NH #306: Ongoing St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: West Lake Landfill Fire – Dawn Chapman, Jan Huber

Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dawn Chapman, one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill. Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never understanding that it was one mile away from a nuclear time bomb that had…

NH #304: San Onofre Radwaste Insanity vs. Google Earth: Ray Lutz, Gary Headrick + The Trauma of Fukushima Kids

This Week’s Featured Interviews San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz of Citizens Oversight Project Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green Ray Lutz with San Onofre protest kite SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA…

NH #303: UN Nuke Bomb Ban Blasts Forward + Don’t Bank on the Bomb – Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons  and offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group…

NH #299: Mystery European Radiation Spikes – Sources, Causes & Coverups + Fukushima Facts w/SimplyInfo’s Nancy Foust

This Week’s Featured Interviews: SimplyInfo’s Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report explored and its sometimes shocking revelations explained by Nancy Foust, Communications manager & research team member SimplyInfo.org.  Verifiable, footnoted, solid info you can trust:  http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=16171 Nuclear Hotseat’s European correspondent Shaun McGee on Europe’s mystery  radation spikes.  Shaun’s done the multi-national research about the sources of this…

NH #294: NO Radiation Spike at Fukushima – Nancy Foust of Simply Info (It’s still bad, but it’s not suddenly worse)

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels.  Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe.  Step away from the hysteria… LINKS to the Simply Info articles referenced:…

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 #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 #275: West Lake Update w/Byron DeLear, NM Holtec “Interim” Waste Dump? – Don Hancock

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been passionately involved in its clean-up, as well as being active in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com and is currently running for state representative from the 40th District, which…

NH #274: Journalism’s Fukushima Coverage Failures w/Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale, Shaun McGee in UK on Sellafield Documentary’s Hot Impact, and Excellence in Journalism Report

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, D.C. is a sociologist who did a study of mainstream media coverage in the first two years after Fukushima – and not only are her observations stunning, she’s got the data to back them up.  Originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2,…