So now we know. According to federal investigators, the emergency that shut down a reactor at the Indian Point Nuclear power plant this March was caused by electronic signals from a worker’s digital camera. Apparently the water levels in the safety system dropped to danger point because the radio frequencies from the camera interfered with the control panel on the boiler pump. Sound worrying?….

Those now supporting George Bush’s plan for a renaissance of nuclear power aren’t worried. Nuclear power’s safe they say, the US is falling behind other countries by not developing more of it. And besides, with gas prices hitting $4/ gallon and global temperatures rising, there’s no better way to slow down climate change. So which is it: Green solution or GREENWASHING? We’ll have a discussion with Leslie Lowe, the Director of Energy & Environment Programs for the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, Robert Lamb, Clinical Professor of Management at the Stern School at NYU and journalist Christian Parenti, contributing editor for The Nation magazine.

Then, ARIEL DORFMAN, novelist, playwright, and former cultural advisor to Chile’s president Salvador Allende is the subject of a new film: Promise to the Dead: which will open the Human Rights Festival Friday in New York City. Dorfman’s survived two tragic September 11ths and seen friends and family slaughtered in the US-backed coup of 1973. He has lots to say about torture, democracy, and the legacy of exile and somehow he still has hope, because, as he puts it, "What’s the alternative?"

Also in today’s program, a bio-diesel outfit in Slidell, LA that’s employing vets to clean up the gulf coast. And will the US Bureau of Indian Affairs be forced to pay out billions for a century of mismanagment – that’s the topic of Broken Promises – this week’s documentary-in-progress (Got Docs?)

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