Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste…
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American…
Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima…
This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes. Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources: No official Numnutz of the Week this week, but…
The Elephant’s Foot – solidified melted fuel core at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Still highly radioactive, still dangerous. SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a…
WHY WE DO IT: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace shows off a picture of her 3-week old great grandson – the next generation of reason for working against nukes. KEYSTONE PHOTO: Dream Team of Activists at the UCSB Global Legacies conference: (l-r) Jane Swanson, Libbe HaLevy, Linda Seeley, Melissa Bumstead, Heidi…
Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States…
Nuclear Bailout chart compiled by Environmental Working Group. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps Links from Interview: The Monthly ICAN UPDATE on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the latest on the Treaty from ICAN headquarters in Geneva,…
Three Mile Island Alert’s Eric Epstein (l) and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, pictured at TMI’s 40th anniversary conference held in Harrisburg, PA, in late March, 2019. This week’s full-length Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL features interviews with: Our thanks to filmmaker Robert (Robbie) Leppzer, producer of the two-hour audio documentary Voices from Three Mile Island,…
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