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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21336)	5/6/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>From what she told me, it seems that the French populace has an even stronger radiophobia than Americans. If you mean that the French oppose nuclear power, then that's not true at all. If you mean that the French fear a disaster and radiation more than Americans, then that is not true either - their attitudes coincide with US public fears, but are not stronger. Many polls have been taken of French public opinion and most find that about two-thirds of the population are strongly in favor of nuclear power. It's not that the French don't have a gut fear of nuclear power. Psychologist Paul Slovic and his colleagues at Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon, discovered in their surveys that many French people have similar negative imagery and fears of radiation and disaster as Americans. The difference is that cultural, economic and political forces in France act to counteract these fears. pbs.org In fact, French towns compete to nuclear reactors built within their environs. "In France, unlike in America, nuclear energy is accepted, even popular. Everybody I spoke to in Civaux loves the fact their region was chosen. The nuclear plant has brought jobs and prosperity to the area. Nobody I spoke to, nobody, expressed any fear. From the village school teacher, Rene Barc, to the patron of the Cafe de Sport bar, Valerie Turbeau, any traces of doubt they might have had have faded as they have come to know plant workers, visited the reactor site and thought about the benefits of being part of France's nuclear energy effort." - from Why the French Like Nuclear Power by PBS' Frontline pbs.org >>....but she is unaware of any food irradiation being done in France, or being proposed.<< France and Europe has been using food irradiation for years and sales of some food have actually increased when marked "irradiated" - Irradiation and the Food Industry in France. Food Technology. May 1994: food-irradiation.com (As of 1990) Food irradiation is currently permitted in 35 countries worldwide and is already in use in 21 of these, including 4 member states of the EC, and the United States of America. Its principal use in those countries is for the reduction or elimination of dangerous microorganisms in food. The process is widely practised with great success, in many countries, including Russia (cereals), South Africa (fruit and vegetables, stable rations), Belgium (spices and food ingredients), France (spices, mechanically deboned poultry meat), The Netherlands (spices, frozen fish and seafood), Hungary (onions and paprika), Norway (spices), Canada (seafood and pork) and the United States of America (foods such as dried or dehydrated aromatic vegetables, spices and herbs, fresh strawberries, chicken brest and drumsticks). [italic = amended as of 1996] dainet.de (As of February 1998) "At present, food irradiation is permitted in France, Belgium and the Netherlands" - European Parliament Part-Session Summary poptel.org.uk Your Aunt is amazingly uninformed, to say the least.