Podcasts about cape downwinders

This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump – is an action that the decommissioning company has planned for the radioactive water from the reactor spent fuel pool.  But Holtec has been receiving ever-growing pushback from Massachusetts representatives and the public.  Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group that's been fighting against the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor for more than 40 years.  Here, two interviews: Post-shutdown problems at Pilgrim, including site security issues and her pending trial for trespassing to demonstrate to two NPR reporters how...

Pilgrim nuclear post-decommissioning security lapses, Radiation risks from spent fuel pool, Holtec lies about what will happen to the dangerously radioactive waste and mythical New Mexico site, & pending trial against Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders for bringing reporters on-site to prove lack of security.

Pilgrim nuclear post-decommissioning security lapses, Radiation risks from spent fuel pool, Holtec lies about what will happen to the dangerously radioactive waste and mythical New Mexico site, & pending trial against Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders for bringing reporters on-site to prove lack of security.

Pilgrim nuclear post-decommissioning security lapses, Radiation risks from spent fuel pool, Holtec lies about what will happen to the dangerously radioactive waste and mythical New Mexico site, & pending trial against Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders for bringing reporters on-site to prove lack of security.

Nuclear Update USA checks in on several – far from all! – nuclear hotspots around the United States to find out the latest. We hear from activists on the front lines of ongoing nuclear problems: Vina Colley, in her own words, a “sick worker” from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio and also a Co-Founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ) and Portsmouth/Piketon Resident for Environmental Safety and Security, or (PRESS). As a whistleblower, Vina has spent decades fighting for transparency in all matters dealing with the uranium enrichment plant in Piketon. Terry Lodge is an Ohio trial lawyer who has represented many clients in civil rights, civil liberties, and environmental cases. An advocate for the public interest in energy policy issues, he has litigated nuclear power safety and environmental issues for 40 years, Lodge has also represented opponents of nuclear weapons and mountaintop removal mining. Mary Lampert is founder of Pilgrim Watch. Diane Turco is co-founder of of Cape Downwinders.

Nuclear UPDATE USA checks on national nuke hotspots: Piketon, OH, where radiation closed a middle school - whistleblower Vina Colley reports. Ohio nuke bailout robs state of renewables, keeps aging reactors running - w/Attny Terry Lodge; and MA's Pilgrim running into bullying, unsafe guff from Holtec over decommissioning - Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch and Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders weigh in. Nuclear Hotseat 426 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Nuclear UPDATE USA checks on national nuke hotspots: Piketon, OH, where radiation closed a middle school - whistleblower Vina Colley reports. Ohio nuke bailout robs state of renewables, keeps aging reactors running - w/Attny Terry Lodge; and MA's Pilgrim running into bullying, unsafe guff from Holtec over decommissioning - Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch and Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders weigh in. Nuclear Hotseat 426 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Nuclear UPDATE USA checks on national nuke hotspots: Piketon, OH, where radiation closed a middle school - whistleblower Vina Colley reports. Ohio nuke bailout robs state of renewables, keeps aging reactors running - w/Attny Terry Lodge; and MA's Pilgrim running into bullying, unsafe guff from Holtec over decommissioning - Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch and Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders weigh in. Nuclear Hotseat 426 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts – the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi – permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle.Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders. Pilgrim nuclear shutdown demonstration on Cape Cod – Diane Turco on the line, as usual.Mary Lampert is founder of Pilgrim Watch. Shutdown by itself is a good thing, as it takes away the dangers of a catastrophic accident – but it’s not over by a long shot. Every nuclear reactor community will face these same issues. Know that both these women acknowledge help they’ve gotten from other groups, such as the one that shut down Vermont Yankee in 2014, and offer themselves as resources to any group working to shut down their local nuclear nightmare. Please like, share and subscribe. Follow Nuclear Hotseat at www.nuclearhotseat.comAll podcasts are also posted to Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel: nutzforart

Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown! One of the many demonstrations by Cape Downwinders that helped make the closure happen. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts – the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi – permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle...

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts - the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi - permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle. Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders and Mary Lampert is Founder of Pilgrim Watch.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts - the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi - permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle. Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders and Mary Lampert is Founder of Pilgrim Watch.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts - the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi - permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle. Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders and Mary Lampert is Founder of Pilgrim Watch.

