[NukeNet] Why The Nuclear Power Industry Wasn't Destroyed : Anniversary Of Admiral Rickover's Daughter-In-Law's Signed, Notorized Statement

[Bill Smirnow]

  >the report, if published in its entirety, would have destroyed the
civilian nuclear power industry >because the accident at Three Mile Island
was infinitely more dangerous than was ever made public.

   http://www.mothersalert.org/rickover.html

Admiral Rickover's Statement

The following statement was signed by Jane Rickover, daughter-in-law of
Admiral Hyman Rickover, "father" of the nuclear navy. It was notorized by
William Lamson July 18, 1986. Jane Rickover has verified the authenticity of
the document and the events described in it.


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"In May, 1983, my father-in-law, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, told me that at
the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident, a full report
was commissioned by by President Jimmy Carter. He [my father-in-law] said
that the report, if published in its entirety, would have destroyed the
civilian nuclear power industry because the accident at Three Mile Island
was infinitely more dangerous than was ever made public. he told me that he
had used his enormous personal influence with President Carter to persuade
him to publish the report only in a highly "diluted" form. The President
himself had originally wished the full report to be made public.

In November, 1985, my father-in-law told me that he had come to deeply
regret his action in persuading President Carter to suppress the most
alarming aspects of that report.


[Signed]  Jane Rickover

Jane Rickover appeared before me and swore as to the truth of the
above statement.

Dated at Toronto this 18th day of July A.D.  1986

[Signed]  William F. Lamson

William F. Lamson  Q.C.
Notary Public for the Province of
Ontario



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