This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

It's the 50th anniversary of Earth Day,

and on the line with us is Kevin Camps, the radioactive waste

specialist at beyond nuclear.org. You can also tweet him at beyond nuclear.

And Kevin welcome back to the program. I have to ask this question based on some of your

reporting. Could we have a Fukushima style nuclear disaster meltdown happen in

Michigan?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

Fermi Unit 2, which is south of Detroit,

is the largest Fukushima Daiichi twin design on the planet.

It's super-sized.

It's as big as Fukushima daichi units one and two,

both of which did melt down in 2011.

It's as big as both of them put together. And to make the risks even greater, they have

just deferred yet again, not for years, but for decades at this point, but they've done it

just again. A major safety repair it's called

the Taurus it's a donut shaped system and it's huge in size and it's got this flaking

inner liner that during an emergency situation could block the flow of coolant water to the overheating core.

So they're willing to risk that potential for another couple years at this point

who owns that and why are they making this decision

it's owned by d t e energy formerly known as Detroit edison and they're really using the COVID-19

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