NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD

NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD

A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste. This Week’s Special Feature The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive Wastes…

NH #683: Ohio Radiation Contamination – More Radioactive Water, Soil, Plants Found at Piketon/Portsmouth: Dr. Michael Ketterer

NH #683: Ohio Radiation Contamination – More Radioactive Water, Soil, Plants Found at Piketon/Portsmouth: Dr. Michael Ketterer

The shuttered Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered for contamination with nuclear materials from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, only 3 miles away. And now the school district is trying to auction it off “AS-IS” without explaining what the “AS-IS” is?!?!??? This Week’s Featured Interview: To contact Dr. Michael Ketterer and Others Re: PORTS: Links: Fukushima…

NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster

NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster

Annual walk to commemorate Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation land – from 2019. Site of the mine and tailings pond in the background. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders Advocating for Justice – Tina Cordova: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles…

NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson

NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson

This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom on Monday, July 15…

NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk

NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk

A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health…

NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo

NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill opposed…

NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia

NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia

Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda…

NH #677 – OBSCENE Atomic Museum Shows No Bomb Victims, No Downwinders, Just Nuclear “FUN”<!!!>

NH #677 – OBSCENE Atomic Museum Shows No Bomb Victims, No Downwinders, Just Nuclear “FUN”<!!!>

Compare and Contrast: Picture of what the bombing of Hiroshima looked like to this one infant vs. logo outside the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, promising all kinds of radioactive, life-destroying fun! This Week’s Featured Interview: Atomic Museum’s Deputy Director Joseph Kent with his PR handler and Robbie the Robot. The Miller Map The Miller…

NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards

NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards

This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activists and concerned citizens about…