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Shut It Down Now! Former Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 Nuclear Plant Technician Bob Rowen

by Labor Video Project
Former Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 Nuclear Plant Technician Bob Rowen discusses his fight for health and safety and retaliation and terminations. They also conspired to frame him up for supposedly trying to blow up the plant.
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Shut It Down Now! Former Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 Nuclear Plant Technician Bob Rowen On Nuclear Power
Bob Rowen was a Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 nuclear control technician at the power plant. He talks about being a control technician at the plant and what happened when he began to stand up for health and safety as a whistleblower. His fight to protect the workers and the community cost him his job when he raised health and safety concerns and he along with another nuclear control technician were retaliated against and illegally terminated. He also recounts an effort to set up a criminal conspiracy frame-up by PG&E to charge him with planning to blow up the plant and a false document was sent to the FBI to blacklist him throughout the country to prevent him from working in any other nuclear plant in the US. He also reports on the role of his union IBEW 1245 and the media when a reporter from NBC Donald Widener tried to cover the story. This interview was done on January 26, 2015.
Rowen has written a book about his struggle called My Humboldt Diary: A True Story of Betrayal of the Public Trust, Nuclear Power at Humboldt Bay.
For more information
http://www.myhumboldtdiary.com
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-not-so-peaceful-atom/Content?oid=2126811
http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/commentary/diablo-canyon-and-the-question-of-safety/article_8d17a074-e02e-11e0-8680-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nuclear-waste-mystery-The-hunt-is-on-for-2729528.php
Production of Labor Video Project http://www.laborvideo.org
§Humboldt Nuclear Power Plant
by Labor Video Project
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The humboldt nuclear power plant was contaminating the community and workers
§Humboldt Radiation Caskets
by Labor Video Project
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The decommission of the plant is still taking place
§Criminal PG&E Board Of Directors
by Labor Video Project
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The PG&E board of directors have allowed the firing and retaliation of whistleblowers at the nuclear plants in California
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