Nuclear Hotseat

Chernobyl – Dr. Timothy Mousseau heads research into plant, insect, bird and small mammal mutations This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist best known for his research on-the-ground studying the effects of radiation on animals and plant life around Chernobyl and Fukushima. He has been a faculty member of the...

Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas?  No way!  Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No!Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986; received his doctorate from Princeton...

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 impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons...

Canada Nuclear Waste Dump in Chalk River, Ontario –“Mobile Chernobyl” highway route waste would take from Los Alamos National Labs This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of that country’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. He has worked with the Canadian government,...

Pilgrim Nuclear public hearing, Diane TurcoPhoto credit: M. Scott Brauer This Week’s Featured Interview: Diane Turco, Executive Director of Cape Downwinders, a group dedicated to the permanent closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Plymouth, Massachusetts, updates us on the problems and dangers at that facility in just the first four months of 2018....

Listen Here: [powerpress] This week’s Nuclear Hotseat marks the 32nd Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with highlights from past interviews.  It bring Ukraine’s devastating 1986 nuclear accident — and its consequences — into sharp, terrifying focus. This Week’s Special Interviews: Bonnie Kouneva was a 16-year-old living in Bulgaria when the Chernobyl accident started on...

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 NOTE: I am traveling to TMI for events surrounding the 39th Anniversary. As a result, donations to help me get there will be rewarded with the following bonuses:  For $20, you will receive a quality facsimile of the LA Weekly article I wrote at the evacuation site that...

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock.  She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the criteria used to determine just how close to global annihilation...

Featured Image:  Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast, an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment.  It teaches how to build your own radiation monitor and connect it with the Safecast database of real-time, automatically uploaded radiation...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge.  He addresses Hanford’s recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out the timeline of recent events, which are still breaking in the news. Health Effects of Plutonium – article Information on radiation monitors mentioned in the interview: ...