AW: [ RadSafe ] Background information - Nuclear industry may running out of steam

Fri Nov 30 17:18:47 CST 2007

Roy and RADSAFErs interested (I guess many may be),

This message is a really classic example of the Greens' strategy of twisting
facts, misinterpreting statistics, ignoring facts which do not fit their
preconceived ideas, use bombastic titles like "institute" or "consultants
company" and most of all to negatively assign weakness to a system, which
drawbacks were caused by them. There was a recent comment using a Mark Twain
citation, which was rejected by a very funny anti-spam programme and I would
like to not only repeat it, but to extend it (if somebody needs to be
shielded from these classic citations he needs not read it anyway!) - "There
are lies, damned lies and statistics and green reports". 

This message was distributed only on one Austrian paper under the title
"Nuclear electricity share declines". I do not waste my time to translate
the claims in detail.

Background information: It was stated that the French Mycle Schneider
Consulting had made the research. Looking after Mycle Schneider at Google
(everybody can do it) it became evident, that this person was a native
German. The first name "Mycle" I have never heard in my life time. This
Consulting seems to be a one man enterprise. He has been working for
Greenpeace, he was working for WISE, which I am very surprised, because WISE
is declared anti-nuclear, but provides excellent news-coverage on e.g.
uranium mining without any "green" comments. I recommend it.

At Google you will find a lot of Mr. Schneiders activities. The topic of
decline of nuclear share in electricity generation he has distributed since
years in several countries - Japan, Austria, and others - so this really is
not new. One interesting activity is that he has discussed with "somebody"
about the world wide energy supply situation in an alpine town in the
Austrian province of Vorarlberg, the name of which I never had heard and
after looking it up in my map I have forgotten it. More important than
having this famous person there it was mentioned that the organizers (a
cheese making company) offered a great buffet. 

Mr Schneider has been awarded a few years ago the alternative Nobel Prize
for his anti-plutonium work. 

Mr Schneider has published some "papers", some with the co-author Lochbaum
(I do not know him, but this name should ring a giant bell with RADSAFErs)
and with W. Kromp. Mr. Kromp was assistant professor at the Physics
Institute of the University of Vienna. When the discussion about the Czech
and Slovak Nuclear Power Plants came to a climax in Austria, he was the
foremost critic about the safety of these plants. Another person in the
commission appointed by our government and gathering everybody antinuclear
in Austria was Ms. Kolb, meteorologist, who had once made an expertise that
the Kr-85 released from the then planned reprocessing plant would
concentrate in a very small area in Austria.......

At the University of Vienna a new "Institute for Risk Assessment" was
founded - and surprise, surprise: Mr Kromp became professor. Ms. Kolb
married Mr. Kromp, but parallel a new institute for meteorology was founded
at the University of Agriculture - and surprise, surprise, Mrs Kromp-Kolb
was assigend professor there. 

If you have been able to read so far, you sure will recognize the
internationally interwoven network of greens, spreading lies, lies, lies.

Best regards,

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von ROY HERREN
Gesendet: Sonntag, 25. November 2007 10:18
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear industry may running out of steam

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/nuclear/mg19626313.300-nucle
ar-industry-may-running-out-of-steam.html
  Nuclear industry may running out of steam  §
25 November 2007 
  §                                 From New Scientist Print Edition.
  Rumours of a nuclear power renaissance have been greatly exaggerated. So
says an audit of the nuclear power industry released on Wednesday.
  The report, commissioned by The Greens, a European parliamentary group,
points out that many ageing reactors are due to close before 2030, and that
338 new ones would have to be built just to replace them.
  The Paris-based nuclear consultants who compiled the report argue that the
industry is growing too slowly to meet this target, and may even be
shrinking. The world has five fewer reactors operating today than it did in
2002, they say. Only 91 reactors are now being planned, and a further 32 are
under construction, mostly in Asia and eastern Europe. Construction work on
11 of those has been under way for 20 years or more.
  The idea that nuclear power is about to experience major growth is "pure
fantasy", says the report's author, Mycle Schneider. The industry is facing
"a dramatic loss of competence, sceptical financial markets and the severe
shortage of manufacturing capacity", he says.
  The Nuclear Age - Learn more about all things nuclear in our explosive
special report.
  Related Articles    
   Where not to build power stations   
   http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19526144.500   
   28 July 2007   
   World faces 'dirty, insecure' energy future   
   http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn10460   
   7 November 2006   
   Nuclear power: return of the atom   
   http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19125693.700   
   15 September 2006 
  Weblinks    
   The Greens   
   http://www.greens-efa.org   
   World Nuclear Association   
   http://www.world-nuclear.org 
  From issue 2631 of New Scientist magazine, 25 November 2007, page 5

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