NH #537: Oconee Nuclear in South Carolina At Risk of Inland Tsunami from Jocassee Dam - Paul Gunter

Oconee Nuclear reactors - all three of them - will be in the water pathway if there is a breach at the Jocassee Dam, only 12 miles away.  That would be the equivalent of
SIX Mississippi Rivers in a wall of water 19 feet high.  Can you say... "Fukushima?"

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Oconee Nuclear reactors at risk of inland tsunami from Jocassee Dam - Paul Gunter has been a critic of nuclear power for over 30 years. He is an energy policy analyst and activist who worked as the Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project for Nuclear Information and Resource Service for almost 20 years. In 2007, he joined Beyond Nuclear as their Nuclear Reactor Specialist, and that’s where he’s been ever since. We spoke on Monday, October 4, 2021.

Paul Gunter.  Photo by Ioanna Raptis/ Seacoastonline

• Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA):  LINK to Nuclear Hotseat #526 SPECIAL on RECA.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't understand that "a little bit radioactive" is like "a little bit pregnant" and completely removes the ban on import of Japan's Fukushima-area food.  Yet another reason to read labels.

LINKS:

• Radiolab - Nukes and Nuclear Chain of Command
• Women Transforming  Our Nuclear Legacy - Journalism, Media & Our Nuclear Legacy - webinar, October 13, 2021.  Must sign up.
• Woodward/Costa book PERIL - Why No President Should Have "sol Authority" to start a nuclear war.
• How Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming - Harvey Wasserman
• The Record-Breaking Failures of Nuclear Power - Linda Gunter
• The Overlooked American Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki