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Our California Solartopia at KPFK and the Pacifica Affiliate Network’s Solartopia Show welcomes CLIFFORD TASNER to talk about clean, safe, renewable energy versus California’s Diablo Canyon nukes. Clifford is President of the Southern California chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, and a noted composer and songwriter whose awards and film credits could fill this page.
Clifford explains for us the mixed history of Solartopian California, including its long string of remarkable victories and hideous betrayals.
Speaking to us from Kalamazoo, our Michigander co-host KEVIN KAMPS gives us the shocking news of a major accident at the Palisades reactor, where a botched re-start has left a thousand pounds of extremely dangerous radioactive fuel suspended in parts unknown.
Mishandled by the infamously incompetent New Jersey-based Holtec Corporations, the fuel may threaten the future of the entire Great Lakes, the sole source of fresh drinking water for millions of US and Canadian citizens.
Kevin’s astonishing report of negligence, greed and stupidity at Palisades mirrors the one at Diablo Canyon, where corporations who care nothing for the future of humankind bring us to the brink of extinction.
Thankfully, due to the clean, green technologies we feature on our Solartopia shows, these dead and dying reactors have no future....if we can shut them before they do the same to us!]]> 1803 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260928_040000solartopia.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260928_040000solartopia.mp3 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0700

THE SOLARTOPIA SHOW on the Pacifica Affiliate Network & CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA today features two great legends: Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, and Karl Grossman, a true godparent of the global movement for a post-nuclear world.

Alan gives us an entry into the need to cover with solar panels all our major sports arenas and stadia, especially Dodger Stadium, which will host baseball in the 2028 Olympic Games.

Karl is an historic vanguard leader in the desperate campaign to prevent nuclear weapons and power from being shot into outer space. Karl sounded the global alarm with his writing on Galileo, the NASA plan to shoot plutonium through our fragile atmosphere, through the gauntlet of likely accidents, then into space, where it does not belong.

Karl continues the crusade with this week’s piece at Counterpunch.org on the insane, suicidal move of Trump and Hegseth to legitimize the use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield; and the alarming news of the U.S. boasting about having deployed operational weapons in space.

Karl and Alan also warn us of the Democratic Party’s embrace of a “nuclear renaissance” despite massive breakthroughs in renewables and batteries, which can supply all the power human civilization will ever need….cheaply, safely, cleanly, quickly. See you in Solartopia!


Host: Harvey "Sunny" Wasserman
Producer & Engineer: Myla Reson
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California Solartopia / Solartopia @ Pacifica
Hosted by HARVEY "SUNNY" WASSERMAN
Co-Hosted by KEVIN KAMPS (Director of Don't Waste Michigan)


From legendary investigative reporter ROGER RAPOPORT we get the breaking scoop that top management at the rookie New Jersey firm trying to restart Michigan’s Palisades reactor has fired much of its top staff.

Joining co-host KEVIN KAMPS in western Michigan, Roger reports from Muskegon that Holtec, which owns Palisades, has prompted deep public concern about the safety of the dead “zombie” nuke where it’s now loading fuel.

Palisades' former general manager—recently gone from his long-standing position---has compared plant safety preparations to “building a fire engine on the way to a fire”.

Official sources have warned the odds on a serious accident are now one in twenty.

With no experience in operating or re-starting a nuke reactor, Holtec must get Palisades running by March or risk losing billions in state and federal loans, while the reactor would run without significant insurance, jeopardizing the lives and property of millions of downwind Americans.

Rapoport’s reporting has resonated through major media across Michigan while Kamps has helped engineer major federal lawsuits on the plant.

Together they bring to our Solartopian community a uniquely comprehensive view of a reactor project that now threatens the entire Great Lakes and the core of the global atomic power industry.]]> 1803 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260914_040000solartopia.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260914_040000solartopia.mp3 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0700

Solartopia/Pacifica & the California Solartopia Show brings us together with the hard realities of homelessness & of soaring electric bills.

With legendary housing activist Susie Shannon, we face the growing problem of homelessness in Los Angeles & around the nation. Susie also reports on the California Democratic Party's abandonment of a safe energy platform as it signals its intended embrace of unneeded, costly, dirty, and dangerous nuclear power.

We are also joined on tape by the great JANE FONDA who lays into the atomic energy industry and its lethal lies about the true costs of the “Peaceful Atom,” both economically & in terms of our health & security.

From Kalamazoo our co-host KEVIN KAMPS reports from Michigan's insane attempt to re-start the long-dead nuclear hulk known as Palisades, rising from the graveyard with Iowa’s Duane Arnold & Three Mile Island in PA.

The corrupt failure of these projects joins the sabotage by CA Gov. Gavin Newsom of California’s Demand Side Grid Project, which aims to avoid brown/blackouts with rising battery tech.

Newsom has also refused, along with NY’s Cathy Hochul, to sign the new balcony solar legislation aiming to bring renewables easily and cheaply to every American household.

Thus, both major parties have joined Donald Trump in his sole control of atomic power regulation, and in their collective refusal to DO THE MATH while blocking the way to Solartopia.


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Host: Harvey "Sunny" Wasserman
Co-Host: Kevin Kamps
Producer: Myla Reson
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California Solartopia / Solartopia @ Pacifica
Hosted by HARVEY "SUNNY" WASSERMAN
Co-Hosted by KEVIN KAMPS (Director of Don't Waste Michigan)

Legendary Organizer HEATHER BOOTH joins the Solartopia Show with golden guidance on how to organize a green-powered Earth.

As chief organizer and founder of the Midwest Academy Training Center for Organizers in 1972, Heather gives us five key foundations for building grassroots movements.

Among those points: The identification of our goal; Our constituencies; and the way decisions are ultimately made.

With co-host KEVIN KAMPS we coordinate a truly landmark discussion on how we win an end to nuclear power and the beginning of a world totally powered by renewable energy.

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Host: Harvey "Sunny" Wasserman
Co-Host: Kevin Kamps
Producer: Myla Reson
Engineer & Editor: Gary Scott

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