NH #568: Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World – Part 1

NH #568: Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World – Part 1

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use…

NH #567: Nuclear War on Film – TELEVISION EVENT: Documentary on THE DAY AFTER

NH #567: Nuclear War on Film – TELEVISION EVENT: Documentary on THE DAY AFTER

Nuclear War on Film: Screen shot of the moment the nuclear fireball hit the people of Lawrence, Kansas. Taken from ABC-TV movie THE DAY AFTER, which is the subject of the documentary TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels. This Week’s Featured Interview: The 1983 TV movie THE DAY AFTER depicted the start of a nuclear war…

NH #565: Hot Nuclear Films – Int’l Uranium Film Festival – Norbert Suchanek + Gundersen on Nuke Electricity Generation Lies

NH #565: Hot Nuclear Films – Int’l Uranium Film Festival – Norbert Suchanek + Gundersen on Nuke Electricity Generation Lies

This Week’s Featured Interview: Norbert Suchanek, Founder and General Director of the International Uranium Film Festival – now in its 11th year – previews this year’s slate of films. He also announces a unique highlight of this year’s proceedings: a live Zoom meeting that brings together indigenous people from two hemispheres, from Navajo Nation in…

Chernobyl Radiation Lab Destroyed

NH #561: Chernobyl Radiation Lab Destroyed, Radioactive Forest Fires, History with Kate Brown + Fukushima 7.3 Earthquake Damage

Kate Brown, author of the award-winning Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, is a historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards.  Here, she shares information that is as timely now as it was when we first spoke, on Monday, April 15,…

Nuclear Ukraine

NH #560: Nuclear Ukraine – Russia Shells Zaporizhzhia Nukes + Chernobyl 2.0? Kevin Kamps

This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps is Nuclear Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Dr. Gordon Edwards has been president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR.org) since 1978.  He graduated from the University of Toronto after studying mathematics, physics and chemistry with a gold medal in mathematics and physics. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Dear Bulletin of the Atomic…

Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE

NH #559: Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE – Gundersen + SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN – Fukushima 11 th Anniversary

Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates. Nuclear Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors first shelled,then captured by Russians.  Pumping stations are #4; reactors are at #3; building that got hit and burned is #15. FUKUSHIMA 11 th…

Nuclear Downwinders

NH #557: Nuclear Downwinders (That’s All of Us): Journalist/Playwright Mary Dickson

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more of us than you might suspect.   Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City journalist and writer whose award-winning play, Exposed, puts a human face on the cost of nuclear testing. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime…

Idaho National Laboratory

NH #555: Idaho National Laboratory: Radioactive Waste Repository for the World? – Snake River Alliance

This Week’s Featured Interview: The Idaho National Laboratory – a major Department of Energy site in the nuclear complex – has appeared in stories about waste and submarines and a smattering of other issues, but it’s never been a real focal point on Nuclear Hotseat… until now.  We learn details of the site and the…

Nuclear Arctic Radiation Dangers

NH #553: Nuclear Arctic Radiation Dangers: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a marine biologist – a radiation researcher and consultant – who specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here he provides a SPECIAL report produced exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat on the Nuclear Arctic radiation dangers.  Tim…