just saying.....

[kpete]

Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA

By Michael Shields

VIENNA | Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:49pm EDT

VIENNA (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.


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

"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?"


the rest: (please post more, someone?) it is quite revealing...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-chernobyl-idUSTRE72E69P20110315

[Control-Z]

1. it continues...

"...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.

Andreev said a fire which released radiation on Tuesday involving spent fuel rods stored close to reactors at Fukushima looked like an example of putting profit before safety:

"The Japanese were very greedy and they used every square inch of the space. But when you have a dense placing of spent fuel in the basin you have a high possibility of fire if the water is removed from the basin," Andreev said..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-chernobyl-idUSTRE72E69P20110315

[kpete]

2. thanks Control-Z

The IAEA should share blame for standards, he said, arguing it was too close to corporations building and running plants. And he dismissed an emergency incident team set up by the Vienna-based agency as "only a think-tank not a working force":

"This is only a fake organization because every organisation which depends on the nuclear industry -- and the IAEA depends on the nuclear industry -- cannot perform properly.

"It always will try to hide the reality.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-chernobyl-idUSTRE72E69P20110315




just saying, right?
peace, kpete

[Control-Z]

5. Really. Wow.

"The IAEA ... is not interested in the concentration of attention on a possible accident in the nuclear industry. They are totally not interested in all the emergency organisations."

The IAEA had no immediate comment on Andreev's criticism.

Andreev said he understood all too well what the Japanese authorities in Fukushima were going through, and that creative solutions would be needed to contain the leaks.

"It is a situation of quiet panic. I know this situation," he said. "Discipline is the main thing in the industry but the emergency service requires creativity, requires some kind of even fantasy and improvisation." :wow:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-chernobyl-idUSTRE72E69P20110315

[99th_Monkey]

3. CNN's lips are sealed

except to spew misinformation. Blitzer had the the chief lobbyist for the Nuke Industry on yesterday, as the ONLY "expert" being interviewed with Wolf's question: "Should the Japan nuclear meltdowns mean that we halt use of nuclear energy in the USA?" or something to that effect. It's like asking the Pope "Should the Catholic Church should close it's doors in shame and just go away in light of all the little boys it buggered".

And of course Blitzer's "expert" did not disappoint: "Oh, to the contrary, this means we should building even more nuclear facilities because now we can learn so much from these disasters, that we can now apply to new facilities".

[kpete]

4. hahahahhahahah

lol, thanks
99th_Monkey,
and peace,
kpete


Blitzer might like this:
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3323380/Evacuated-Chernobyl-zone-teeming-with-wildlife.html