NH #365: Nuclear Hotseat 7th Anniversary! + Prof. Heidi Hutner’s film ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: Voices of Women from Three Mile Island

Anniversary time! Listen here: [powerpress] Anniversary time!  Nuclear Hotseat – Now beginning its 8th year of  weekly programs on nuclear issues… “from a different perspective.” Please consider donating to help us celebrate!  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Heidi Hutner is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear…

NH #363: TEPCO Nuclear Error = Fukushima Terror: Nancy Foust on Newly Discovered 2011 Fukushima Radiation Releases

TEPCO’s Fukushima plant manager, the late Masao Yoshida, who battled his offsite bosses to continue pouring water onto the melting-down remains of three nuclear reactors Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of simplyinfo.org, returns to tell us about a shocking new documentary from Japanese public broadcaster NHK.  MELTDOWN: Cooling Water Crisis (see…

NH #361: Radiation NEVER “Good for You” – Dr. Ian Fairlie Rips “hormesis” Lies + Leona Morgan at NRC NM Meetings: Citizens say NO! to Proposed Holtec Radioactive Waste Dump

Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas?  No way!  Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No!Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986; received his doctorate from Princeton…

NH #360: Yucca Mountain YUCK! + NRC to Geriatric Nukes: “Life After 60? OK!” + New Trinity Site/Rocky Flats Docu OFF COUNTRY

Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY, which examines lives impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons…

NH #356: No Nuclear “Sacrifice Zone” in New Mexico! Leona Morgan, Eileen Shaughnessy

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy (l) and Leona Morganat International Uranium Film Festival, 2015 This Week’s Featured Interview: Leona Morgan and Eileen Shaughnessy of the Nuclear Issues Study Group, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  They talk about pressure on indigenous people in New Mexico to accept a high level nuclear waste dump and all “interim”…

NH #354: Cancer Stats Skyrocket Around Nuclear Reactors: Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Cancer researcher Joseph Mangano (r) and supporter Christie Brinkley (l) photo by: Greg Allen Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project.  Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health.  He…

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 #350: SPECIAL: Fukushima 7th Anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN: Child Thyroid Cancer Rates Soar in Fukushima

Fukushima 7th Anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN Listen Here: [powerpress] Featured Interviews: Chikako Chiba is a representative of the Ajisai-no Kai Support Group for families with children who have thyroid cancer. Toshio Yanagihara is an attorney who has been seeking to protect the right of Fukushima families with children to live in a safe environment. Dr….

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: …