Nuclear Hotseat #192: Zombie Uranium Mines at Grand Canyon

Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 5:32 a.m.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.