Nuclear Hotseat

NH #755: Japan’s 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies

This Week’s Featured Interview: Here’s This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day. She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News…

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NH #755: Japan’s 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies

This Week’s Featured Interview: Here’s This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day. She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News…

Read More NH #755: Japan’s 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies
NH #754: Nukes in Space? Just One Explosion = Massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) = Buh-bye Grid! – Prof. Steven Starr + Cancer Rates near US Nuclear Reactors – Joseph Mangano

This Week’s Featured Interview: Zoomathon interview with Prof. Steven Starr Steven Starr LINKS: This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano Joseph Mangano and RPHP LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Will a Supreme Court ruling mean the end of Democratic commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission? Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):…

Read More NH #754: Nukes in Space? Just One Explosion = Massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) = Buh-bye Grid! – Prof. Steven Starr + Cancer Rates near US Nuclear Reactors – Joseph Mangano
NH #753: Childhood Leukemia Rates Soar for Kids Living Near Nuclear Reactors: UK Researcher Dr. Ian Fairlie Exposes Industry Lies

Dr. Ian Fairlie speaking at Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Symposium: Fukushima Two Years Later: NYC – March 11-12, 2013 This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie, UK-based radiation expert, compiled statistics from 60 international studies done on leukemia rates for children living within 5 kilometers/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. His shocking results – all supported…

Read More NH #753: Childhood Leukemia Rates Soar for Kids Living Near Nuclear Reactors: UK Researcher Dr. Ian Fairlie Exposes Industry Lies
NH #752: In Memorium – Jim Heddle, Director, SOS: San Onofre Syndrome – Nuclear Film’s Fierce, Gentle Warrior

Filmmakers and life partners Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, who along with Morgan Peterson directed the award-winning film SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome This Week’s Feature: Some weeks, it’s personal. It is with great sadness that this week’s Nuclear Hotseat commemorates and memorializes a fierce, gentle anti-nuclear warrior who spent decades filming protests, meetings,…

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NH #751: SPECIAL: Powerful Navajo Nation Nuclear Films – Int’l Uranium Film Festival at Window Rock

This Week’s SPECIAL Episode on the International Uranium Film Festival in Navajo Nation The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) came to Window Rock, the capital of Navajo Nation, for the fourth time to present films focusing on all dangers of the nuclear fuel chain, with a special emphasis on uranium mining. Fourteen films over two…

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NH #750!: SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy – Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes!

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Clements has been the director of Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest organization in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2014. SRS Watch monitors US Department of Energy management of weapon-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, and clean-up of high-level nuclear waste, with a focus on the Savannah River Site. While in…

Read More NH #750!: SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy – Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes!
NH #749: How Anti-Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World from Nuclear Weapons

NOTE: I needed to go in for a medical procedure this week (don’t worry; I’m fine) and was unable to produce a new episode. Given that President Trump has threatened to resume nuclear testing – with no specifics of whether that’s atmospheric or underground explosions – I think this is a good opportunity to look…

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NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group

A House of Dynamite by Katherine Bigelow This Week’s Featured Interview: A new film, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, by Oscar-winning director Katherine Bigelow, follows what would happen in the 18 minutes following discovery of a nuclear missile aimed at the United States. It exposes vulnerabilities to our purportedly 100% protection from incoming nukes and creates…

Read More NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group

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