BURN: An Energy Journal

If you had a minute with the president, what would you tell him about energy? We posed that question to various experts in the energy field.

If you had a minute with the president, what would you tell him about energy? We posed that question to various experts in the energy field.

If you had a minute with the president, what would you tell him about energy? We posed that question to various experts in the energy field.

Scientist Robert Twilley talks with Alex about the challenge of allowing ecosystems to repair themselves in times of crisis. They discuss the variety of microbial agents present in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems (at depth, at the surface, on the sandy beaches of Alabama and Florida, and on the muddy shoreline of Louisiana) and how the oil from the BP spill changed as it weathered on the water's surface. Twilley says it’s critical to find opportunities in the midst of crises to advance scientific understanding.

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Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico host Alex Chadwick tackles one of the most important energy questions facing America: Are we running out of oil? Burn: An Energy Journal w/ Alex Chadwick A program of The Public Radio Energy Project Produced and created by SoundVision Productions Distributed by American Public Media

Hiroshima Peace Institute researcher says Japanese survivors of WWII nuclear blasts suffer discrimination.

Richard Lester, chair of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at M.I.T., says nuclear reactors will look very different in a few decades, just as today's cars have developed since the 1950's

Scientist says unanticipated events can overwhelm even the best planning.

A one-year anniversary special examining the future of nuclear power after the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear plant. Burn: An Energy Journal w/ Alex Chadwick A program of The Public Radio Energy Project Produced and created by SoundVision Productions Distributed by American Public Media www.burnanenergyjournal.com

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released transcripts and audio recordings made at the N-R-C Operations Center during last year’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The release of these audio recordings came at the request of the The Public Radio Energy Project's BURN: An Energy Journal,’ and its host Alex Chadwick. The recordings show the inside workings of the US government’s highest level efforts to understand and deal with the unfolding nuclear crisis as the reactors meltdown. In the course of a week, the NRC is repeatedly alarmed that the situation may turn even more catastrophic. The NRC emergency staff discusses what to do – and what the consequences may be – as it learns that reactor containment safeguards are failing, and that spent fuel pools are boiling away their cooling water, and in one case perhaps catching fire.

Excerpt from recordings of NRC Operations Center during last year's meltdownat the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant March 11, 2011. Recordings released at the request of Burn: An Energy Journal the flagship program from The Public Radio Energy Project.

Excerpt from recordings of NRC Operations Center during last year's meltdownat the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant March 11, 2011. Recordings released at the request of Burn: An Energy Journal the flagship program from The Public Radio Energy Project.

Listen to this audio montage of news reports following the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident which occurred after a major earthquake and tsunami.

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