Nuclear Expert: No. 4 fuel pool may have 5 times more cesium-137 than estimated

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14. He is in no way an expert.

He has neither the educational nor professional background to be called an expert (or anything close to one).

and co-authored at least one paper with Allison Macfarlane

Not really. His advocacy group organized the group that wrote the paper (largely debunked, despite what their response pretends), so he got his name on it, but he was the "former government official" in "including experts from from academia, the nuclear industry, former government officials, and non-profit research groups"... he wasn't in any way an expert. His recent attempts to use a similar approach post-Fukushima prove that he didn't understand (and therefore couldn't have been involved in) any of the limited science presented in that paper. He's been trading on that "former DOE official" nonsense for years (a appointed position that he had no qualifications for and was fired from)... it doesn't add credibility.

Macfarlane is a scholar who elected to become an expert on nuclear waste storage, but if anything, her association with him damages her credibility... it doesn't aide his. In her defense, however, she was just beginning to study the subject at the time.