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Uhm, I can't speak to the incidents you and Helen are refering to, but generally speaking, just because something is reported in the press it's not nec. a sign of government transparency.  Or a sign of media hysteria.  I highly doubt the gov't on the phone making calls to the media, "hey, there's a problem over here, come on down!"  In fact, mostly they are doing damage control.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 06:07:59 PM EST
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Well there certainly was hysteria in France, when they started looking at public information on nuclear sites, and noticed that incidents were happening every week - you suddenly had screaming headlines about "another incident at Tricastin" "tragic series in Tricastin!!" "yet more incidents at Tricastin" as if the plant were suddenly falling apart.

The government did not help, by holding frantic press conferences and promising measures to check water around plants (as if it were not done, which it of course was...).

So yes, hysteria.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jul 30th, 2008 at 10:25:13 AM EST
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