NH #408: Chernobyl 33 Anniversary SPECIAL #1 – Yablakov, Mousseau, Survivor Kouneva, More!

Chernobyl at 33:  The melted, still highly radioactive nuclear fuel at the bottom of Chernobyl, nicknamed the “elephant’s foot.” Listen Here: [powerpress] The Chernobyl nuclear disaster marks its 33rd anniversary on April 26, and Nuclear Hotseat marks it with two SPECIAL reports on the accident and its aftermath.  This week’s episode features interviews with a…

NH #383: Gender & Radiation: The Hidden Nuclear War Against Women & Little Girls – Mary Olson

Gender & Radiation’s depiction of “Reference Man” vs. size of a little girl: all radiation doses are not equal! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Mary Olson is Nuclear Waste Specialist at NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service–) and Acting Director, Gender and Radiation Impact Project. She has addressed the United Nations and other…

NH #380: Ocean Radioactivity Transfer to Land, Food, People: UK Marine Pollution Expert Tim Deere-Jones

Ocean Radioactivity from Dumped Hinkley Point Nuclear Mud – Protests in Cardiff, Wales, against radioactive mud-dumping by EDF in Cardiff Bay only 2 km offshore Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Ocean radioactivity and the way it transfers to land is the area of expertise of Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant who…

NH #352: Pacific Radiation Levels off CA Coast Triple: John Bertucci, Molly P. Johnson + Voices from Japan: Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka

Featured Image:  Human mural spells out “Fukushima is Here” on San Francisco beach in August, 2013 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists:  John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast…

NH #349: Citizen Scientists! Build Monitors, Map Global Radiation! – Sean Bonner of Safecast + Massive Indian Nuke Protests Against Westinghouse Planned: Kumar Sundaram

Featured Image:  Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast, an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment.  It teaches how to build your own radiation monitor and connect it with the Safecast database of real-time, automatically uploaded radiation…

NH #348: Hanford’s “Atrocious Breach of Safety” – Dangerous Incompetence Fuels Growing Radiation Contamination – Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge.  He addresses Hanford’s recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out the timeline of recent events, which are still breaking in the news. Health Effects of Plutonium – article Information on radiation monitors mentioned in the interview: …

NH #345: Nuclear’s Resurrected Safety Lie of “Duck & Cover” – Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute

Featured Image:  Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” –Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body.You can’t “duck and cover” from that.  LINK to full film below. This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org…

NH #326: Hometown Nuclear Activist Beats Goliath: Patty Ameno vs. NUMEC

Never doubt that a single activistcan make all the difference in the world.  This week’s featured interview: Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world.  Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from…