NH #78: Nuclear Perpetrators, Urban Planners, UN Preps Int’l Nuke Gag Order

INTERVIEW: Torgen Johnson is a Harvard-educated Urban Planner with a professional degree in Architecture from USC.  He brings a unique perspective to the nuclear conversation based upon three separate professional disciplines.  As a resident of southern California who lives near San Onofre, he interprets the risks to community and accumulated wealth from a single major…

NH#77: SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT – SCE/NRC Meeting, Buddhist Monks, Plant Sabotage

SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditating for an end to nuclear; NRC/SCE public meeting on SCE planned restart muzzles activists (as usual)… and Nuclear Hotseat is there!…

NH #76: SAN ONOFRE/NRC/SCE SPECIAL

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hear from four activists involved with the battle to stop the San Onofre restart as we head into this Friday’s public meeting between the NRC, Southern California Edison and (hopefully squeezing in there, eventually) the public.  Host Libbe HaLevy interviews: Video activist Myla Reson Gary Headrick, head of San Clemente Green (www.SanClementeGreen.org) Gene…

NH #74: First Nations Battle Nuclear Genocide in Canada

Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching “black stone” (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politics of poverty in guaranteeing the nuke interests always win, and the genocidal dangers of building Canada’s proposed nuclear waste repository…

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…