Nuclear Hotseat

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE INTERVIEW: Karen Nickle is a long time resident of the North St. Louis area who grew up close to Coldwater Creek, where a social media survey revealed a cancer cluster caused by  Manhattan Project-era radioactive nuclear waste in the water. Since 2012, she has been involved in fighting for appropriate action to...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW Mary Olson is Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the impact of radiation and how it wrecks disproportionately greater havoc on females than males. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK What are they calling out at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 76 times over?  “Heeeeere,...

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill.  He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative.  We talked about the legal situation...

A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis – a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump – and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. FEATURED INTERVIEWS: The history of the West Lake Landfill nuclear waste with Bob Alvarez, who served as senior policy adviser to the...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco, one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders, discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down… by the end of 2019. Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org explains what her research has shown about the dangers of the “thin” (tin can) dry...

THIS WEEK’S EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK, explains how radiation from the UK’s Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at the Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as “safe!” —...

Interviews: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; Carol Jahnkow, Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on safety problems she learned about USS Reagan when it was homeported in San...

FEATURED INTERVIEWS:  Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, reports from events in Berlin about the week’s screenings and specific films, plus plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles next year.  Countries represented by the 29 films include  Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Macedonia, Spain, Denmark, Brazil, Poland, Austria, India, Ukraine, Ireland, Tajikstan,...

INTERVIEW: Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge <!>.   NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The New York Times goes in for hard core “hormesis” (no – Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as...

INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Options Network (EON3) reports on the recent California event she helped to produce: FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with scientists Timothy Mousseau on mutations at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and Ken Buessler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on radiation testing of the Pacific Ocean and seafood. ...