This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. (NOTE: Link is to Amazon, but we recommend you order it through your local independent book store.) In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers…
This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump – is an action that the decommissioning company has planned for the radioactive water from the reactor spent fuel pool. But Holtec has been receiving ever-growing pushback from Massachusetts representatives and the public. Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group…
This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Treat: Nuclear Numnutz of the Year! The annual Nuclear Hotseat chance to revisit some of the year’s worst nuclear impulses and actions. It’s a look back at the highlights from 12 months of our most popular (notorious?) feature, Numnutz of the Week. Shake your heads in unison at the wilde and…
This Week’s SPECIAL Features: Fukushima radioactive water dump – and more. This week focuses on the radiation dangers that Fukushima still poses – 1,280,000 metric tons of stored tritium-contaminated radioactive water that TEPCO plans to dump into the Pacific Ocean; and the citizen-science testing proram that revealed Fukushima contamination throughout Japan. This week’s guests…
Plutonium Pit lawsuit – why no Environmental Impact Statement?
This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Disarmament: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day. She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News and NBC News for…
This Week’s Featured Interview: Anti-nuclear nun Sister Megan Rice passed away on October 10, 2021 at the age of 91. Sr. Rice, who was arrested more than 40 times for her beliefs and protests as part of the Plowshares movement, is best known for her role in the 2012 break-in at the Oak Ridge nuclear…
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive nuclear waste dump dangers are the primary wheelhouse of Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog (bullldog?) for Beyond Nuclear. Kevin specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; environmental and public health risks associated with government and industry efforts to dump commercial irradiated fuel rods on Native…
This Week’s SPECIAL Interviews: Following the devastation to New Orleans by Hurricane Ida, mainstream media has failed to cover the situation at the Waterford nuclear facility only 25 miles west of the city. The facility is shut down, without grid power, and currently cooling the reactor with emergency back-up generators. But is this enough? Will…
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