NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD
A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste.
This Week’s Special Feature
The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive Wastes (from Nuclear Reactors) in San Diego, California, on July 24, 2024: Radioactive Waste: Growing Threats, Emerging Solutions. Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy was there to cover the speakers and talk with the audience. You. Are. There.
Interviewees include:
- Larry Agran, Vice Mayor of the city of Irvine and a candidate for mayor.
- Rear Admiral Len Hering, a prominent military and civilian sustainability leader with a broad. background in energy and environmental issues.
- Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear.
- Dr. Gordon Edwards, a mathematician, physicist, and founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Dr. Edwards provided a transcript of his speech, available as a pdf download HERE. He also provided a list of Educational Resources on High-Level Radioactive Waste, compiled by CCNR.
- Jan Boudart, a member of NEIS, in from Chicago for the event.
- Gary Headrick, co-founder with Laurie Hedrick of San Clemente Green.
Videos of the presentations can be found on the Samuel Lawrence Foundation Youtube channel.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
Want to pay for the most expensive electricity on earth? Then go nuclear!
ICAN Update with Lucero Oyarzu
Lucero Oyarez of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) sits in for the vacationing Alistair Burnett and interviews Florian Eblenkamp, Advocacy Officer at ICAN, on the latest progress on the United Nationsl Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons. The Swiss Initiative page is available in German: https://atomwaffenverbot.ch/ and in French https://interdiction-armes-nucleaires.ch/
LINKS:
- Back from the Brink – actions to take in commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Podcast – The Nuclear Reactor Next Door – interview with Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project.
- Podcast – six episode series on Boom Town: A Uranium Story, which explores uranium mining and how yellowcake, or concentrated uranium, winds its way through the West including at the Hanford radioactive cleanup site.
- United Nations Association Film Festival
