NH #88: Bicoastal Activist Special – San Onofre in CA & Climate Change in DC

 SPECIAL BICOASTAL REPORT:  Interviews with participants in two major actions on opposite coasts.  Gary Headrick, Grace Van Thillo and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (via proxy) weigh in on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s public hearing on Southern California Edison’s dumbass intention to restart the aging, leaking, dangerous reactors at San Onofre.  In DC, Coalition Against…

NH #87: Boxer/Markey Nuclear Bombshell, Toronto Trainstopper Zach “No Cameco” Ruiter

 INTERVIEW:  Zach “No Cameco” Ruiter, Canadian activist, on the recent Toronto Idle No More-led blockade of a train outside GE-Hitachi’s mid-city uranium processing facility.  Plus words of wisdom and strategy for activists hoping to make a difference in their local communities. Zach “No Cameco” Ruiter joins with Idle No More at the Toronto Train Blockade…

NH #85: Journalist Karl Grossman Reveals 40+ Years of Nuke Media Manipulation

INTERVIEW:  Special encore presentation of Karl Grossman, veteran journalist with over 45 years of covering nuclear issues.  Karl knows where the metaphoric “bodies” are buried and reveals how the nuclear story has been gamed since before the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945.  One of the most fascinating interviews ever to appear on the…

NH #84: Nuclear Collusion, Radioactive Food w/Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers

PLUS: IAEA declares 47 Japanese reactors in “Long Term Shutdown;” Allegations of voter fraud arise after Japan’s general election that brought in a pro-nuke government; Nuke industry pre-3/11/13 talking points pushing the disinformation that “radiophobia” – fear of radiation – as more harmful to health than radiation <!>; Fuku fish caught w/2,500 times more radiation…

NH #83: Dr. Helen Caldicott!

Dr. Helen Caldicott talks for the first time about her March 11-12 Symposium: The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima – a watershed event for our movement, involving doctors, scientists and researchers from around the world.  She explains how she became an anti-nuclear activist while still a teenager, how she founded three of our most…

NH #82 – Iran’s Nuke Accident? SanO DAB seeks Whistleblowers, Cesium in Fuku Food

PLUS: Did Iran have a nuclear accident or is there some other cause for the evacuation of 1.5 million people? Osaka to burn radioactive Fukushima debris as the government detains and arrests anti-nuclear protestors. Turkey to test all food imported from Japan for suspected radioactivity, but US continues to do NOTHING to protect our food…

NH #81: Nuke Year’s Resolutions from CAN’s Priscilla Star

INTERVIEW:  Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) shares her passion and vision for a women-led meeting with a White House superstar! PLUS: BIG STORY:  US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO over radiation exposure while on Fukushima disaster relief. ANOTHER BIG STORY:  NRC smacks SCE upside the head over San Onofre “restart” plans,…

NH #80: Dear Santa – NO NUKES!

 IN THIS NUCLEAR HOTSEAT PODCAST: Activists send in their requests to Santa for a nuclear-free 2013; US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; Russia gives us a clue what could be happening with Fukushima produce; Construction cost overruns and construction delays at Vogtle; French electricity giant EDF‘s…