47 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from August 2017 to September 2026. Most recent: “NH #793: NRC Trick Wording in Proposed Radiation Levels Changes – What Does It Really Mean to Women, Girls? Mary Olson”.
Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project reveals how NRC’s proposed radiation safety level changes use languaging to hide total health impact., especially to women and g
Trinity atomic bomb blast – .025 seconds into the Atomic Age – July 16, 1945 This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Tommy Rock is a member of the Navajo Nation from Monument Valley, Utah. He got his Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in Environmental Geography and Recreational Management
Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group reveals problems at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab from demands to manufacture up to 80 new plutonium pits (bomb triggers) per year.
Greg Mello, Exec Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, reports from "belly of the beast" - DC's annual Nuclear "Deterrence" Summit.
Nuclear weapons kill twice: fast by blast, slow by glow = radiation. Robert Jacobs's book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha - radiation’s slow nuclear war.
On the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb blast, Downwinders share stories of what the radiation did to their families and way of life, how the government failed them, and h
Pt 2 - interview w/authors of new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. New info on health dangers from “permitted” reactor radiation releases.
Federal court rules that plutonium pit production at Los Alamos and Savannah River Site breaks the law + Int'l Uranium Film Fest officially "COOL!"
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in his book NUCLEAR B
Radioactive fallout f/1945 Trinity atom bomb test contaminated air, water, land, people. Downwinders' struggle to gain US govt compensation focus of FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO.
Nuclear anniversaries: First A-Bomb Test at Trinity in NM, Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill on Navajo Nation lands - both happened on July 16, 34 years apart.
What do Youth Want to Know About Nukes? Q&A with students at Wilmington College & Peace Resource Center + Congressional briefing on radioactive contamination of food/water.
Atomic Museum in Las Vegas tries to make nukes seem like FUN! but ignores radiation dangers, Hiroshima, Downwinders issues - No history, just PROPAGANDA.
Los Alamos Study Group's Greg Mello in the Belly of the Beast: DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit, the nukesters' conference and trade show for Armageddon.
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act now attached to Foreign Aid spending bill. Dawn Chapman on educating Congress, working w/Sen. Hawley.
US "depleted" uranium weapons sent to Ukraine risks nuclear radiation contamination & Downwinders recount recent lobbying in DC to support Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
Oppose nuclear? Good news! Downwinder compensation, no license f/TX radwaste dump, Hudson River safe from radwater release, ILL keeps no new nukes law
The US already has 6,000 nuclear weapons. Why rush to build more plutonium pits, the bombs' trigger mechanism? Chris Mello of Los Alamos Study Group follows the money.
We are all Hibakusha - Downwinders - hit by radiation from (still!) Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Trinity, & 100 US atmospheric nuclear tests.
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in NUCLEAR BODIES: Th
Flashy but problematic Oppenheimer omits radiation, Japanese faces, on-the-ground visuals of Hiroshima devastation while supporting US rationale.
Warmongers party down at DC’s Nuclear Deterrence Summit. Hear from the lone voice for disarmament: Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group
Radioactive fallout from the Nevada Test Site contaminated St. George Utah...and John Wayne? DOWNWIND, a new documentary, at Slamdance.
Nuclear Downwinders – Actually, that would be all of us. Map shows all locations where fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests landed at least three times. Map created by and used courtesy of Richard L. Miller . This Week’s
Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump is coming up against serious community pushback. They’re hearing from Cape Downwinders (logo above), Pilgrim Watch , and government reps. (Poster above is by graphic designer and educator La
Plutonium pits – the trigger for nuclear weapons: Congress has mandated that this country produce new plutonium pits at a rate of 80 per year by 2030… but nobody’s done the proper Environmental Impact Surveys to dete
Pilgrim Nuclear, Holtec Safety Lies: Dry cask storage is not secure when anyone can walk up to them, this close, without any restrictions. So much for Holtec’s claims about “safety.” This Week’s Featured
New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on a panel on how to stop Los Alamos plutonium pit production and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expansion and extension, and promote the United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. (Picture a s
Trinity A-Bomb – First photo of the birth of the Atomic Age: Trinity atomic bomb test blast on July 16, 1945. Fallout from this “dirty bomb” is still harming Downwinders, who were exposed and are still exposed to the radia
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Extension Needed for Downwinders of Trinity and Nevada A-bomb Tests, Uranium Miners: Map of U.S. areas hit by fallout from at least three of the 100 atmospheric bomb tests done above ground in Neva
Uranium Film Festival continues with the German film (English Subtitles), Of the Sense of the Whole: The Network of Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr (r). This Week’s Featured Interview: The International Uranium Film Festival continues
Oregon Nuclear Legislation – a full court press of propaganda Podcaster/Citizen Activist Lonnie Clark on nuclear shenanigans at the Oregon State House This Week’s Featured Interview: Oregon Nuclear Legislation is being proposed
Hanford Downwinders truth preserved, in context, in the powerful book, The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice by downwinder Trisha Pritikin and journalist Karen Dorn Steele This Week’s Featured Interview: Han
Nuclear Downwinders Update – Map of U.S. areas hit by fallout from at least three of the 100 atmospheric bomb tests done above ground in Nevada, showing that most of us are truly downwinders. U sed by permission of Richard Miller List
Radium Girls – WWI era young women paint luminous watch dials with radioactive paint were instructed to lick the brush tips to make a sharper point. A new dramatic film tells of our first awareness of radiation horrors in very human t
Los Alamos Toxic Nuclear Tour – LANL is the Manhattan Project site where Little Boy, the first atomic bomb, was designed and built. Schematics of bomb above. This Week’s Special Feature: Los Alamos Toxic Tour Smug Stupid L
Trinity atomic bomb downwinder/activist Tina Cordova continues to fight for acknwlegement, compensation for those harmed by the blast's radiation.
This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary of the United States dropping atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities — for the first time, activists will provide i nternational online peace and anti-nu
Hanford Nuclear Nightmares – before Covid times – being addressed by Hanford Challenge Executive Director Tom Carpenter at January, 2018 Senate hearings. This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Nuclear and Covid nightmares
Radiation causes disproportionate harm to women, little girls, but the model for safety is adult men. Mary Olson crunches the data. Shocking results!
Smug Stupid Los Alamos: A guide to the atomic hot spots – meaning REALLY hot – around the radioactive Manhattan Project legacy sites with Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Pictured above: How much more smug c
Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together
Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan – created by moms, parents, grandparents to supply the information that the Japanese government would not. See what radiation levels have been and will be for the next 100 years. This Week&#
Nuclear weapons – a reminder of what they look like and what they can do. LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear weapons – their design, engineering, chances for implementation – that’
Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY , which examines lives
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kristen Iversen , author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats , explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey , which is meant to det
