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Idaho National Laboratory in the southeastern portion of the state has, in the past, disposed of radioactive waste in 55 gallon drums by dumping them and covering them with dirt – pictured above.  Are you feeling safe?     Listen Here:   This Week’s Featured Interview: The Idaho National Laboratory – a major Department of […] The post Idaho National Laboratory: Radioactive Waste Repository for the World? – Snake River Alliance – NH #555 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
 Nuclear Contamination in Ohio: Radiation releases from Piketon, Ohio’s Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant into local community are being tracked by Dr. Michael Ketterer (above) Listen Here:   This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Contamination in Ohio is being tracked by Dr. Michael Ketterer, who has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and has worked for the U.S. […] The post Nuclear Contamination in Ohio: Radiation Releases from Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant – Dr. Michael Ketterer – NH #529 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL:  DOE wants Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to get a new “ventilation” shaft – but activists point to long range plans by DOE to expand the site to take 50+ TONS of plutonium – enough to make over 15,000 bombs Hearings start May 17; details on how to join below. […] The post New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL: WIPP Plutonium Expansion or Just The Shaft? Hearings Start May 17 – Don Hancock, Joni Arends – NH #516 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Indian Points Shutdown!  But the battle for safety has just shifted to another gear.    Listen Here:   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 […] The post Indian Point Shutdown! What’s Next? Manna Jo Greene, Dr. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Decomissioning Process – NH #515 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Radioactive Nuclear Waste in Southern California: Google Maps image of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station‘s radioactive fuel rod storage canisters. Each one contains as much radiation as was released during the Chernobyl accident. Note the nearness of the Pacific Ocean. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive nuclear waste and the current lies regarding […] The post Radioactive Nuclear Waste Lies: San Onofre w/Donna Gilmore, Radiation vs. Radioactivity w/Dr. Gordon Edwards – NH #436 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan – created by moms, parents, grandparents to supply the information that the Japanese government would not. See what radiation levels have been and will be for the next 100 years. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan by the Minna-no Data Site reveals the […] The post Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan Exposes Scientific Truth about Fukushima Contamination + Hurricane Hagibis Radiation Update: Mari Inoue – NH #435 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Fukushima Hurricane Hagibis Flooding – deluge of water washes full bags of “decontaminated” soil, plants, and other radioactive matter into Furumichi river near the Japanese city of Tamura in Fukushima Prefecture (above). No report yet on how much radioactive material from the decomposing, torn waste bags was washed back into the environment. Listen Here: This […] The post Fukushima Hurricane Hagibis Flooding Spreads Radiation Risks, w/Simply Info’s Nancy Foust + Radioactive Rocky Flats-Adjacent Toll Road Delayed – Randy Stafford appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Nuclear Numnutz cartoon by Libbe HaLevy and Raoul Pascual LISTEN HERE: NOTE: I’m taking my annual autumn break from the nuclear world with an off-grid retreat for a week. What better time to let you see how far we have come <NOT!> in holding off the nuclear insanity than by revisiting a full year of […] The post Nuclear Numnutz of the Year 2018 REDUX – Look Back at Yet Another Year of Nuclear Insanity appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Wilfred Burchett’s front page story about Hiroshima in the Daily Mirror. He was the only reporter who got the story and got it right; U.S. military crackdown on access to Hiroshima made accurate reporting on the nature of radiation and its horrific impact impossible – and Burchett’s story was buried. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured […] The post Kansas City Site: When “Not Nuclear” really means “Nuclear, Radioactive & Deadly” – NH #424 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of 94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation land. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: Chris Shuey is Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program for Southwest […] The post Uranium Mining Disaster SPECIAL Pt. 1: Church Rock at 40, Navajo Nation Devastation Continues – Chris Shuey, Southwest Research and Information Center – NH #421 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Radiophobia? Fear of radiation is worse than exposure to radiation? Lies and propaganda!! Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: RADIOPHOBIA? Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona […] The post Radiophobia? Schmadiophobia! The Lie at the Heart of Nuclear Ignorance: Majia Nadesan – 8th Anniversary! NH #416 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown! One of the many demonstrations by Cape Downwinders that helped make the closure happen. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts – the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi – permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a […] The post PILGRIM NUCLEAR SHUTDOWN! Celebrate, then on to Decommissioning Battles: Diane Turco, Mary Lampert – NH #415 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Radioactive Contamination found in your kid’s school – the letter no parent ever wants to receive. LISTEN HERE: This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive contamination found at Ohio School – where is it from and what does it mean? Interview with Vina Colley; she is, in her own words, “a Whistleblower, a sick worker from the […] The post Radioactive Contamination in Ohio School SPECIAL: Whistleblower Vina Colley Exposes Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant History + BREAKING – 4 Years of DOE Monitoring Data to Be Released – NH #413 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Smithsonian accepts!  Just one example of a radiation-mutated flower found near Three Mile Island by local resident Mary Osborn.  Her collection has been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interviews: Smithsonian accepts Mary Osborn’s Three Mile Island radiation/plant mutation collection.  Mary Osborn, a long time member of Three Mile Island Alert, has […] The post Smithsonian Accepts Three Mile Island Plant Mutation Collection! – Mary Osborn – NH #398 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque.  The group  focuses on the goings-on [...] The post New Mexico Radioactive Waste Showdown: Don Hancock on WIPP and Proposed “Interim” Storage – NH #396 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
UChicago’s Henry Moore Statue “Nuclear Energy” was surrounded by body outlines representing the civilians who were killed by atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photos: Brittney Dorton Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: UChicago’s India Weston, a remarkable young anti-nuclear activist, fills us in on the new-media way she first discovered the hidden nuclear [...] The post UChicago Nuclear Die-In at Atomic Pile Commemoration – New Anti-Nuke Generation’s India Weston – NH #394 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Nuclear Trainwreck? – San Onofre high level radioactive waste lurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark – and proposed rail transport is a “mobile Chernobyl” disaster just waiting to happen. Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interview: “Nuclear trainwreck” – Let’s hope that’s a metaphor, not a future reality!  Donna Gilmore is  founder [...] The post Nuclear Trainwreck: Radwaste Transport Dangers Exposed! – Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety – NH #371 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Anniversary time! Listen here: Anniversary time!  Nuclear Hotseat – Now beginning its 8th year of  weekly programs on nuclear issues… “from a different perspective.” Please consider donating to help us celebrate!  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Heidi Hutner is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear and [...] The post Nuclear Hotseat 7th Anniversary! + Prof. Heidi Hutner’s film ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: Voices of Women from Three Mile Island – NH #365 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Listen Here: 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 [...] The post Nuclear Reactors/Climate Change Lies: Gundersen Busts Nuke Industry’s PR Ploy – NH #338 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
Featured Image:  Ce n’est pas une bombe atomique. Listen Here: The University of Chicago produced a month-long orgy of pro-nuclear self-congratulations to celebrate the first atomic pile, the chain reaction which started our collective nuclear nightmare.  The events culminated in a Symposium, “Nuclear Reaction,”  held on December 1, 2017, featuring relentless pro-nuclear propaganda. Nuclear Hotseat [...] The post SPECIAL: U-Chicago Atomic Propaganda Orgy Decoded by Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen & NEIS – Errors, Omissions & Lies, Oh My! – NH #337 appeared first on Nuclear Hotseat.
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