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This Week’s Featured Interview Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and since 1991, a faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting…

This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi. Numnutz of the Week: Gina “Never Met A Nuke…

WEST LAKE LANDFILL BREAKING NEWS The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan…

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Diane Sandler is doctor of Oriental medicine and a craniosacral therapist who has been practicing in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles for three decades. Her focus has been to support her patients in co-creating optimum health through lifestyle changes and deep core work that lead to cellular change….

This Week’s Featured Interview: Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh… not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation.  NUMEC, in Parks Township, manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of…

Full program devoted to the radon risk hiddenin the methane gas leak disaster at Porter Ranch in Los Angeles.  This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear.  He gives an overview of the problems created by radon and suspicions about its impact on the people of Porter Ranch. Cindy…

This Week’s Featured Interview: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis, Missouri, and has been involved 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. We spoke about latest developments on radiological nightare site…

Nuclear Hotseat’s Year-End Review:  A panoramic overview of 2015’s nuclear issues seen through the lens of Numnutz of the Week: THRILL to the daredevils who tempt fate by chowing down on Fukushima-grown food! GASP at the audacity of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe-baby as he continues to lie about Fukushima in order to protect the…