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Public authorities avoiding details that may trigger alarm or panic — “They don’t want to go there” says former advisor to US secretary of energy

Published: April 2nd, 2011 at 8:57 pm ET
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From Far Labs, a Vivid Picture Emerges of Japan Crisis, New York Times, April 2, 2011:

[T]he public authorities have sought to avoid grim technical details that might trigger alarm or even panic.

“They don’t want to go there,” said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert who, from 1993 to 1999, was a policy adviser to the secretary of energy. “The spin is all about reassurance.” …

On March 21, Stanford University presented an invitation-only panel discussion on the Japanese crisis that featured Alan Hansen, an executive vice president of Areva NC, a unit of the company focused on the nuclear fuel cycle.

“Clearly,” he told the audience, “we’re witnessing one of the greatest disasters in modern time.” …

“Clearly, there’s no access to the core,” [a European atomic official monitoring the Fukushima crisis] said. “The Japanese are  honestly blind.”

Read the report here.

Published: April 2nd, 2011 at 8:57 pm ET
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