NH #298: Radiation Road Signs, Nuclear Refugees, Government Cover-Ups – VOICES FROM JAPAN: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster turns Six

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature:  VOICES FROM JAPAN Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster. Featuring: Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear…

NH #297: Saving Fukushima’s Abandoned Pets – Kerry Anne O’Connor

NH #297: Saving Fukushima’s Abandoned Pets – Kerry Anne O’Connor

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone and rescued 760 animals after the March 11, 2011 meltdown of the three nuclear reactors.  She also runs her own charity, Anywhere Foot Baths, which provides comforting foot baths and hand massages for those…

Dr. Caldicott on Fukushima

NH #296: Dr. Caldicott on Fukushima: “Decommission or Cleaning Up? It’s Fantasy!”

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea. Dr. Caldicott Links: HelenCaldicott.com Helen Caldicott Foundation Book – Nuclear Power is Not the Answer Book – Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima…

NH #295: Code Red x 100! – Danger Reports the Nuke Industry Hides – Journalist Karl Grossman

This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans. Karl Grossman’s Links: Article – “An Engineer’s Perspective on the Indian Point Shutdown“ FREE download…

NH #294: NO Radiation Spike at Fukushima – Nancy Foust of Simply Info (It’s still bad, but it’s not suddenly worse)

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels.  Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe.  Step away from the hysteria… LINKS to the Simply Info articles referenced:…

NH #293: Hanford Radioactivity Dangers, Whistleblowers – Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy.  Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is. The Missing Links:…

NH #292: Chernobyl/Fukushima Mutations – Mousseau + Small Modular Reactors w/Don Safer

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species.  A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental Council and the Nuclear Matters Committee for the Sierra Club on the TVA…

NH #291: Nuclear Cyber Security Risks w/Scott Portzline + Chernobyl Scientist-Warrior Alexei Yablakov Memorial

This Week’s Featured Interview: Scott Portzline is the the Security Consultant to Three Mile Island Alert in Harrisburg, PA.  He fills us in on cyber security attacks, near-misses and lack of vigilance at US nuclear reactors. Alexei Yablakov Memorial: Russian scientist Dr. Alexei Yablakov brought together the work of dissident Soviet scientists and revealed to…

NH #290: OMG! Defective French Nuke Parts in 19 US Reactors! – Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear

This Week’s Featured Interview: Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty major nuclear reactor parts produced there which are reported to be in use by 19 US nuclear reactors on 11 sites. LINK to…