NH #352: Pacific Radiation Levels off CA Coast Triple: John Bertucci, Molly P. Johnson + Voices from Japan: Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka

Featured Image:  Human mural spells out “Fukushima is Here” on San Francisco beach in August, 2013 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists:  John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast…

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 #346: EPA’s “70% Plus” West Lake Landfill WWII Nuclear Weapons Waste Clean-Up Plan: The Battle Continues -Dawn Chapman & Karen Nickel of Just Moms StL

Featured Image:  Two exhausted warriors – Karen Nickel (l) and Dawn Chapman (r) of Just Moms StLin video mere moments after EPA’s announcement of the West Lake Landfill clean-up plan This Week’s Featured Interview: Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel are two North St. Louis mothers who discovered the fact of WWII radioactive atomic weapons waste…

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 #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 #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…