NH #133: SKY NOT FALLING! Debunking False Info w/Bonner of Safecast, German of RadCast

INTERVIEWS:  The holiday season saw rumors flying about Fukushima, radiation and elevated dangers in the U.S.  Wildly exaggerated claims got picked up by mainstream media and had people panicking.  Nuclear Hotseat gets to the root of the problems with Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast.  He talks about how a radiation reading can…

NH #132: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance w/Alison Katz

INTERVIEW:  Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance (IAEA) censors WHO’s nuclear information and distorts the world’s understanding of nuclear radiation dangers.  Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the “Unholy Alliance” between the agency we’re supposed to trust to safeguard the…

NH #130: Friends of the Earth’s Australian Nuke Campaigner Dr. Jim Green

Japanese National Cancer Institutecomic book telling kids thathalf of them will get cancer…and they need to practice “prevention.”  Like what?  Smiling? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Jim Green is Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth in Australia.  What’s that country’s culpability for Fukushima?  How does the country function as a “nuclear umbrella” for the…

NH #129: US Sailors Vs. TEPCO w/Attorney Charles Bonner

Japanese citizens protest the newly-passed Secrecy Law INTERVIEW:  Attorney Charles Bonner, one of the team representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for the health damages they sustained from Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi, the humanitarian aid mission to Japan immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  NUMNUTZ…

NH #128: Talkin’ Nuke Trash w/Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps

INTERVIEW:  KEVIN KAMPS is Radioactive Waste Watchdog forBeyond Nuclear.  He specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; federal subsidies — in other words, all the complex issues at the top of the nuclear-industrial-governmental food chain. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  TEPCO, Fukushima Prefecture AND the Japan Football…

NH #127: Nuclear Refugee Setsuko Kida

INTERVIEW IN JAPANESE HERE: 第127回のリビーハリビーのニュークリアホットシートは福島第一原発避難民木田節子さんへのインタビューです。 このリンクは日本人の為に日本語のみに編集したものです。 木田さんには原発事故発生時の経験や日本の原子力政策に反対する声を上げることになった経緯や今回のアメリカ訪問についてお話ししていただきます。 彼女は活動家のネットワークからの要請を受け、福島第一原発事故直後に空母ロナルドレーガンの乗組員が高レベルの放射線被曝をし健康被害を受けたとして東 京電力を訴えている件で彼らを支援するためにやってきました。 http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/aa5dde9a-7fbf-4ca7-9b8e-b877a9b8b7b7.mp3 INTERVIEW:  Setsuko Kida, a “nuclear refugee” from Fukushima, lived midway between Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daiini when the nuclear disaster began in 2011.  She’s been in the U.S. to support the sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for health-destroying radiation…

NH #126: Wasserman, Gundersen on TEPCO, SFP4 & Activism NOW

Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima INTERVIEW:  Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear/pro-alternative energy activist for more than 40 years.  He’s author or co-author of a dozen books, writes for the Huffington Post and edits the www.nukefree.org website. His Green Power & Wellness Show is at www.progressiveradionetwork.com.  Harvey Wasserman (in cap) and friends delivering 150,000…

NH #124: Pandora/Schmandora; We’ve Got the Uranium Film Festival!

INTERVIEW:  Norbert Suchanek is the founder and General Director of the Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of the nuclear issue.   A native of Germany, Suchanek is a journalist, author, filmmaker and activist living in Rio de Janeiro.  He shares with Nuclear Hotseat listeners how the festival got started, his vision for an international nuclear…