News Coverage Team

 Editorialist: Karl Grossman 

Highlighted articles

• Can we avoid sinking our atomic Titanics? 

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• Space Nuclear 2012 
• Missing the institutional point – Have nuclear regulators gone native?(enformable.com)

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Editorialist: Linda Pentz Gunter

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Originally from England, Linda Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in July 2007. Linda holds a BA Honours degree in English and Italian Literature from Warwick University, researches the French nuclear sector; human rights and the uranium fuel chain; and the nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection and serves as an organization spokesperson in these areas.

She is also a jury member for the internationally recognized Nuclear-Free Future Award.

A former journalist, Linda also writes opeds and occasionally blogs for the organization. Prior to her environmental work she was a journalist for 20 years, writing for the London Times and Reuters and broadcasting on the USA and Prime television networks.

She is married to Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear who kindly tolerates her compulsion to adopt animals. They live in Takoma Park, Maryland, with their two daughters, three cats and two dogs – so far.

Highlighted articles

• Memorializing the “Non-Catastrophic” Fukushima nuclear disaster 

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Nuclear Research:  Lucas Hixson

Lucas is from the greater Mid-Michigan area,  where he writes and conducts much of his research.

Highlighted articles

• Subsidized economic time bombs stunning in relation to anything else 
  

• Japanese cell phone to be equipped with gamma radiation detector and GPS mapping software(enformable.com)

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• TEPCO completes first day of endoscope mission into Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2(enformable.com)

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• TEPCO used “quake-prone” circuit breakers at Fukushima Daiichi for decades despite warnings(enformable.com)

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• Japan halts review of national nuclear policy after draft report scandal(enformable.com)

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• TEPCO admits to having ignored more warnings of Fukushima Daiichi tsunami risk(enformable.com)

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• Fukushima Radiation found in Tuna caught near San Diego only 5 months after Fukushima disaster(enformable.com)

Health Physics Reports: Randall and Joy Thompson

Randall and Joy Thompson have written multiple books on radiation and health throughout the years. They both have an extensive background in physics. Joy is a former nuclear health physicist in the nuclear industry. Her husband Randall served in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine program before going on to work in the nuclear industry. Both Joy and Randall served at Three Mile Island.

Fun Fact: Joy is now bilingual!

Nuclear Industry: Chris Harris

Chris Harris is a former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer. His extensive career in the industry spans over 3 decades, and special training in severe accidents and mitigation strategies.  Chris now works in Maryland for a consultant firm.

Fukushima Update: James Corbett

James Corbett is an independent journalist who has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He has been writing and producing The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source, since 2007.

His forthcoming book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, will be available for purchase later this year.

For more information about Corbett and his background, please listen to Episode 163 of The Corbett Report podcast, Meet James Corbett:

Episode 163 – Meet James Corbett