Eco-Logic

Wed, Jun 26, 2024 10:00 AM

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Synopsis: NUCLEAR REGULATOR IS NOW A PROMOTER
NUCLEAR MAKES CLIMATE WORSE!
Our guests on Eco-Logic June 24th have been following the nuclear industry closely for many years: Diane D'Arrigo of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service/NIRS and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear.
The Atomic Energy Commission was split into the Dept of Energy to promote nuclear and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license and regulate it.
The Japanese report on the Fukushima triple melt down disaster that started in 2011 attributed it to collusion between the industry and the so-called regulator. . . We are repeating this mistake here with the shift in NRC role.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) used to be the federal agency in charge of the public safety of nuclear reactors. Most of the commissioners that were drawn from the nuclear industry, gave nuclear utilities hundreds of health and safety exemptions, and did more promotion of nuclear power than regulation.
Now it's official. Congress voted nearly unanimously to change the official focus of the NRC from health and safety to promotion.

What does this mean for health and safety?
Will a new agency be created to fill the gap?
How similar is this to when the Atomic Energy Commission was split into the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
What lessons from the Fukushima disaster are being ignored here?
How is this related to nuclear weapons proliferation?

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Guests:

Diane D’Arrigo - Nuclear Research & Information Service (NIRS)
Kevin Kamps - Beyond Nuclear

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