Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear...

Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past.

Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feeling lucky, punk?

Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past.

Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feeling lucky, punk?

Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City.

We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devote four years of her life to making the film.

Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Dr. Gregory Jaczko, who was forced out of the agency, attended the screening and took part in the audience Q&A afterwards. INDIAN POINT recasts Dr. Jaczko as hero… and he was.

Interviews with activists who attended the screening from Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Japan.

Numnutz of the Week:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo loses his mind and approves $965 million bailout for unprofitable upstate nuclear reactors under the rubic, “Clean Energy Standard.”

Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in the military and suing to receive compensation from the government. Important information for anyone who is dealing legally or legislatively with the nuclear industry claim that “low level radiation can’t harm you.” Pokemon No-Go Zone at TEPCO’s nuclear reactors – does somebody actually have to say this so people don’t look for invisible non-existent creatures in radioactive danger zones?

When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…

When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City. We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devote four...

Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, which is cited in our interview. He is best known in the US for uncovering Katherine Harris' purge of black voters from Florida's voter rolls in 2000. He is currently finishing the final frames of his new film on the upcoming theft of the 2016 election: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits."

Numnutz of the Week: It's a trifecta of Numnutzery - nuclear reactor "safety" practices ignored at three separate nuclear reactors.

This Week's Featured Interview:

Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation's impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British  veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in the military and suing to receive  compensation from the government. Important information for anyone who is dealing legally or legislatively with the nuclear industry claim that "low level radiation can't harm you."

Numnutz of the Week:

Pokemon No-Go Zone at TEPCO's nuclear reactors - does somebody actually have to say this so people don't look for invisible non-existent creatures in radioactive danger zones?

The Missing Link:

• Harvey Wasserman's brilliant rebuttal of the NYTimes pro-nuke green power takedown piece, http://www.ecowatch.com/radiation-fukushima-rivers-200-times-higher-than-pacific-ocean-seabed-1937971722.html" class="text-nh underline hover:text-nh-dark" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"NY Times Pushes Nukes while Claiming Renewables Fail to Fight Climate Change."