NH #739: Executive Order: NRC Now Tasked w/”ENABLING” New Nukes?!? Stupid/Dangerous Nuclear Languaging Tricks w/LNT – Cindy Folkers
This Week’s Featured Interview:
Cindy Folkers is Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, with close to 20 years experience. She co-authored with Dr. Ian Fairlie the book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. Here, she breaks down what’s wrong with the recent nuclear Executive Orders, including the mandate to “enable” the building of new, untried Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, and why even the current Linear No Threshold model for setting nuclear “safety” standards is not perfect, but it’s much better than where we seem to be heading.
LINK: Dr. Gordon Edwards on uranium enrichment levels required to make nuclear bombs, and how the 11-20% enrichment of HALEU fuel required for small modular nuclear reactors can be turned into a bomb. – Nuclear Hotseat #731.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
Trump will get his Russian yellowcake. If only he would eat it, too…
The Nuclear Resister with Jack Cohen-Joppa
Milk and cookies time! Here’s another story of heroism in the fight against nuclear weapons with Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister. This week, focus on the protest events surrounding 1985’s 40th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In New Hampshire, the Pease Air Force Base Monument (described in the Nuclear Resister report) that honors the Air Force unit that dropped the bombs on Japan. it was dismantled and removed when the base was shut down in 1988.
