NH #747: Nat’l Cancer Study of Residents Near Nuclear Reactors MUST take place BEFORE New Ones Built – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, head of Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP)

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano reveals how the nuclear industry has hidden the health impact of low level radiation emissions from the public and why there MUST be health studies on populations near reactors BEFORE any new ones get built. 


Such a national study of the health risks posed by existing reactors should:

• At a minimum, update the findings from the 1990 National Cancer Institute study;
• Estimate the time and resources needed to produce the first findings in less than two years.
• Maximize the use of existing publicly available datasets; for instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website includes county-specific mortality data from 1968 to 2024.
• Make results available to independent reviewers so they can reproduce the study;
• Be funded by the federal government, which regulates nuclear power reactors;
• Include only researchers who have no ties with the nuclear industry or the federal government, and are experts on the health effects of reactor emissions, having published in peer-reviewed journals already;
• Make the results public by publishing them in peer-reviewed scientific journals and present them in public events alongside proposed plans for the expansion of nuclear power in the United States.

LINK: Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power – original article by Joseph Mangano and the late Bob Alvarez

LINK: Chernobyl’s true death toll, World Health Organization manipulation of data and health studies: Alison Katz of Independent WHO. The WHO says 31 people died at Chernobyl; Russian researchers found studies indicating approximately ONE MILLION EXCESS CANCERS resulted from the explosion and meltdown.

Libbe HaLevy: Her Play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE Subject of Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman

The Enviro Close-Up – a 35-year program on environmental issues – features Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy talking about her podcast, her play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, her book YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK! and media manipulation at the dawn of the atomic age. Shot while on location at Wilmington College Peace Resource Center/Westheimer Peace Symposium, with clips from the PRC’s World Premiere Staged Reading of the play.

The episode airs Saturday October 25th at 4 PM on Free Speech TV, which is on Dish network and DIRECTV. It’s simulcast on their website you can watch live and that’s worldwide and then they’re also on additionally over 200 cable TV channels nationwide and on digital platforms as well such as Apple TV and Roku amongst others.  To watch Enviro Close-up with Karl Grossman Episode on Libbe HaLevy and her play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, play it here or CLICK to watch on Youtube.

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter:

We won one! Holtec has abandoned its New Mexico nuclear waste dump scheme!

The ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett

The latest on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) direct from the headquarters of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Geneva, Switzerland, ICAN ‘s Head of Media, Alistair Burnett, reporting.

Activist Shoutouts

• Dr. Gordon Edwards provides an introduction to Radioactivity, with a special emphasis on uranium: