Nuclear Hotseat #85: Journalist Karl Grossman Decodes Nuclear History

Published: Jan. 30, 2013, 5:50 a.m.

Veteran journalist Karl Grossman traces nuclear media manipulation back to before Hiroshima and up to the present day. A special encore presentation of one of our most popular interviews. PLUS: Republicans on House Energy and Commerce Committee refuse to learn any lessons from the NRC's technical staff and the Japan Lessons Learned from Fukushima Task Force, reject safety recommendations. NRC pushes back San Onofre never-start decision to late April or early May. Vogtle and Summer new nuke construction pushed back again because contractor Southern Company can't even get the concrete and rebar right. TEPCO may be forced to permanently shut down largest nuclear facility in the world because "inactive" quake faults may not be so inactive. Bulgaria nixes nukes by voter no-show at referendum. European Union finds nuclear decontamination a growth industry, but Fukushima can barely fill 10% of its decontamination jobs. Gee, I wonder why...