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INTERVIEWS: Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, on the nuclear reactors downstream of the leaking, sinkhole’ed Boone Dam in Tennessee. Jim Hopson, Manager of Public Relations for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), on current status of Boone Dam. Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Christine Herrmann and Martin Fleck on PSR’s Nukebusters…

LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE This week, we commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine with a Nuclear Hotseat Special.  You’ll hear from: Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, a teenager in Bulgaria when the accident began, on the impact to her and her not-yet-born children; Dr. Janette Sherman, well known for her work…

 LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE   SPECIAL REPORT NUCLEAR HOTSEAT EXCLUSIVE!  QUEBEC CITY — The world’s perception of nuclear issues shifted in mid-April in Quebec at the World Uranium Symposium and the Uranium Film Festival.  More than 300 participants from five continents, 20 countries – including South Africa, Mongolia, Australia, India, Mali, Cameroon, Greenland, Germany, and…

INTERVIEWS: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion  for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter.  She is joined by: Sandy Bahr, who is Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club. Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF…

INTERVIEW:  Dr. Ian Fairlie, author of a 2014 study that correlated more than 60 studies about health risks to small children living within 5 kilometers – 3 miles – of nuclear reactors. Important information that needs to be deployed in any battle against nuclear reactors.  An encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat #162. NUMNUTZ OF THE…

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project  on her recent study (with epidemiologist Joseph Mangano) showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima. Full report available at: JanetteSherman.com or Radiation.org Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network on Bequerel Awareness Day and why…

 SPECIAL REPORT:  THREE MILE ISLAND AT 36 The 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learned of it, the early lies and attempts at a cover-up, how the media dug into the…

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer for this year’s Uranium Film Festival in Quebec, explains how he coordinated the timing of this year’s event with an international scientific symposium on uranium issues and a political gathering of Canada’s Prime Minister and political elite of the Provinces.  www.UraniumFilmFestival.org. Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility…

VOICES FROM JAPAN INTERVIEWS: TV and Film star Midori Kiuchi No-Nukes Occupy tent veteran Taro Fuchigama Professor Hiroake Koide, Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center Seiichi Mizuno, businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House Taro Yamamoto, actor and member…