Secretary Chu's departing note was certainly worthy of the great line
from Amadeus, "Too Many Notes." It was exceptional in the failure to
mention national security, NNSA, weapons, arms control, terrorism,
intelligence, or nuclear forensics. one guesses that he failed to visit
those offices in four years as he played VC with taxpayer funds.
Chu leaves town with the the can of Solyndra tied to his tail, perhaps unjustly. The White House minders may own that one.
However, he has failed to take the hit for far larger offense. After Fukushima, he did not protest the White House action that locked up all the data and projections available from NARAC at LLNL. In consequence, both the Japanese government and the American public were denied informatkon that would have been operationally useful to the Japanese and publicly reassuring to our citizens. In no previous major radiological incident, Chernobyl or the Japanese fuel fab criticality accident of the late 90s, has such censorship been seen. That the bill-paying the Congress did not notice this event is astonishing. The US nuclear power industry was so upset and offended at this lack of public support that they ramped up their own monitoring and made plots of incomoimg radiation levels over the US available. Perhaps there will be time to look into this when a successor is nominated -- and to call Chu back to explain.
Chu leaves town with the the can of Solyndra tied to his tail, perhaps unjustly. The White House minders may own that one.
However, he has failed to take the hit for far larger offense. After Fukushima, he did not protest the White House action that locked up all the data and projections available from NARAC at LLNL. In consequence, both the Japanese government and the American public were denied informatkon that would have been operationally useful to the Japanese and publicly reassuring to our citizens. In no previous major radiological incident, Chernobyl or the Japanese fuel fab criticality accident of the late 90s, has such censorship been seen. That the bill-paying the Congress did not notice this event is astonishing. The US nuclear power industry was so upset and offended at this lack of public support that they ramped up their own monitoring and made plots of incomoimg radiation levels over the US available. Perhaps there will be time to look into this when a successor is nominated -- and to call Chu back to explain.
Comments
With regards to the NWC, he was for the most part a non-entity.
June 17, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Nice that you said "please" after your censorship demand.