Nuclear Hotseat #226: Pre- and Post-Decommissioning Nuke Woes

Published: Oct. 21, 2015, 5:05 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edison, everything they want, hang the expense (to ratepayers) or long term danger. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mobile Chernobyl in miniature as a drilling company searches over 18 counties in two states to find a missing radioactive piece of equipment -- you think we can trust them with high level nuclear waste on our highways? PLUS THE WEEK'S NEWS: St. Louis West Lake landfill fire draws mainstream media attention as residents struggle to cope with the implications for their lives; Japan recognizes its first case of cancer in a Fukushima worker - they've ignore all the other cases; EPA's Radnet radiation monitors continue to be down and unable to measure radiation exposures; and bill filed to protect Grand Canyon watershed. Here's hoping...