NH #316: UN Passes Nuclear Weapons Ban + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Canada's Nuclear Waste Insanity

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology.  He speaks on the Chalk River proposed Nuclear Waste Dump, its history, and the many ways it’s a dangerous, wrong-headed idea.  The first of three segments with Dr. Edwards.  Next week: The OPG proposed deep geological repository for nuclear waste on the shores of Lake Huron.  

SPECIAL FEATURE:

• Heidi Hutner, director of the Sustainability Studies Program at Stonybrook University and Associate Dean in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, called Nuclear Hotseat from the United Nations within an hour of passage of the nuclear bomb ban.  Historic audio!

MORE ICANW INFO AND LINKS TO COME!

Featured Image courtesy International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

LINKS:

• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – website.
• Quick animated explanation of Don’t Bank on the Bomb:

Numnutz of the Week:

It may be based on a trade agreement, but why is the European Union considering doing away with radiological testing and certification for rice, seafood and wild plants from Northeastern Japan, site of the Fukushima triple meltdowns?  Are they trying to get some advantage for the Olympics?