“We are now looking… at a high likelihood of releases as large as Chernobyl or even larger” from Fukushima -Obama’s Top Science Adviser after 3/11 “We are now looking, as you’ve probably surmised from information available publicly, at a high likelihood of releases as large as Chernobyl or even larger,” [John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy] wrote in an email to a fellow scientist on March 16, 2011, citing the possibility of a spent-fuel fire. Even so, the science advisers weren’t swayed by the simple model the Navy nuclear experts were relying on. It was based on assumptions that the wind would blow steadily in one direction, carrying radioactive iodine and cesium in a very concentrated plume—a worst case that was beyond worst cases likely to occur in reality. Although [Steve Fetter, assistant director at-large in Holdren’s Office of Science and Technology Policy,] had himself reached similar conclusions using similar models, he attached little importance to them. enenews/we-are-now-looking-at-a-high-likelihood-of-releases-as-large-as-chernobyl-or-even-larger-from-fukushima-obamas-top-science-adviser-after-311
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