Pilgrim Nuclear public hearing, Diane TurcoPhoto credit: M. Scott Brauer This Week’s Featured Interview: Diane Turco, Executive Director of Cape Downwinders, a group dedicated to the permanent closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Plymouth, Massachusetts, updates us on the problems and dangers at that facility in just the first four months of 2018....

Pilgrim Nuclear power reactor, NRC's worst-run nuclear reactor in the country, poses danger & multiple risks for the millions of people who live within 50 miles. Libbe HaLevy interviews Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders, who shares the frightening facts.

Pilgrim Nuclear power reactor, NRC's worst-run nuclear reactor in the country, poses danger & multiple risks for the millions of people who live within 50 miles. Libbe HaLevy interviews Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders, who shares the frightening facts.

Pilgrim Nuclear power reactor, NRC's worst-run nuclear reactor in the country, poses danger & multiple risks for the millions of people who live within 50 miles. Libbe HaLevy interviews Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders, who shares the frightening facts.

A reminder to help us celebrate our 300th episode with a donation – 300 pennies, 300 dimes, 300 dollars, 300 good wishes, or any percentage thereof! This Week’s Featured Interview: Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, explains the dangers of nuclear deterrence, how the Pentagon plans to rob...

Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station at the base of Cape Cod really is. And Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado.

Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station at the base of Cape Cod really is. And Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado.

Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station at the base of Cape Cod really is. And Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado.

This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING:  After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker.  Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing.  Also in the news: ...

BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing. Alicyn Gitlin, Conservation Coordinator for Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining issues threatening our great national monument. Matt Pacenza, Executive Director of the environmental group HEAL Utah, brings us up to speed on that state’s downwinder, radioactive waste and new nuclear build issues… as well as an unusual activist decision regarding two proposed new nuclear reactors. Numnutz of the Week: Plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats in Colorado – winner of a White House “Keeping it Clean” award? The only thing sustainable there is the radiation!

BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing. Alicyn Gitlin, Conservation Coordinator for Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining issues threatening our great national monument. Matt Pacenza, Executive Director of the environmental group HEAL Utah, brings us up to speed on that state’s downwinder, radioactive waste and new nuclear build issues… as well as an unusual activist decision regarding two proposed new nuclear reactors. Numnutz of the Week: Plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats in Colorado – winner of a White House “Keeping it Clean” award? The only thing sustainable there is the radiation!

BREAKING: After last week's latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing. Alicyn Gitlin, Conservation Coordinator for Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining issues threatening our great national monument. Matt Pacenza, Executive Director of the environmental group HEAL Utah, brings us up to speed on that state's downwinder, radioactive waste and new nuclear build issues… as well as an unusual activist decision regarding two proposed new nuclear reactors. Numnutz of the Week: Plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats in Colorado – winner of a White House “Keeping it Clean” award? The only thing sustainable there is the radiation!

  Last week we had discussion with Diane Turco of the Cape Downwinders regarding the Pilgrim Plymouth Nuclear Reactor..Since then, the National Regulatory Commission heard public comments, both pro and con, regarding the decommissioning of the power plant before 6/2019.   This episode will briefly summarize the results of that meeting.  Please email me with your comments - I would love to hear them!  Or better yet, call in.  (845) 241-9956.  My email is rpappas7@gmail.com.   About The Host: Roxanne Pappas is the Host of Wicked Green Energy, a show, dedicated to educating individuals about cutting edge green choices for the sustainability of our planet. She is also, an Independent Associate with Viridian Energy, a company that provides power from solar, wind and water generated here is the US,  directly to you, right now. Help Roxanne reduce our dependence on foreign oil and get in touch with her today!

Sorry about last week but there was a technical glitch.  It's been a few months since we chatted with the Director of the Cape Downwinders, Diane Turco.  Since then the power station continued a downhill spiral from a forced 12-day shutdown caused by electrical problems.  In mid October Entergy Corp announced it would close the plant by June 2019. Diane is advocating for a closure far sooner than 2019 because the public's safety is in even greater danger since Entergy has no incentive to invest money to maintain the plant.  We'll hear what is being done to speed up the decommissioning process and how it can be done safely.   Diane Turco is a retired special education teacher and lives in Harwich, MA. After learning of the threat from the Pilgrim nuclear reactor to the public and environment in the late 1980s and the lack of protection for the public at the state and federal level, she began to work for public safety and continues to investigage, educate and agitate for the closings of nuclear reactors. The mission of Cape Downwinders is to take action to protect the lives and welfare of the residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket against the threat of injury or death resulting from the production of nuclear power at the Pilgrim reactor in Plymouth.  About The Host: Roxanne Pappas is the Host of Wicked Green Energy, a show, dedicated to educating individuals about cutting edge green choices for the sustainability of our planet. She is also, an Independent Associate with Viridian Energy, a company that provides power from solar, wind and water generated here is the US,  directly to you, right now. Help Roxanne reduce our dependence on foreign oil and get in touch with her today!  

