Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster, one of the men brought in to clean up Chernobyl said on Tuesday.

Slamming the Japanese response at Fukushima, Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev accused corporations and the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of willfully ignoring lessons from the world's worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry's expansion.

"After Chernobyl all the force of the nuclear industry was directed to hide this event, for not creating damage to their reputation. The Chernobyl experience was not studied properly because who has money for studying? Only industry.

"But industry doesn't like it," he said in an interview in Vienna where the former director of the Soviet Spetsatom clean-up agency now teaches and advises on nuclear safety. Austria's environment ministry has used him as an adviser.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-nuclear-chernobyl-idUSTRE72E5MV20110315

[Tikki]

1. This is a truth.....

Tikki

[jkappy]

5. Yes! n/t

[DeSwiss]

2. Iouli Andreev

Remember that name. I doubt you'll be seeing it again.

K&R

[virgogal]

3. Yep ! He'll retire to spend more time with his family.

[plumbob]

4. Horrors! Those friendly folks in the nukular industry care more for DOLLARS

than PEOPLE???!!

Whodathunkit?

Find every engineer, every tech, every manager, the CEO of the company that built each of these and charge them with that many counts of manslaughter, please.

That might get their attention. I do prefer simply scrapping the entire industry and prohibiting it from ever operating anywhere again. Dumbest, most expensive way to boil water, EVER.

[wordpix]

6. who has $ for studying a disaster besides industry? How about colleges and universities, if not gov

They've got free labor (college students) who study all kinds of things---many of little import compared to nuclear disasters. How about studying THIS?

[DailyGrind]

8. Because that would require an student capable in advanced engineering and physics

and those that prefer to study the things of "little import" as you say, would likely be highly uninterested or incapable of adding any value to studying nuclear facility design.

And I don't think I'd call college student labor "free", they're paying for the education and have the right to study whatever they want.

[Tansy_Gold]

13. Not to mention that these days

much of the research (aka "studying") at universities is funded by, you guessed it, INDUSTRY.

In case the poster to whom you're replying isn't aware, government funding of public universities is dropping, because tax revenues are dropping, because INDUSTRY is paying less and less and less than its fair share of the burden.

The question then becomes, just which INDUSTRY is most likely to fund research (aka "studying") of nuclear energy disasters? I'll bet you it won't be the NUCLEAR INDUSTRY!


TG

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bananas.

[BadGimp]

9. Thank you Professor Obvious

[Downwinder]

10. Anybody seen any studies of the fallout during the 1950s tests other

than iodine 131?

[Neurotica]

12. Not fallout per se, but "The Plutonium Files" is a book

about secret medical radiation experiments that were conducted on unsuspecting people during the Cold War. The author is Eileen Welsome. Excellent book. Excellent investigative journalism.

[Tansy_Gold]

14. Just google "atmospheric nuclear tests" and you'll get

links.

I did that a few hours ago looking for the same thing.

The studies were done, one in the 1980s and another in 2002, iirc, by the US but there have been others done by teh UK and Australia.

The information is out there. You just gotta find it.


See also F.H. Knelman's "America, God and the Bomb," (originally published as "Reagan, God, and the Bomb") and Robert Jay Lifton's "Hiroshima in America: A half century of denial" for additional information on the whole nuclear culture.


Tansy Gold


edit to add http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x655392 link to other DU thread with info

[lovuian]

11. you can't have corporations making decisions that affect

world populations ...this is again and again ...being shown corporations walk away but not the people living there