NH #427: Radioactive Canada UPDATE: Dr. Gordon Edwards on RadWaste, SNC Lavalin, more + Farewell to 100-year-old Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist Frances Crowe

The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Radioactive Canada: Dr. Gordon Edwards is co-founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, or CCNR.  Dr. Edwards…

NH #426: Nuclear UPDATE USA: Piketon Radiation Battles, Ohio Nuke Bailout, Holtec/SNC Lavalin Decommissioning Shenanigans at Pilgrim in MA

Nuclear UPDATE: Ohio Nuke Bailout info w/Attorney Terry Lodge Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nuclear Update USA checks in on several – far from all! – nuclear hotspots around the United States to find out the latest. We hear from activists on the front lines of ongoing nuclear problems: Vina Colley, in her…

NH #425: RUSSIA NUKES ITSELF? + Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Peace Activism Today: Tsukuru Fors Lauritsen, Setsuko Thurlow of ICAN

Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) addressing the world upon accepting the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN. RUSSIA! BREAKING & ONGOING: Explosion of a Russian nuclear reactor-powered cruise missile during a test on Thursday, August 8, has killed at least 7 – including 5 high…

NH #424:Kansas City Site: When “Not Nuclear” really means “Nuclear, Radioactive & Deadly”

Wilfred Burchett’s front page story about Hiroshima in the Daily Mirror. He was the only reporter who got the story and got it right; U.S. military crackdown on access to Hiroshima made accurate reporting on the nature of radiation and its horrific impact impossible – and Burchett’s story was buried. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s…

NH #423: Uranium Mining Disaster – Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Breach – 40th Anniversary SPECIAL, Pt. 2: Navajo Nation Elders & Activists Speak Out on Cancers, Contamination, Slow-Motion EPA Clean-up

Uranium Miner Larry J. King (center) explains the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach that dumped more than 94 million gallons of uranium contaminated waste water into the adjacent Puerco River – a nuclear disaster that, 40 years later, has yet to be cleaned up. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s SPECIAL…

NH #422: Chernobyl Health Cover-Up, Lies by UN/WHO Exposed: Alison Katz, Independent WHO

Chernobyl liquidators in ineffective hazmat suits prepare to do battle with the nuclear monster unleashed. NOTE: Technical difficulties have prevented the uploading of the second of two specials on the 40th anniversary of the Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation. The program was lost near the end of the editing process; it…

NH #421: Uranium Mining Disaster SPECIAL Pt. 1: Church Rock at 40, Navajo Nation Devastation Continues – Chris Shuey, Southwest Research and Information Center

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: Chris Shuey is Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program for Southwest Research and…

NH #420: Nuclear Earthquake Fears: If Ridgecrest 7.1 Quake had Happened Closer to Diablo Canyon Nuke Reactors, It Would Have Been Endgame for L.A. – Harvey Wasserman

Nuclear Earthquake fears for Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors (above) got kicked up by the 7.1 Ridgecrest quake on July 5. According to veteran activist Harvey Wasserman, if the quake had hit closer than its less than 200 miles from Diablo Canyon, Los Angeles and much of the world would have become “a radioactive dead zone.”…

NH #419: Radioactive Waste Storage Crisis SPECIAL: NUCLEAR NIMBY Targets New Mexico, West Texas: Kevin Kamps, Diane D’Arrigo, Leona Morgan, Karen Hadden

Radioactive Waste Storage – NUCLEAR NIMBY: Activists rally against the proposed Holtec-Eddy/Lea consolidated so-called “interim” nuclear waste dump in New Mexico – January, 2019 SPECIAL REQUEST: Next week, I will be traveling to Navajo Nation in New Mexico to cover the 40th anniversary of the Church Rock disaster, the uranium tailings spill. Over 94 million…