NH #234: “Honorable Retreat f/Tokyo Olympics” – Ambassador Murata

This week’s featured interview: Mitsuhei Murata is a career diplomat and former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland who has been very outspoken in his opposition to Japan’s nuclear policies, especially since Fukushima began in 2011. Recently, his proposal that Japan should seek an “honorable retreat” from the 2020 Olympics because of Fukushima has been gathering international…

NH #233: Climate Change/Nuke Connection + Rainbow Warrior w/NZ’S Kevin Hester

This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Hester was born in New Zealand and became involved in the early 1980’s in that country’s environmental movement, which was heavily influenced by the anti-nuclear activities that resulted in having NZ declared nuclear-free.  Here, he talks about the COP 21 cop-outs, the Climate Change/Nuclear Connection, his witnessing the Rainbow Warrior’s…

NH #231: India’s Kumar Sundaram on India-Japan Nuclear Agreement + Fukushima Friends Hawaii

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand of an international activist in India’s fight against nuclear technology.  Kumar is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP). Right now, he’s in the middle of a two-week trip to Japan, where he has been speaking to groups and rallys…

NH #230: St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare – Coldwater Creek, Cancer Clusters w/Karen Nickle

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE INTERVIEW: Karen Nickle is a long time resident of the North St. Louis area who grew up close to Coldwater Creek, where a social media survey revealed a cancer cluster caused by  Manhattan Project-era radioactive nuclear waste in the water. Since 2012, she has been involved in fighting for appropriate action to…

NH #229: NIRS’ Mary Olson on “Atomic Eggs” – Gender-Based Radiation Impact

NH #229: NIRS’ Mary Olson on “Atomic Eggs” – Gender-Based Radiation Impact

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW Mary Olson is Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the impact of radiation and how it wrecks disproportionately greater havoc on females than males. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK What are they calling out at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 76 times over?  “Heeeeere,…

NH #228: West Lake Nuclear Political Hot Potato – Byron DeLear on Legal Issues, Mimi German on Radiation Monitoring

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill.  He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative.  We talked about the legal situation…

NH #227: SPECIAL – St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare – West Lake Radioactive Waste Fire – Dr. Caldicott, Bob Alvarez, Dawn Chapman

A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis – a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump – and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. FEATURED INTERVIEWS: The history of the West Lake Landfill nuclear waste with Bob Alvarez, who served as senior policy adviser to the…

NH #226: Pre- and Post-Shutdown Reactor Woes – Turco on Pilgrim, Gilmore, Headrick on San Onofre

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco, one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders, discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down… by the end of 2019. Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org explains what her research has shown about the dangers of the “thin” (tin can) dry…