NH #372: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration – Daniel Ellsberg, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow, Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES

Hiroshima watch frozen at the exact time the atomic bomb landedon August 6, 1945. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration: Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, explains the group’s special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and its annual August 6 March for Nuclear Abolition and Global Survival. Daniel Ellsberg, best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers and author…

NH #371: Nuclear Trainwreck: Radwaste Transport Dangers Exposed! – Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety

Nuclear Trainwreck? – San Onofre high level radioactive wastelurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark –and proposed rail transport is a “mobile Chernobyl” disaster just waiting to happen. This Week’s Featured Interview: “Nuclear trainwreck” – Let’s hope that’s a metaphor, not a future reality!  Donna Gilmore is  founder and head of San…

NH #370: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths – SPECIAL: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying w/Kevin Kamps, Dave Kraft, Manna Jo Greene

Congress briefing pros Kevin Kamps (l) of Beyond Nuclear andIan Zabarte of the Western Shoshone tribelet DC insiders know a genuine nuclear truth.Photo by Galen Tromble SPECIAL REPORT:Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when…

NH #368: FALLOUT: Int’l Nuclear Disasters, Lies & Secrecy with Author Fred Pearce

FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearceincludes, of course, Chernobyl, pictured here immediately after the disaster began. This Week’s Featured Interview: Fred Pearce is an English journalist based in London. He is a science writer, reporting on the environment, popular science, and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years,…

NH #367: New Mexico Radioactive Battleground over Nuke Dump: Sierra Club’s John Buchser

New Mexico’s other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine’s Day, 2014. It cost taxpayers more than $2 billion and severely limits the ability to store radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste there….

NH #366: Nuclear War Aftermath: Politicians/Government Lives, We Die – Garrett Graff, “Raven Rock”

Nuclear war – what one Russian 800 kiloton bomb would do to Washington DC Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.  Learn how your tax dollars are at work protecting the politicians…

NH #365: Nuclear Hotseat 7th Anniversary! + Prof. Heidi Hutner’s film ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: Voices of Women from Three Mile Island

Anniversary time! Listen here: [powerpress] Anniversary time!  Nuclear Hotseat – Now beginning its 8th year of  weekly programs on nuclear issues… “from a different perspective.” Please consider donating to help us celebrate!  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Heidi Hutner is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear…

NH #363: TEPCO Nuclear Error = Fukushima Terror: Nancy Foust on Newly Discovered 2011 Fukushima Radiation Releases

TEPCO’s Fukushima plant manager, the late Masao Yoshida, who battled his offsite bosses to continue pouring water onto the melting-down remains of three nuclear reactors Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of simplyinfo.org, returns to tell us about a shocking new documentary from Japanese public broadcaster NHK.  MELTDOWN: Cooling Water Crisis (see…

NH #362: Chernobyl Dogs, Radiation Genetics, Mutations: Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau

Chernobyl – Dr. Timothy Mousseau heads research into plant, insect, bird and small mammal mutations This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist best known for his research on-the-ground studying the effects of radiation on animals and plant life around Chernobyl and Fukushima. He has been a faculty member of the…