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Nuclear Hotseat Show "Diablo Canyon Shutdown Special"
A California conference was held to discuss the campaign to close the dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear plant run by corrupt PG&E. This is an audio of some of the speakers
Nuclear Hotseat Show "Diablo Canyon Shutdown Special"
NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN SPECIAL! GUNDERSEN! WASSERMAN! MOGLEN! MORE!
JANUARY 27, 2015 ADMIN
Activists in San Luis Obispo for the Jan. 24-25 Strategy Conference to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Banner concept and photo by Myla Reson, banner executed by Laura Lynch. Can you spot Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy?
THIS WEEK:
Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo, California, 12 miles from the nuclear reactors.
Event speakers heard in this episode:
• Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother’s for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo Canyon for more than 40 years (http://www.MothersForPeace.org);
• Testimony by Daniel Hirsch, University of California, Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy, before Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works;
• Jerry Brown of World Business Academy on the Joseph Mangano/Radiation and Public Health Project‘s epidemiological study on cancer rates in San Luis Obispo County (http://www.Radiation.org);
• Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth on shutdown strategies and talking points (http://www.FOE.org);
• Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety on the false safety promises of dry cask storage (http://www.SanOnofreSafety.org);
• Attorney Mike Aguirre on the need to find and protect whistleblowers;
• Veteran activist Harvey Wasserman on transitioning to solar (http://www.Solartopia.org);
• Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on focusing our shutdown strategies (http://www.Fairewinds.org);
• Chumash elder Fred Collins and Japanese Buddhist monk Sawada-Shonin blessing our efforts
Thanks to Mary Beth Brangan, Jim Heddle and Ecological Options Network (EON3) for audio of Dan Hirsch from the Barbara Boxer Senate hearings. EON3 has over 600 videos on nuclear and other environmental issues available on YouTube.
NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN SPECIAL! GUNDERSEN! WASSERMAN! MOGLEN! MORE!
JANUARY 27, 2015 ADMIN
Activists in San Luis Obispo for the Jan. 24-25 Strategy Conference to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Banner concept and photo by Myla Reson, banner executed by Laura Lynch. Can you spot Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy?
THIS WEEK:
Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo, California, 12 miles from the nuclear reactors.
Event speakers heard in this episode:
• Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother’s for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo Canyon for more than 40 years (http://www.MothersForPeace.org);
• Testimony by Daniel Hirsch, University of California, Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy, before Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works;
• Jerry Brown of World Business Academy on the Joseph Mangano/Radiation and Public Health Project‘s epidemiological study on cancer rates in San Luis Obispo County (http://www.Radiation.org);
• Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth on shutdown strategies and talking points (http://www.FOE.org);
• Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety on the false safety promises of dry cask storage (http://www.SanOnofreSafety.org);
• Attorney Mike Aguirre on the need to find and protect whistleblowers;
• Veteran activist Harvey Wasserman on transitioning to solar (http://www.Solartopia.org);
• Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on focusing our shutdown strategies (http://www.Fairewinds.org);
• Chumash elder Fred Collins and Japanese Buddhist monk Sawada-Shonin blessing our efforts
Thanks to Mary Beth Brangan, Jim Heddle and Ecological Options Network (EON3) for audio of Dan Hirsch from the Barbara Boxer Senate hearings. EON3 has over 600 videos on nuclear and other environmental issues available on YouTube.
For more information:
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/2378/
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Dear citizens,
I am a member of Californians for Green Nuclear Power. We believe nuclear power plants are far safer than the coal, gas, and oil fossil fuel energy sources that the news shows us blowing up every day, sometimes with significant loss of life.
Tens of thousands of US Navy crew have slept, eaten and worked mere feet from highly enriched reactors since 1950 without a single injury or death. This seems to us to prove nuclear power, handled properly is safe.
San Onofre closed its reactors and an estmiated 10 million tons of carbon have been added to the global warming load of CO2 in the atmosphere. This worries us more than possible, imagined nuclear issues because this is the worst threat to mankind ever.
We urge all citizens to check the facts and see nuclear power has injured or killed far, far fewer humans than any other power source - including fossil fuel, hydro, wind, solar, geo-thermal, etc (Forbes, "How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt?" 6/10/12.
We have asked Mothers for Peace for a meeting to frankly and openly and civilly discuss nuclear vs the alternatives and been told "Our minds are absolutely shut tight on nuclear reactors. We know all there is to know about them.
We on the other hand believe in ongoing dialog with minds always remaining open.
Closing San Onofre immediately put smoke, soot and ozone into the lungs of adults and children when the area switched to fossil fuel - and millions into the pockets of the fossil fuel industry. We are opposed to that happening.
Contact us a CGNP.org with any question on comment. Thank you.
