NH #387: San Onofre Flunks NRC Report on Near-Disaster: Dr. Tom English + Woolsey Fire/SSFL Update

San Onofre canister comparison chart courtesy SanOnofreSafety.org Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: San Onofre gets failing marks from NRC on August 3 near-miss disaster while loading “spent” fuel  thin canister, and Dr. Tom English interprets the NRC webinar with the bad news.  Dr. English advised former President Jimmy Carter’s Office of Science and…

NH #156 – 3rd Anniversary + WIPP Update w/Don Hancock

FEATURED: Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, brings us up to date with another insightful update on what’s happening at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site following the February 14, 2014 plutonium leak that shut the facility down. AND – For Nuclear Hotseat’s third anniversary, Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy shares…

NHt #138: USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO Lawsuit Update w/Attny Charles Bonner

USS Reagan sailors on deck trying to clean up radiation during Operation Tomadachi, their humanitarian aid mission to Fukushima immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  (Note the lack of protective gear.) INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors harmed by Fukushima radiation, with an update on their lawsuit against TEPCO. …

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 #47 – Dan Hirsch on Hidden LA Nuke Accident – Santa Susana Field Labs, 1959

Interview with Daniel Hirsch of Committee to Bridge the Gap on the 1959 Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear meltdown – more radiation released than Three Mile Island! – and the current status of clean-up attempts.  PLUS: The battle over San Onofre heats up, with four times the number of damaged pipes in the steam generators…

NH #38 – Meeting w/CA Top Aide to Governor, March 11 Demos at San Onofre

Report on anti-nuke activists meeting w/CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aide; this weekend’s demonstrations at San Onofre features two Japanese survivors of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster at Fukushima; transcript of NRC audio quashing US National Labs monitoring of radiation the day after the earthquake – OUTRAGEOUS! LA area cesium levels found…