News from The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government scientist at the center of a controversy over falsifying documents on the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump project received another Energy Department assignment for more work on the project after the problems came to light.
The worker was asked to help run computer models of how water moved through the proposed waste dump site in Nevada – the same kind of work he was doing when he wrote e-mails about falsifying documents, deleting data and keeping two sets of records, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
Hey, why are you hassling this guy? He did what was expected of him and was rewarded for it. If he hadn’t, he might be researching oil drilling in Alaska.
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I find this kind of stuff fascinating. Even if everything is perfect, it’s doubtful that Yucca mountain will be secure 1000s of years from now. But once you start falsifying data, you’re guaranteeing a disaster.
I find it fascinating because the people who are falsifying data would NEVER break into a waste facility and set off a disaster. But yet they are more than willing to set one off in the future. Maybe, deep down, we’re all evil Bond villains, willing to kill millions if we only get the chance.
I am totally surprised!!! He was only given a new assignement???
I thought the usual procedure was to promote him a couple of grades. Is there some reason he could be heading the research into the stability of the coral reefs of Togo?