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 #69 – Japan’s Tragic Update (kids, food, Fukushima clean-up); Author Kristen Iversen

PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing to take responsibility for authorizing restarts (I wonder why…); Children in Fukushima exercise on land registering over 100,000 bequerels…

Nuclear Hotseat #67 – SPECIAL – Report on CAN Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future

Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future September 20-22, 2012 An audio journey through three days of top-level activism, starring the best minds and hearts in the Nuclear-Free Future activist community.  This podcast includes interviews with or speeches by: Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein Rep. Dennis Kucinich…

NH #66: Sean Bonner of Safecast; Japan Govt. Says “No!” to Nukes (Sort Of…)

Listen here: Download here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/fbc331c3-4c4f-bf9a-0fae-8e74a74b5bbb.mp3 Interview:  Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsewhere in the world to map radiation levels. This group is the definition of grassroots humanitarian efforts. Plus: Japan declares they’re phasing out nuclear by the 2030’s, but there are…

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…