Re: US Nuclear expert exported Downunder

["dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>]

Being a  former member of a US nuclear regulatory commission
advisory panel does not mean much.  Often the NRC will seek people to be
members of an "advisory panel" (vague term, the name of the panel might
help) to provide "balance" or a differing viewpoint.  Technical or
scientific qualifications are not always necessary.  Sometimes the selection
is made based on the "squeaky wheel" prinicipal.  The stated qualification:
"a former director of the nuclear policy program at the
University of California" is misleading.  He was a former director of the
Adlai Stevenson Institute for the Study of Nuclear Energy (the wording of
the title is from memory and a couple of the words may be different).  This
is affiliated with the University of California at Santa Cruz.   It has not
appeared to have been a major policy making organization within the
University or prominent in the public arena.  I do not konw if it is active
at all any more.  I am not aware of any expertise Dan might have other than
the ability to read what anti-nukes publish and create an interesting public
display.  I would clasify him as an "anti-nuclear activist" rather than an
"expert".

Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com
2910 Main St, PERRY OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolan, Martin" <CarolanM@iahs.nsw.gov.au>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: US Nuclear expert exported Downunder


> U.S. Members of the list may be interested to hear from one of their
fellow
> "experts" who has recently showed up Downunder. Is the claimed career
> background accurate? (And for that matter what about the "expertise"?) The
> article below was in yesterdays Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au).
>
> Martin Carolan
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Reactor cancer risk 'downplayed'
> Date: 31/10/2000
>
> By ANDREW CLENNELL in Canberra
> Mr Daniel Hirsch, a former member of a US nuclear regulatory commission
> advisory panel and a former director of the nuclear policy program at the
> University of California, says the EIS claimed the most "credible serious
> accident" would release one millionth of the radioactivity of the core of
> the reactor, when most major accidents released several per cent.



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