NH #551: Nuclear Regulator Confesses! Former NRC Chair Jaczko's Tell-All Book!

Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator - Gregory Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, spills the beans and his guts.  A REALLY important book - and we talk all about it in a SPECIAL extended interview. 

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 of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.”  He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming.  In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.  Originally recorded on January 10, 2019, just after his book was published.

Former NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko - "Rogue" Nuclear Regulator, indeed! 

• “Jaczko Nixes Nukes” – A Backgrounder on Greg Jaczko’s book and the issues he addresses from Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

Numnutz of the Week:

If you wanna know if Ontario's aging nuclear reactors ar safe to operate, it's gonna cost you... $10,000.00.  Now - is that Canadian or USD?

If you don't agree that an environmental NGO should need to pay $10,000 to receive safety information on nukes requested from a public utility through a FOIA, please send a message to CNSC President Rumina Velshi and OPG President Ken Hartwick calling on them to release pressure tube safety assessments for independent analysis.

Links:

Picture of Google Earth Halloween lawn protest of proposed Theddlethorpe, UK nuclear storage facility.  And knowing Google Earth, this is going to be up for years!  Brava!

• Film:  The Final Years of Majuro, which features testimony on the United States bombing of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands by Bravo survivor Nerje Joseph, 74, who died recently.
• Ian Zabarte, Head Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation - "The most bombed nation in the world."  Recent interview with rt.com.
• Russian footage of the explosion of Tsar Bomba - the world's largest nuclear explosion.  50 million tons of TNT.  Visions of Hell on Earth, anyone?
• Our friends at the Snake River Alliance, committed to Idaho's clean energy future, offers this little ditty for us all to sing along to!

https://youtu.be/oEMYR3zJJQw