Green New Deal may be co-opted before it ever starts if it allows nuclear energy.
Image Credit:  Barnaby Chambers; used with Permission of Fairewinds Energy Education

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This week’s featured interviews:

• Green New Deal languaging analyzed for hidden pro-nuclear landmines by  Gail Snyder, Board Chair of Chiago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS).
• Are nukes “carbon-free” and can they actually help turn around global warming?  Arnie Gundersen is Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, as well as a former licensed nuclear reactor operator and whistleblower — and he rips that nuclear industry propaganda campaign to shreds.  On Sunday, December 3, 2017, Arnie spoke in Chicago and gave a brilliant explanation of global warming and why it’s impossible for nukes to help. “Carbon free?”  NOT!Additional clarity from Arnie Gundersen and Fairewinds:
• Video of Arnie speech at McGill University – CO2 Smokescreen: New Nukes Make Global Warming Worse
• Two-minute animation  explains why new nukes will not help with global warming:  SMOKESCREEN

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

What better cure for fears about radiation in Fukushima farm, fishery and forestry products than a new 30-second advertising spot!  Just smear it around TV, cinemas and online – et voilá!  Nothing changes but perception.

Information Links:

• Sheila Parks op-ed: A Response to Sen. Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – Nuclear Power Has A Large Carbon Footprint
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:  Russia may have violated the INF Treaty.  Here’s how the United States appears to have done the same. 
• Bob Alvarez:  Plutonium Wastes from the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
• October, 2011 Scientific American article:  Fukushima Nuclear Plant Released Far More Radiation than Government Said

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