Yucca Mountain

Guests Diane D’Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear talk with host Margaret Harrington about the hazards of transporting Vermont Yankee nuclear waste by Northstar to proposed centralized interim storage sites in Texas and New Mexico. This timely information is given to the public and the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Decommissioning Community Advisory Panel (VY NDCAP) before the next public comment period.

Guests:

Diane D'Arrigo
Radioactive Waste Project Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
www.nirs.org

Kevin Kamps
Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear
www.beyondnuclear.org

Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste specialist with Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about Canada’s plan to bury nuclear waste beside the Great Lakes.

Repositories suggested over the years as the nuclear waste crisis grows have included sites in Vermont. They also discuss the imminent sentencing of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists who continue the resistance of the Catholic Worker  Movement.

Alfred C. Meyer, of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist of Beyond Nuclear, talk with host Margaret Harrington about the need to abolish nuclear weapons. The experts discuss the hazards of nuclear power, identifying it as counterproductive to eliminate climate change issues. They also give insight into the compounding problem of radioactive nuclear waste.