Action Speaks! |
AS220, October 18, 2006 |
photo:
Viera Levitt |
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1979, Three Mile Island |
When
Pennsylvania's nuclear power plant melted down, who would have predicted
that 27 years later the founder of Greenpeace would herald nuclear energy
as our best hope in the Washington Post? Nuclear power, long associated
with nightmarish disasters, is becoming a green favorite, but stigmas
die hard. Alternative energy, environmental policy, public relations
efforts, and worst-case scenarios were the subjects for Mike
Pintek, the radio host who was first to report on the crisis;
Paul Gunter, Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project
at Nuclear Information and Resource Service; Harold Denton,
President Carter's pointman on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during
the crisis; and Lisa Stiles-Shell, Manager of State
Initiatives, Grassroots and Coalitions, at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Click to listen: WRNI 1290 AM |