Nuclear Hotseat

 INTERVIEW:  Former nuclear industry insider Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (www.Fairewinds.com) paints a clear picture of the current state of problems at Fukushima Daiichi… and then explains what he would do if he were in charge of the disaster site.  His first five minutes on the job would be awesome – and that’s a...

The Mystery of Fukushima Harbor: Boiling water, steam, fog, mist, morning marine layer… or swamp gas? INTERVIEW:  Beverly Findlay-Kaneko is a former resident of Japan who spent over 20 years in that country.  On March 16, 2011, a family emergency brought her and her son Ryan back to Southern California only five days after the...

INTERVIEWS: Former nuclear insider Arnie Gundersen, head of Fairewinds.com, explains how and why Vermont Yankee was shut down.  Audio courtesy Fairewinds.com from their podcast series. Hattie Nestle, a member of the Vermont Yankee Women’s Affinity Group, on why she’s not ecstatic over Entergy announcement re: Vermont Yankee.   NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  International Atomic Energy Agency...

INTERVIEW:  Dr. Lloyd C. Williams is an organizational psychologist, coach and management consultant to Fortune 100-level companies.  Dr Williams has accomplished and led programs as chair and professor at UC Berkeley, the Universities of Notre Dame, Massachusetts,  Grenoble Business School, the International School of Management and the University of Singapore.  He coined the term “organizational psychosis,” and...

INTERVIEW:  Closing down San Onofre didn’t end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted focus.  Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about how the problems of decommissioning, those pesky spent fuel rods, and some surprising news about fuel radiation levels lead to a regrouping of activists and the upcoming Symposium...

INTERVIEWS: Carole Hisasue left a successful media career in Japan for an idyllic life in America… but landed within six miles of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.  Now active with San Luis Obispo Nothers for Peace (SLOMP), she talks about this year’s northern California Hiroshima commemoration, including a Peace Walk with Buddhist Reverend Gyosen...

FEATURED INTERVIEW:  John Bertucci, one of the organizers of the “Fukushima is Here” campaign, on what it takes to set up a 2,000-person human billboard on a beach… and how you can do it, too, as part of an international planned October 19 action.  BONUS ENCORE INTERVIEW:  Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at...

FEATURED INTERVIEW:  Chuck McCune, veteran disaster preparedness pro, talks about the nuclear aspects to natural disaster, including some projections FEMA never intended to get out to the public.  Chuck includes his vision of what it would take to make the anti-nuclear movement in the US REALLY effective.  NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Cluster of horrible birth...

INTERVIEW:  Award-winning investigative reporter Susannah Frame from KING 5 News in Seattle has not only covered the problems at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington, she has broken several of the most important recent stories.  Listen to what a real reporter goes through to get the hottest nuclear news and put it out into mainstream...

INTERVIEW:  Remember when Ft. Calhoun was a flood-surrounded nuclear island that threatened to pull a Fukushima?  Nebraska energy activist LaVerne Thraen brings us up to date with ongoing problems at Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) that’s keeping Ft. Calhoun offline, including floods, fires and that old standby, politics.  PLUS:  Fukushima radiation levels soaring for “unexplained...