COVID-19/Nuclear Dangers: Arnie & Maggie Gundersen Call Out Industry Refueling, Safety Lies
/Arnie & Maggie Gundersen Join Nuclear Hotseat (Listen Below)
Arnie and Maggie join Libbe HaLevy on the Nuclear Hotseat.
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps its way around the globe, the US nuclear industry is placed in a unique position of maintaining equipment and safety at its 98 operating nuclear reactors. What about those operating elsewhere? Join Nuclear Hotseat host, Libbe HaLevy, and Fairewinds' Arnie and Maggie Gundersen as they discuss just what this means for all of us!
About the host - Libbe HaLevy
Libbe HaLevy is producer and host of Nuclear Hotseat, the weekly international news magazine on all things anti-nuclear, since June 2011. She has been a TEDx speaker, an Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, hosted rallies, and led media workshops at anti-nuclear conferences around the country. She is also the co-creator of Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT (RAPTawareness.com), an audio series on how to best protect from the negative impact of radioactivity on our health.
You can hear the original interview on Nuclear Hotseat.
Fairewinds Reading Recommendation
While we have your attention, this morning, we received an email with an eye-catching title: A nuclear meltdown during the corona crisis is the last thing we need from our friends over at Beyond Nuclear. We implore our viewers to read the article Out of Control? written by Linda Pentz Gunter. It is a timely article that delves into the issues we raise in our Nuclear Hotseat interview (featured above) and amplifies our own concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the safety and maintenance of nuclear facilities here and abroad.
“Regulations to ensure safety should be strengthened at a time like this — not weakened. It means operating nuclear plants without basic safety inspections.”
Again, we hope you take the time to read Out of Control? and reflect on what we are currently facing as the atomic power and nuclear weapons industries seek to weaken regulations and safety protocols.
You can read the whole article posted at Beyond Nuclear.