It's been a few months since we chatted with the Director of the Cape Downwinders, Diane Turco.  Since then the power station continued a downhill spiral from a forced 12-day shutdown caused by electrical problems.  In mid October Entergy Corp announced it would close the plant by June 2019. Diane is advocating for a closure far sooner than 2019 because the public's safety is in even greater danger since Entergy has no incentive to invest money to maintain the plant.  We'll hear what is being done to speed up the decommissioning process and how it can be done safely.   Diane Turco is a retired special education teacher and lives in Harwich, MA. After learning of the threat from the Pilgrim nuclear reactor to the public and environment in the late 1980s and the lack of protection for the public at the state and federal level, she began to work for public safety and continues to investigage, educate and agitate for the closings of nuclear reactors. The mission of Cape Downwinders is to take action to protect the lives and welfare of the residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket against the threat of injury or death resulting from the production of nuclear power at the Pilgrim reactor in Plymouth.  About The Host: Roxanne Pappas is the Host of Wicked Green Energy, a show, dedicated to educating individuals about cutting edge green choices for the sustainability of our planet. She is also, an Independent Associate with Viridian Energy, a company that provides power from solar, wind and water generated here is the US,  directly to you, right now. Help Roxanne reduce our dependence on foreign oil and get in touch with her today!

Discussion with Diane Turco of the Cape Downwinders and the foibles of nuclear energy

INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edison, everything they want, hang the expense (to ratepayers) or long term danger. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mobile Chernobyl in miniature as a drilling company searches over 18 counties in two states to find a missing radioactive piece of equipment -- you think we can trust them with high level nuclear waste on our highways? PLUS THE WEEK'S NEWS: St. Louis West Lake landfill fire draws mainstream media attention as residents struggle to cope with the implications for their lives; Japan recognizes its first case of cancer in a Fukushima worker - they've ignore all the other cases; EPA's Radnet radiation monitors continue to be down and unable to measure radiation exposures; and bill filed to protect Grand Canyon watershed. Here's hoping...

INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edison, everything they want, hang the expense (to ratepayers) or long term danger. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mobile Chernobyl in miniature as a drilling company searches over 18 counties in two states to find a missing radioactive piece of equipment -- you think we can trust them with high level nuclear waste on our highways? PLUS THE WEEK'S NEWS: St. Louis West Lake landfill fire draws mainstream media attention as residents struggle to cope with the implications for their lives; Japan recognizes its first case of cancer in a Fukushima worker - they've ignore all the other cases; EPA's Radnet radiation monitors continue to be down and unable to measure radiation exposures; and bill filed to protect Grand Canyon watershed. Here's hoping...

Diane Turco is a retired special education teacher and lives in Harwich.She is Director of Cape Downwinders. After learning of the threat from the Pilgrim nuclear reactor to the public and environment in the late 1980s and the lack of protection for the public at the state and federal level, she began to work for public safety and continues to investigage, educate and agitate for the closing of the Pilgrim nuclear reactor in Plymouth. The misssion of Cape Downwinders is to take action to protect the lives and welfare of the residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket against the threat of injury or death resulting from the production of nuclear power at the Pilgrim reactor in Plymouth.  We will discuss the threats the plant poses and what our legislators are doing about it.  Please log on and sign the petition. https://www.change.org/p/ma-gov-charlie-baker-sen-edward-markey-sen-elizabeth-warren-rep-william-keating-attn-gen-maura-healey-shut-pilgrim-now/share?utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_campaign=new_petition_recruit About The Host: Roxanne Pappas is the host of Roxanne Pappas Radio on the Wicked Housewives on Cape Cod Radio Network.  Dubbed the Wicked Green Energy Lady, Roxanne is an Independent Associate with Viridian Energy educating individuals on green energy choices for the sustainability of our planet..  Contact her on her Facebook Page, LivingItUpGreen and on LInkedIn. Learn more about her at WickedHousewivesonCapeCod.com and Viridian.com/LivingItUpGreen.