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 #240: HEALTH! Holistic Strategies from Safeguarding from Radiation, Enviro Toxins
January 27, 2016 20:11 - 27.5 MBHealth strategies to best safeguard from Porter Ranch toxins & radioactive radon, or Fukushima radiation in food. With Dr. Diane Sandler and Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and a Certified Nutrition Educator.
Nuclear Hotseat #239: Patty Ameno's Successful Nuke Clean-up Campaign
January 20, 2016 06:36 - 27.5 MBow one Parks Township, PA woman's anti-nuke-waste campaign took on NUMEC legacy waste, NRC, Babcock/Wilcox... and won! Patty Ameno's amazing battle to get a FUSRAP clean-up. Nuclear Hotseat #239. Includes a massive shout-out to all in North St. Louis battling West Lake Landfill.
Nuclear Hotseat #238: SPECIAL - Porter Ranch/Radon Radiation Risk
January 15, 2016 21:08 - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat #238 - SPECIAL: Porter Ranch/Radon Radiation Risk w/ Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps and Cindy Folkers, local politician Richard Mathews, environmental attorney Terry Lodge. http://ow.ly/WZbzp
Nuclear Hotseat #233: NZ Activist Kevin Hester
January 06, 2016 18:22 - 27.5 MBNew Zealand climate change activist Kevin Hester on anti-nuclear activism in a nuclear-free country, Fukushima impact on the Pacific, and his having been an eyewitness to the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.
Nuclear Hotseat #235 - Special Christmas ENCORE Celebration
January 06, 2016 18:17 - 27.5 MBA SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ENCORE PRESENTATION: 85-year-old Sister Megan Rice and her two Peace Co-Activists Freed from prison for Oak Ridge nuke weapons protest in 2012. Originally posted on May 25, 2015.
Nuclear Hotseat #236: Numnutz of the Year!
January 06, 2016 18:12 - 27.5 MBThe All-Numnutz Special: Nuclear 2015 in Review, seen through the lens of Numnutz of the Week. Laughs! Thrills! Radioactive spills! Leading to the first ever... Numnutz of the Year!
Nuclear Hotseat #237: West Lake Update w/Byron DeLear
January 06, 2016 18:07 - 27.5 MBFire! Rain! Floods! Nuclear Politics! In North St. Louis? Yes! West Lake Landfill Manhattan Project radioactive waste update w/Byron DeLear. http://ow.ly/WGEnk
Nuclear Hotseat #234: Japan's Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata
December 16, 2015 07:03 - 27.5 MBAmbassador Murata's Honorable Retreat Olympics strategy; Twitter assault on West Lake Moms by paid Republic Services trolls. NY's aged, creaking Indian Point Reactor 3 now being driven without a license and not even a ticket and Peach Bottom in PA springs steam leak, but NRC sees no problem. Oy.
Nuclear Hotseat #232: St. Louis/West Lake Nuke Nightmare Continues
December 02, 2015 06:42 - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Ed Smith, who is with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, explains the proposed legislation to put Federal supervision of the West Lake Landfill under the Army Corps of Engineers and the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, or FUSRAP. And Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives two miles from West Lake and Admins the West Lake Landfill Facebook site, on latest developments in the PR “divide and conquer” pushback from Republic Services.
Nuclear Hotseat #231: India's Anti-Nuclear "Gandhi" Kumar Sundaram
November 26, 2015 19:10 - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand of an international activist in India's fight against nuclear technology. Kumar is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP). Right now, he's in the middle of a two-week trip to Japan, where he has been speaking to groups and rallys as large as 10,000 as he gatherers support against the planned India/Japan Nuclear Agreement. He joined us via Skype from Hiroshima on Sunday, November 22, during a break from ...
Nuclear Hotseat #230: St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Continues
November 18, 2015 07:42 - 27.5 MBAppendix Cancer? St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare – Coldwater Creek, Cancer Clusters w/Karen Nickle. COVER-UP – LA kid’s camp contaminated w/strontium 90, tritium, 1997 report denied... by Judge Wapner? And a National Park f/the wild roentgen? The wooly rad? How about just WWII Manhattan Project propaganda? Now THAT'S wild! #Nuclear Hotseat 230: http://ow.ly/UMRbR
Nuclear Hotseat #229: "Atomic Eggs" - Radiation & Gender
November 11, 2015 01:34 - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: "Atomic Eggs" - Mary Olson of NIRS.org on gender differences in the impact of radiation on the human body and how women and girls are more vulnerable to its negative consequences. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Heeere, radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory... Heeeeeere, radioactive materials...! NRC DUCK AND COVER REPORT - Watts Bar, Davis-Besse, Millstone on hot standby, Sen Markey (D-Mass) wants to know how well reactors can stand up to extreme weather events. And a...
