[ RadSafe ] defending Pierre Pellerin

[Franta, Jaroslav]

NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Tuesday, June 21, 2005
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
--FRENCH NUCLEAR NOTABLES CALLED ON PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC TO DEFEND
PIERRE 
PELLERIN, the former French radiation protection chief who has become the
target 
of the antinuclear community and a symbol of official arrogance for his
failure 
to advise protective countermeasures when the Chernobyl fallout cloud
touched 
parts of France in spring 1986. Some sixty scientists and engineers from the

French nuclear establishment, many retired, signed a letter defending
Pellerin 
against what they called " odious attacks" by antinuclear activists and said

authorities "cannot remain indifferent and silent" but should "honor
themselves" 
by refuting the attacks. They said that by remaining "calm" and "courageous"

before the Chernobyl cloud, Pellerin had, on the contrary, "avoided an 
unjustified panic whose consequences could have been serious." Among the 
signatories were former Prime Minister Pierre Messmer, Nobel Laureate
Georges 
Charpak, former Framatome chiefs Jean-Claude Leny and Dominique Vignon,
former 
Electricite de France Executive Vice President Remy Carle, and European
Nuclear 
Society President Bertrand Barre.
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