Chernobyl Lies, Cover-Up WHO

NH #519: Chernobyl Lies, Cover-Up by World Health Organization

This Week’s Featured Interview: Chernobyl Lies, Health Cover-Up by World Health Organization (WHO) Revealed – Interview with Alison Katz, a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. This international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster…

Uranium Film Festival

NH #518: Uranium Film Festival – Pacifist Physicists & Filmmaker Claus Biegert

This Week’s Featured Interview: The International Uranium Film Festival continues with 34 films on a wide range of nuclear issues around the world.  Of the Sense of the Whole: The Network of Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr (VOM SINN DES GANZEN) is a film by Claus Biegert.  As Biegert explains: Hans-Peter Dürr – as a physicist he…

New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL

NH #516: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL: WIPP Plutonium Expansion or Just The Shaft? Hearings Start May 17 – Don Hancock, Joni Arends

This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmares – this one dealing with hearings that hide the planned expansion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to hold more than 50 TONS of “excess” plutonium – the most deadly radioactive substance on earth.  And all that plutonium will have to be trucked and trained across the…

Chernobyl Anniversary #2

NH #514: Chernobyl Anniversary #2: Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman + Hawaiian “Incoming Missile” Film

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examining its consequences.  Check last week’s Nuclear Hotseat #513 for further interviews.  This week: Bonnie Kouneva was a 15-year-old living in Communist Bulgaria when the Chernobyl disaster began, but no one knew about it because the Soviet Union said nothing to its…

Chernobyl Anniversary #35

NH #513: Chernobyl Anniversary #35: Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau + Ian Zabarte on USA’s MIghty Oak Nuke Accident

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research has been funded by the American Academy in Berlin and by Carnegie and Guggenheim…

Radiation Monitoring in USA

NH #511: Radiation Monitoring in USA? Let’s go! – Rachel Clark

This Week’s Featured interview: Radiation Monitoring in USA based on Japan’s Citizen Activist model is the focus of our interview with this week’s guest.  Originally from Japan, Rachel Clark holds a degree in International Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey.  As an independent interpreter/global coordinator, her language capacity has been utilized in various international…

Turkish Nuclear Reactors

NH #510: Turkish Nuclear Reactors = Russia’s Mediterranean Toehold: Journalist Pinar Demircan

This Week’s Featured Interview: Pınar Demircan is a Turkish antinuclear activist and a journalist who started writing about nuclear after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Turkish, and has been involved to global forums and panels where she presented on nuclear projects and the antinuclear struggle in Turkey….

Activists Getting Active

NH #507: Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan: THIS IS NOT “RECOVERY”

  Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan – The 9th edition of Nuclear Hotseat’s Voices from Japan features on-the-ground interviews with people working in or involved with Fukushima.  For the first time, we are posting the original interviews in Japanese (scroll down). The interviews on this episode of Nuclear Hotseat: Voices from Japan were based on…

Activists Getting Active

NH #506: Activists Getting Active! Vt. Yankee POWER STRUGGLE film – Robbie Leppzer + Mothers for Peace Rebuts Shameful New Yorker Article – Jane Swanson

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Activists getting active on multple fronts! Linda Seeley is a veteran member of the group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.  Here, she fills us in on how the New York article, The Activists who Embrace Nuclear (GAK!) was not researched with anyone connected with the group – meaning due diligence…