Posts Tagged ‘Interview’
Interview: Shrimp recall highlights possible processing and packaging failures
The FDA is advising Walmart customers to throw out certain Great Value brand shrimp products due to possible radioactive contamination. Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist in marine radiochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a leading voice on radiation levels in seafood, talks with Host Marco Werman about his concerns. Listen to this HERE!
Read MoreScientists weigh in on dumping of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay
Listen to (or Read!) an interview on CAI Radio with Jennette Barnes speaking with Ken Buesseler about the closing of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant and the fate of the wastewater stored at the site. From the site: The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station closed in 2019, but work to contain or dispose of nuclear waste from…
Read MoreKen on Korean radio about releasing stored Fukushima plant water
As clean up continues at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, workers have filled more than 1000 tanks with more than 1 million tons of contaminated water. Japan’s Minister of the Environment recently proposed slowly releasing the contents of these tanks into the ocean. This is of concern to the public and some in the…
Read MoreBBC interview on radioactivity at the Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, but their past as a former US nuclear weapons test site means that hardly anyone lives there. Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, describes the Runit Dome that was constructed to hold up to 80,000 tonnes of radioactive debris. LISTEN to an…
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