Nuclear Hotseat #228: St. Louis West Lake Landfill Hot Potato
November 05, 2015 03:23 - 27.5 MBFEATURED INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill. He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative. We talked about the legal situation that makes West Lake ineligible for the federal FUSRAP clean-up program of Superfund sites — and how that might be turned around. Mimi German is the founde...
Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
October 28, 2015 01:15 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBA full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two ...
Nuclear Hotseat #226: Pre- and Post-Decommissioning Nuke Woes
October 21, 2015 05:05 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edis...
Nuclear Hotseat #225: How Radiation Spreads from Sea to Land
October 14, 2015 04:45 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK and a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation from the UK's Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as safe, even as one of its ministries finds cesium contam...
Nuclear Hotseat #224: USS Reagan Dangers on Return to Japan
October 07, 2015 04:20 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Ye...
Nuclear Hotseat #223: Anti-Nuke Films!
September 30, 2015 00:22 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, on current films showing at the Berlin festival and plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles. Christian Bruun, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," how how this film about the Russian soldier who refused to launch nukes at the United States in 1983 in retaliation for what looked like an attack (it was a computer glitch) impacted his life even as it allowed all of us to have ours. NUMNUTZ OF THE...
Nuclear Hotseat #222: Kristen Iversen, Rocky Flats
September 23, 2015 05:45 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge . NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The New York Times goes in for hard core hormesis (no - Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as the "Great Gray Lady" of U.S. journalism and turns it into a shill for radiation deniers everywhere. PLUS: San Onofre secret meetings over waste and failed cl...
Nuclear Hotseat #221: Mary Beth Brangan of EON3
September 16, 2015 05:08 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of EON3 on the recent event she helped to product, FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with Timothy Mousseau and Ken Buessler. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: What to do with former plutonium contaminated nuke sites? Why, if you're Rocky Flats in Colorado, just turn it into a nature preserve! And don't be ironic about it! PLUS: Typhoon Etau floods Fukushima and sends radioactive water into the Pacific as it washes away 395 bags of decontaminated d...
Nuclear Hotseat #220: Journalism Special!
September 08, 2015 21:49 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, DC about distortions in news coverage of Fukushima for the first two years after the disaster began (from Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2, 2015); award-winning investigative journalist Susannah Frame of KING 5 in Seattle on how she came to cover the Hanford site for the NBC affiliate (From Nuclear Hotseat #109, July 16, 2013). SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #8 - Dave Parrish completes our summer social media series w/a vision of how...
Nuclear Hotseat #219: WCS Texas Nuke Waste Madness w/Paul DeRienzo
September 02, 2015 04:59 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo reveals the political manipulations, intimidation tactics and loose-and-fast burying of nuclear waste at WCS in West Texas, along with personal recollections of growing up the son of the man who designed both Hanford in Washington state and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Dave Parrish offers SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTIPS #7 on Google Plus. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The NRC rejected its own task force's recommendations and has decided to allow the n...
Nuclear Hotseat #218: Radiation Special - Uranium in US Aquifers
August 26, 2015 06:40 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: With the revelation of high levels of uranium in the drinking water of six million Americans, Nuclear Hotseat digs into the story w/Karen Hadden of SEED Coalition in Texas, who points to a number of nuclear sites that may be implicated in the aquifer contamination. Then Mimi German of No Nukes NW and Radcast reveals problems at the Columbia Generating Station, a Fukushima-style nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in Washington State. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A vaccine for radiati...
Nuclear Hotseat #217: Radiation Deniers (Hormesis) & the NRC
August 19, 2015 05:05 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: More on the NRC petition to allow radiation-denying hormesis theory set the standards for radiation exposure with Dr. Ian Fairlie, a British scientist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #5: Pretty Pictures, w/Dave Parrish of Operation Save the Earth. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Beer is no way to commemorate the violent death of almost a quarter of a million people. PLUS: Japan restarts nuke in Sendai just in time for nearby volcano...
Nuclear Hotseat #216: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams
August 12, 2015 03:46 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBFACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to cover for" McCarthy! PLUS: Chernobyl forest fires release more radiation; Japan restarts Sendai nuclear reactor despite protests and a nearby active volcano; and Pacific Ocean in even worse condition ...
Nuclear Hotseat #216: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams
August 12, 2015 03:46 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBFACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to cover for" McCarthy! PLUS: Chernobyl forest fires release more radiation; Japan restarts Sendai nuclear reactor despite protests and a nearby active volcano; and Pacific Ocean in even worse condition ...
Nuclear Hotseat #215: Anti-Nuclear Millenials w/SPSR's Michelle Gin
August 05, 2015 20:34 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Michelle Gin, Program Coordinator for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility (SPSR) who holds an MA in Public Health, on student anti-nuke organizing around the world and what it will take to attract Millenials to the anti-nuclear movement. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #3 w/Dave Parrish focuses on Facebook as more than a distraction. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A floating nuclear reactor based on the technology used for oil drilling platforms - what could go wrong? PLUS: NRC trying ...
