Re: Germany and Japan (no, not another military history

["James Barnes" <mail15077@pop.net>]

Franz,

What do you think will be the eventual policy on nuclear power from the
current German government?

Jim Barnes, CHP
Radiation Safety Officer
Rocketdyne / Boeing

-----Original Message-----
From: Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: Germany and Japan (no, not another military history


>>
>>About the dismissal of the German nuclear safety board;  does anyone
>>know if they are going to be replaced?
>
>What I read in Austrian papers and saw on TV was, that the German Green
>minister argued that both the Radiation Protection Commission and the
>"Reactor Commission" have to be dismissed, because most of the members are
>pro-nuclear. Please, read this sentence once again to understand what is
>going on in Germany. If you still cannot understand it, I cannot help you,
>but it is commonplace in Europe that pro-nuclears are very close to
>"criminals" and anti-nuclears save the world. Our US-collegues should be
>grateful to be informed by Sandy about what is going on in the world. From
>some postings it seems to me that you have a similar situation yet in the
>US, but I am now so sure.
>
>
>I would think that even a rabid
>>anti-nuclear activist would be able to see that you are going to need such
>>a body if you plan to start shutting down all the reactors within your
>>borders.
>
>Sorry, I think you are wrong. Do not expect any reasonable thinking from
>the European anti-nuclear activists. Do you expect is fom US activists?
>
>  Perhaps the plan is to replace them with Green appointees?
>
>This has happened in Austria already many years ago. The Radiation
>Protection Commission has not been called for many years. Another
>"Commission for Nuclear Questions" has been installed instead and this is a
>"green" domain. A lot of research money is allocated for this group.....
>but I do not want to go into details, which everybody reading that can
>guess him/herself.
>
>The decisive question is "money". The young red-green government in Germany
>expects the owners of NPPs to shut down their plants at no costs to the
>government. I do not even believe that they really expect it, it is a show
>for the public. This is an illusion. Nobody knows where to take the
>additional electrical power from to substitute the missing nuclear power.
>The attempts of the Swedish government to shut down the first nuclear power
>plant has failed completely because of financial question. (Björn Cedervall
>could perhaps give us an update on the current situation in Sweden!)
>
>When will you, dear RADSAFERs, finally understand that nuclear power is not
>a question of radiation safety, of doses to the population, of risk, but
>that it is a play of money and politics. We radiation protection people
>play a very minor role to support one very small part of the game and our
>role can be easily forgotten when mass media come in. And it is forgotten.
>
>Welcome to a new thread!
>
>Franz
>
>
>
>Franz Schoenhofer
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