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Nuclear Free Future: Interview with Kevin Kamps - Beyond Nuclear Radioactive Waste Specialist 01/20/2022

Video journalist Margaret Harrington hosts the 15th year of Nuclear Free Future Conversation at the Center for Media and Democracy. She interviews Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist from Beyond Nuclear, about the transport of radioactive waste from the closed Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to minority communities in western states.

Nuclear Free Future: Climate Change and the Hazards of Nuclear Waste Transport 01/21/2021

Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about a more positive outlook in the future regarding the dangers of nuclear power and weapons. He urges Vermonters to continue input into the Vermont Nuclear Citizens Advisory Panel and to contact our legislators.

Nuclear Free Future: The Hazards of Transporting Vermont Yankee Nuclear Waste 06/18/2020

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

Nuclear Free Future: Beyond Nuclear During the Pandemic 05/01/2020

Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste specialist with Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about the work of his organization, Beyond Nuclear, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the current state of the nuclear industry as they continue their work during this crisis.

For more information: http://www.beyondnuclear.org

Nuclear Free Future: Poisoning the Well 01/30/2020

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.

Nuclear Free Future: Updates on Radioactive Leaks and Waste from Beyond Nuclear 05/30/2019

Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist from Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about the fight against the illegal high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at New Mexico which would transport nuclear waste from Vermont Yankee. They discuss the evacuation and closing of the Zahn’s Corner Middle School in Piketon, Ohio where air monitors detected enriched uranium and neptunium-237 contaminants from a nearby closed nuclear weapons plant.

Nuclear Free Future: Nuclear Disasters - Nuclear Weapons, Power and Waste 02/08/2019

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.

Nuclear Free Future: Should Vermont Yankee Nuclear Waste Be Dumped in the Southwest? 01/04/2018

Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, talks with Margaret Harrington, Host of Nuclear Free Future, about the federal plan to transfer 40 years of Vermont Yankee nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the Trump Administration's lead, Representative Peter Welch supports H.R. 3053, which would reauthorize Yucca Mountain and begin the process of making it operational. Kevin Kamps cites legal, scientific, and logistic reasons not to transfer Vermont nuclear waste to the Southwest.

For more information: vtdigger.org/2018/01/03/margaret-harrington-vermonts-plans-dump-nevada

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