NH #102: NUCLEAR GANDHI – Nonviolent India Rebels Against Nuclear; w/Kumar Sundaram

FEATURED INTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram, Research Consultant with India’s Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, (CNDP) on the Indian government’s violent repression of the non-violent anti-nuclear movement, Japan’s push to sell nuclear technology to India; and the country’s massive, growing anti-nuclear movement. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A video is worth a thousand words… As George Takei…

NH #101: Hanford Spotlight w/PSR’s Daniel Noonan, Food Safety w/organic farmer Paul Frey

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Daniel Noonan of Washington state Physicians for Social Responsibility fills us in on history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, with its leaks threatening the Columbia River and the entire Pacific Northwest.  Includes information on this week’s Public Meeting on Hanford to be held on May 23 at the Husky Union Building at the…

NH #99: San Onofre Heats Up: Friends of the Earth’s Kendra Ulrich

INTERVIEWS:  Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, who explains what it’s like to stand up solo and face down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on their home turf — and what the macro conversation is about getting San Onofre shut down. Nuclear videographer Myla Reson asks Rep. Henry Waxman tough questions and gets…

NH #98: LaSalle SCRAMS x4; Will Chicagoans Have to Scram? NEIS’ Gail Snyder, Andrew Kishner

Nuclear Engineering at San Onofre (Photo: 10 News San Diego) INTERVIEW: When the LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant 125 miles from Chicago got hit with lightning on April 17, it set up a series of emergency shut-downs, unvented gas releases, and an untold amount of radiation let loose in the environment.  The issues are complex and deeply…

NH #95: Radiation & Food Safety: FFAN Actions w/Cindy Folkers, Mary Beth Brangan

INTERVIEW:  Radiation from Fukushima, nuclear reactors and leftover atmospheric testing continue to compromise the safety of our food.  Learn the dangers of radiation contamination — and how to take action — from two members of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN): Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network). …

NH #94: San Onofre Shocker: Elmo Out, Howell In! + Gary Headrick Explains SCE’s Slickery

INTERVIEW:  Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green walks us through recent manipulations and slickery by Southern California Edison and explains why SCE’s request for a licensing hearing by the NRC is not the same as an adjudicated licensing hearing by the NRC.  Plus the sudden departure of NRC Region IV head Elmo Collins, the new…

NH #93: THREE MILE ISLAND SPECIAL: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Terror

Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy as a young, stupid woman standing in front of the still-leaking nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, approximately April 10, 1979 FEATURING: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education with a blow-by-blow description of the chaos inside TMI during the first three days of the accident.  Arnie Gundersen and Libbe HaLevy…

NH #92: FUKUSHIMA BLACKOUT! Radiation Health Tips from FFAN’s Kimberly Roberson

  LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/73d1767f-132a-386d-6799-a727b2bb1f01.mp3 INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson is a certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator and has served on the board of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She has worked at Sane/Freeze, CALPIRG and Greenpeace USA;  and has lobbied for environmental and natural health issues on the state and federal level, as…

NH #91 – Dr. Caldicott’s Global Symposium on Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima

SPECIAL:  Direct from Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Global Symposium on the Medical and Ecoogical Consequences of Fukushima, the voices of activists from around the world share what they saw, heard, felt — and decided they’d have to do about it once they got home.  Close to 20 individuals share their take-aways at the most exciting and…