NH #199: Feds Approve Grand Canyon Uranium Mining! – Gitlin, Bahr, Tapp

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…

NH #198: Dr. Ian Fairlie, Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Reactors

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…

NH #197: Post-Fukushima W. Coast Birth Defects w/Dr. Janette Sherman

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…

NH #195: Uranium Film Festival – Quebec, + PSR NW’s Chuck Johnson on Hanford, CGS

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…

NH #194: Fukushima 4th Anniversary – Voices from Japan

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…

NH #193: SPECIAL – Caldicott Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction

 Guess where I was…! (said the future Nuclear Pundit of The Daily Show)! SPECIAL REPORT:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy traveled to New York to cover the February 28/March 1 symposium put together by Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Video archive of the complete two-day event is available HERE.  This Nuclear Hotseat Special Report includes interviews, excerpts…

NH #192: Zombie Mines, Uranium Dangers at Grand Canyon w/Sierra Club’s Alicyn Gitlin

This Week’s Featured Interview:  Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and “zombie mines” at the world’s greatest hole in the ground. Sierra Club letter to President Obama asking him to designate a Grand Canyon Watershed National…

NH #191: NIRS’ Mary Olson on “Atomic Eggs,” Increased Female Vulnerability to Radiation

INTERVIEW: Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation, including trans-generational DNA damage and a phenomenon she labels “Atomic Eggs.“ http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radhealth/radhealthhome.htm NIRS‘ Mary Olson speaks on impact of radiation on girls and women at…