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I think it would be good if you reorganized your expose as follows. It would be clearer and more effective. Claim 1: Reality check: Claim 2: Reality check: Please read these two articles. Yesterday David Albright,? So now another? Since comments weren? They parted ways with reality a long time ago. Thanks Rod its unfortunate that the public in general and those in Vermont in particular are rarely skeptical of those who reinforce their preconceived notions.
We at Vermont Yankee are well acquainted with Arnie and his exaggerations. He plays to a public and a legislature that has zero knowledge of nuclear power or engineering and is willing to accept any negative claim as truth. A reputable engineer would not consider himself the Chief Engineer of anything if he had no direct reports. His latest claim is that VY has discharged fission products into ground water despite s of samples of ground water indicating the opposite.
Any engineer who reads his resume would quickly note that he really has never designed anything himself. Claims like managed and contributed on a resume with nothing else substantive are clear giveaways that he has done nothing substantial in his career. The one thing he does well is manipulate a small state legislature who are impressed with terms like Nuclear Engineer when they come from someone who is clearly against nuclear power.
Its well paying if dishonest work, not worthy of a Professional Engineer which, of course, he is not. Jim — thank you. With your permission, I would like to elevate this comment to an update on the original post. What does it take to be an expert witness anyway? I noticed in the video he mentioned how he testified as an expert on the river issues. He also noted that there were 16 fish in the river, and repeated that number several times i assume he meant to say a number much larger but just forgot the zeros, or meant of species of fish.
Did you catch that? I left some units off the number. Did you catch it right away or did you mind automatically fill in the missing data? A common tactic used by such expert witnesses.
Works best when they have time to condition a unit of measure with an audience first. I know from practice the only reason to constantly switch units or leave them off numbers is to create confusion, problems, and cause probes to crash in to mars.
And now Gundersen is plastered on CNN as an expert, talking about how dangerous it would be to drop water on melting fuel rods because the water might push them closer together and create critical mass. Especially the radiation superstition debates. The Gundersen matter shows just how much complete integrity is necessary , when dealing with this area , to my mind perhaps the most crucial yet overlooked area of global risk evaluation?
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