I’m now doing a weekly thirty-minute show on Wednesday’s at 3:30pm PT on KPFK, Los Angeles’ Pacifica Radio affiliate. (Right! Public radio! No commercials! On our public airwaves! Come and get me, O’Keefe!) My first show yesterday was, by necessity, largely coverage of the breaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant crisis, but also included a brief interview with Greg Palast, the BBC journalist, my fellow muckraking pal and author of the New York Times best-sellers Armed Madhouse
Earlier this week, Palast wrote about the Obama-endorsed $4 billion plan to build two new nuclear reactors on the Gulf Coast of Texas by… wait for it … TEPCO! That’s right, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. responsible for the failing systems now at Fukushima Daiichi, as well as a number of local partners.
Palast offers insight from his pre-journalist days “as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations” during the 1980’s, and explains how the same “bankrupt, corrupt and criminal companies” who were busted during his work investigating the Shoreham nuclear plant in New York are still in business, and ready to get to work again on nukes in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S.
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The BradCast with Brad Friedman 3/17/2011My KPFK Interview With Greg Palast on the Plan for TEPCO to Build Nuclear Reactors in Texas · · · · · My KPFK Interview With Greg Palast on the Plan for TEPCO to Build Nuclear Reactors in Texas0:00 0:00
BRAD:
Check out this government PDF that Big Dan uncovered:
http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2...038;images=yes
Watch at 38 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?f...Q5Wcu0g#at=646
Well, since most Texans only believe in faith based education, have disdain for science, reject climate change, and aren’t a bit concerned about clean air, clean water or pollution because business doesn’t like those pesky regulations, nuke power plants seem like the natural progression of events for Texas.