NH #259: Oh, Canada! Dr. Gordon Edwards on Canada’s Twisted Nuclear Path

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) and one of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology, provides a stunningly thorough history of Canadian involvement with  US development of the nuclear bomb, as well as issues involving reactors, uranium mining, accidents and attempted clean-ups, of…

NH #257: Radiation Spike from Hanford or CGS Reactor? Radcast’s Mimi German Explains

This Week’s Featured Interview:  Mimi German is the founder of RadCast, which focuses on collecting and interpreting radiation data. It helps helping citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, which RadCast then compiles to figure out what’s going on – radiologically speaking – wherever the EPA has fallen down on the job… which…

NH #256: WA’s Hanford Site Radiological Dangers w/Gerry Pollet, West Lake/EPA Protests

This Week’s Featured Interview: How bad is the radioactive threat of the Hanford Site in SE Washington State?  Learn the facts, worthy of a Halloween horror house, from attorney Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest, a 16,000 member citizens’ watchdog group for the cleanup of Hanford. You Are There at the Front…

NH #255: Just Moms StL to United Nations – West Lake Landfill as Human Rights Violation?

This Week’s Featured Interview: Just Moms StL’s Dawn Chapman reports on last week’s meeting with the United Nations Human Rights Commission.  Topic: whether the WWII nuclear weapons waste illegally stored at the North St. Louis West Lake Landfill and the EPA’s “nobody’s home!” lack of response to the crisis caused by the underground fire bearing…

NH #253: Chernobyl 30th Anniversary SPECIAL – Mousseau, Yablokov, Sherman

A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIALon the Human and Genetic Impactof the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster This Week’s Featured Interviews: Bonnie Kouneva, Chernobyl Survivor.  She was a 16-year old living in Sofia, Bulgaria, about 800 miles away from Chernobyl, when the accident started on April 26, 1986.  She talks about the impact on her life and the health…

NH #251: West Lake Moms Meet w/White House Reps & EPA’s Gina McCarthy!

This Week’s Featured Interview: West Lake Just Mom Dawn Chapman reveals the inner workings on the long-desired and oft-thwarted DC meeting she and fellow/sister Just Mom Karen Nickel had with Environmental Protection Agency head Gina Never-Met-A-Nuke-I-Didn’t-Like-And-Cover-For McCarthy.  And oh yes, they also met with White House representatives who are the EPA’s bosses and report directly to President…

NH #217 – Ian Fairlie on Linear No Threshold Radiation Measurements vs. Radiation Deniers

  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie is an independent consultant on radiation risks and a former scientific secretary to the UK government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters.  www.IanFairlie.org [powerpress] Numnutz of the Week UK Sellafield former engineer brews up a devil of a commemoration for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …

NH #214: Churchrock & Uranium-Contaminated Native Lands in SW USA w/Leona Morgan

INTERVIEWS: Leona Morgan  of Diné No Nukes is a Diné (“Navajo”) advocate for clean water, focused on protecting her people and the land from new uranium mining and nuclear developments in the Southwest, specifically around Navajo Nation plus lands within the Diné Four Sacred Mountains.  She explains the massive Churchrock uranium spill of 1979 and…

NH #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUT-IT-DOWN SPECIAL! Gundersen! Wasserman! Moglen! More!

THIS WEEK:  Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo, California, 12 miles from the nuclear reactors. Event speakers heard in this episode: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother’s for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo…