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Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 3:26 PM
n his book, Nick does not say who
it was
that he spoke to at DERA Radiation Protection Services,
but it
was actually a man named Giles Cowling. When I tracked
Cowling
down, via his colleague Ron Brown, they sounded
surprised that
their opinion had been published in Nick’s book. Rather
than regarding it as an ‘official investigation’
Cowling described his discussions with Nick Pope as a
‘private conversation’. Perhaps this is why Pope
did not name his source or quote him directly.
When I presented Cowling with the
above
information from the NRPB, he wrote to me as follows on
1998
August 21:
“In my original discussions with Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire I did indeed state that the readings were around 10
times
normal background levels, provided that the instrument
was
appropriate for measuring background radiation (at the
time of
our discussions he could not state what the instrument
was),
calibrated and being used/interpreted correctly. I share
the
NRPB view that the use of a high-range survey
instruments to
measure (accurately) environmental levels of radiation
is
somewhat questionable and this must throw some doubt on
the
validity of the data reported.”
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