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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August 12, 20208/5/20: Beyond Nuclear, and Ian Zabarte, 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, Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, and special guest Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Indians, the secretary of the Native Community Action Council, at NativeCommunityActionCouncil.org, and a leading voice nationally against the Yucca Mountain dump, join the show.
Towards the end of the show, Kevin speaks about three Native American leaders: Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone spiritual leader; Grace Thorpe, co-founder of National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans (NECONA); and Al Puckett, Cherokee, a nuclear whistleblower at the Paducah (Uranium Enrichment) Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, and a founder of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability member group, Coalition for Health Concern. Thorpe's Sauk and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma was targeted for a high-level radioactive waste dump, which she put a stop to, then helped other targeted reservation communities do the same; Puckett saw nuclear wrongdoing on the job, and spoke out, at great personal cost. When Kevin asked them how they became anti-nuclear, both responded with single word answers: "Nagasaki." They were both deployed to Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bombing, as U.S. service members in World War II.
3 years later: How the fallout from SC’s $9 billion nuclear fiasco continues
As reported by the Post and Courier.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that David Wright, who presided over the Summer 2 & 3 debacle as president of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, was nonetheless "promoted" by President Trump and the U.S. Senate, as a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner.
Ohio State House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder, et al., accused of $61 million bribery/money laundering scheme related to Ohio's 2019 $1.5 billion nuclear & coal bailout House Bill 6
As reported by Ian Cross at News5Cleveland:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four of his associates have been arrested on charges in relation to “what is likely the largest bribery, money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio," one that allegedly involved at least $61 million passed through a 501c4 organization controlled by Householder and other entities for the purpose of passing HB6 in 2019, a law that provided a $1.5 billion [rate]payer bailout to FirstEnergy.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David DeVillers spoke with reporters about the 81-page indictment of Householder and his associates on Tuesday afternoon.
Around 90%, or more, of the Ohio ratepayer-funded bailout went to FirstEnergy's (now Energy Harbor) two age-degraded atomic reactors on northern Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline, Davis-Besse near Toledo, and Perry near Cleveland. Another portion of the bailout went to FirstEnergy-owned dirty old coal burners.
See the U.S. Department of Justice press advisory, here.
See the U.S. Department of Justice press release, here.
See the 82-page long criminal complaint, and accompanying FBI affidavit, here.
MORE, including environmental group press releases, state-wide and national media coverage, etc.