Nuclear Hotseat #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN SPECIAL

Published: Jan. 28, 2015, 7:03 a.m.

Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo. Speakers heard in this program: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother's for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo Canyon for more than 40 years; Daniel Hirsch's testimony before Sen. Barbara Boxer's Committee on Environment and Public Works; Jerry Brown of World Business Academy on Radiation and Public Health Project's epidemiological study on cancer rates in San Luis Obispo County; Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth on shutdown strategies and talking points; Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety on the false safety promises of dry cask storage; Attorney Mike Aguirre on the need to find and protect whistleblowers; veteran activist Harvey Wasserman on transition to solar; Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org on focusing our shutdown strategies; and Chumash elder Fred Collins and Japanese Buddhist monk Sawada-Shonin blessing our efforts