Power Hour Episode 4: Nuclear Power with Jay Lehr

The subject of this month’s Power Hour–my monthly podcast/Internet-radio-show–is nuclear power and nuclear safety. This is the most prominent energy issue in the news these days, following the damage to nuclear power plants in Japan following the country’s once-in-a-century earthquake and tsunami. We have heard ominous media report after ominous media report about releases of radiation, radiation above government-approved levels, radioactivity, radioactive waste, meltdowns, and on and on. The net effect of all this has been to make many Americans very worried about the safety of nuclear plants in this country, and even worried about radiation coming from Japan, thousands of miles away.

What is urgently needed in this situation, I believe, is education–education in what nuclear power really is, how it really works, what its dangers really are and aren’t. So on today’s Power Hour, we’ll give you a step-by-step breakdown of all things nuclear and then break down the situation in Japan. Joining the program to explain all this will be Dr. Jay Lehr, Science Director of the Heartland Institute and a scientist with 50 years of experience in the nuclear industry

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