Nuclear Hotseat

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NH #82 – Iran’s Nuke Accident? SanO DAB seeks Whistleblowers, Cesium in Fuku Food Jan 09, 2013

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PLUS: Did Iran have a nuclear accident or is there some other cause for the evacuation of 1.5 million people? Osaka to burn radioactive Fukushima debris as the government detains and arrests anti-nuclear protestors. Turkey to test all food imported from Japan for suspected radioactivity, but US continues to do NOTHING to protect our food...

NH #81: Nuke Year’s Resolutions from CAN’s Priscilla Star Jan 02, 2013

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INTERVIEW: Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) shares her passion and vision for a women-led meeting with a White House superstar! PLUS: BIG STORY: US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO over radiation exposure while on Fukushima disaster relief. ANOTHER BIG STORY: NRC smacks SCE upside the head over San Onofre “restart” plans,...

NH #80: Dear Santa – NO NUKES! Dec 26, 2012

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IN THIS NUCLEAR HOTSEAT PODCAST: Activists send in their requests to Santa for a nuclear-free 2013; US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; Russia gives us a clue what could be happening with Fukushima produce; Construction cost overruns and construction delays at Vogtle; French electricity giant EDF‘s...

NH #79: Home for the Hellidays: Christmas in Japan as 2 Evacuees Return Dec 19, 2012

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INTERVIEW: This week, a special interview with two women who have lived the nuclear nightmare. Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are American-born, fell in love with and married Japanese men, and were raising families in Japan when the Fukushima disaster began. Both evacuated with their children to southern California, where they’ve become active in the...

NH #78: Nuclear Perpetrators, Urban Planners, UN Preps Int’l Nuke Gag Order Dec 12, 2012

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INTERVIEW: Torgen Johnson is a Harvard-educated Urban Planner with a professional degree in Architecture from USC. He brings a unique perspective to the nuclear conversation based upon three separate professional disciplines. As a resident of southern California who lives near San Onofre, he interprets the risks to community and accumulated wealth from a single major...

NH#77: SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT – SCE/NRC Meeting, Buddhist Monks, Plant Sabotage Dec 05, 2012

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SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditating for an end to nuclear; NRC/SCE public meeting on SCE planned restart muzzles activists (as usual)… and Nuclear Hotseat is there!...

NH #72 – SPECIAL: The Nuclear Threat of Superstorm Sandy Oct 31, 2012

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SPECIAL REPORT: THE NUCLEAR THREAT OF SUPERSTORM SANDY It seems we ducked the nuclear bullet from Superstorm Sandy… but what happens the next time there’s an attack like this from Mother Nature? In this Special Nuclear Hotseat: Learn about what the real nuclear dangers were that 13 nuclear power plants faced from Sandy; Find out...

NH #71 – Nuclear Reactors = Nuclear Bombs: Alice Slater; Wisconsin Nuke Plant to Close, SanO Leaks Again! Oct 24, 2012

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INTERVIEW: Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the global fight for freedom and sanity. www.abolition2000.org; www.wagingpeace.org. PLUS: San Onofre leaks again and it’s not even on line!...

NH #69 – Japan’s Tragic Update (kids, food, Fukushima clean-up); Author Kristen Iversen Oct 09, 2012

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PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing to take responsibility for authorizing restarts (I wonder why…); Children in Fukushima exercise on land registering over 100,000 bequerels...

NH #68: US Commands Japan’s Noda: Keep the Nukes! Oct 03, 2012

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INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his announcement two weeks ago that the country would be nuke-free by the 2030’s is now a worthless lie; Japan experiences cluster-quakes...

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