NH #492: Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation’s Radioactive Legacy – The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster

Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation’s Radioactive Legacy –Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of 94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation land. This Week’s Featured Interview:

NH #491: Social Media for Activists w/Colleen Moore, Beyond the Bomb

Social Media for Activists:  Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above)explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons. Colleen has experience…

NH #490: Children of Atomic Veterans Carry Heavy Genetic Burden: Victoria Moore

Children of Atomic Veterans  – DNA damage, penile cancer,and the message:   Don’t have kids! The American devastation of military personnel from the atomic bomb test radiationthat devastated the Marshall Islands and its people.  This Week’s Featured Interview: Children of Atomic Veterans focuses on medical and genetic issues in those whose parents – primarily fathers –…

NH #489: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: The Inside Scoop w/Ray Acheson + NPR’s Ira Flatow IS Numnutz of the Week!

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson,Director of Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomShe was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Interview: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban:  Ray Acheson is Director of the Disarmament Programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom…

NH #488: Hot Nukes & Global Warming: Nuclear’s Climate Change Connection – Attny Susan Hito Shapiro

Hot nukes – The thermal plume from Indian Point and Lovett power plants in this infra-red image taken in 1998 by scientists from GER/SpectroTech, Inc. The reds indicate discharge temperatures from 1-8 degrees hotter than ambient river water, and the yellows go up to 14.5 degrees hotter. One scientist noted that the plume appeared to…

NH #487: Radium Girls – New Film on Tragically Radiation-Poisoned Workers + Covid/Nuclear Update w/Dave Kraft

Radium Girls – WWI era young women paint luminous watch dials with radioactive paint were instructed to lick the brush tips to make a sharper point. A new dramatic film tells of our first awareness of radiation horrors in very human terms.   LISTEN HERE: [powerpress]   This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radium Girls is a…

NH #486: New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump UPDATE: Leona Morgan & Eileen O’Shaughnessy

New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump: Two proposed radioactive nuclear waste dump sites in NM and West Texas, and all the routes that existing waste would have to take to get there. Map courtesy Nuclear Issues Study Group   LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico Nuclear UPDATE:  What’s the latest on the proposed…

NH #485: BREAKING: Nuclear Football & Trump’s Covid + Meds – Garrett Graff + South African Award-Winning Climate Change Activist Makoma Lekalakala

BREAKING:  Nuclear Football – Nuclear Launch Codes = Armageddon in a Briefcase It follows the President everywhere… but where was it at Walter Reed? Listen Here: [powerpress] BREAKING: Nuclear Football = Nuclear Launch Codes – What does it mean to international security when the President of the United States, who has sole, unimpeded access  and…

Chernobyl Truth

NH #484: Chernobyl Truth, World Health Org. Lies – Alison Katz of Independent WHO

This Week’s Featured Interview – A Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Chernoby Truth, World Health Org. Lies Revealed – Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima.  The…