Nuclear Power: A Wishin’ for Some Fission

Since 1990, New Hampshire has used nuclear fission to help fuel its grid; close to 40 percent of our energy now comes from nuclear power. Many call this alternative energy ready and proven, but others say new facilities are too costly to build and current ones are too risky to the environment. We'll look at how nuclear power could move us away from fossil fuels and the challenges it still faces.

Guests

• Ian Hutchinson, head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Peter Bradford, adjunct professor at the Institute of Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, former Public Utilities Commissioner for the States of Maine and New York and former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner

We'll also hear from

• Rob Williams , spokesperson for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vermont
• Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight project at Beyond Nuclear , an anti-nuclear organization that advocates for communities dealing with nuclear power issues, and a co-founder of the Clamshell Alliance, which fought the construction of the Seabrook Nuclear Power facility

This program was originally broadcast May 20, 2009