NH #79: Home for the Hellidays: Christmas in Japan as 2 Evacuees Return

INTERVIEW: This week, a special interview with two women who have lived the nuclear nightmare.  Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are American-born, fell in love with and married Japanese men, and were raising families in Japan when the Fukushima disaster began.   Both evacuated with their children to southern California, where they’ve become active in the…

NH #78: Nuclear Perpetrators, Urban Planners, UN Preps Int’l Nuke Gag Order

INTERVIEW: Torgen Johnson is a Harvard-educated Urban Planner with a professional degree in Architecture from USC.  He brings a unique perspective to the nuclear conversation based upon three separate professional disciplines.  As a resident of southern California who lives near San Onofre, he interprets the risks to community and accumulated wealth from a single major…

NH#77: SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT – SCE/NRC Meeting, Buddhist Monks, Plant Sabotage

SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditating for an end to nuclear; NRC/SCE public meeting on SCE planned restart muzzles activists (as usual)… and Nuclear Hotseat is there!…

NH #76: SAN ONOFRE/NRC/SCE SPECIAL

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hear from four activists involved with the battle to stop the San Onofre restart as we head into this Friday’s public meeting between the NRC, Southern California Edison and (hopefully squeezing in there, eventually) the public.  Host Libbe HaLevy interviews: Video activist Myla Reson Gary Headrick, head of San Clemente Green (www.SanClementeGreen.org) Gene…

NH #75: Activists Share Gratitude; Nuclear is the Turkey

  LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f3b18260-038f-1942-bfd3-a757897d2180.mp3   INTERVIEW: What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for?  Listen to a montage of national activist voices expressing their gratitude for skirmishes won, battles shared, losses commiserated, unexpected camaraderie and the miracle that is our growing movement.  If you need a reminder as to why we do…

NH #74: First Nations Battle Nuclear Genocide in Canada

Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching “black stone” (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politics of poverty in guaranteeing the nuke interests always win, and the genocidal dangers of building Canada’s proposed nuclear waste repository…

NH #73: Japanese Seniors Thwarted in Fukushima Clean-Up Effort

INTERVIEW: Remember the senior citizens who volunteered to help clean up Fukushima to spare younger workers from radiation exposure?  Nuclear Hotseat interviews Yastel Yamada, the man who helped start the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima.  Listen closely as he talks about graft, censorship and the politics of the nuclear clean-up. PLUS: Post-Sandy round–up of nuclear…

NH #71 – Nuclear Reactors = Nuclear Bombs: Alice Slater; Wisconsin Nuke Plant to Close, SanO Leaks Again!

INTERVIEW:  Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the global fight for freedom and sanity.  www.abolition2000.org; www.wagingpeace.org. PLUS: San Onofre leaks again and it’s not even on line!…