From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting ready to talk.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove analog with my co-host David Feldman. How you doing today David?

In the words of Ralph Nader, I don't do mood swings. Keep going forward.

Somebody once asked Ralph, do you ever get upset about what's going on? He said, I don't do do mood swings and that's what Americans have to remember.

Move forward.

And I'm going to ask your ex-wife about that.

And we also have the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph who doesn't

Hello everybody get ready for a real primer on nuclear power. Yes. Well let me

set that topic on the table in the debate over the climate crisis and that's what we like to

call it here climate crisis rather than the more benign climate change in that

debate there is a fragment of the environmental community that believes that nuclear power,

since it is not a fossil fuel, is an option to reduce greenhouse gases.

Even Barack Obama included it in his quote unquote all of the above energy policy.

Well to talk about that and many other things nuclear we've invited on a true

expert witness. Our guest today is Dr. Gregory Yasco.

Dr. Yasco is the former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

And unlike many of the other regulators on that commission,

Dr. Yasco was a scientist, no ties to the nuclear industry.

And he had an epiphany of sorts after seeing the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan

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