NH #390: Uranium/Nuclear Devastation to Navajo Nation, Japan, India, Greenland? Ames, Iowa?!? International Uranium Film Festival SPECIAL

NH #390: Uranium/Nuclear Devastation to Navajo Nation, Japan, India, Greenland? Ames, Iowa?!? International Uranium Film Festival SPECIAL

Norbert Suchanek & Marcia Olviera Gomez, OrganizersFilmmakers, Audience Members – and one Podcaster w/a Book –at the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock, Arizona. SPECIAL: International Uranium Film Festival Nuclear Hotseat went to the Capitol of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, to cover the International Uranium Film Festival – 22 films in…

NH #386: NUCLEAR FIRE SPECIAL: Woolsey Fire’s Nuke Origins; Radioactive Smoke? – PRS’s Duffield, Mom/Activist Bumstead, Fairewinds’ Gundersen, SanO Safety’sGilmore

Nuclear Fire: Helicopter view of the start of the Woolsey fire, on Santa Susana Field Lab PropertyPhoto courtesy Safecast. NUCLEAR FIRE – WOOLSEY’S NUKE ORIGINS SPECIAL: Denise Duffield, Administrator of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, Director of its Nuclear Threats program, and leader of PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana…

NH #379: Chris Busby Strikes Back against Trumped-Up Attempted Arrest + Dawn Chapman on Good/Bad News re: N. St. Louis Toxic Landfills

Chris Busby in iconic – and so-called “suspicious” – beret. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from Republic Services’ two landfills that had contaminated the neighborhood, back yards, even inside the houses where they and others live.  She provides background…

NH #378: Brunswick Nuclear/Hurricane Florence UPDATE w/Dave Lochbaum of UCS; Rocky Flats w/Leroy Moore

Brunswick Nuclear site map of vulnerability to flooding from ocean surge, Cape Fear River.From Dave Lochbaum powerpoint (available below) This Week’s Featured Interviews: BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same…

NH #375: Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Nightmares, San Onofre Update, Radiation vs. Radioactivity: Dr. Gordon Edwards

Vermont Yankee protest from 2012, two years prior to shut-down. This Week’s Featured Interviews: An update on problems being faced with the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vermont.  Sandra Levine is senior attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation in Montpelier, Vermont, where her work focuses on climate change, clean energy, land use,…

NH #370: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths – SPECIAL: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying w/Kevin Kamps, Dave Kraft, Manna Jo Greene

Congress briefing pros Kevin Kamps (l) of Beyond Nuclear andIan Zabarte of the Western Shoshone tribelet DC insiders know a genuine nuclear truth.Photo by Galen Tromble SPECIAL REPORT:Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when…

NH #368: FALLOUT: Int’l Nuclear Disasters, Lies & Secrecy with Author Fred Pearce

FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearceincludes, of course, Chernobyl, pictured here immediately after the disaster began. This Week’s Featured Interview: Fred Pearce is an English journalist based in London. He is a science writer, reporting on the environment, popular science, and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years,…

NH #367: New Mexico Radioactive Battleground over Nuke Dump: Sierra Club’s John Buchser

New Mexico’s other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine’s Day, 2014. It cost taxpayers more than $2 billion and severely limits the ability to store radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste there….

NH #362: Chernobyl Dogs, Radiation Genetics, Mutations: Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau

Chernobyl – Dr. Timothy Mousseau heads research into plant, insect, bird and small mammal mutations This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist best known for his research on-the-ground studying the effects of radiation on animals and plant life around Chernobyl and Fukushima. He has been a faculty member of the…