NH #701: “Radiophobia?” Schmadiophobia! - Nuclear Radiation Gas--lighting Lies: Prof. Majia Nadesan

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• What is “radiophobia?” It’s a lie that says that fear of radiation is more dangerous to human health than radiation itself. Prof. Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima.
  
  She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Risk Cultural Studies; Autism and Bioethics; Globalization; and Political Economy, Energy Politics, and Organizational Communication.  Her books include: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization, Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk.  She provided a chapter on “Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion” for the book, Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations – and that’s what we’re focusing on today – Radiophobia. 
  
  I spoke with Majia Nadesan on June 6, 2019.

Majia Nadesan’s LINKS:

• Nadesan, M. (2018). Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion, a chapter in the collection: Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations, edited by B. Fahs, A. Mann, E. Swank; Rutgers University Press.
• “Lessons of Fukushima” presentation and draft versions of radiophobia chapter
• BOOK: Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Palgrave Pivot.
• VIDEO : “Fukushima’s Genetic Legacy” – Interview produced by EON – Ecological Options Network.
• BLOG: Majia’s Blog https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:

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Links:

• Project 2025 calls for massive changes to Hanford nuclear cleanup
• Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again
• NASA discovers secret US military base buried 100-foot deep in Greenland ice
• Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
• From NEWSWEEK: Map Shows Safest Countries if There Is Nuclear War and Famine