NH #360: Yucca Mountain YUCK! + NRC to Geriatric Nukes: “Life After 60? OK!” + New Trinity Site/Rocky Flats Docu OFF COUNTRY

Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY, which examines lives impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons…

Chernobyl Lies, Cover-Up WHO

NH #357: Chernobyl 32nd Anniversary SPECIAL – Mousseau, Yablakov, Dr. Sherman, Bulgarian Survivor Kouneva, Ryuichi Hirakawa

Listen Here: [powerpress] This week’s Nuclear Hotseat marks the 32nd Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with highlights from past interviews.  It bring Ukraine’s devastating 1986 nuclear accident — and its consequences — into sharp, terrifying focus. This Week’s Special Interviews: Bonnie Kouneva was a 16-year-old living in Bulgaria when the Chernobyl accident started on…

NH #356: No Nuclear “Sacrifice Zone” in New Mexico! Leona Morgan, Eileen Shaughnessy

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy (l) and Leona Morganat International Uranium Film Festival, 2015 This Week’s Featured Interview: Leona Morgan and Eileen Shaughnessy of the Nuclear Issues Study Group, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  They talk about pressure on indigenous people in New Mexico to accept a high level nuclear waste dump and all “interim”…

NH #353: Three Mile Island: Yes People Died/Are Dying! – TMI 39th Anniversary SPECIAL

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 NOTE: I am traveling to TMI for events surrounding the 39th Anniversary. As a result, donations to help me get there will be rewarded with the following bonuses:  For $20, you will receive a quality facsimile of the LA Weekly article I wrote at the evacuation site that…

NH #352: Pacific Radiation Levels off CA Coast Triple: John Bertucci, Molly P. Johnson + Voices from Japan: Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka

Featured Image:  Human mural spells out “Fukushima is Here” on San Francisco beach in August, 2013 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists:  John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast…

NH #351: Nuclear’s Ticking Doomsday Clock w/Rachel Bronson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock.  She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the criteria used to determine just how close to global annihilation…

NH #349: Citizen Scientists! Build Monitors, Map Global Radiation! – Sean Bonner of Safecast + Massive Indian Nuke Protests Against Westinghouse Planned: Kumar Sundaram

Featured Image:  Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast, an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment.  It teaches how to build your own radiation monitor and connect it with the Safecast database of real-time, automatically uploaded radiation…

NH #348: Hanford’s “Atrocious Breach of Safety” – Dangerous Incompetence Fuels Growing Radiation Contamination – Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge.  He addresses Hanford’s recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out the timeline of recent events, which are still breaking in the news. Health Effects of Plutonium – article Information on radiation monitors mentioned in the interview: …

NH #347: The Hidden Politics Behind NY’s Billion Dollar Nuke Bailout: Attny Susan H. Shapiro, Tim Judson of NIRS

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Since 9/11, she has been co-counsel on the groundbreaking litigation against Indian Point’s violation of the Clean Water Act for thermal and radiation pollution of the Hudson River; and…