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NH #338: Nuclear Reactors/Climate Change Lies: Gundersen Busts Nuke Industry’s PR Ploy Dec 14, 2017

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This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education , former nuclear industry Senior Vice President and whistleblower, explains global warming in terms of an apple <!>, then takes apart the nuclear industry’s claims that we “need” 1,000 new nuclear reactors to combat climate change. Brilliant, concise, filled with talking points we all...

NH #336: Russia Confesses: Radioactive Ruthenium Cloud over Europe Came f/Mayak + Karl Grossman on Indian Point Nov 29, 2017

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans.An Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat, #295, February 14, 2017. Karl Grossman’s Links: Article – “An...

NH #335: “Chernobyl Disaster in a Can” – 73 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore Nov 23, 2017

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high tide in canisters that are vulnerable to cracking in 2 years and leaking within 20 years. Each one contains a Chernobyl disaster’s...

NH #334: Sen. Corker Challenges President’s Authority to First-Strike Nukes – PSR’s Martin Fleck was In the Room Where it Happened, Cong. Ted Lieu on Nuke Use Legalities + FUKUSHIMA UPDATE w/Nancy Foust Nov 15, 2017

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bob Corker, which confronted the president’s – any president’s – authority to use nuclear weapons. Congressman Ted Lieu’s presentation on...

NH #333: Kids, Leukemia, Power Lines & Nukes + Why Hiroshima Life Span Study is “Rubbish”: Chris Busby Nov 08, 2017

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Featured image: Prof. Chris Busby (r) with the late Alexey Yablakov,editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation. He often appears in UK court as an expert...

NH #332: N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary – Director Rebecca Cammisa, Just Moms Dawn Chapman, Robbin Ellison Dailey Nov 01, 2017

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can’t be put out and is...

NH #330: Nuclear Winter: The Inescapable, Devastating Aftermath of Nuclear Bombs – Steven Starr Oct 18, 2017

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Featured Image: Cartoon by Khalil Bendib, OtherWords.com This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. www.NuclearDarkness.org Make sure you check out the Firestorm Simulator. NukeMap – Find out what a nuclear bomb of any size would do to your, yes...

NH #329: Bob Alvarez Decodes N. Korea & Nukes + ICAN Wins Nobel Peace Prize! YAY! Oct 11, 2017

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This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Straight talk on North Korea from Bob Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, who served as a senior policy advisor to...

NH #328: LA’s Nuclear Nightmare Continues – Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab Lies w/Denise Duffield + FUKUSHIMA UPDATE w/Nancy Foust Oct 04, 2017

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Featured Image: Children show map of pediatric cancers surrounding Santa Susana Field Labat Feb. 21, 2017 Department of Energy (DOE) meeting Featured Interview: Denise Duffield is associate director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA). She directs PSR-LA’s nuclear threats program, which advocates for health protective policies related to nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and radiation...

NH #327: North UK Nuke Waste Storage Fightback – Marianne Birkby + “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Holocaust Dies Sep 28, 2017

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Featured Image: Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World” (1936-2017) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marianne Birkby is a wildlife artist who founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 to oppose geological dumping of nuclear waste and new nuclear developments in Cumbria in the UK. The groups aim is nuclear safety and that has recently included...

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