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02/18/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar power, solar, nuclear, nuclear power, Bike Month, bicycling, biking
We started today's program with Arnie Gunderson, a nuclear engineer with the nonprofit group Fairewinds, who gave us a little more information about Crystal River and what's next. Arnie talked about what happened that finally shut down the Crystal River Nuclear Power plant and our future options. He felt that solar electric was a good option, but that solar thermal to heat water was a quicker return on investment. Solar thermal central power plants and wind power on our coast lines, connected...
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01/28/13 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: clean energy, solar, nuclear, rate hikes, Florida PSC
Interview with safe energy activist Susan Glickman, director of the Florida Clean Technology Business Council. FMI http://www.cleanenergy.org
Be the first to commentShould Progress Energy customers pay for new nuclear plants? A crowd in Pinellas says no listen
01/12/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Progress Energy, nuclear power, nuclear energy, nuclear, nuclear power plant, Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Service Commission
Progress Energy customers might see even more of an increase on their electric bills by the year 2020. The rate hike funds construction of a new power plant in Levy County. About 150 concerned ratepayers packed an auditorium at [St. Pete College’s Seminole campus](http:/...
Be the first to commentEnvironmental groups to Progress Energy: No nuclear power in Florida listen
10/03/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: nuclear power, nuclear, PSC, Progress Energy, Awake the State
Progress Energy Florida is charging rate payers for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Levy County. On Saturday, about 30 activists gathered in front of Progress Energy’s headquarters in St. Petersburg to oppose nuclear power throughout the state.
University students, the Florida YES Coalition, and members of the [Coalition Against Nukes](http://www.coalitionagainstnukes.org/...
Be the first to commentConsumers challenge utilities to produce more clean energy
12/02/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: consumers, power lines, radioactivity, Levy County, Tampa Electric, Progress Energy, nuclear, renewable energy
Good afternoon,
Welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity program. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today: this week several important issues about electric utilities will be the subject of public meetings.
Later we’ll hear about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings in Levy County about the proposed new nuclear plants that Florida Progress wants to build there.
But first, the Tampa City Council this Thursday takes up the issue of renewing the Tampa Electric franchise agreement. The 25-year con...
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12/14/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins have written a startling new book about AQ Khan, the father of the Islamic bomb.
Khan was a research scientist who stole European nuclear plans, masterminded Pakistan’s successful atomic program and established a network for smuggling technology and blueprints to other countries seeking nuclear capabilities.
Intelligence agencies watched Khan for decades, but U.S. political leaders refused to allow them to apprehend him. In the second p...
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