March 9
GUEST: Eric Epstein,
environmental activist and former Chairman of the Three Mile
Island Alert Inc., talks about how communities can document
and protect themselves from nuclear waste.
Eric
Epstein on the Three Mile Island 40th Anniversary
It doesn't take a scientist to expose the fraudulent nuclear power industry. It just takes guts and persistence. Eric Epstein has that in spades, and his story about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is a lesson in what we all could do.
Eric reminds us that he is part of the community threatened by the plant, as well as its dangerous decommission. He has lived in the community for much of his life, and was a trusted spokesperson for a newly awakened population.
But the question remains. How could the nuclear power industry risk so many people's lives? There was obviously money to be made, and Wall Street was all over this supposedly revolutionary way to make electricity. In fact, The New York Times was one of the industry's champions, rarely printing a story that questioned the industry's hype and exaggerations. The newspaper even removed a reporter covering Long Island, simply because she was pointing out some of the inconsistencies in what was being promised to the public.
Far from learning from its mistakes, The New York Times is off again, promoting the nuclear fusion "breakthrough" that will supposedly free our world from its carbon catastrophe. Maybe all this false publicity is actually disinformation from Big Oil, which wants to burn carbon fuel until our dying planet breaths its last breath.
