Nuclear Hotseat

By Libbe HaLevyNews

Nuclear Hotseat episodes

January 14, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #134: NIRS new Exec Director Tim Judson
Featured Interview with Tim Judson, the new Executive Director of NIRS. He shares strategies for propelling our movement forward as well as exposing the soft, vulnerable underbelly of nuclear slumlord Entergy. Also, India's anti-nuclear firebrand Kumar Sundaram explains the significance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming trip to India and how anyone can join in the protests with a selfie. RadCast w/Mimi German, of course! PLUS: Special Ocean report, with Woods Hole's Ken Buessler organizing a crowdsourced Pan-Pacific water sampling project; Race for governor of Tokyo heats up w/former Prime Minister and now anti-nuclear candidate Hosokawa joining the fight; new Japanese study confirms what we've known all along: there's no way to evacuate from a nuclear disaster before the radiation plume hits; and between Fort Calhoun and St. Lucie, nukes can't seem to keep operating if it rains or snows. What a wimpy, flawed technology!
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January 08, 2014NH #133: SKY NOT FALLING! Debunking False Info w/Bonner of Safecast, German of RadCast
INTERVIEWS: The holiday season saw rumors flying about Fukushima, radiation and elevated dangers in the U.S. Wildly exaggerated claims got picked up by mainstream media and had people panicking. Nuclear Hotseat gets to the root of the problems with Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast. He talks about how a radiation reading can be misinterpreted in and directly addresses the Internet video claiming Fukushima radiation had risen to life-threatening levels at a California beach. Here's a link to the report referenced in the interview: http://blog.safecast.org/2014/01/radiation-on-california-beaches/
Then Mimi German of RadCast talks about the psychology of the anti-nuclear echo chamber and what we need to do to stay centered, grounded and accurate in interpreting radiation numbers.
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NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's Monju nuclear breeder reactor picks up computer virus in control room. Oy!
PLUS:
Fukushima prefectural government and Fukushima Medical University sign secrecy pact with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
TEPCO restructures so it can still make money while continuing to fumble the Fukushima Daiichi clean-up;
Plutonium dump with levels 1,000 times normal found in Pacific Ocean 50 miles west of San Francisco;
Russia banned shipments of more than 130 radioactive cars from Japan in 2013;
Ireland's government and citizens now able to sue the UK over nuclear contamination, damages.
LINKS:
Arnie Gundersen's report debunking rumors of new meltdown at Fukushima Unit 3: http://fairewinds.org/demystifying/fukushima-daiichi-unit-3-going-explode
Petition asking for leniency in the sentencing of peaceful anti-nuclear weapons protesters 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice - a Buddhist nun, Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed for their non-violent yet deeply embarrassing (to the government) protest at the Oak Ridge Site: http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9007
Sister Megan Rice, flanked by peaceful protesters Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed
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January 08, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.
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January 08, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.
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January 08, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.
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January 07, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.
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January 07, 2014 Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.
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December 31, 2013 NH #132: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance w/Alison Katz
INTERVIEW:
Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance (IAEA) censors WHO's nuclear information and distorts the world's understanding of nuclear radiation dangers. Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the "Unholy Alliance" between the agency we're supposed to trust to safeguard the world's health – especially in nuclear matters -- and the pro-nuclear IAEA. This is an Encore Presentation (NH #118) and a Nuclear Hotseat exclusive.
Independent WHO vigil outside of the World Health Organization HQ in Geneva, Switzerland
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December 31, 2013 Nuclear Hotseat #132: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance
Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance censors WHO's nuclear information. Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the "Unholy Alliance" between the agency we're supposed to trust to safeguard the world's health – especially in nuclear matters -- and the pro-nuclear IAEA. This is an Encore Presentation (NH #118) and a Nuclear Hotseat exclusive.
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December 25, 2013NH #131: Xmas Gifts: Caldicott, Gundersen, Nader - Oh My!
FEATURING: Season's greetings in the form of a trio of gifts: the chance to revisit three of the top, most respected voices within the anti-nuclear community, all of them presented during the past year of Nuclear Hotseat.
Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about how she became an activist and her then-upcoming Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (NH #83 - 1/15/13).
In our most popular program ever, with 489,195 downloads in the first five days (and still getting play), nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education explains what he would do with Fukushima if he were in charge. (NH #117 - 9/10/13).
And excerpts from a speech by Ralph Nader, who spoke at the east coast conference, Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons (NH #121 - 10/17/13).
Here are links to the websites mentioned during this program:
Dr. Caldicott's Symposium recordings: www.NuclearFreePlanet.org
Arnie Gundersen and Fairewinds Energy Education: www.Fairewinds.org.
Here are links to videos based on this audio:
Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen and Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy in front of the San Onofre Nuclear Reactor, four days before its closure was announced.
Ralph Nader - video of his full speech and all the other presenters from Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons: www.SamuelLawrenceFoundation.org
Ralph Nader
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