1. The Need of New Approaches - Kritische Stimmen zur ...

Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
(5) A complete correspondence of the two scandals shows up in the findings of the judge: An “eroded” sense of
right and wrong means nothing other than a missing sense of right and wrong, and organized unaccountability
means absolute unaccountability, that can no longer be exceeded. Exactly these conditions of lack of rights also
make academic physics to the “nightmare” of every honest critic of physics.
(6) The unanimous evaluation of the processes at Siemens in the media, as the “biggest bribery scandal in
German business history” constitutes a full parallel to the biggest bribery scandal in German science history - that
the conformed press, however, still dare not discover, even after 2001 (the year of the first publication of our
documentation).
(7) Result: despite different spheres of valuation, the multiple fraud, the effective lack of controls and
particularly the condition of lack of rights in the system constitute significant common features. The common
ground, that each represents the “biggest” of its sort, will only become apparent when the public reappraisal of the
relativity catastrophe begins.
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4. Comparison of the Relativity Catastrophe
with the Behaviour of the Government in the Case of the
Final Nuclear-Waste Research Disposal Site “Asse”
The former potassium mine “Asse” (rural district of Wolfenbüttel) houses the “research mine” Asse II as the
first German final disposal site for radioactive waste. As sources we have three reports to hand: the TAGESSPIEGEL
of 7.7.08; the FAZ of 29.7.08; and the WELT of 1.8.08. The case of Asse is only understandable in the context of a
strictly chronological presentation.
1965: The Bonn Ministry of Research permits the association for radiology and ecological research, GSF, to
purchase the disused mine. The mine is only subject to mining law, not to atomic supervision!
1967: An expert report prepared by scientists gave assurances that an inrush of water or of brine from outside
could effectively be ruled out - with “a probability approaching certainty” - in the pit Asse. The research purpose of
Asse II: suitability of the salt rock for the final disposal of nuclear waste.
“Within a few years”: the test mine becomes a storage place for nuclear waste. Contents:
125000 drums, initially stacked, then just dumped. As to those responsible for this decision, nothing is said on
this by any of our sources. They don’t even bother to raise the question.
1978, May: In Asse the limit values for permissible radioactivity were exceeded, according to a letter from this
period sent by the Goslar mining authority to the Clausthal-Zellerfeld state mining authority, which became known
in July 2008. The mining authority informs its state mining authority about nuclear-law problems. With this we are
already talking of 30 years of concealment from the public.
1979: A hydraulic engineer reported that groundwater would soon seep into Asse and that the installation would
be flooded. At that time the neighbouring Asse I had already broken in and was full of water. Contrary to this, a
mining expert - who had been a head scientist at Asse II for 30 years until 1995 - found that an inrush of water was
highly unlikely.
“From this point on”: “strict silence was observed about the processes in the nuclear-waste mine and Asse
became a lamentable parable of the handling of the radioactive legacy of the nuclear age. “Suppressing, postponing,
concealing”, this was the principle by means of which the operator pacified the public over decades, complained
one of the civil servants from the Federal Ministry of the Environment now [2008] entrusted with the investigation”
(TS, 7.7.08).
Supervision is still only a matter for the state authority for mining!
1988: The inrush of water prophesied in 1979 and at the same time declared as highly unlikely begins 100
metres above the chambers containing the nuclear waste. The influx gradually rose to a current 12000 litres a day;
is collected and taken away. Until 1995 - i.e. 7 years long - nothing else is undertaken.
1988: Radioactivity limit values exceeded “by a factor of fifteen” (FAZ).
1993: Certain limit values exceeded “by a factor of fifteen” (FAZ).
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