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Nuclear Power

Nuclear power cannot address climate change effectively or in time. Reactors have long, unpredictable construction times are expensive - at least $12 billion or higher per reactor. Furthermore, reactors are sitting-duck targets vulnerable to attack and routinely release - as well as leak - radioactivity. There is so solution to the problem of radioactive waste.

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Thursday
Jan162020

1/15/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_83

Wednesday
Jan082020

1/8/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear_2

On the show, host Brian Becker asked why the leadership of the Obama administration has been so silent while Trump shreds the Iran Nuclear Deal. Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry answered the call.

Kerry has published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled "Diplomacy Was Working, Until Trump Abandoned It."

Kerry also fact-checked Trump's lies about the Iran Nuclear Deal, on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."

Kerry also told O'Donnell that other administrations had the opportunity to assassinate Soleimani, but decided against doing so because the risks and repercussions were too great.

Wednesday
Jan012020

2019 in review: Corruption of the nuclear power industry

Corruption of the nuclear power industry

2019 ended with major news headlines in Canada regarding the corruption of a leader of its nuclear industry, SNC-Lavalin:

SNC-Lavalin, Holtec's partner in reactor decommissioning and high-level radioactive waste management, has pleaded guilty to fraud, will pay $280 million fine

SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud for past work in Libya, will pay $280M fine

Company will pay a $280M penalty over 5 years and be placed on probation

As reported by CBC
This is the Canadian company Holtec International has partnered with to do nuclear power plant decommissioning, and irradiated nuclear fuel management, in the U.S.

Learn more about the skeletons in both companies' closets:
Among Holtec's own skeletons is the tax break scandal in New Jersey, in which Holtec made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of tax breaks, thanks to lying on its application form, under oath. The lie -- uncovered by ProPublica and WNYC -- has revealed widespread profiteering by Democratic southern New Jersey kingmaker Donald Norcross III. His own brother, a corporate attorney, authored the tax break law in the first place. And another Norcross brother, a U.S. Rep., has voted in favor of and even co-sponsored, legislation that would make Holtec lots of money at taxpayer and ratepayer expense, by speeding the opening of Holtec's high-level radioactive waste dump in New Mexico.
But the headline story above also harkens back to FirstEnergy Nuclear in Ohio, which secured a $1.1 billion bailout, at ratepayer expense, with the Republican majority Ohio state legislature's and Republilcan governor's approval, for two dangerously age-degraded atomic reactors on the Great Lakes shore, Davis-Besse and Perry.
FirstEnergy's ill gotten money grab required intervention by the Trump 2020 campaign in Ohio; a PR campaign of lies and deceptions costing tens of millions of dollars; and, when opponents of the bailout tried to put it on the ballot in November 2020, physical assaults, physical intimidation, and a Red China fear mongering campaign, to block petition gatherers.
The headline story above also harkens back to Exelon Nuclear's corruption. Here is a recent update from Dec. 13th:

Amid Exelon controversy, bill surfaces to repeal 2016 nuke bailout

In response to a federal investigation into Exelon’s and ComEd’s lobbying activities, Illinois lawmakers introduce legislation to revoke ratepayer bailouts for two Exelon nuclear plants. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Tuesday
Dec312019

12/31/19: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the 2019 year in review show here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_82

Wednesday
Dec112019

12/11/19: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_80

Sputnik did a write up on the issues, providing links for additional information.