The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory by Robert P. Crease

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory Author: Robert P. Crease Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world's finest research facilities. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues. Key players include congressmen and scientists; journalists and university presidents; actors, supermodels, and anti-nuclear activists, all interacting and teaming up in surprising ways. The authors, each with insider knowledge of and access to confidential documents and the key players, reveal how a fact of no health significance could be portrayed as a Chernobyl-like disaster. This compelling exposé reveals the gaps between scientists, politicians, media, and the public that have only gotten more dangerous since 1997.