NH #250: “Chernobyl in a Can” – More Dry Cask Dangers w/Donna Gilmore

This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore, head of SanOnofreSafety.org, offers a chilling update on the problems of short term nuclear waste storage, calling the on-site dry storage canisters approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “Chernobyl in a Can.” Numnutz of the Week: Russia risks doubling the reactor lifespan of the Kola nuclear power plant in…

NH #249: Three Mile Island 37th Anniversary SPECIAL – Eric Epstein of TMI Alert

Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident – 37 Years Later Historical Audio ŸŸ-Ÿ First-Person AccountsOfficial Errors – Mutations and Deaths – Lack of Accountability What it was like on the ground at the first major commercial nuclear power reactor accident in US history… and what has happened in the 37 years since. Featuring: Eric Epstein of Three…

NH #248: Great Lakes Radionuclides w/Canada’s John Jackson, Diablo Cyn Legislation Update w/Jane Swanson

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Veteran environmental activist John Jackson is author of the report issued on March 2 by the Canadian Environmental Law Association, calling for radionuclides to be designated by the US and Canada as a “chemical of mutual concern” under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. More than 100+ groups signed onto this…

NH #247: PSR/IPPNW Report – 10,000+ Excess Cancer Cases Post-Fukushima – Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez

This Week’s Featured Interviews: The PSR/IPPNW report released last week projecting at least 10,000 excess cancer cases in Japan because of the radioactivity releases from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. We’ll hear from: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War;…

NH #246: Fukushima 5th Anniversary – Voices from Japan – Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” overview of the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  She is the producer behind our Voices from Japan series and this year is the Voice from Japan Kimberly Roberson is the founder of Fukushima…

NH #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed – IPPNW’s Dr. Alex Rosen – ENCORE

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).  On behalf of that group, he takes on the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report on Fukushima that drastically, perhaps criminally downplayed the health dangers of that ongoing nuclear disaster. A pdf transcript…

NH #244: SPECIAL – Atoms Next Door: North St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare w/Dr. Caldicott, Bob Alvarez, West Lake Moms

NH #244: SPECIAL – Atoms Next Door: North St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare w/Dr. Caldicott, Bob Alvarez, West Lake Moms

“Atoms Next Door” Symposium on the St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: A Full-Length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL Dr. Helen Caldicott (R) interviewed by Libbe HaLevy (L) on-site at the Bridgeton Landfill in North St. Louis.  Behind them:  (L-R) – Mali Martha Lightfoot, Byron DeLear, Kay Drey In North St. Louis, World War II era nuclear weapons waste…

NH #243: Chernobyl, Fukushima Mutations w/Dr. Timothy Mousseau (picture is of mutated fire bugs at Chernobyl)

This Week’s Featured Interview Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and since 1991, a faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting…

NH #242: Thyroid Cancer’s Silent Epidemic w/Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi. Numnutz of the Week: Gina “Never Met A Nuke…