GreenTec goes ballistic in reaction to pro-nuclear criticism of competition ruling

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Followup to earlier post about how molten-salt reactor design, voted into consideration for a GreenTec Award by German public, was nixed by contest organizers simply because it was nuclear: http://www.democraticunderground.com/112749067


Dual-fluid reactor

"...Eventually they published an explanation of their reasons to exclude the DFR. However, this fueled criticism even more. Their statements made clear they obviously didn’t understand how the DFR works, what it does, and why it is inherently safe. Instead, their comments seem to assume that the DFR is something like a mixture of a conventional light water reactor and a distributed final disposal for nuclear waste. They clearly did not understand that the Dual-Fluid Reactor could do a tremendous job to the environment by producing huge quantities of low-carbon energy and reducing the overall radiotoxicity of nuclear waste by orders of magnitude.

When criticism didn’t ease and justification attempts failed, the organizers of the award reacted less-than-professional: They went wild and removed virtually all user comments from their Facebook page and blocked the commenters. They even posted something about the “19,000 dead of Fukushima being the end of nuclear energy”. Such a statement is simply inappropriate, insensitive and instrumentalizing the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan’s Tohoku region in 2011. Nobody died in Fukushima from radiation after the reactor accident and probably nobody will. Eventually the GreenTechies removed this comment, but the damage was done, the screenshots were made, and the failure was documented.

As it stands, the organizers 'and our jury reject nuclear energy in any form categorically! There will be no further discussion.' At least the jury has an chosen an alternative project to replace the Dual-Fluid Reactor: small wind wheels in hollow roof tiles. Well, let’s look forward to see them power Germany’s steel mills! Anyway, the green world is in order again.'"

http://rainerklute.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/how-to-stash-a-nuclear-reactor-away/