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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Keywords: energy environment press
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:25:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.151948.20009@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1993Jan20.185150.16256@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan20.234658.2413@pmafire.inel.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan20.234658.2413@pmafire.inel.gov> russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.185150.16256@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan20.151948.20009@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> whitlock@dcss.mcmaster.ca (Jeremy Whitlock) writes:
- >>>On the news last night: Greenpeace releases a commissioned report (from
- >>>someone in the U.S.) demonstrating that the chances of a meltdown accident
- >>>in a CANDU reactor are 1 in 17, which they point out are better odds than
- >>>the chance of throwing snake eyes with dice.
- >>
- >>Jym, do you have a copy of this report somewhere? I'd like to take a look
- >>at it. You may be missing 6 or 7 zeros after that 17.
- >>
- >>>Favourite line: "We're talking -- literally -- about people lying dead in
- >>>the street..." (Greenpeace spokesman to reporter)
- >>>
- >>>Biggest understatement (paraphrased): "These numbers don't agree with ours."
- >>>(Ontario Hydro spokesman)
- >>>
- >>>Second biggest understatement (paraphrased): "Making this kind of statement
- >>>borders on the irresponsible." (Ontario Hydro spokesman)
- >>
- >>Could Greenpeace be sued over something like this?
- >>
- >>Tino
- >>--
- >
- >Probably not. Their attorneys would plead incompetence.
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- Since all estimates in this "field" are backup up with a lot of hand-waving
- it would be tough to prove anything more than use of different
- assumptions.
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