Le Show For The Week Of April 5, 2026
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is. |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:06.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, from the you thought not enough was going wrong department. |
| 0:13.5 | This from High Country News. |
| 0:16.9 | No, I haven't either, but Bradley P. Clawson spent more than three decades handling highly radioactive materials at Idaho National Laboratory. |
| 0:26.6 | That's a nuclear energy testing and production hub. |
| 0:31.1 | He often handled nuclear fuel in hot cells. |
| 0:36.1 | We've all been, no, immensely contaminated areas reinforced with thick concrete. |
| 0:43.1 | Not that thin concrete. |
| 0:45.3 | Throughout, Claussen a member of the United Steelworkers Union leaned on safety standards to argue for extra protections against radiation, |
| 0:54.9 | including respirators and additional shielding. |
| 0:58.1 | But the felon in chief's agenda to expand nuclear energy |
| 1:03.7 | and modernize nuclear weapons now includes easing the radiation standards |
| 1:10.2 | that Claussen, among others, credits with keeping his exposure as low as possible. |
| 1:16.5 | Quote, they're pulling away from what's kept us safe all these years, he says, now serves on the advisory board on radiation and workers under the Centers for Disease Control. |
| 1:27.8 | I remember that. |
| 1:29.5 | It was last May Trump signed four executive orders aimed at reviving what he called an industry atrophied. |
| 1:37.9 | That's in quotes like he used that word. |
| 1:40.5 | By regulation. |
| 1:41.2 | The U.S. Department of Energy quickly began stripping away regulations designed to reduce the amount |
| 1:47.4 | of radiation exposure workers can face at the national laboratories, cleanup sites, and energy |
| 1:55.4 | infrastructure. |
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