Nuclear Hotseat #214: Radioactive Southwest w/Leona Morgan
July 29, 2015 23:20 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Leona Morgan of Dine No Nukes explains the massive Church Rock radioactive waste spill of 1979 that released more radiation than Three Mile Island, then covers current issues on Native lands and actions being taken internationally by indigenous people re: nuclear issues. Diane D'Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) interprets the petitions before the NRC to change standards for radiation exposure from Linear No Threshold (all radiation exposure is dangerous) ...
Nuclear Hotseat #213: South Africa's "Radioactive Gold" w/Mariette Liefferink
July 22, 2015 05:50 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: South African environmental activist Mariette Liefferink, CEO of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment, on the uranium/gold connection in South Africa and the radiation dangers from irresponsible mining practices. NEW FEATURE: Dave Parish of Operation: Save the Earth kicks off a new series on Social Media Supertricks for Activists. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Fukushima buckwheat near-beer brewed within shouting distance of the radioactive disaster site. You'd think they'd at least ...
Nuclear Hotseat #212: United Nations Chernobyl Lies Exposed
July 14, 2015 21:46 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Alison Katz is a sociologist and psychologist who worked inside the World Health Organization (WHO) for 18 years. Now a leader within Independent WHO, an organization dedicated to revealing the lies and coverups perpetrated by WHO, Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations agency we’re supposed to be able to trust to safeguard the world’s health – especially in nuclear matters. Special focus on Chernobyl and how the WHO worked to diminish our ...
Nuclear Hotseat #211: UN Fukushima Radiation Lies Exposed - IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen
July 07, 2015 20:32 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBSpecial encore presentations of interviews with Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations' UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO's interpretation of radiation data is wrong as it tries to undermine the legitimate claims of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, ...
Nuclear Hotseat #210: Dry Cask Lies and Looney Tunes
July 01, 2015 17:50 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org gives lie to dry cask manufacturerer Holtec's presentation to Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel regarding long term storage of the plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: I guess according to the Pentagon, I'm a Belligerent Journalist of Unprivileged Persuasion -- who knew? PLUS: New forest fires near Chernobyl, Illinois nuke reactor almost hit by tornado; South Korea/Japan food figh...
Nuclear Hotseat #209 - IPPNW's Swiss rep Ure Ruegg
June 24, 2015 17:30 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Urs Ruegg of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Switzerland on that country's nuclear problems and IPPNW's upcoming Nuclearization of Africa Symposium in South Africa. And Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment gives us an update on the Senate's approval of Fast Track for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) - not a good thing. NUMNUTZ: Head of France's nuclear watchdog group tells the truth about problems with EDF'...
Nuclear Hotseat #208: 4th Anniversary!
June 17, 2015 05:57 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBNuclear Hotseat celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a look back at where how it started and where it goes from here, with the amazing revelation that the show was heard in 58 countries in May! INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray fills us in on the proposed high burn-up fuel storage tests proposed for North Anna in Virginia... only 11 miles from the epicenter of the 2011 5.8 east coast earthquake. And Diane Turco of Cape Cod Downwinders reports directly from the four-day protest March for the Children fr...
Nuclear Hotseat #207: Fukushima Kids, Moms Escaping Radiation
June 10, 2015 05:42 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Vicki Nelson, founder of the Hawaii-based nonprofit, Fukushima Friends, Inc., a program that puts Fukushima radiation refugees in people's homes for a stay of up to 3 months or longer, if the visas can be managed. She is joined by Tokiko Noguchi, a participant in the program, who came from Fukushima three months ago with her 10-year-old son, Michael. She speaks through volunteer interpreter Kea Uehara. And Laura and Gichi Inoue run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat in southwes...
Nuclear Hotseat #206: Don Hancock WIPP Update
June 03, 2015 06:47 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides an update on the latest on the radiologic contamination at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM. VOICES FROM JAPAN: Former Mayor of Futuba Idogawa, who is suing the Japanese government for damages following his exposure to radiation in the early days of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; and activist Ruiko Muto heads a coalition of over 20,000 people petitioning the government for an apolog...
Nuclear Hotseat #205: SPECIAL - Sister Megan Rice/Transform Now Plowshares
May 27, 2015 04:34 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBSPECIAL: Newly freed 85-year old nun, Sister Megan Rice, speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action against the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Now out of prison pending a resentencing hearing, she and co-defendants Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, and Michael Walli, 68, speak at length with Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy on what they did, why they d...
Nuclear Hotseat #204: Sister Megan Rice, Co-Defendents Freed!
