Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy
443 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Nuclear news from a different perspective, including safeguarding from radiation, interviews w/leading activists, and how you can help stop the nuclear madness. Nuclear Hotseat is produced and hosted by 3 Mile Island survivor Libbe HaLevy.
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Nuclear Hotseat #288: Nuclear Numnutz of the Year!
December 28, 2016 05:33 - 27.5 MBNuclear Numnutz Year in Review, featuring 2016’s biggest #nuclear idiocy leading to (drumroll...) NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR! Is it… Fukushima? 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Pilgrim Reactor? Rocky Flats? Radioactive waste shipments? Nuclear industry propaganda, spin and lies? Or maybe something orange and bananas…? Nuclear Hotseat #288.
Nuclear Hotseat #287: RADIATION SPECIAL!
December 20, 2016 22:42 - 27.5 MBDr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), uses that group’s footnoted, documented, peer-reviewed and fully vetted report to contradict the lies in the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that seeks to minimize Fukushima radiation dangers. Then epidemiologist Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project provides another damning response to the UNSCEAR report on Fukushima and the negative impact it is likely to have on the case of the USS Re...
Nuclear Hotseat #286: NRC’s Email OOPS! Blows Lid Off Pilgrim Nuclear Dangers
December 14, 2016 05:49 - 27.5 MBDiane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station at the base of Cape Cod really is. And Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with...
Nuclear Hotseat #285: When Nuclear Worlds Collide!
December 07, 2016 05:01 - 27.5 MBIllinois' "corporate welfare" bailout of #Exelon's two nukes hits while activists hold Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit in Chicago. Whatt're the odds?And if you’re anywhere in the EU – DON’T EAT THE UKRAINE “ORGANIC” BERRIES! #Nuclear Hotseat http://bit.ly/2gANd4o
Nuclear Hotseat #284: CHERNOBYL EXCLUSIVE!
November 30, 2016 05:32 - 27.5 MBLucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the workers. We spoke initially while he was in Ukraine, but waited until he was back in the US to talk about issues stemming from the placement of the New “Safe” Confinement structure; questions about the long term soundness of the new structure that require close monitoring in the coming years, an...
Nuclear Hotseat #283: Homeowner Nightmare - Radwaste In Kitchen Dust
November 23, 2016 19:30 - 27.5 MBRobbin Ellison Dailey and her husband Mike own the home in North St. Louis less than half a mile from the radioactive nuclear waste burial site at Republic Service’s West Lake Landfill. They recently had the house tested for radiation… and discovered Thorium 230-contaminated dust at 1000x above background radiation levels. We spoke with Robbin on Monday, November 21 about the situation with her home and what it’s like to be hit with that kind of news.
Nuclear Hotseat #282: Vt. Yankee Shutdown Film POWER STRUGGLE
November 16, 2016 06:28 - 27.5 MBFilmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE, about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Audio excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclear engineer and Fairewinds Energy’s Arnie Gundersen. A tribute to Dr. Steven Wing of the University of North Carolina’s Dept of Epidemiology, a brilliant scientist who passed away on November 9.
Nuclear Hotseat #281: Nukes Require UN Global Ethics Summit – Japanese Ambassador Murata
November 08, 2016 23:33 - 27.5 MBMitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan's nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an "International Day for Global Ethics" in the wake of their resolution to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. The interview is an Encore Presentation of our conversation on Japan needing to declare an "honorable retreat" from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #234, December 15, ...
Nuclear Hotseat #280: The Long Slow Violence of Nuclear Technologies
November 02, 2016 03:52 - 27.5 MBBo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), along with the author of numerous scientific papers. Since 2010 he has been a co-researcher for the Global...
Nuclear Hotseat #279: Fort Calhoun SHUTDOWN! w/LaVerne Thraen
October 26, 2016 05:41 - 27.5 MBThe Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor is OVER AND OUT, FOR GOOD! (...except for the radioactive waste, which will be with us forever...) Libbe HaLevy interviews LaVerne Thraen, a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s. They spoke less than an hour after it was shut down for good, on Monday, October 24, 2016. Diane Turco of Cape (Cod) Downwinders fills us in on last week’s #ShutPilgrimNow Citizen Speak-out at the Massachusetts ...
Nuclear Hotseat #278: Dr. Ian Fairlie on Attempted NRC Radiation Measurment Con Job
October 20, 2016 17:06 - 27.5 MBDr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and has been a consultant on radiation matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, and private individuals. Second interview: Eiji Ogama made the film “Tell the Prime Minister” on the Japanese anti-nuclear movement using Youtube videos (with permission) and interviews done specifically for the film. He catches the movement at its peak, culminating in the...
