Nuclear Hotseat

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February 24, 2016NH #244: SPECIAL - Atoms Next Door: North St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare w/Dr. Caldicott, Bob Alvarez, West Lake Moms
"Atoms Next Door" Symposium
on the St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare:
A Full-Length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL
Dr. Helen Caldicott (R) interviewed by Libbe HaLevy (L) on-site at the Bridgeton Landfill in North St. Louis. Behind them: (L-R) - Mali Martha Lightfoot, Byron DeLear, Kay Drey
In North St. Louis, World War II era nuclear weapons waste was dumped
into illegal landfills; improperly transported; and the people who lived literally next door were never warned about this invisible nightmare.
This is the story of what this means right now.
A full-length NUCLEAR HOTSEAT SPECIAL report on the Atoms Next Door symposium on the St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare – World War II-era highly radioactive weapons manufacturing waste illegally buried in a flood plain of the Missouri River. It has been invisibly poisoning residents for over 40 years, resulting in cancer clusters, brain tumors in children, autoimmune diseases and more. St. Louis Community College in Wildwood sponsored the event. Dr. Helen Caldicott flew in from Australia to be keynote speaker; Bob Alvarez; nuclear workers advocate Denise Brock; and revered Missouri environmentalist Kay Drey addressed an overflow audience of more than 300 people and livestream viewers from around the world, including Nuclear Hotseat listeners from Wales, Ireland, France, and New Zealand.
FEATURED THIS WEEK:
A van tour through the nuclear "hot spots" of North St. Louis, with:
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Kay Drey
Byron DeLear
Dawn Chapman
Karen Nickel

Listen to the conversations as a donated Teamsters van filled with anti-nuclear activists tours Laddy Avenue, the Airport site, Coldwater Creek, St. Cyn Park, the Bridgeton Landfill and West Lake Landfill.
Dr. Helen Caldicott (l) with Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy
FEATURED INTERVIEWS WITH:
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Bob Alvarez (article links: http://thebulletin.org/west-lake-story-underground-fire-radioactive-waste-and-governmental-failure9160
http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/West-Lake-Landfill-Radioactive-Legacy.pdf
Coldwater Creek veteran Mary Oscko
Christen Commuso, photographer of Humans of West LakePLUS:

Pre- and Post-Symposium talks with audience members to get their take on their knowledge, what drew them to the event, and their feelings once it ended.

Link to Livestream of Entire "Atoms Next Door" Symposium: https://youtu.be/rLlFRe197uQ
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February 17, 2016 NH #243: Chernobyl, Fukushima Mutations w/Dr. Timothy Mousseau (picture is of mutated fire bugs at Chernobyl)
This Week’s Featured Interview Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and since 1991, a faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting...
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February 11, 2016 Nuclear Hotseat #241 - WIPP Nuke Leak at 2 Years & Counting
The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan bill was proposed by Missouri's U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill.
To capture this moment of success, we interviewed two activists directly involved in the battle to move the West Lake clean-up from EPA to the Army Corps - and familiar to regular listeners of Nuclear Hotseat:
Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been involved in clean energy issues for many years. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative.
Dawn Chapman is a Mom who lives only two miles from the radioactive landfill and serves as an admin for the West Lake Landfill Facebook page and a genuine grass roots leader of this campaign for environmental justice.
This Week's Featured Interview:
The explosion, radioactive plutonium and americium release, and closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) took place on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014. Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center brings us up to date as WIPP hits its second anniversary.
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February 11, 2016 Nuclear Hotseat #242: Nuclear Connection to Thyroid Cancer's Silent Epidemic
Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi.
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February 10, 2016 NH #242: Thyroid Cancer’s Silent Epidemic w/Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano
This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi. Numnutz of the Week: Gina “Never Met A Nuke...
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February 03, 2016 NH #241: BREAKING! Westlake Senate Bill Passes w/Byron DeLear, Dawn Chapman + WIPP 2nd Anniversary Update w/Don Hancock
WEST LAKE LANDFILL BREAKING NEWS The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan...
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January 27, 2016 Nuclear Hotseat #240: HEALTH! Holistic Strategies from Safeguarding from Radiation, Enviro Toxins
Health strategies to best safeguard from Porter Ranch toxins & radioactive radon, or Fukushima radiation in food. With Dr. Diane Sandler and Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and a Certified Nutrition Educator.
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January 27, 2016NH #240: HEALTH! Holistic Strategies and Radiation Safeguarding for Porter Ranch and Beyond - Dr. Diane Sandler, Kimberly Roberson
This Week's Featured Interviews:
Dr. Diane Sandler is doctor of Oriental medicine and a craniosacral therapist who has been practicing in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles for three decades. Her focus has been to support her patients in co-creating optimum health through lifestyle changes and deep core work that lead to cellular change.
Kimberly Roberson is a Certified Nutrition Educator, a former Greenpeace nuclear campaigner, the founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, and author of Silence Deafening: Fukushima Fallout… a Mother's Response. She is the co-creator, with Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy, of Radiation Awareness Protection Talk (RAPT).
Numnutz of the Week:
Pandora's evil promise starts to visibly take hold of energy policy as two states - two! in a single week! - announce that nuclear must be included in their "clean energy" portfolios.
The Missing Links:
Department of Energy tries to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal.
States Lack Rules for handling disposal of fracking's radioactive drilling waste
Harvey Wasserman: Documents say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan
Nuclear Power Plant Accidents since 1952 - a partial list
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January 20, 2016 NH #239: Patty Ameno’s Successful Anti-Nuclear Campaign
This Week’s Featured Interview: Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh… not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC, in Parks Township, manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of...
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January 20, 2016 Nuclear Hotseat #239: Patty Ameno's Successful Nuke Clean-up Campaign
ow one Parks Township, PA woman's anti-nuke-waste campaign took on NUMEC legacy waste, NRC, Babcock/Wilcox... and won! Patty Ameno's amazing battle to get a FUSRAP clean-up. Nuclear Hotseat #239. Includes a massive shout-out to all in North St. Louis battling West Lake Landfill.
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