Nuclear Hotseat

Rachel Maddow nails it about Vermont’s battle to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in this brief but powerful excerpt from her MSNBC program: http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/rachel-maddow-how-much-political-power-does-nuclear-power-wield.html  So who has the right to decide aabout ongoing exposure to the radioactive detritus of a nuclear reactor – We-the-People or corporation-as-“legal-person”?  Corporations can’t sicken and die from radiation,...

Today’s Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: North Anna’s operators caught in a lie about quake-readiness of that plant, even as they break ground for reactor #3; Fukushima radiation levels for workers more than 10 times too high; Interview with Dr. Robert Gould of Physicians for Social Responsibility on radiation dangers; Report on Vermont’s nuclear sanity – a...

On today’s Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: Interview w/Sean Bonner of Safecast on his work providing free on-the-ground radiation monitoring devices to groups in Japan; post-quake damage suspected at North Anna nuke plant in Virginia; post-Hurricane Irene “Unusual Event” at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland; Tweets and email from Japan reveal the devastating human toll of Fukushima, including...

An olde commercial from the 1970’s showed Mother Nature getting ticked off at some margarine that tasted to her like butter.  “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned, and at the stretch of her arms created a raging thunderstorm. Today it’s not margarine, it’s nuclear power plants that seem to be the object...

Here’s what happened on today’s Nuclear Hotseat podcast: Interview w/Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear, on what to do with 75,000 TONS of nuclear waste and how to keep one’s balance while dealing with such intense information; Today’s 5.8 East Coast quake knocks out emergency generator at  Virginia nuke plant and causes NRC...

Any time Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds.com posts an updated report, it’s important to pay attention.  As a former nuclear industry insider who ran a power plant, he has a clear eye on the truth of what’s happening and presents the most reliable information, directly from the source.  As I don’t yet know how to post...

Rarely have I seen anything as profoundly moving as this video, which makes the indellible case for international support in forcing the Japanese government to evacuate the children of Fukushima from the danger zone.  The picture painted, which pinpoints many of the aspects of the story we’ve been featuring on the weekly podcast, is concise,...

The great cover-up of the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear accident in 1959 – the worst on U.S. soil because there was no containment building.  Information only came out 20 years later when some of Dan Hirsch’s nuclear policy students at UC Santa Cruz did research and discovered the long-hidden documents that proved it. ...

Today, I watched my 10-year-old dog frolic in the yard with her favorite ball, playing like a puppy, with more energy than I’ve seen her have in years. Why is this worth a mention on an anti-nuclear website?  Because as part of my program to rid my body and hers of as many toxic materials...

Here’s the link to the most recent Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: Interview with Jane Swanson of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace on legal actions taken to shut down Diablo Canyon Excessive radiation found in fish caught 35 miles from Fukushima, in the thyroid glands of half of children tested, and on containers shipped from...