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No new nukes!...at least for a little bit
On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it would temporarily freeze any new licenses or renewal of licenses for nuclear power plants around the country. That decision by the NRC was prompted by a US Court of Appeals ruling back in June that the NRC has insufficiently dealt with the problem of nuclear waste material - thus violating the National Environmental Policy Act. Currently, the NRC provides licenses under the assumption that it will find ways to dispose of nuclear waste in the future when it becomes “necessary” or that nuclear waste can be safely stored at reactors sites.
As we’re seeing in Japan, there are a lot of problems with nuclear waste stored inside the reactor building – and the U.S. Court of Appeals recognized as much when they issued their ruling against the NRC. One of the main litigants in the case against the NRC – Stephen Smith, the executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy said about the NRC’s decision, “We believe it is appropriate to halt nuclear licensing decisions and stop creating an inter-generational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come.” Time to ditch nuclear power!
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... No Nukes? NRC suspends new licenses, renewals (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
No Nukes? NRC suspends new licenses, renewals- Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear 
Screwed: Time to revive welfare as we know it?- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research  - Richard Fowler, Progressive Strategist / Host-The Richard Fowler Show
The Best of the Rest of the News...
ALEC & NRA still in bed together- Josh Horwitz, National Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - Neil McCabe, Human Events Online
Daily Take: Will a broke U.S. Sell Ad Space on Dollar Bill?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Attorney Mike Papantonio, host of "Ring of Fire Radio" in for Thom this week
Hour One: News of the day- Cliff Schecter, National Progressive PR Strategist / Nationally syndicated columnist-Al Jazeera English
How JP Morgan has been scamming consumers through their energy program- Tyson Slocumb, Public Citizen
Hour Two: "The Party is Over"- Mike Lofgren, former GOP Operative re his new book
GOP attack on unemployment benefits- Bryce Covert, The Roosevelt Institute
Hour Three: The dangers of the blockbuster drug Pradaxa- Attorney Ned McWilliams, Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor - Attorney Roger Denton, Schlichter Bogard & Denton
GOP's ongoing war on women- Nancy Cohen, historian, political commentator & author of the book "Delirium"
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Attorney Mike Papantonio, host of "Ring of Fire Radio" in for Thom this week
Hour One: News of the day- Cliff Schecter, National Progressive PR Strategist / Nationally syndicated columnist-Al Jazeera English
The "climate criminals" burning our planet to the ground- Gaius Publius, AmericaBlog
Hour Two: money, politics and the campaign for President- Craig Holman, Government Affairs Lobbyist, Public Citizen
Municipal bankruptcies on the rise?- Thomas Ferguson, The Roosevelt Institute
Hour Three: defective medical device disfiguring women- Robert Price, Attorney-Levin Law
Why the TX education system is heading back to the dark ages- Danny Weil, Investigative Reporter-Truthout
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Attorney Mike Papantonio, host of "Ring of Fire Radio" in for Thom this week
Hour One: News of the day- Cliff Schecter, National Progressive PR Strategist / Nationally syndicated columnist-Al Jazeera English
The CEO plan to steal Social Security- Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
GOP gins up the hate machine- Adele Stan, Alternet
Hour Three: Media & Mitt's tax returns- John Amato, Journalist / Creator-Crooks and Liars
Dangerous medical implants- Ben Gordon, Attorney-Levin Law
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Thom's Poll
Will the GOP succeed in pushing a $3 trillion tax cut for the rich?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full Big Picture Show
Full Show 8/8/12: Time for the Corporate Death Penalty
Guest host Sam Sacks discusses how corporations are defrauding Americans and how no one will go to jail over it. Also discussed: the impact of high frequency traders on our economy, a labor strike in Houston and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom tells us why people should be ashamed to call themselves conservatives.
Thom Hartmann on the News - August 8, 2012
Jim Javinsky fills in for Thom Hartmann commenting on the news for Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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