NH #544: Nuclear-Free Earth: No Weapons, No Reactors - Possible? Karl Grossman

Nuclear-Free Earth: Is such a thing even possible?  Listen to veteran, award-winning environmental journalist Karl Grossman explain not only why it is possible and necessary, but how we can get there.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Nuclear-Free Earth – can we achieve it?  Karl Grossman provides the vision. He is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, and host of the television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman. Karl is the author of six books – so far – and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper, and Internet articles.  He has been covering nuclear issues for more than 50 years; in terms of knowing how things came about and where the bodies are buried – that’s a metaphor, we hope – nobody does it better.  Karl has been an important early and consistent supporter of Nuclear Hotseat, and here he puts forth the need to make Earth a nuclear-free zone.  We talked on January 12, 2020.

Karl Grossman’s important, clear-eyed, classic book on nuclear energy: COVER UP: What You Are NOT Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

WANT AD:  UK town in Cumbria spends taxpayer money to hire a “Nuclear Engagement Coordinator” to help site a Nuclear Waste Pit Toilet (aka radioactive waste dump) in their own back yard.  Judas goat, anyone?

Links:

• New video with marine biologist Tim Deere-Jones on the proposed release of radioactive tritium-contaminated water at Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean.  Tim was most recently heard on Nuclear Hotseat #534, September 14, 2021;

https://youtu.be/wHQqwXKe1_M

• https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2131/ML21316A057.pdf - Vogtle report from Fairewinds.
• NIRS petition:  Speak Out! Tell Congress: No Backdoor Authorization of Illegal Nuclear Waste Dumps 
• PLOUGHSHARES FUND 2022 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
• This next-generation nuclear power plant is pitched for Washington state. Can it ‘change the world’?
• Nuclear power plant operators want to run for eight decades, but a federal lab in Washington state found ‘critical gaps’ in knowledge about how reactors age 
• I Gave My Baby Tooth to Science: Project Sunshine's role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and Cutting-Edge Pollution Research
• Nuclear Power Won’t Save the World. It Won’t Even Help.
• The Setsuko Thurlow Rose: 

The Setsuko Thurlow Rose