Shut It Down Now! Former Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 Nuclear Plant Technician Bob Rowen On Nuclear Power
Channel: laborvideo
Date: 2015-01-30

Bob Rowen was a Humboldt PG&E IBEW 1245 nuclear control technician  at the power plant. He talks about being a control technician at the plant and what happened when he began to stand up for health and safety as a whistleblower. His fight to protect the  workers and the community cost him his job when he raised health and safety concerns and he along with another nuclear control technician Forrest Williams were retaliated against and illegally terminated. He also recounts an effort to set up a criminal conspiracy frame-up by PG&E to charge him  with planning to blow up the plant and a false document was sent to the FBI to blacklist him throughout the country to prevent him from working in any other nuclear plant in the US. He also reports on the role of his union IBEW 1245 and the media when a reporter from NBC Donald Widener tried to cover the story and was retaliated against by PG&E in actions that destroyed his career. 
He also discusses the case of PG&E Diablo Canyon nuclear plant whistleblower Niel Aiken. Aiken went to PG&E's Board of Directors with his concerns over safety and was also targeted and fired.
This interview was done on  January 26, 2015.
Rowen has written a book about his struggle called My Humboldt Diary: A True Story of Betrayal of the Public Trust, Nuclear Power at Humboldt Bay.
For more information
www.myhumboldtdiary.com
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-not-so-peaceful-atom/Content?oid=2126811
http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/commentary/diablo-canyon-and-the-question-of-safety/article_8d17a074-e02e-11e0-8680-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nuclear-waste-mystery-The-hunt-is-on-for-2729528.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJjbNw07OUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77vkuPtqN4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrphD43DPFw
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