Heavy Ion Alert
See: Scan of Reply (DE)
Summary of Correspondence
Heavy Ion Alert is an international group of critics -
Heavy Ion Alert's Appeal to the Control Committees
We had sent a letter to the Control Committees of the Swiss Federal Assembly. These Control Committees have a parliamentary oversight role relating to the governing Swiss Federal Council, the Federal Administration, the Federal Courts and other bodies entrusted with tasks of the Confederation.
We outlined two concerns in our letter. The first related to the failure in CERN's
safety review (LSAG-
Reply from the Control Committees
Concerning the issue of strangelets risk, the Control Committees instead referred
to 'tiny black holes' (micro black holes) -
Heavy Ion Alert's Open Letter Response to the Control Committees
Relating to our concern that the important strangelet issue of our letter had apparently not been read, we indicated that SERI (the Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation) is a part of the Federal Administration, so therefore becomes part of the Control Committees' supervisory remit. Further, we detail various systemic neglects in the way the Federal Council deals with such risks. We also provide detailed evidence for the lack of independence from CERN of both LSAG and the SPC. We make recommendations that include the commissioning of a genuinely independent, multidisciplinary panel to review the safety of the LHC.