Does A Conflict Of Interest Exist As Regards Dept OF Energy Grants & UCB BRAWM/Nuclear Engineering? Probably 'Yes', IMHO.

CONGRATULATIONS to UC Berkeley Professor Kai Vetter and the $25 Million Dollar Department of Energy Grant for UCB Nuclear Engineering!!! (...in addition it appears to many other grants!)

http://coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/press-releases
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/1846

"Teaching will be accompanied by an active research component to give the students full exposure to the advanced theoretical and experimental techniques."

Woot! Woot! We can all anxiously await the best 'Rubber Ducky' analogies and 'Monkeys Banging Cymbals' analogies which 'money can buy'!
_________________________________________________

“UC Berkeley worried About Grant Status”

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/06/17/uc-berkeley-fear...

Well…I can understand why! Who wants to pay $25 Million for ‘Pseudo Science’ like ‘Airplane Analogies’?

Why not just buy everyone on the BRAWM Team a ‘Spirograph’ as well as one of those small ‘Telescopic Kaleidoscopes’ and an ‘Etch-A-Sketch’?

I promise you that whoever loved the ‘Airplane Analogy’ will be distracted within SECONDS of such a presentation of gifts, and ‘Reality Based Science’ will be BACK on the menu.

(OR, here is a better idea- redirect that SAME money into UCBerkeley’s ‘Arts Departments’ where it will breed the next Van Gogh or Ginsberg or Gershwin instead of propagating Nuclear Fallout Cycles)

I'm certain that there exists the possibility that the BRAWM Team and the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Dept. is 'above reproach' in terms of ‘conflict of interest’.

However, if there is 'more to the story' then I will just 'read all about it' in the news like everyone else, right?
__________________________________________________________________

Those grants (one of them alone is for $25 million over 5 years) are, of course, very good news for UC Berkeley’s Nuclear Engineering Fundraising Personnel. In fact, I am troubled only that such vast amounts of money could potentially ‘pave the poisoning’ of a ‘new generation of young minds’ with ‘walls’ literally ‘born of illusion’ masquerading as ‘science’. There is our silver lining, yes?

I would much rather see that money go to projects such as but not limited to the following http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4962 headed up by Arnie Gundersen and Helen Caldicott and Chris Busby and Riki Ott, Michio Kaku, Lucas Hixson and others who seem much more ‘on track’ with the current reality of the Fukushima situation and how it relates to public health.

I believe Dr. Bill Nye would be a wonderful addition as well. He called Cesium early on and was ‘yanked off the airwaves’ for doing so. Such figures will apply strong science towards ‘solutions’ as opposed to ‘cover ups’ on behalf of industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8GlzUjYazs&feature=player_embedded

Otherwise, such grant money should be cut or redirected to the Arts.

Such acts could create jobs as well as provide benefit to the public health, as opposed to reinforcing ‘lack of necessary remediation methods’ into the bright young minds of the future through the name of a prestigious University, further empowering the NRC and IAEA who have failed us miserably.

We need science ‘benefiting humanity’, not ‘erasing humanity from the records’ for industry’s sake.

We need to get back to respecting people’s lives.

The ‘Industry Culture’ is permeated with and propagated through ‘contracts’. One must write ‘smart and effective contracts’. Many, including myself, have just proven through intense research and scientific scrutiny, that the ‘Airplane Analogy Science’ was a ‘false contract’, in terms of how it affected public trust and public health. As such the ‘Airplane Analogy’ will now be discarded. (Effective Dose should also be discarded, I’ll get to that later on…)

Was the BRAWM Team approach a PR operation which was ‘engineered through contracts’ years ago, during the Bush/Cheney Energy Task Force Hearings which took place behind closed doors, which of course, would have nudged such a PR Campaign over to ‘Industry Needs’?

Have we been watching those Bush/Cheney Energy Task Force contracts in action since Mid March? Is that story now beginning to unravel?

Is it possible that John Yoo helped with those contracts? (I heard he wrote some interesting stuff) Where is John Yoo nowadays?
______________________________________________________________

Damning News On Radiation Coverup:

http://enenews.com/officials-especially-concerned-new-mexico-lawmakers-h...

http://enenews.com/head-of-new-mexicos-bureau-dealing-with-hazardous-was...

http://enenews.com/cbs-nuclear-workers-terrified-forward-whistleblower-w...

http://enenews.com/official-japanese-govt-withheld-radiation-forecasts-p...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmJUND2RwA

There is much in the news as far as Radiation related cover-ups and the like, isn't there?

The People have a chance to catch ‘the system’ here. This attempt to dominate the scientific discussion with embarrassingly low standards of science on behalf of industry liability is ‘deafening’.

I hope Governor Brown finds a way to stop giving such 'destructive entities' and the mechanisms which support them, ‘more gold' from the country and taxpayers which industry apparently needs to 'suffer illness, grief and even death', in order for industry to prosper.

We will be just fine with solar power. We all know it. Industry lies have postponed 'localized energy policy' just as industry lies have postponed 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'.

Only scientists and autodidacts can reclaim science. Reclaiming science means reclaiming reality. It was always inevitable that we would get back to that truth.