Nuclear Hotseat

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

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 spearheading a campaign to stop a new coal mine within close proximity of Sellafield.
• RECOMMENDED BOOK:  Nuclear Juggernaught by Michael Bond, published in 1992 by EarthScan
• Ongoing petitions can be found here:
  
  • Stop Moorside - the biggest new nuclear development in Europe
  • Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear

Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness):

C'mon, World Nuclear News and World Nuclear Association -- you call THAT a "HOT SEAT?"  Not even warm...  but thanks for the free publicity!

Commemoration:  Stanislav Petrov, ‘The Man Who Saved The World,’ Dies at 77

• BBC article contains interview video.
• Trailer for 2014 documentary with reenactments, "The Man Who Saved the World"

Nuclear issues in the Lake District in the north of the UK, where activists in Cumbria are fighting government plans for a geological nuclear waste dump in their World Heritage Site. We’ll talk with Marianne Birkby, who founded Radiation Free Lakeland, and who is leading the fight against a range of nuclear issues in her region that have the potential to impact us all.