Nuclear Hotseat #277: US Nukes Barely Dodge Matthew's Bullet
October 12, 2016 18:06 - 27.5 MBUS nukes dodge Hurricane Matthew’s bullet - barely - w/three NRC “Unusual Events” at east coast reactors. India/Japan #nuclear agreement subverts post-Bhopal international liability laws, dumps costs on Indian people - of course! That's what the nuclear industry does! India's Kumar Sundaram (at left in photo) on the ground in Japan in advance of next month's "seal the deal" summit between India's PM Modi and Japan's PM Abe. #NuclearHotseat 277. http://bit.ly/2e4ASZQ
Nuclear Hotseat #276: NUKES IN SPACE - Bruce Gagnon
October 05, 2016 18:15 - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy interviews Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space's Bruce Gagnon on the nuclear agenda of the US space program, the pieces already in place, and international attempts to stop it during this, the week of #KeepSpaceForPeace actions around the world. Special extended interview. #NuclearHotseat 276: http://bit.ly/2dQ0fOt
Nuclear Hotseat #275:New Mexico OK's Land Sale for Nuke Waste Storage - Don Hancock
September 28, 2016 17:29 - 27.5 MBByron DeLear brings us up to date on the latest dithering by EPA and Congressional turf wars while the people who live near the West Lake Landfill in N. St. Louis continue to suffer and get sick. Don Hancock is Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. He provides details on New Mexico's sale of 1,000 acres of land near Carlsbad for possible use by nuclear dry cask manufacturer Holtec as an "interim" stora...
Nuclear Hotseat #274: Post-EIJ Journalism Conference
September 21, 2016 21:22 - 27.5 MBProf. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, D.C. is a sociologist who did a study of mainstream media coverage in the first two years after Fukushima – and not only are her observations stunning, she’s got the data to back them up. Originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2, 2015. Nuclear Hotseat European correspondent Shaun McGee reports on growing response to the BBC Panorama documentary on nuclear safety problems at the UK’s Sellafield facility. ...
Nuclear Hotseat #273: BREAKING: Pilgrim Protest Arrests + USA Wild, Wild Nuclear West!
September 14, 2016 05:22 - 27.5 MBBREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing. Alicyn Gitlin, Conservation Coordinator for Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining issues...
Nuclear Hotseat #272: EXCLUSIVE - USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO
September 07, 2016 19:30 - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple reactor meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors. As a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic levels of radiation. Seven ...
Nuclear Hotseat #271: Nukes Contaminate Food via Oceans
August 31, 2016 18:19 - 27.5 MBTim Deere-Jones is an independent marine pollution consultant who has worked on some of Europe's major marine pollution incidents as a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. Tim has worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF, among many others, and is a member of a number of anti-nuclear advisory bodies, including the Vienna based International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group. This is an encore presentation originally...
Nuclear Hotseat #270: Niagara Falls Dirty Nuke Secrets w/Lou Ricciuti
August 24, 2016 23:42 - 27.5 MBNiagara Falls! It's got more than its share of nuclear problems. Lou Ricciuti has been a nuclear researcher, writer and speaker for nearly 20 years on the radioactive waste-stream generated by Niagara Falls' vast involvement in the earliest days of the Atomic Age. Veteran anti-nuclear activist Myla Reson reminds us of the leaked report from Nuclear Regulator Commission's Dr. Michael Peck saying that Diablo Canyon should be shut down until Pacific Gas and Electric can prove that the reac...
Nuclear Hotseat #269: Pt. 2 - Australia World's Nuke Waste Dump?
August 18, 2016 18:22 - 27.5 MBDave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the world’s nuclear waste in the land down under. It includes LATE BREAKING NEWS of the international manipulations and decades of planning that has gone into convincing Australians to accept the nuclear industry’s plans to turn their country into the world’s nuclear ash tray. Of course, Rupert ...
Nuclear Hotseat #268: Australia: Nuke Waste Dump to the World?
August 10, 2016 23:43 - 27.5 MBDave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past. Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feel...
Nuclear Hotseat #268: Australia: Nuke Waste Dump to the World?
August 10, 2016 23:42 - 27.5 MBDave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past. Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feel...
Nuclear Hotseat #267: INDIAN POINT Documentary - LA Opening
August 08, 2016 17:19 - 27.5 MBFilmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City. We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devote four years of her life to making the film. Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Dr. Gregory Jaczko, who was forced out of the agency, attended the screening and took part in the audience ...
Nuclear Hotseat #266: UK Nuked Soldiers Lawsuit w/Dr. Chris Busby
August 08, 2016 17:07 - 27.5 MBDr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in the military and suing to receive compensation from the government. Important information for anyone who is dealing legally or legislatively with the nuclear industry claim that “low level radiation...
