Uranium Film Festival

NH #517: Uranium Film Festival: Wake-Up Call to Humanity + Post-A-Bomb Suppressed Color Footage

This Week’s Featured Interviews: With the International Uranium Film Festival running online May 20-30 – and free – we bring you interviews with two of the filmmakers.  A third interview will run on next week’s show, #518. Register to watch at: www.UraniumFilmFestival.org.  Click on the Rio 2021 link. The two films and directors featured on…

New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL

NH #516: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL: WIPP Plutonium Expansion or Just The Shaft? Hearings Start May 17 – Don Hancock, Joni Arends

This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmares – this one dealing with hearings that hide the planned expansion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to hold more than 50 TONS of “excess” plutonium – the most deadly radioactive substance on earth.  And all that plutonium will have to be trucked and trained across the…

Indian Point Shutdown

NH #515: Indian Point Shutdown! What’s Next? Manna Jo Greene, Dr. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Decommissioning Process

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Indian Point Shutdown!  The closure of Indian Point’s last operating nuclear reactor – only 25 miles from Manhattan – is a cause for celebration… and a recalibration of the activist response to focus on decommissioning challenges.  Two genuine experts paint the decommissioning picture: Manna Jo Greene has been the Environmental Director…

Chernobyl Anniversary #2

NH #514: Chernobyl Anniversary #2: Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman + Hawaiian “Incoming Missile” Film

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examining its consequences.  Check last week’s Nuclear Hotseat #513 for further interviews.  This week: Bonnie Kouneva was a 15-year-old living in Communist Bulgaria when the Chernobyl disaster began, but no one knew about it because the Soviet Union said nothing to its…

Chernobyl Anniversary #35

NH #513: Chernobyl Anniversary #35: Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau + Ian Zabarte on USA’s MIghty Oak Nuke Accident

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research has been funded by the American Academy in Berlin and by Carnegie and Guggenheim…

LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare Film

NH #512: LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare Film: “Cancer Moves Faster than Bureaucracy” – Santa Susana Field Lab Documentary

This Week’s Featured Interview: LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare – Simi Valley mother Melissa Bumstead only found out about the toxic, radioactively contaminated Santa Susan Field Lab – located less than three miles from her home – while her daughter was being treated for neuroblastoma – a rare cancer.  Her story, the history of the site,…

Radiation Monitoring in USA

NH #511: Radiation Monitoring in USA? Let’s go! – Rachel Clark

This Week’s Featured interview: Radiation Monitoring in USA based on Japan’s Citizen Activist model is the focus of our interview with this week’s guest.  Originally from Japan, Rachel Clark holds a degree in International Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey.  As an independent interpreter/global coordinator, her language capacity has been utilized in various international…

Turkish Nuclear Reactors

NH #510: Turkish Nuclear Reactors = Russia’s Mediterranean Toehold: Journalist Pinar Demircan

This Week’s Featured Interview: Pınar Demircan is a Turkish antinuclear activist and a journalist who started writing about nuclear after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Turkish, and has been involved to global forums and panels where she presented on nuclear projects and the antinuclear struggle in Turkey….

Yes, I Grow In The Dark! Book

NH #509: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 42: Never Forget!

This week’s full-lengthThree Mile Island Anniversary SPECIALfeatures interviews with: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.Watch a video of Arnie Gundersen speaking about the accident at the 40th Anniversary of the founding of TMI Alert. Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner  during the TMI accident. Eric Epstein, Chair of…