Nuclear Hotseat #201: CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy
English - April 28, 2015 20:01 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBLeisure Science nuclear reactor radiation nrc regulatory commission fukushima japan daichii san Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, we commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine with a Nuclear Hotseat Special. We'll hear from Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, a teenager in Bulgaria when the accident began, on the impact to her and her not-yet-born children; from Dr. Janette Sherman, who edited the English edition of Dr. Alexey Yablokov's groundbreaking book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment; a brief interview w/Dr. Yablokov himself from Dr. Helen Caldicott's 2013 Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster; and Voices from Japan makes the Chernobyl/Fukushima connection personal with a message from Ryuichi Hirokawa, a Japanese journalist who was the first non-Soviet photo journalist allowed at Chernobyl and began working at Fukushima the day after the disaster began.