Nuclear Hotseat #265: EPA’s NON-Consent-based Siting of Radwaste
August 08, 2016 17:01 - 27.5 MBWhen is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…
Nuclear Hotseat #265: EPA’s NON-Consent-based Siting of Radwaste
August 08, 2016 16:58 - 27.5 MBWhen is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…
Nuclear Hotseat #264: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Steam Generators
July 30, 2016 14:40 - 27.5 MBGreg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, which is cited in our interview. He is best known in the US for uncovering Katherine Harris' purge of black voters from Florida's voter rolls in 2000. He is currently finishing...
Nuclear Hotseat #263: Oh, Canada! Pt. 2 - Dr. Gordon Edwards
July 07, 2016 15:48 - 27.5 MBOh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!
Nuclear Hotseat #262: Diablo Canyon shutdown plan or PG&E PR ploy?
June 29, 2016 17:46 - 27.5 MBCA Lands Commission bails on EIR; cautious optimism dashed yet again. Pre-crash interviews w/Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, who has been fighting against Diablo Canyo since before it was built; and Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia.org, who talks deep background politics. Both interviews were recorded before the CA Lands Commission bailed on EIR.
Nuclear Hotseat #261: NZ's Kevin Hester - Is No-Nukes Country going Yes-Nukes?
June 22, 2016 07:28 - 27.5 MBBREAKING: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN ANNOUNCED; Delayed Gratification Requested. NZ's Kevin Hester - is No-nukes country going Yes-nukes? Mimi German eyewitness account of ramming of Peace Boat by WA state police boat. Byron DeLear on EPA's cover-up of West Lake Landfill report. And how dangerous is tea? Ask the NRC!
Nuclear Hotseat #260: 5th Anniversary SPECIAL!
June 15, 2016 06:19 - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat 5th Anniversary SPECIAL! Updates on stories old and new: Kevin Kamps on Fed radwaste storage lawsuit, Mary Olsen on EPA radiation in water, Don Hancock on the latest from WIPP, Erica Gray on US nuclear's newest nightmare, Watts Bar 2, Linda Seeley on Diablo Canyon shutdown strategies + archival audio f/Dr. Caldicott, Kevin Hester, Ian Fairlie AND our annual outtakes reel. DRUMROLL: Nuclear Hotseat is now downloaded in 112 countries! Yowzah!
Nuclear Hotseat #259: Oh, (nuclear) Canada! s/Dr. Gordon Edwards
June 08, 2016 05:36 - 27.5 MBOh (nuclear) Canada! Dr. Gordon Edwards traces Canuck involvement in Nagasaki bomb, uranium mining, First Nations betrayals, radioactive contamination of land, sea and air, more. Part 1 of a 3-part interview
Nuclear Hotseat #258 - The Anti-Nuclear Perspective on Obama at Hiroshima
June 06, 2016 19:05 - 27.5 MBPresident Obama visited Hiroshima the same day I spoke w/Rick Wayman, Director of Programs & Operations at the California-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. We discuss the image vs. the reality of the administration’s nuclear policy; the Marshall Islands lawsuits against the nine nuclear bomb-nations, then discusses some easy steps we can all take to pressure our government to change paths and work towards disarmament. Don’t Bank on the Bomb – report on banks which have invested in ...
Nuclear Hotseat #257: Radiation Spikes in WA State - Hanford or CGS?
May 25, 2016 05:11 - 27.5 MBTracking the source of WA's radiation spikes - Hanford or CGS reactor? Radcast's Mimi German breaks it down. Former Japanese PM Koizumi meets w/USS Reagan irradiated sailors, cries. Obama goes to Hiroshima while TEPCO stops work at Fukushima "out of a sense of caution" for G-7 leaders. No such luck for their own people. http://ow.ly/1XLw300yvpi
Nuclear Hotseat #256: WA State Hanford Site - Nuclear Nightmare Facts
May 18, 2016 05:37 - 27.5 MBThe true extent of Washington state's Hanford nuke nightmare w/Gerry Pollet; on-site interviews from N. St. Louis's West Lake Radwaste/EPA protest; France probes Japan's 2020 Olympics bid f/corruption, money laundering - London waiting in the wings! Nuclear Hotseat #256.
Nuclear Hotseat #255: West Lake Moms to United Nations!
May 18, 2016 05:13 - 27.5 MBJust Moms StL meet w/UN Human Rights Commission - Is West Lake Landfill in violation of human rights? You Are There w/Dawn Chapman.
Nuclear Hotseat #254: Nukes Go Hollywood! Int'l Uranium Film Fest
May 04, 2016 19:49 - 27.5 MBNukes go Hollywood! International Uranium Film Fest/LA was a blast! Lou Gossett Jr, Esai Morales, Kat Kramer, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy, "The Man Who Saved the World," activists, more! And a special shout-out to Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel as they travel to the United Nations to make their/your case before the world. Nuclear Hotseat #254.
