Uranium Film Festival

NH #518: Uranium Film Festival – Pacifist Physicists & Filmmaker Claus Biegert

This Week’s Featured Interview: The International Uranium Film Festival continues with 34 films on a wide range of nuclear issues around the world.  Of the Sense of the Whole: The Network of Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr (VOM SINN DES GANZEN) is a film by Claus Biegert.  As Biegert explains: Hans-Peter Dürr – as a physicist he…

New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL

NH #516: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL: WIPP Plutonium Expansion or Just The Shaft? Hearings Start May 17 – Don Hancock, Joni Arends

This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmares – this one dealing with hearings that hide the planned expansion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to hold more than 50 TONS of “excess” plutonium – the most deadly radioactive substance on earth.  And all that plutonium will have to be trucked and trained across the…

Chernobyl Anniversary #2

NH #514: Chernobyl Anniversary #2: Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman + Hawaiian “Incoming Missile” Film

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examining its consequences.  Check last week’s Nuclear Hotseat #513 for further interviews.  This week: Bonnie Kouneva was a 15-year-old living in Communist Bulgaria when the Chernobyl disaster began, but no one knew about it because the Soviet Union said nothing to its…

Chernobyl Anniversary #35

NH #513: Chernobyl Anniversary #35: Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau + Ian Zabarte on USA’s MIghty Oak Nuke Accident

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research has been funded by the American Academy in Berlin and by Carnegie and Guggenheim…

NH #494: Nuclear Downwinders (That’s All of Us): Journalist/Playwright Mary Dickson

Nuclear Downwinders Update – Map of U.S. areas hit by fallout from at least three of the 100 atmospheric bomb tests done above ground in Nevada, showing that most of us are truly downwinders. Used by permission of Richard Miller Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more…

NH #490: Children of Atomic Veterans Carry Heavy Genetic Burden: Victoria Moore

Children of Atomic Veterans  – DNA damage, penile cancer,and the message:   Don’t have kids! The American devastation of military personnel from the atomic bomb test radiationthat devastated the Marshall Islands and its people.  This Week’s Featured Interview: Children of Atomic Veterans focuses on medical and genetic issues in those whose parents – primarily fathers –…

NH #482: VoteClimate2020.org – Maggie Gundersen, Robert Manning + Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis: Dave Kraft

Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis called out by Dave Kraft of NEIS, seen here at hiscommand control console for slaying nuclear dragons. NOTE:  Letters are still needed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing plans for Holtec to build a so-called “Interim” high level radioactive waste storage site in New Mexico.  Deadline is September 22, 2020.  PLEASE: …

NH #480: Saskatchewan First Nations Targeted for Untested Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: Candyce Paul

Saskatchewan First Nations activists Candyce Paul (r) and a lurking Marius Paul (lower l)Interview by Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Saskatchewan First Nations activist Candyce Paul has lived in northern Saskatchewan for more than three decades with her husband, Marius Paul. She spent many years living and learning the traditional northern culture which she…

NH #474: Trinity A-Bomb at 75 – Downwind of New Mexico’s “Dirty Bomb”: Tina Cordova, Joni Arends

NH #474: Trinity A-Bomb at 75 – Downwind of New Mexico’s “Dirty Bomb”: Tina Cordova, Joni Arends

Trinity downwinder Tina Cordova First photo of the Atomic Age – the Trinity atomic bomb test of July 16, 1945, 0.025 seconds after detonation. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders advocating for justice: Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles from the explosion of the first atomic bomb…