NH #657: Atomic Bamboozle film director Jan Haaken Takes on SMRs, Pacific NW Nuclear Nightmares + Doomsday Clock Stuck, Bill Nye Sucks
Atomic Bamboozle film director Jan Haaken Takes on SMNRs, Pacific NW Nuclear Nightmares + Doomsday Clock Stuck, Bill Nye Sucks
This Week’s Featured Interview:
- Jan Haaken is a professor of psychology and director of the documentary Atomic Bamboozle. The 46-minute film portrays a nuclear industry still rising quickly while downplaying nuclear power’s most crucial and recurring issues—those unresolved and unchanged by small modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs, referred to by the industry as SMRs). Haaken interviewed physicists, activists, conservationists, indigenous community members, focusing on the lies behind the push for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
We spoke on January 15, 2024.
Links for This Week’s Featured Interview:
- Colorado Environmental Film Festival
- Atomic Bamboozle page for Colorado Environmental Film Festival – for in-person and streaming tickets
- https://ceff2024.eventive.org/welcome – Overall festival info
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
The Doomsday Clock was unveiled on Tuesday, January 23, still set at 90 seconds to midnight. But Bill Nye (the ‘Science Guy’) told the audience watching that we should go ahead and hate him and love nuclear power and fusion. Say what?
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
- Salty, crunchy, potato chip-like seaweed snacks, made from laver (aka nori) seaweed. Mmmm mmmm good… or is it? What about possible radiation content when it’s been harvested from Fukushima’s waters?
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
- The Doomsday Clock was unveiled on Tuesday, January 23, still set at 90 seconds to midnight. But Bill Nye (the ‘Science Guy’) told the audience watching that we should go ahead and hate him and love nuclear power and fusion. Say what?
Activist Shout Out!
Keepers of the Water will be presenting a four-part webinar on uranium mining issues in Northern Saskatchewan. No registration is required and it will broadcast live from this Facebook Event Page, https://fb.me/e/6zNAhAEJG. All webinars will begin at 6 pm Central time (SASK).
- #1 – January 30th, 2024, Indigenous Resistance to Uranium Mining.
- #2 – February 13th, 2024: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) and Consent in Saskatchewan: What You Haven’t Been Told
- #3 – February 27, 2024: Health Impacts of Uranium Mining on Indigenous Bodies
- #4 March TBD, 2023: Decolonizing the Industrial Approach to Mining Our Traditional Lands
Ian Zabarte, Karen Pettit NDE & Areeya Priestess at Temple of Sekmet at the Las Vegas Martin Luther King, Jr. parade using a mock-up of a nuclear waste canister as a float.
Links in Response to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ article: Why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten, not save Humanity, by Zachary Kallenborn
- A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished by Ward Hayes Wilson
- Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty by Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Xanthe Hall, Ira Helfand, Mays Smithwick |
