Dan Hirsch radio interview on KTRC Santa Fe
Dan spent a half hour on Santa Fe-based radio station KTRC talking with host Richard Eeds about radioactive waste at Los Alamos. Listen to the full interview here!
Category: Nuclear Safety
Report: Some Los Alamos nuclear waste too hazardous to move (Santa Fe New Mexican)
Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified 45 barrels of radioactive waste so potentially explosive — due to being mixed with incompatible chemicals — that crews have been told not to… Read more »
The dark legacy of a nuclear meltdown, and what it means for climate change
“The ongoing contamination at Santa Susana, and the voices of the mothers fighting for their children’s safety, are a reminder that nuclear energy carries great risks. Maybe new technology will… Read more »
Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
Click here to read the article.
Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste
Read the article here. “This would be the most massive deregulation of radioactive waste in American history,” said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear… Read more »
Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
Read the article here. “What they’re trying to do is prop up a failing industry so that the cost of decommissioning these [nuclear] reactors is reduced so you don’t have… Read more »
CBG’s Comment on the Final Environmental Impact Report for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3 Decommissioning Project
Read CBG’s comment letter to Controller Betty Yee, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis and Finance Director Keely Bosler by clicking here.
Meltdown (at SSFL) Anything But Minor
Read Dan Hirsch’s letter in the Acorn here.