Fukushima

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Lehr and Burnett discuss the subject of nuclear power in the post-Fukushima age.

The fuel is now loaded into the reactor, following inspections, the switch will be flipped and, around August 10, the reactor will be fired up. Three days later, transmission of electricity is expected to start, ramping up to full power and commercial operation in September. The same process is expected to take place at a second reactor in September/October.

Opponents of nuclear power cite outrageous dangers from nuclear radiation. Please. At a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing December 18, 2012, one of the speakers said there were higher cancer…

Heartland’s Science Director Dr. Jay Lehr was all over TV and radio in March after the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and caused a crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power…

Charles L. Sanders’ latest book, Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption, is among the finest scientific research publications I have ever read. There are, believe it or not, 1,470 technical…

If you’ve never heard of the Soviet Union’s first serious nuclear disaster called “Mayak,” we’ll get to that later. But first, I must point out that from the start of…

Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr continues to be in high demand for expert commentary on the nuclear power plant crisis in Japan. Jay on on last night’s “Hannity” on…

Jay Lehr, Ph.D., science director at the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, is available for on-air comment as the story of the disaster in Japan continues to develop. Dr. Lehr is an…