This Week’s Featured Interview:

Zoomathon interview with Prof. Steven Starr

• Professor Steven Starr directed the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri in Columbia for 11 years until his retirement in 2021. He is an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and has been a Board Member and Senior Scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility. Starr also teaches a class for the MU Peace Studies Program entitled Nuclear Weapons: Environmental, Health, and Social Effects.
  
  Starr began making presentations at side panels at the United Nations in 2007, sometimes working as an expert witness for Switzerland, New Zealand, and Chile at the UN offices in NYC and Geneva. In 2010, Starr addressed the UN First Committee, discussing the environmental consequences of nuclear war, including nuclear winter and nuclear famine.
  
  I spoke with Steven Starr on June 19, 2023.

Steven Starr LINKS:

• BOOK – Nuclear High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse: A Mortal Threat to the U.S. Power Grid and U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
• Website – Nuclear Famine. Be sure to scroll down on home page to see all the articles available on a wide range of nuclear issues.
• Short version of talking points covered in today’s interview.
• Contact Steven Starr

This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano

• Last week, we featured an interview with UK Radiation researcher Dr. Ian Fairlie about childhood leukemia rates for children living within 5 kilometers/3 miles of a nuclear reactor.
  
  Now, we take a look at U.S. cancer rates for infants, children, and adults living in the same county as a nuclear reactor and into adjacent counties, up to 50 miles away. It’s an excerpt from an interview we did in 2018 with Joseph Mangano, the epidemiologist who is head of Radiation and Public Health Project – RPHP. His studies are based in the U.S. and he crunches the numbers based on publicly available data. Here, he explains about how the work was done on Oyster Creek, a New Jersey nuclear power facility that was shut down shortly after we spoke. (No causality implied.)

Joseph Mangano and RPHP LINKS:

• Elevated Childhood Cancer Incidence Proximate to U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
• Counterpunch article: Closing Nuclear Reactors Means Big Improvements in Local Infant Health
• Direct link to RPHP Journal Articles and Studies

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:

Will a Supreme Court ruling mean the end of Democratic commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Chernobyl‘s New Safe Containment building is no longer New or Safe – but that doesn’t stop the sale of 22 tons of so-called “safe” “formerly” radioactive metal that’s been reclaimed from the site. Radioactive belt buckles, anyone…?