NH #692: Bill Gates' Microsoft Three Mile Island Restart Madness w/Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert

Three Mile Island

This Week’s Featured Interviews:

• Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert explains what’s wrong with the Bill Gates/Microsoft plan to restart TMI unit 1 (not the one that melted down), which has been shuttered for five years, to power the MIcrosoft AI data center.

Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy
at the 40th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown – March 28, 2019

• Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education speaking at the Three Mile Island accident’s 40th anniversary on how much radiation was released.
• Aaron Datesman, co-author with Doug Brugge of the newly published book, Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change, with new information about the radiation release at Three Mile Island. Datesman is a researcher and inventor living in Washington, DC who has held technical roles at the US Department of Energy and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This is an excerpt from a full-length interview with Datesman and Doug Brugge which will be coming in the next few weeks.

Scene of the Crime: Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy
in front of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island

The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge

Lockheed Martin jets, nukes, and NATO.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

It’s the first ever Numnutz Twofer, courtesy Russia! Putin talks with shamans! And plans are floated to build a plywood White House and Big Ben in Siberia… and then nuke ’em!

Links:

• Petition: No deportation of anti-nuclear activist Dennis DuVall! The 82-year-old U.S. citizen and long-term resident of Germany is facing deportation following his two arrests for nonviolent nuclear protests at the Buchel air base. Sign Here.

• The radioactive issue: Meet the 2 Native American women fighting to save nuclear exposure benefits (RECA)
• Excavation near radioactive creek in Pike County triggers calls for investigation
• An EMP Attack on the U.S. Power Grids and Critical National Infrastructure – Extensive, w/maps by Steven Starr
• World now has five times more PV than nuclear power- World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024
• More Nuclear Reactors? The Nuclear Schizophrenia of IAEA’s Director General Rafael Grossi
• Nuclear power: future energy solution or potential war target?