Dan Hirsch on the continuing hazards of nuclear radiation, and avoiding a future “drowning in CO2 and plutonium”
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Dan Hirsch (enviroreporter.com)
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Dan Hirsch (enviroreporter.com)Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week is Dan Hirsch, President of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a non-profit nuclear policy organization founded in 1970 which focuses on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and disarmament. He has been active in addressing the contamination at the Santa Susana field laboratory, site of a partial meltdown just north of Los Angeles, shutting down the Hanford nuclear reactor and in stopping U.S. plutonium production, as well as ending the dumping of radioactive waste into the oceans, improving nuclear-plant security against terrorism, and stopping the space nuclear component of the missile defense program. Hirsch also teaches Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.