May 20, 2015 06:41 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Alice Slater of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation brings us up to date on the UN's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; Dave Kraft of NEIS in Chicago eviscerates Entergy's attempts to strongarm a bankrupt Illinois into a $1.2 Billion bailout; and Jules Cook of UCY.TV unveils a complete database of mainstream media's TV coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster since March 11, 2011. NUMNUTZ: Two for the price of one: IAEA thinks it's perfectly swell for TEPCO to solve their w...
Nuclear Hotseat #203
May 13, 2015 07:07 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University on her not-yet-published analysis of American media's post-Fukushima coverage. Activist perspective proven through data analysis of over 2000 articles from print and online, plus fascinating observations on how the subject of "risk" got twisted to mean corporate interests and not people. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Could anything be numnutzier than Canada approving creation of a nuclear waste dump less than 3/4 of a mile from the shores of...
Nuclear Hotseat #202: PSR's Nukebusters Film Competition
May 06, 2015 05:56 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Nuclear Hotseat exclusive interviews on the current water seepage and sinkhole at Boone Dam in Tennessee, which is upriver from seven different nuclear reactors. Does this portend the possibility of a Fukushima-style accident or is it a false alarm? Interviews w/Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Executive Director Lou Zeller and a PR rep for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Jim Hopson. AND: Physicians for Social Responsibility is running a short film competition with real...
Nuclear Hotseat #201: CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
April 28, 2015 20:01 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBThis 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 fr...
Nuclear Hotseat #200! - QUEBEC SPECIAL
April 22, 2015 07:05 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBWORLD URANIUM SYMPOSIUM, Where April 14 - 25, the world perception of nuclear issues shifted and began to make the difference that will lead to our ultimate victories. More than 300 participants from five continents, 20 countries - including South Africa, Mongolia, Australia, India, Mali, Cameroon, Greenland, Germany, and Japan - and more than 50 films from around the world came together to focus international attention on uranium issues. Why uranium? Because all things nuclear start with...
Nuclear Hotseat #199: Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Okay'ed by Court
April 15, 2015 02:34 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Rebuttal to Federal Court go-ahead for uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter; Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club; and Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: More Food News from Fukushima! (a new feature?) - this time... gold metal tap water from F...
Nuclear Hotseat #198: Dr. Ian Fairlie, Nuke Reactor Impact on Child Health in 3 Mile Radius
April 08, 2015 04:13 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie on his study on the impact of nuclear radiation on children living within 5 km/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. An encore interview from Nuclear Hotseat #162. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Milan Expo 2015 will be another site of Japan's attempt to convince the world that Fukushima food is really safe to eat so that by 2020, Tokyo Olympics tourists will have no qualms about chowing down and exposing themselves to internal radiation. Mmm mmm bad! PLUS: more TEPCO admission...
Nuclear Hotseat #197: April Fools or Nuclear Fools?
April 01, 2015 06:18 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project on the recent study showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima. PLUS: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network on Bequerel Awareness Day and why anti-nuclear activists need to help stop the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). And a special APRIL FOOLS BLOOPER REEL. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe-baby has his own "Define what 'is' is"...
Nuclear Hotseat #196: Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL
March 25, 2015 03:09 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBThe 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learned of it, the early lies and attempts at a cover-up, how the media dug into the story instead of whitewashing it, and what even hearing the word "evacuation" did to that part of the world. Featured: nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education; Middletown resident Mary Stamos; TMI Alert te...
Nuclear Hotseat #195: Uranium Film Festival Quebec
March 18, 2015 05:16 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer of the 2015 Uranium Film Festival in Quebec; and Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility in Oregon and Washington State, on the problems at the Hanford site and with the Columbia Generating Station. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has come up with $4 billion in aid to disaster victims... of any and every disaster but the one on the northeast coast of Japan. PLUS: Fukushima at 4 - triple the number of ...
Nuclear Hotseat #194: Fukushima Fourth Anniversary
March 11, 2015 05:23 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBSpecial Voices from Japan to mark the fourth Anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Interviews and direct address from actress/star Midori Kiuchi; No-Nukes Occupy tent stalwart Taro Fuchigami, who has been sued by the government for over $260,000 dollars for his activism; Professor Hiroake Koide; head of the Tarachine Citizen's Radiation Monitoring Center Kaori Suzuki; businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House Seiichi izuno; and actor and member of t...
Nuclear Hotseat #193: SPECIAL - Caldicott Symposium Report
March 06, 2015 00:06 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBSPECIAL: Full length report on Dr. Helen Caldicott's Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, held Feb. 28 - March 1 at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan. 24 presenters on all aspects of nuclear war, nuclear winter, the psychology of nuclear weapons researchers, along with tactics and strategies to turn back the possibility of human extinction from this internationally suicidal technology.
Nuclear Hotseat #192: Zombie Uranium Mines at Grand Canyon
February 25, 2015 05:32 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over ...