Nuclear Hotseat on Irma and Harvey and nuclear near-accidents

(Almost) Fukushima in Florida? Irma & Harvey, Hurricanes & Nukes w/Maggie Gundersen, Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust

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This Week’s Featured Interviews:

Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about nuclear power production, engineering, reliability, and safety issues.  She is also a former employee of the nuclear industry.

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  Fairewinds Reports: 
  Article – Hurricane Season and Atomic Power Reactors 
  Peer reviewed study – LINK to full article: Radioactively-hot particles detected in dusts and soils from Northern Japan
• Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, which seeks to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future.
• Nancy Foust is Communications manager and research team member SimplyInfo.org. a not for profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster

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Here is the previous episode

Texas Nuke Site FLOODED, IRMA Aims at FLA – But NRC Mute on Hurricane Dangers as Nuke Industry PR Hacks Brag

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Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org again joins us to review the actual flooding at South Texas Project’s nuclear reactors next to Bay City, Texas.

Satellite map of flooding at South Texas Project nuclear facility (UC Davis via Simply Info, with permission)

• Rundown on nuclear threat at Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear reactors in Florida in advance ofHurricane Irma, with perspective on previous hurricane/nuke run-ins from Andrew, Camille and Matthew.
  LINK:  Five Reasons Why Turkey Point Could Be the Next Nuclear Disaster

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