Nuclear Hotseat #253: Chernobyl 30th Anniversary SPECIAL
April 27, 2016 02:19 - 27.5 MBChernobyl 30th Anniversary Special: Bulgarian Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva on impact upon health and her children; Dr. Timothy Mousseau on Chernobyl mutations of plants, insects, birds, mammals; RPHP's Dr. Janette Sherman on genetic damage and its implications; Russian nuclear expert and Greenpeace/Russia founder Alexey Yablokov; and Voices from Japan – photojournalist Ryuichi Hirakawa on the Chernobyl/Fukushima connection.
Nuclear Hotseat #252: Fukushima & Kumamoto Quake Facts
April 24, 2016 02:50 - 27.5 MBNancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, which holds and manages the largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster in the world, on how that group finds and vets its info. Includes up to the minute report on Sendai nuclear reactors after Kumamoto quakes in Japan. Christian Brunn, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," on the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian soldier who was in charge of Russia's nuclear launch facility in 1983 when a computer malfunction showed that t...
Nuclear Hotseat #251: West Lake Mom on Historic DC Meetings
April 14, 2016 18:35 - 27.5 MBEPA Scared Just Moms StL will yell at them! But Chapman, Nickel finally meet w/EPA's Gina McCarthy + EPA's White House bosses re: radioactive West Lake Landfill! Japanese kids 130 miles from Fukushima show huge spike in thyroid nodules, pre-cancers. WIPP being whipped to illegally take in foreign plutonium when it isn't even in operation. Nuclear Hotseat #251 http://ow.ly/10Bq1q
Nuclear Hotseat #250: "Chernobyl in a Can" in the USA
April 14, 2016 18:32 - 27.5 MBChernobyl in a Can - Dry cask nuke storage problems w/Donna Gilmore; Belgian nuke dangers; West Lake Moms at White House, EPA w/Gina McCarthy; S. Koreans protest Fukushima saki. http://ow.ly/10lbK6
Nuclear Hotseat #249: Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL
April 14, 2016 18:29 - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat #249 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident Anniversary SPECIAL – the inside story on 1st US commercial nuke reactor meltdown 37 years ago and its ongoing aftermath. Featuring: Eric Epstein of TMI Alert, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds, former NCR commissioner Peter Bradford, Middletown resident Mary Stamos, clips of media coverage from Walter Cronkite and the not-yet-coopted mainstream media.
Nuclear Hotseat #248: Great Lakes Radionuclides
March 24, 2016 20:48 - 27.5 MBGreat Lakes radionuclides need "chemical of mutual concern" designation f/Canada, US + Diablo Canyon propaganda legislation. http://ow.ly/ZPL3o
Nuclear Hotseat #247 - 10K-66K Fukushima Cancer Deaths Projected
March 24, 2016 20:45 - 27.5 MBPhysicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War release new report - 10,000-66,000 excess cancers expected in Japan as a result of Fukushima's radioactivity. With medical/research All Stars - Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez - project http://ow.ly/ZwqsJ
Nuclear Hotseat #243: Chernobyl, Fukushima Animal Mutations w/Dr. Timothy Mousseau
March 10, 2016 17:39 - 27.5 MBChernobyl/Fukushima animal mutations w/Dr Timothy Mousseau; more thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids; Indian Point radiation up 650% only 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan. http://ow.ly/YpEXt
Nuclear Hotseat #244: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
March 10, 2016 17:36 - 27.5 MBFull-length special report on the Atoms Next Door Sympsium, held in N. St. Louis on the radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste illegally buried at the West Lake Landfill and its ongoing, increasing danger to local residents if not the entire region.
Nuclear Hotseat #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed
March 10, 2016 17:32 - 27.5 MBUN/UNSCEAR lies minimizing Fukushima's health impacts exposed by IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen - ENCORE
Nuclear Hotseat #246 - Fukushima 5th Anniversary
March 10, 2016 17:25 - 27.5 MBFukushima 5th Anniversary - How Japanese people are coping w/ongoing Fukushima aftermath w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko. Radioactive decontamination waste incineration issues w/Kimberly Roberson.
Nuclear Hotseat #241 - WIPP Nuke Leak at 2 Years & Counting
February 11, 2016 20:56 - 27.1 MBThe Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan bill was proposed by Missouri's U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill. To capture this moment of success, we interviewed two activists directly involved in the battle to m...
Nuclear Hotseat #242: Nuclear Connection to Thyroid Cancer's Silent Epidemic
February 11, 2016 20:43 - 27.5 MBJoseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi.