasis mine.]
According to a recent paper by Professor Steven Wing at UNC, “Objectivity and Ethics in Environmental Heath Science,” published by the National Institute of Health Sciences, a peer reviewed journal, “Uncontrolled releases of radioactivity to the environment began shortly after 4am on 28 March. Within hours, radiation monitors at the plant went off-scale because radiation levels exceeded the instruments’ measuring capacity.
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reported a reading of 3,000 millirads per hour taken above the plant on 29 March.
“Although thermoluminescent dosimeters were placed off-site on 30 March, there were large angular gaps between the monitors. As a result, there was little information about early releases and poor capacity to detect narrow plumes with low dispersion.
“Xenon-133 from TMI was detected in Albany, New York.”
Importantly, “We found positive relationships between accident dose estimates and cancer rates for all three categories of cancer (leukemia, lung, all types).”
Nuclear is not now, nor will ever be, green.
Neill Bell
Charlottesville
Hosannah!
I have been to Charlottesville a number of times between 1990 and 2000 (inclusive of two First Nights and the time of President Clinton’s Inauguration and other times), but I cannot claim to be a regular reader or a subscriber of your publication.
A thoughtful friend and area resident of longstanding sent me a clipping of Ms. Barbara Rich’s “Opinionated” column of April 25-May 1 titled “When, oh Lord, When?” This Yankee from the heart of the Northeast answers her passionate question here…if I may.
My dear Ms. Rich! Hosannah! Hey-sannah! Hi-de-hi-de-hoho-sannah! Many burblings of discontent are detectable from among many “Movement Conservatives,” Libertarians, sincere Religious Right folks and all types who are not keen on big, nosy, money-wasting government. These folks will not demonstrate or carry banners. It’s not in them to be so visible.
What they are is shamed and embarrassed. Democrats (yes, I am one) shrug at such feelings. We are used to them, but not the folks I just listed. They don’t like finding such a pall dropped on them.
November 2006’s election will be a reverse of November, 1994, when the current gang of the worthless and craven began their main slither toward power. It will be, however, a harder fought election. Karl-the-Kreep Rove will engineer an epic mud barrage of lies, yet it will all fail!
Oh Lordy! We are all sick of these cruel people. I am not a prophet but I have spoken! Amen.
Wm. Andy Meier
Canaan, NY
CORRECTIONS
In the May 2 Gallery Listings, a still from “Manual,” a video installation by collaborative German duo Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet now showing at the Second Street Gallery, was misidentified as the work of Will May.