Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radiation/Radioactivity – it’s all nuclear madness, no matter what you call it.  But here, two experts give us background on each term, as well as some of how the nuclear industry does not want us to know or talk about any of it. Dr. Gordon Edwards, a Canadian scientist, mathematician, and...

This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: It’s not often that I prep a show’s interviews and then throw them out on Tuesday morning because something more important has happened — but that’s the case this week.  On Monday, June 28, a coalition of community and public interest groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Guinea Pigs:Desmond Narain Doulatram, a citizen of the Marshall Islands, is co-founder of the nonprofit organization REACH-MI (Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity- Marshall Islands), where he serves as Research Director and Advisor. REACH-MI  provides information and explores ways to address unresolved nuclear issues to improve community conditions, people’s lives, and...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: San Onofre owners Southern California Edison plan to dismantle spent fuel pools – the last line of defense in a radiation accident on the California coast.  Now a lawsuit filed by Samuel Lawrence Foundation seeks to retain spent fuel pools and have a “hot cell” – repackaging unit – built on-site...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Exelon’s nuclear bailout in Illinois is yet another in a series of scams to trick the public out of billions of taxpayer dollars with no guarantee of increased nuclear safety.  We talk with Dave Kraft,  Director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), headquartered in Chicago  He is a veteran of...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Chernobyl Lies, Health Cover-Up by World Health Organization (WHO) Revealed – Interview with Alison Katz, a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. This international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster...

This Week’s Featured Interview: The International Uranium Film Festival continues with 34 films on a wide range of nuclear issues around the world.  Of the Sense of the Whole: The Network of Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr (VOM SINN DES GANZEN) is a film by Claus Biegert.  As Biegert explains: Hans-Peter Dürr – as a physicist he...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: With the International Uranium Film Festival running online May 20-30 – and free – we bring you interviews with two of the filmmakers.  A third interview will run on next week’s show, #518. Register to watch at: www.UraniumFilmFestival.org.  Click on the Rio 2021 link. The two films and directors featured on...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmares – this one dealing with hearings that hide the planned expansion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to hold more than 50 TONS of “excess” plutonium – the most deadly radioactive substance on earth.  And all that plutonium will have to be trucked and trained across the...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Indian Point Shutdown!  The closure of Indian Point’s last operating nuclear reactor – only 25 miles from Manhattan – is a cause for celebration… and a recalibration of the activist response to focus on decommissioning challenges.  Two genuine experts paint the decommissioning picture: Manna Jo Greene has been the Environmental Director...