NH #427: Radioactive Canada UPDATE: Dr. Gordon Edwards on RadWaste, SNC Lavalin, more + Farewell to 100-year-old Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist Frances Crowe

The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Radioactive Canada: Dr. Gordon Edwards is co-founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, or CCNR.  Dr. Edwards has a background in mathematics, physics, and English literature, which explains why he not only understands nuclear issues, he can communicate their complexities with clarity.  Here, he not only explains the governmental structures behind radioactive Canada, he breaks down the many ways the nuclear industry confuses any conversation about radiation itself. Plus he busts scandal-riven SNC Lavalin, which is trying to position itself as a U.S. nuclear decommissioning “expert.”

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

• Nukes and Hurricanes do not mix, Mr. President… And stop trying to gaslight the public by pulling the “just kidding! false news!” gambit; you said it, multiple sources attest to you doing so on more than one occasion, and it’s STILL a bad idea!

Activist Links:

• LINKS to Robbie Leppzer films featuring Frances Crowe:
  • FRANCES TURNS 100, a 4-minute short film made of Frances Crowe’s’ 100th birthday march through the streets of Northampton last March: https://vimeo.com/355675253 .
  • Frances is also one of the “stars” of the feature-length film, POWER STRUGGLE, which chronicles the successful grassroots citizen effort to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. You can watch a trailer that features Frances at: www.PowerStruggleMovie.com
• Einstein’s Atomic Regrets by Karl Grossman. The man who single-handedly launched the nuclear age with a letter lived to not only regret it, but express his regret.
• Native American Tribe Claims Nuclear Waste Can’t Be Stored on its Land – featuring Ian Zabarte on Yucca Mountain, which is located on land held sacred by the Western Shoshone Nation and which was never ceded to the United States.
• Small Modular Nuclear Reactors and Southern Utah Nuclear History at Odds by Lisa Rutherford