Hurricanes and Nukes:
A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey

This Week’s Featured Interviews:

• Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about nuclear power production, engineering, reliability, and safety issues.  She is also a former employee of the nuclear industry.
  
  Fairewinds Reports: 
  Article – Hurricane Season and Atomic Power Reactors
  Peer reviewed study – LINK to full article: Radioactively-hot particles detected in dusts and soils from Northern Japan
  
• Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, which seeks to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future.
• Nancy Foust is Communications manager and research team member SimplyInfo.org. a not for profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster.

Numnutz of the Week*:

The EPA Irma Coverup, er, I mean, Notice on loss of Radnet Radiation Monitoring Network as of September 8 – just in time for it to not be able to provide readings during Hurricane Irma and in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey!  Note the wording on today’s excuse to the teacher:

• “Due to Maintenance” – which implies a planned outage.
• “We are working to resolve the issue” – which implies an unexpected problem or emergency that must be handled.
  

                                        WHICH IS IT, DUDES?
  

* Alas, Numnutz of the Week was edited out of this week’s show because of time constraints, but this is the script, more or less.  Enjoy!  Try reading it yourself!  Send a recording to me as an audio file and I’ll run the best one on a future Nuclear Hotseat!