Nuclear Hotseat

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:

• Karen Hadden, Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development, or SEED Coalition, headquartered in Austin, TX talks about the EPA telling the country that West Texas and New Mexico both want more! more! more! nuclear waste... when the people who live there haven't even been asked.
• Beatrice Brailsford, Nuclear Program Director of the Snake River Alliance in Pocatello, Idaho, and she covers not only the history of the Idaho National Laboratory, but connects the dots in the nuclear waste stream as it currently plays out.

Doesn't take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC... as the Government Accounting Office (GAO) proved when they conned the agency out of permits for the required ingredient for crude yet effective bombs with dummy corporations.  And who exactly might that dummy be, hmmm...?

• NRC site for comments on "Consent-base" Siting of Nuclear Waste Dumps by July 31, 2016
  (LINK COMING... RIGHT NOW IT REALLY IS MISSING...)

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."

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

Longtime Nuclear Hotseat listener Malcolm Chaddock helping to calm down an armed assailant at a Black Lives Matter rally in Portland, Oregon.

Anti-nuclear and so much more activist Malcolm Chaddock (L) tries to calm down gunman at Black Lives Matter rally in Portland, Oregon.

BREAKING:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be interviewed by John B. Wells for Caravan to Midnight, airing Friday, July 8, 2016, available for download thereafter for a small fee.

Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of Canada's best known independent experts on nuclear technology. Part 1 of our monumental interview posted on Nuclear Hotseat #259 on June 7, 2016.   Today, in Part 2, Dr. Edwards continues the saga of how Canada has provided mined uranium to the world, how it figured prominently if not predominantly in the development of India's nuclear bomb, and the steps being taken to institute an international ban on uranium mining.

• Speech in Greenland:  http://ccnr.org/Narsaq_Edwards_2016.pdf
• Powerpoint used in Greenland:  http://ccnr.org/Narsaq_Edwards_2016_show.pdf
• Danish interview on medical aspects of uranium mining
• Danish interview on remediation of a uranium mining site in Saskatchewan

Japanese town near Tokyo wants its nuclear waste declared not so radioactive so that it can't be dumped in with all the other garbage.

This program covers the follow-up to last week's devastating vote by the California Lands Commission NOT to require Diablo Canyon's operater, PG&E, to hold an Environmental Impact Review prior to renewing their lease on state coastal land and waters.  Hosted by Harvey Wasserman, featuring interviews with veteran activists Myla Reson and Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace. 

• Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace about what was then an upcoming meeting on Diablo Canyon with the California Lands Commission.
• Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear, pro-alternatives activist for more than 40 years.  He writes regularly for a wide internet readership through Ecowatch, Solartopia.org, Freepress.org and Nukefree.org.  His Green Power & Wellness Show is heard at www.prn.fm.

They weren't activists; they were tourists.

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• New Zealand anti-nuclear and climate activist Kevin Hester offers an in-depth analysis of what his no-nukes country is doing inviting a US naval vessel into its waters next year – an absolute legal no-no since 1987.
• Mimi German of No Nukes NW and Radcast.org on how the peace sailboat she and Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia were on – the Golden Rule – was intentionally rammed by a Washington State police boat during a protest of war ships.

Peace Boat Golden Rule that was rammed by WA state police boat
Photo courtesy No Nukes NW

• Byron DeLear checks it with perspective on the release of a long-suppressed report by the EPA on the West Lake Landfill that proves the Just Moms, the Coldwater Creek activists, and others who supported them were right.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has some very strange safety concerns at Diablo Canyon.  No, not earthquake faults, thin-walled "tin can" dry casks for radioactive waste storage, aging reactor parts, embrittlement of the container vessel.  You'll never guess what they're concerned about!  (HINT:  I never knew that Snapple could be so dangerous...)

To celebrate five years of continuous, weekly production, Nuclear Hotseat revisits some activists and stories we've been covering.

• Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on the recent federal court refusal to reconsider nuclear reactor on-site long term radioactive waste storage.
• Mary Olson of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the recent EPA proposal to let us all be exposed to more radiation in our drinking water.
• Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center on radwaste storage at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
• Linda Seeley of San Louis Obispo Mothers for Peace on a brilliant new strategy to force the closure of Diablo Canyon.
• Erica Gray of the Sierra Club on current problems w/our country's newest nuclear nightmare, Watts Bar.

What in the world is Japan thinking, deciding to pave its roads with radioactive Fukushima waste and rubble?!? 

• *ASTONISHING stats - In one month, Nuclear Hotseat was downloaded in 112 countries on six continents.  And that's the stats from just ONE syndicator!  (*UCY.TV audit, May 11-June 11, 2016)
• Funny outtakes from the past year's recordings - proof that Nuclear Hotseat has, at times, gone to the dogs.
• Flashbacks to earlier episodes, including the time I made Dr. Helen Caldicott laugh.
• Testimonials from leading activists on the importance of Nuclear Hotseat to our community and our movement.

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