William Gloege
I am a member of Californians for Green Nuclear Power. We believe nuclear power plants are far safer than the coal, gas, and oil fossil fuel energy sources that the news shows us blowing up every day, sometimes with significant loss of life.
Tens of thousands of US Navy crew have slept, eaten and worked mere feet from highly enriched reactors since 1950 without a single injury or death. This seems to us to prove nuclear power, handled properly is safe.
San Onofre closed its reactors and an estmiated 10 million tons of carbon have been added to the global warming load of CO2 in the atmosphere. This worries us more than possible, imagined nuclear issues because this is the worst threat to mankind ever.
We urge all citizens to check the facts and see nuclear power has injured or killed far, far fewer humans than any other power source - including fossil fuel, hydro, wind, solar, geo-thermal, etc (Forbes, "How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt?" 6/10/12.
We have asked Mothers for Peace for a meeting to frankly and openly and civilly discuss nuclear vs the alternatives and been told "Our minds are absolutely shut tight on nuclear reactors. We know all there is to know about them.
We on the other hand believe in ongoing dialog with minds always remaining open.
Closing San Onofre immediately put smoke, soot and ozone into the lungs of adults and children when the area switched to fossil fuel - and millions into the pockets of the fossil fuel industry. We are opposed to that happening.
Contact us a CGNP.org with any question on comment. Thank you.
William Gloege
Please visit the Californians for Green Nuclear Power website at http://www.CGNP.org.
The proposal to require cooling towers at Diablo Canyon to protect a negligible amount of sea life is just a political ploy to shut down DCPP. The ludicrous proposal would require expenditures of up to about $14,000,000,000 to protect at most $50,000 worth of sea life per year (almost all larvae). Instead, enlightened environmentalists such as Stewart Brand, Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, and the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, Ph.D. understand that nuclear power generation yields negligible greenhouse gases - and none of the atmospheric pollutants that burning fossil fuels, including dirty coal unleashes. For several years, I grew up in San Diego County, California. The air was clean when San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) came online in 1968. Since SONGS was shut down in early 2012, the air quality there has diminished. More costly fossil fuels are now being burnt, including greater use of the dirty Four Corners coal-burning plant. Ratepayers there will be stuck with $3,300,000,000 more in power bills, compared to the case if SONGS had been able to continue operating during its design lifetime.
Furthermore, solar plants despoil large areas of the California desert, and in the case of the new Ivanpah Solar plant, also literally fry birds - and require the burning of natural gas for around six hours/day. Despite the images invoked, it is not practical to use wind or solar to replace nuclear power. Because the wind does not blow all of the time, an estimated 250 square miles of land must be filled with wind generators to produce an amount of power equal to one of the two DCPP reactors. Note that I live about ten miles from DCPP.
The proposal to require cooling towers at Diablo Canyon to protect a negligible amount of sea life is just a political ploy to shut down DCPP. The ludicrous proposal would require expenditures of up to about $14,000,000,000 to protect at most $50,000 worth of sea life per year (almost all larvae). Instead, enlightened environmentalists such as Stewart Brand, Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, and the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, Ph.D. understand that nuclear power generation yields negligible greenhouse gases - and none of the atmospheric pollutants that burning fossil fuels, including dirty coal unleashes. For several years, I grew up in San Diego County, California. The air was clean when San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) came online in 1968. Since SONGS was shut down in early 2012, the air quality there has diminished. More costly fossil fuels are now being burnt, including greater use of the dirty Four Corners coal-burning plant. Ratepayers there will be stuck with $3,300,000,000 more in power bills, compared to the case if SONGS had been able to continue operating during its design lifetime.
Furthermore, solar plants despoil large areas of the California desert, and in the case of the new Ivanpah Solar plant, also literally fry birds - and require the burning of natural gas for around six hours/day. Despite the images invoked, it is not practical to use wind or solar to replace nuclear power. Because the wind does not blow all of the time, an estimated 250 square miles of land must be filled with wind generators to produce an amount of power equal to one of the two DCPP reactors. Note that I live about ten miles from DCPP.
For more information:
http://www.CGNP.org
I see that the Conference is still spreading junk science by having Jerry Brown of World Business Academy speak on the discredited Joseph Mangano study on radiation dangers to residents of SLO County.
The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department (SLOCPHD), with input from State and Santa Barbara County epidemiologists, undertook a detailed review of the Mangano study and found that all 12 of his alarmist claims were incorrect. SLOCPHD found that Mangano used improper methodology to show increases in cancer incidence over time by not properly adjusting or controlling for confounding variables, such as age or race/ethnicity. The author creates the impression of increased cancer risk when it simply does not exist. Statistically adjusted rates, when done properly, show that not only were the overall rates of cancer not increasing in San Luis Obispo County, the trend has been downward.
The complete San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department report can be found at: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PH/Health+Concerns+from+DCNPP.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-114,792
Tony Armini PhD
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