Nuclear Hotseat
Libbe Halevy
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Oct 24, 2012 • 38min
NH #71 – Nuclear Reactors = Nuclear Bombs: Alice Slater; Wisconsin Nuke Plant to Close, SanO Leaks Again!
INTERVIEW: Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the global fight for freedom and sanity. www.abolition2000.org; www.wagingpeace.org. PLUS: San Onofre leaks again and it’s not even on line!...
Oct 9, 2012 • 36min
NH #69 – Japan’s Tragic Update (kids, food, Fukushima clean-up); Author Kristen Iversen
PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing to take responsibility for authorizing restarts (I wonder why…); Children in Fukushima exercise on land registering over 100,000 bequerels...
Oct 3, 2012 • 24min
NH #68: US Commands Japan’s Noda: Keep the Nukes!
INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his announcement two weeks ago that the country would be nuke-free by the 2030’s is now a worthless lie; Japan experiences cluster-quakes...
Sep 26, 2012 • 36min
Nuclear Hotseat #67 – SPECIAL – Report on CAN Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future
Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future September 20-22, 2012 An audio journey through three days of top-level activism, starring the best minds and hearts in the Nuclear-Free Future activist community. This podcast includes interviews with or speeches by: Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein Rep. Dennis Kucinich...
Sep 12, 2012 • 38min
NH #65 – Dr. Janette Sherman & Joseph Mangano on Post-Fukushima Deaths in US
Plus: Police kill anti-nuke protesters, including a small girl, as thousands continue to protest at Koodankulam NPP in India; The fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away atop its earthquake faults; TEPCO says Unit 4 is “perfectly safe” in a quake up to...
Sep 5, 2012 • 35min
NH #64: Fukushima Diary’s Iori Mochizuki; NRC Denies License (!) to Calvert Cliff
PLUS: For only the second time in history, the NRC denies a request for a license! NIRS Exec. Director Michael Mariotte labels this action, “A blow to the so-called ‘nuclear renaissance.'” San Onofre to get cost/benefit analysis to see if it makes sense to attempt to reopen it (CLUE: The answer is NO!); Dr. Michael...
Aug 29, 2012 • 37min
NH #63 – BREDL’s Lou Zeller, Whales Picket Diablo, India’s $9 Nuclear Special!
Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, on how to grow grassroots activism, southeastern U.S. nuke issues, support for the CAN Rally for a Nuclear Free Future. News: Whales Picket Diablo Canyon; India’s $9 Numnutz – the ultimate pro-nuker’s sweet deal; tsunami debris already hitting Alaska hard; Dr. Caldicott’s 14 recommendations...
Aug 22, 2012 • 28min
NH #62 – Hanford Leaks, Mutated Worms, Kucinich sics NRC on NRC over Davis Besse
Mary Olson of NIRS on what it means when nuclear reactors are in hot water – literally. How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN – in time for the Coalition Against Nukes Congressional Briefing on Sept. 20 in DC); Hanford site leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for...
Aug 15, 2012 • 39min
NH #61: Mary Olson of NIRS.org on Nuclear Waste; “Terrorist” 82-Year Old Nun Assaults Nuke Facility w/a Bible!
Interview: Mary Olson, Director of Southeast Office of NIRS.org, on what the June 8 DC court ruling means to the battle against nuclear waste production (meaning reactors and their radioactive legacy). This woman is a clear, concise powerhouse! News: 82-year-old “terrorist” nun breaks into Oak Ridge nuclear facility armed w/a Bible, candles and spray paint. ...
Aug 8, 2012 • 41min
NH #60 – NRC Freezes Nuclear Reactor Construction, Plus Kevin Kamps on Reactor Waste
Interview w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on radioactive waste storage problems, options, how we got in this mess and what if anything can be done about this ever-lasting health menace. www.BeyondNuclear.org BREAKING NEWS – NRC freezes all nuclear reactor construction and operating licenses! PLUS: San Diego’s COPS (Citizens Oversight Projects) challenges San Onofre’s failure to...
