GERMAN WHISTLE-BLOWER
April 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has told the European Ombudsman that a German chemist who protested about the "illegal transport and export of radioactive materials" from the Institute for Transuranium, a nuclear research institute in Karlsruhe, had left her protest too late for it to be acted on. The complaint was made in 2002, five years after the alleged infringements, and the Commission said the official concerned had since retired. Brussels defended its action in the case, which involved the shipment of uranium oxide from the facility to the US, ...
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