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Nuclear power, Columbia Generating Station, OR Bottle Bill profiteering, endangering public health
Our guests are Chuck Johnson, Director of the Joint Task Fore on Nuclear Power, OR/WA Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Dan Meek, legal advisor to the Oregon Progressive Party.
Chuck discusses the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington and the only operating nuclear plant in the Pacific Northwest, the Columbia Generating Station. He covers efforts to close that plant down.
Dan Meek talks about how the Oregon legislature is working to undermine the Oregon Bottle bill by handing the beverage industry a huge profit windfall. He then talks about changes to the Oregon Clean Air Act, charges which would endanger the people's health.
First broadcast: June 28, 2017
Our guests are Chuck Johnson, Director of the Joint Task Fore on Nuclear Power, OR/WA Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Dan Meek, legal advisor to the Oregon Progressive Party.
Chuck discusses the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington and the only operating nuclear plant in the Pacific Northwest, the Columbia Generating Station. He covers efforts to close that plant down.
Dan Meek talks about how the Oregon legislature is working to undermine the Oregon Bottle bill by handing the beverage industry a huge profit windfall. He then talks about changes to the Oregon Clean Air Act, charges which would endanger the people's health.
First broadcast: June 28, 2017
The Dangers of Small Nuclear Reactors
Chuck Johnson, Director of the Joint Task Force on Nuclear Power, Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, talks with host David Delk about small nuclear modular reactors(SMR). Chuck explains the reasons for opposing the development of nuclear energy and the similarity between tradition nuclear plants and SMRs. We touch on the current difficulties of the nuclear industry with the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. And we look at the curret status of SB990 in the Oregon legislature, written to override existing prohibitions in Oregon to building nuclear facilities within the state.
First broadcast: June 21, 2017
Chuck Johnson, Director of the Joint Task Force on Nuclear Power, Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, talks with host David Delk about small nuclear modular reactors(SMR). Chuck explains the reasons for opposing the development of nuclear energy and the similarity between tradition nuclear plants and SMRs. We touch on the current difficulties of the nuclear industry with the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. And we look at the curret status of SB990 in the Oregon legislature, written to override existing prohibitions in Oregon to building nuclear facilities within the state.
First broadcast: June 21, 2017
