Questioning the safety and sustainability of nuclear energy in Sweden

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Guest : Isadora Wronski, Greenpeace October 14 2012 A year and a half after the Fukushima accident in Japan, nuclear energy again made major headlines this week in Sweden after a critical evaluation by the European Union on the safety of certain facilities, the publication of a Greenpeace report called ‘Risky Reactors’, and a direct action at the Forsmark and Ringhals plants by Greenpeace that further exposed security lapses. Isadora Wronski, who works with climate and enegy issues at Greenpeace Nordic, was one of the activists who eluded security for 27 hours inside the Ringhals facility. She joins Think Globally Radio this week to discuss the direct action within the wider context of nuclear energy safety and potential renewable substitutes, the situation in Germany where nuclear power plants are rapidly being decomissioned as the country phases out nuclear energy, and the question of whether concerns for climate change – another top Greenpeace priority – should play any role within the nuclear energy debate. Download Think Globally Radio 2012 10 14

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