NH #75: Activists Share Gratitude; Nuclear is the Turkey

  LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f3b18260-038f-1942-bfd3-a757897d2180.mp3   INTERVIEW: What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for?  Listen to a montage of national activist voices expressing their gratitude for skirmishes won, battles shared, losses commiserated, unexpected camaraderie and the miracle that is our growing movement.  If you need a reminder as to why we do…

NH #74: First Nations Battle Nuclear Genocide in Canada

Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching “black stone” (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politics of poverty in guaranteeing the nuke interests always win, and the genocidal dangers of building Canada’s proposed nuclear waste repository…

NH #73: Japanese Seniors Thwarted in Fukushima Clean-Up Effort

INTERVIEW: Remember the senior citizens who volunteered to help clean up Fukushima to spare younger workers from radiation exposure?  Nuclear Hotseat interviews Yastel Yamada, the man who helped start the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima.  Listen closely as he talks about graft, censorship and the politics of the nuclear clean-up. PLUS: Post-Sandy round–up of nuclear…

NH #71 – Nuclear Reactors = Nuclear Bombs: Alice Slater; Wisconsin Nuke Plant to Close, SanO Leaks Again!

INTERVIEW:  Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the global fight for freedom and sanity.  www.abolition2000.org; www.wagingpeace.org. PLUS: San Onofre leaks again and it’s not even on line!…

NH #70 – Karl Grossman Demystifies Nuclear Media Manipulation

LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/aa21a17d-314f-324c-c0a8-09317cc79b03.mp3 INTERVIEW:  Karl Grossman condenses 45 years of reporting on nuclear issues into a primer on where the lies started (HINT: Before Hiroshima!), how they became entrenched, why it seems so impossible to get mainstream media coverage, and what we can do about it.  Double the usual interview because man, this…

NH #65 – Dr. Janette Sherman & Joseph Mangano on Post-Fukushima Deaths in US

Plus: Police kill anti-nuke protesters, including a small girl, as thousands continue to protest at Koodankulam NPP in India; The fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away atop its earthquake faults; TEPCO says Unit 4 is “perfectly safe” in a quake up to…

NH #64: Fukushima Diary’s Iori Mochizuki; NRC Denies License (!) to Calvert Cliff

PLUS: For only the second time in history, the NRC denies a request for a license!  NIRS Exec. Director Michael Mariotte labels this action, “A blow to the so-called ‘nuclear renaissance.’” San Onofre to get cost/benefit analysis to see if it makes sense to attempt to reopen it (CLUE: The answer is NO!); Dr. Michael…