Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation's Radioactive Legacy -
Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of
94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation land.

• Nuclear Racism - Chris Shuey is Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program for Southwest Research and Information Service.  He has worked with Navajo Nation communities on uranium mining issues for 38 years. Chris has helped document the persistent impact of the 1979 uranium tailings pond disaster, which dumped 94 million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into the Puerco River.   The waste was recorded as having traveled beyond Sanders, Arizona. In this special extended interview, Chris goes over the resulting degradation of the water, land, and health on Navajo Nation.  He also covers cultural issues that make the people unwilling to leave their ancestral lands, no matter how contaminated.  And there's information on the Navajo Birth Cohort Study, which documents the ongoing health damage to the Navajo people.  We spoke on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 – just before I left for Church Rock, NM to cover the 40th anniversary commemoration events.
• Navajo Birth Cohort Study – a link to a PDF explanation and some of its findings.

Social Media for Activists:  Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero's Colleen Moore (above)
explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists.

• Social Media for Activists:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons. Colleen has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including:
  
  • ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen;
  • promoting human rights and justice in Indonesia and East Timor,
  • working for peace between North and South Korea, and
  • advocating for access to education for women in Pakistan.

Above all, she has a passion for using digital media to advance causes of human rights and justice. Contact Colleen Moore for info on her upcoming social media trainings or to book her for one for your group at:  [email protected] 

• Susan Hito Shapiro (aka Susan Hillary) helps clarify points from her interview on nukes and global warming on Nuclear Hotseat #488, October 28, 2020.  She is a New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental water protection and land use in the Hudson Valley.  Susan was co-counsel on the groundbreaking litigation against Indian Point’s violation of the Clean Water Act for thermal and radiation pollution of the Hudson River; and against the NRC for reducing fire safety standards at Indian Point from 3 hours to 24 minutes. She laid the legal groundwork opposing re-licensing of Indian Point; participated in the Presidential Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste; and represented nuclear whistle blowers.Susan Hito Shapiro is happy to engage in further conversation on the points she raised here and in her original interview.  You may call her office at:  845-371-2020.

TEPCO does it again!  Fukushima worker accidentally shuts off Fukushima's monitoring equipment for continous fission reaction criticality.  Pressure starts to build up and... NOBODY NOTICES FOR 3 HOURS??? 

• Nuclear Free Future Awards Ceremony - Participate online via Zoom (of course!):
  https://www.icanw.de/action/nuclear-free-future-award-2020/
• International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin's award-winning films:
  
  • Top winner "Balantes - The Brave Ones" by Lisa Camillo
  • Honorable Mention "The Soviet Garden" by Dragos Turea
• At The Brink - podcast by Lisa Perry and Dr. William J. Perry, 19th U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Biden and Harris include fantasy of "small nuclear reactors" in an otherwise progressive climate policy.