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…

NH #345: Nuclear’s Resurrected Safety Lie of “Duck & Cover” – Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute

Featured Image:  Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” –Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body.You can’t “duck and cover” from that.  LINK to full film below. This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org…

NH #344: FUKUSHIMA: Where are the People? – Arnie Gundersen on the Ongoing Human Toll of the Nuclear Disaster

Featured Image:  Arnie Gundersen in Japan, with bags of radioactive material in background. Sign says “Decontamination is still in progress.” Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, focuses on the human toll inflicted by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.  Recorded December 2, 2017, at DePaul University, at…

NH #343: Hawaii Dress Rehearsal for Nuclear Hell + Fukushima update w/Nancy Foust, European Radiation w/Shaun McGee

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, brings us up to date on the latest at Fukushima and the TEPCO/Japanese government attempts to clean up the site. Shaun McGee of Nuclear-News.net gets down to the nitty gritty on 2017 mystery radiation releases from Eastern Europe and some of the UK’s most…

NH #342: ENCORE PRESENTATION: PSR/IPPNW Report – 10,000+ Excess Cancer Cases Post-Fukushima – Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez

Because I’m down with the flu, I’m unable to produce a new program this week, so here’s a chance for you to listen to an important story from 2016, where Physicians for Social Responsibility and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War issued a report projecting at least 10,000 excess cancer cases in…

NH #341: Chernobyl Mutations, Fukushima Implications: Tim Mousseau + Don Safer on TVA Small Modular Reactors

Featured Image:  Mutant Firebugs at Chernobyl.  Photo permission Timothy Mousseau Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species.  A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental…