…t that she based her entire article on a Democracy Now interview featuring Robert Alvarez. (I happen to like listening to Democracy Now as a podcast, but find its blind spot about nuclear energy to be a source of continuing frustration.) Ms. Atkinson provides the following snippet of information from the web site of Mr. Alvarez’s current employer, the Institute for Policy Studies, as a way to enhance the credibility of her assertion that Fukushima…
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Adam Curry Exposes Robert Alvarez’s Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool Fable on No Agenda
…, sir, are the joke. Not the other guy (even if he is wrong). Eddie B BTW, Robert Alvarez is former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy. YOU are a blogger looking for a job and clicks on your blog. Rod Adams @Eddie B Robert Alvarez was a political appointee to a high level job. The appointment was a reward for having helped during the presi…
Credibility Is Important – Especially for "Senior Scholars" Who Expect Other People to Trust Their Work
…ned states of Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey,” says reactor expert Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and former Senior Policy Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, 1993-7. “A year later the National Academy panel, convened to address our study, warned that reactor ponds were vulnerable to terrorist attack and catastrophic radiological fire,” Alvarez continues. “In particular, there are 35 Boiling Water Rea…
Pandora’s Promise Review Roundup
…lave include other professional antinuclear activists like Arjun Makijani, Robert Alvarez, and Kitty Tucker Nick Touran (who just recently earned his PhD in Nuclear Engineering) has published a full rebuttal to the Beyond Nuclear screed at What is Nuclear titled Pandora’s Revenge. Here is the introduction to a piece that is making the rounds in the pronuclear activism world. On May 13th, anti-nuclear group BeyondNuclear published a 38-page pdf wri…
Debunking the Fukushima Spent Fuel Fable
…ities of accidents. The quartet most closely associated with this myth are Robert Alvarez, Arnie Gundersen, Kevin Kamps and Paul Gunter. All of them were quoted in a story that ran on Alternet.org titled The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb I have some friends who are working on a detailed technical response to Alvarez’s fear mongering fable. I’ve seen the draft; it is undergoing additional independe…
Critical Analysis of Mousseau Fukushima Presentation
…e public has towards anything that makes a Geiger counter click. There was Robert Alvarez who was the author of “Fukushima has 85 times the amount of Cesium-137 as Chernobyl”. One more earthquake at the right place could distribute this deadly material world-wide and wipe out, as claimed by Akio Matsumura, also present at this conference, life on earth as we know it. Caldicott and her associates raised this figure to 200 times more Cesium-137 with…
Transportation and Storage Subcommittee BRC on America's Nuclear Future – Aug 19 Meeting Observations
…he NRC. In April of 2003, Science and Global Security published a paper by Robert Alvarez titled Reducing the Hazards from Stored Spent Power-Reactor Fuel in the United States that made identical suggestions based on his assessment of the risk. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission evaluated the paper and issued a fact sheet with its conclusions. Here is a quote from that NRC released fact sheet: The paper suffers from excessive conservatisms througho…
Fear of radiation has ruined far more lives than exposure to radiation
…heir peers — why do they trust self-anointed experts like Arnie Gundersen, Robert Alvarez, Chris Busby and Helen Caldicott when they spread stories that have been selectively slanted to cause panic for profit? Here is something else to consider. Linfen is the central city in an area in China that was once known as the most polluted place on earth. Some even call it China’s Chernobyl. However, it was not the site of a “nuclear disaster”, it is a pl…
Mangano and Sherman take down
…Media Advisory: Be Sure to Fact Check Joseph Mangano, Janette Sherman and Robert Alvarez What Can We Do About Junk Science? Fukushima: Alarmist Claim? Obscure Medical Journal? Proceed With Caution It is not an ad hominem logical fallacy to dismiss work published by people who play fast and loose with the truth by showing that they have a documented history of such activity. It is not necessary to go to the trouble of documenting each instance of…
Atomic Show #183 – Arjun Makhijani Explains Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Strategy
…Engineer at IEER. Takoma Park is also the home of NIRS and Beyond Nuclear. Robert Alvarez lived there at the time that he served in the Department of Energy. It is a place where antinuclear activism is commonplace. Dr. Makhijani abruptly ended the call, but I think you will enjoy the conversation anyway. Links to documents mentioned during the discussion: Carbon Free Nuclear Free (PDF download version) NUREG 1738 http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShow…
