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NH #541: Santa Susana Field Lab Fallout from Radiation Study: PSR-LA’s Denise Duffield, Melissa Bumstead Nov 03, 2021

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Santa Susana Field Lab – the push to clean up the 2,680 acre site continues in the wake of findings about the Woolsey fire releasing radioactive micro-particles into the surrounding Los Angeles neighborhoods. One of the ongoing people helping to lead the fight is Denise Duffield. She serves as Administrator for Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA’s (PSR-LA)...

NH #540: Anti-Nuclear Nun Sister Megan Rice – A Commemoration Oct 28, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Anti-nuclear nun Sister Megan Rice passed away on October 10, 2021 at the age of 91. Sr. Rice, who was arrested more than 40 times for her beliefs and protests as part of the Plowshares movement, is best known for her role in the 2012 break-in at the Oak Ridge nuclear...

NH #539: Woolsey Fire SPECIAL: Radioactive Particles Released into LA Neighborhoods from Santa Susana Field Lab – Peer-Reviewed Study by Dr. Marco Kaltofen, Arnie Gundersen, Maggie Gundersen Oct 20, 2021

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This Week’s SPECIAL Interview: Woolsey Fire radioactive releases revealed: In 2018, the massive Woolsey Fire started at the Santa Susana Field Lab – a nuclear radiation- and rocket fuel-contaminated former Rocketdyne site, located in the hills of Simi Valley only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It burned through contaminated brush and debris, releasing smoke...

NH #538: Baby Teeth Hold Key to Illinois, Michigan Nuclear Reactor Radiation Exposure – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano Oct 14, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Baby teeth were studied in the 1950’s and 60’s to determine childhood exposure to radioactive strontium 90 from atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. The results from what was called the Tooth Fairy Project led to U.S. President Kennedy and Russia’s Premier Khrushchev creating the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the...

NH #537: Oconee Nuclear in South Carolina At Risk of Inland Tsunami from Jocassee Dam – Paul Gunter Oct 06, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Oconee Nuclear reactors at risk of inland tsunami from Jocassee Dam – Paul Gunter has been a critic of nuclear power for over 30 years. He is an energy policy analyst and activist who worked as the Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project for Nuclear Information and Resource Service for almost...

NH #536: Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Dangers – Kevin Kamps + Nuke Info Tokyo – Caitlin Stronell Sep 28, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive nuclear waste dump dangers are the primary wheelhouse of Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog (bullldog?) for Beyond Nuclear. Kevin specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; environmental and public health risks associated with government and industry efforts to dump commercial irradiated fuel rods on Native...

NH #535: Radioactive Waste Dump Connection of Yucca Mt/West Texas – Ian Zabarte + Nuke Bailout Headache$$$ – Dave Kraft Sep 22, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive waste dump connection between Yucca Mountain and West Texas explored and exposed by Ian Zabarte, Principal Man for the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation. He rips apart the recent decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve a high level “interim” nuclear waste dump in West Texas and brings...

NH #534: Hinkley Radioactive Waste Dredge-and-Dump off Cardiff Coast – UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones Sep 15, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interview: A jaw-dropping interview with UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones on the true impact of nuclear industry dredge-and-drop of nuclear 600,000 cubic metres (approx 780,000 tons) of radioactive waste into the Bristol Channel off the coast of Wales. He works as an independent Marine Pollution Researcher and Consultant with a client list...

NH #533: Blast the Money Out of Nuclear Weapons! Susi Snyder, Don’t Bank on the Bomb + Santa Susana Field Lab UPDATE w/Melissa Bumstead Sep 09, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Blast the money out of nuclear weapons! Nuclear divestment means institutional nuke investments are going down — and Susi Snyder explains how any one of us can join that movement. She is project lead for the PAX No Nukes Project and coordinator for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and...

NH #532: Nuclear New Orleans: Another Fukushima? Post-Ida Dangers at Waterford Nuclear – Arnie Gundersen, Maggie Gundersen, Nancy Foust Sep 01, 2021

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This Week’s SPECIAL Interviews: Following the devastation to New Orleans by Hurricane Ida, mainstream media has failed to cover the situation at the Waterford nuclear facility only 25 miles west of the city. The facility is shut down, without grid power, and currently cooling the reactor with emergency back-up generators. But is this enough? Will...

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