7/29/20: Beyond Nuclear on Radio Sputnik's "Loud & Clear"

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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.

Today's episode provides an update on nuclear bribery and fraud scandals in Ohio, South Carolina, and Illinois, resulting in and amounting to as much as $15 billion in "wealth transfer" from hardworking Americans, to the nuclear industry.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

NM Gov. to Trump: Stop CISFs in Permian Basin!

NM Gov. Michelle Lujan GrishamOn 7/28, NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (photo, left) wrote the president a strongly worded letter, opposing environmentally unjust high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities targeted at her state by Holtec, and on its border by Interim Storage Partners (ISP) at Waste Control Specialists in TX. NRC's deadlines for public comments on its Holtec and ISP Draft Environmental Impact Statements are Sept. 22 and Nov. 3, respectively. See sample comments you can use to write your own, as well as submission instructions to send them to NRC, for Holtec, NM, and ISP, TX; please contact both your U.S. Senators, and your U.S. Rep., urging them to demand NRC extend the deadlines, and hold in-person public comment meetings in your state/district, once safe to do so, post-pandemic. (Holtec licensing hearings, with a public listen-in line, will be held on 8/5.)

Criminal racketeering and fraud arrests bring down nuclear schemes

Arrests of individuals in Ohio and South Carolina related to criminal activity and fraud to keep old reactors running (OH) and keep new ones under construction (SC and now abandoned) made headlines last week. We explain what happened on this week's edition of The Update. (For more, see stories on the Beyond Nuclear International website).

Setsuko Thurlow's powerful call for peace

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, makes her appeal for global nuclear disarmament as we head toward the August 6 and 9 commemorations of the dropping of atomic bombs by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Setsuko Thurlow - Nobel Lecture Highlights from ICAN on Vimeo.

Our take on Ohio (so far)

More shoes will drop and more arrests will likely come in Ohio as we watch the biggest criminal racketeering conspiracy in Ohio history continue to unfold. But to date, we are seeing the desperation of the bankrupt nuclear industry in full flow -- ready to spend "limitless" amounts of money, as Ohio's FirstEnergySolutions was, to elect friendly politicians, pass a bill to subsidize its failing Davis-Besse and Perry reactors, then fund a campaign to defend the bill against repeal by ballot initiative. Read our story on Beyond Nuclear International.