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NH #521: 10th Anniversary! San Onofre Lawsuit = Last Line of Defense for So CA? + Exelon Illinois $Billion Bailout UPDATE & China Radiation Leak Jun 16, 2021

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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...

NH #520: Exelon’s Nuclear Bailout Scam in Illinois: Dave Kraft, NEIS Jun 09, 2021

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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...

NH #519: Chernobyl Lies, Cover-Up by World Health Organization Jun 01, 2021

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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...

NH #518: Uranium Film Festival – Pacifist Physicists & Filmmaker Claus Biegert May 23, 2021

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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...

NH #517: Uranium Film Festival: Wake-Up Call to Humanity + Post-A-Bomb Suppressed Color Footage May 19, 2021

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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...

NH #516: New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL: WIPP Plutonium Expansion or Just The Shaft? Hearings Start May 17 – Don Hancock, Joni Arends May 12, 2021

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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...

NH #515: Indian Point Shutdown! What’s Next? Manna Jo Greene, Dr. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Decommissioning Process May 05, 2021

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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...

NH #514: Chernobyl Anniversary #2: Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman + Hawaiian “Incoming Missile” Film Apr 28, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examining its consequences. Check last week’s Nuclear Hotseat #513 for further interviews. This week: Bonnie Kouneva was a 15-year-old living in Communist Bulgaria when the Chernobyl disaster began, but no one knew about it because the Soviet Union said nothing to its...

NH #513: Chernobyl Anniversary #35: Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau + Ian Zabarte on USA’s MIghty Oak Nuke Accident Apr 20, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research has been funded by the American Academy in Berlin and by Carnegie and Guggenheim...

NH #512: LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare Film: “Cancer Moves Faster than Bureaucracy” – Santa Susana Field Lab Documentary Apr 14, 2021

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This Week’s Featured Interview: LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare – Simi Valley mother Melissa Bumstead only found out about the toxic, radioactively contaminated Santa Susan Field Lab – located less than three miles from her home – while her daughter was being treated for neuroblastoma – a rare cancer. Her story, the history of the site,...

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