Privy Council Sat On Canada's Kryptonite Connection

An access to information request now shows why the NRC squelched its own press release: The Privy Council Office ordered NRC to keep quiet as the story broke around the world. As anguished NRC staffers waited for permission to tell the bright, quirky kryptonite story, the PCO said a firm No - because it needs five days to approve all press releases. Rules are rules, the PCO insisted, as the world's media instead got the British side of the story, from London. The story began in the summer of 2006. Scientist Chris Stanley of the Natural History Museum in London came across a funny-looking rock from Serbia. He didn't recognize it, so he sent it to old colleagues at the NRC's Geological Survey of Canada, Yvon LePage and Pamela Whitfield. The two went to work - Canada is known for this kind of analysis -- and came up with a complex formula for the rock: sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Stanley Googled the formula, and was amazed to find it on a case of kryptonite in the movie "Superman Returns". http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=0aa6b52f-212b-435a-8b01-1ed291de738e&k=66248 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 8, 2007]

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