Lunn's "independent" nuclear safety experts

Mr. Omar Alghabra: Do you agree that the two independent witnesses that you brought? One of them was a former AECL employee, and the other is a vice president of a conservative riding association.
Hon. Gary Lunn: Yes.
I do acknowledge that after the fact. At the time I can only tell you that I asked the deputy minister to find me two independent experts that could provide us advice on this. We wanted independent advice, obviously we were receiving information from both agencies, and that information was not , and these experts were found by the department.
Again, maybe, Mr. Chair, I could defer to the deputy to respond.
The Chair: Yes.
Mr. Alghabra, you asked an important question. I do think the deputy minister should be allowed a little bit of time to respond.
Ms. Cassie Doyle: Mr. Chair, I was asked by the minister to identify two independent nuclear safety experts on very short notice, and it was my responsibility to identify those two. We found the two individuals through the department and through our contacts in the department. We had absolutely no knowledge of any partisan background of either of those individuals.
The Chair: Thank you, deputy minister.

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Yep, it was just a coincidence.

I just heard an interview with a doctor from a BC hospital who is questioning Lunn's "lives are at stake" comment.

He said that the (temporary)loss of medical isotopes is in NO WAY a crisis.

As is often said on DU, "extraordinary claims require exraordinary proof".

Lunn provided no proof of his statements.

Lunn is saying that such an accident would surely kill cancer patients, as there is supposedly no other source of supply. So, not having backup power for the pumps is actually jeopardizing people in two ways - a meltdown that would kill people directly, and the inevitable shortage of medical isotopes that would result which would kill cancer patients around the world.

Lunn's statements don't add up.