NH #290: OMG! Defective French Nuke Parts in 19 US Reactors! – Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear

This Week’s Featured Interview: Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty major nuclear reactor parts produced there which are reported to be in use by 19 US nuclear reactors on 11 sites. LINK to…

NH #289: UK Nuke Military Veterans’ Court Case “Scrooged” – Dr. Chris Busby

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Christopher Busby, a British nuclear scientist who has been representing UK nuclear test veterans in a major court case, shares some remarkable new information about the impact of low dose radiation on fertility and genetic health.Dr. Busby’s article in The Ecologist: The “Genetics” Letter, the Euratom Suicide Clause, and the…

NH #287: UN’s UNSCEAR lies re: Fukushima Radiation – Dr. Alex Rosen + Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Radiation SPECIAL – UN’s Fukushima Radiation Lies Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews:  Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), uses that group’s footnoted, documented, peer-reviewed and fully vetted report to contradict the lies in the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that seeks to minimize Fukushima radiation dangers.  To…

NH #285: Illinois’ Corporate Welfare Bailout of Exelon + Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit SPECIAL

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Activists and genuine experts from around the US, Canada and First Nations gathered in Chicago last weekend for a National Radioactive Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit – a 3-day planning extravaganza focusing on:  radioactive waste creation, storage, treatment, and disposal; reactor decommissioning; effects of uranium mining on indigenous population; national proposals for…

NH #284: CHERNOBYL EXCLUSIVE! – New Arch Not “the End;” It’s the Beginning – On-The-Ground Report w/Lucas Hixon

This Week’s Featured Interview: Lucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the workers.   We spoke initially while he was in Ukraine, but waited until he was back in…

NH #282: Vt. Yankee Shutdown Film POWER STRUGGLE w/Robbie Leppzer, Dr. Steven Wing Memorial

This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE, about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.  Excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclear engineer and Fairewinds Energy’s Arnie Gundersen. Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy EducationTestifying on the Vermont Yankee Shutdown hearings as…

NH #281: UN International Ethics Summit Needed – Japanese Ambassador Murata

This Week’s Featured Interview: Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan’s nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an “International Day for Global Ethics” in the wake of their resolution to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.  The interview is an Encore Presentation…

NH #280: SPECIAL: Hiroshima Peace Institute/Global Hibakusha Project w/Bo Jacobs

This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole…

NH #279: Fort Calhoun SHUTDOWN! w/LaVerne Thraen + #ShutPilgrimNow Speakout at Mass. State House w/Diane Turco

This Week’s Featured Interviews: LaVerne Thraen is a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s.  We spoke less than an hour after it was shut down for good, on Monday, October 24, 2016. Diane Turco of Cape (Cod) Downwinders fills us in on last week’s #ShutPilgrimNow…