Nuclear Hotseat

Radiophobia?  Fear of radiation is worse than exposure to radiation? 
Lies and propaganda!!

This Week's Featured Interview:

RADIOPHOBIA?  Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima.  She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Risk Cultural Studies; Autism and Bioethics, Globalization, and Political Economy, Energy Politics, and Organizational Communication.  Her books include: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization, Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk.  She recently provided a chapter on "Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion" for the book, Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations – and that’s what we’re focusing on today - Radiophobia.  

Majia Nadesan's LINKS:

• Nadesan, M. (2018). Radiophobia  and the Politics of Social Contagion, a chapter in the collection: Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations, edited by B. Fahs, A. Mann, E. Swank;  Rutgers University Press.
• “Lessons of Fukushima” presentation and draft versions of radiophobia chapter
• BOOK:  Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Palgrave Pivot.
• VIDEO : “Fukushima’s Genetic Legacy” – Interview produced by EON - Ecological Options Network.
• BLOG: Majia’s Blog https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

What's in a name?  A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - and high level radioactive nuclear waste will be just as deadly, no matter WHAT the Trump administration and Department of Energy seek to call it. 

Activist Links:

Church Rock - Statements of solidarity from individuals and groups can be sent to:  Anna Rondon, Executive Director,  New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute - [email protected]

Beyond Nuclear International just posted my review of Gregory Jaczko's book, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. Read the review HERE.  Listen to the Nuclear Hotseat interview of Greg Jaczko upon publication of the book HERE.

BLACK ROCK - Short documentary on uranium mining on indigenous lands of Northern Saskatchewan.  Featured are Candyce and Marius Paul of the English River First Nations people - both previous Nuclear Hotseat interviewees. 

Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown!  One of the many demonstrations by Cape Downwinders
that helped make the closure happen.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts - the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi - permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists.  Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle.

• Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders. 

Pilgrim nuclear shutdown demonstration on Cape Cod -  Diane Turco on the line, as usual.

• Mary Lampert is founder of Pilgrim Watch. 

Shutdown by itself is a good thing, as it takes away the dangers of a catastrophic accident - but it's not over by a long shot.  Every nuclear reactor community will face these same issues.  Know that both these women acknowledge help they've gotten from other groups, such as the one that shut down Vermont Yankee in 2014, and offer themselves as resources to any group working to shut down their local nuclear nightmare.  Click on the links to access their sites and contact them. 

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Nuclear Insanity - a Cataclysm on Earth may not be what the lying propagandists of the nuclear industry had in mind with their "NICE Future" program.  Nor would they be fond of Nuclear Is Certainly Expensive!  (Feel free to come up with your own acronym!)  But their Breakthrough book is so filled with lies about nuclear, it qualifies to win the Pinocchio "Nose Knows When You're Lying!" Award for really horrid, conscious manipulation of nuclear awareness.  These people - the ones who thought up, wrote, published and released this waste of trees - have absolutely no shame or conscience.  Numnutz fer shure!

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EMP - electromagnetic pulse - from nuclear blast in space over Ohio would fry electronic circuits in all nuclear reactor cooling systems from Chicago to the east coast - oh joy!

This Week's Featured Interview:

A discussion of Electromagnetic Pulses - what they are, what they do, and what they would do to the U.S. energy grid and especially the safety controls of our nuclear reactors.  Spoiler alert: it isn't good.  We talk with:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education and a leading expert on nuclear technology.  The Fairewinds website is designed to be a hub for fact-based, undistorted information about nuclear power in order to fulfill their mission to inform and educate people around the world, legislative officials, and members of the press concerning the scientific and economic issues relating to the production of electricity and the sources of energy used to create power.
Robert Manning is a longtime activist against nuclear weapons and the founder of of Nuclear Terror Today, which contains the pledge he spoke about on the show. 

Susi  Snyder is the head of PAX Netherlands and the leader in the international Don't Bank on the Bomb campaign.  This program contains a 90 second summary of the DBOTB strategy.  A full-length discussion with Susi that explains all aspects of the program -- and its growing list of successful divestments from nuclear weapons-producing companies, is on Nuclear Hotseat #412 from May 14, 2019. 

Resources:

• Fairewinds video on EMP from nuclear weapon in space  
• Fairewinds video on EMP from Solar Storm
• Watch the video, take the pledge!  Nuclear Terror Today

Wondering how far the Zahn's Corner Middle School in Piketon, Ohio is from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant?  Mapquest weighs in at 3.7 miles and a 4 minute drive: 

Zahn's Corner Middle School is only 3.8 miles from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant - Mapquest

Nuclear Divestment: Taking money out of the WRONG Financial Choice.  Cover of the Don't Bank on the Bomb pdf report on every company that manufactures components for nuclear weapons.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• Nuclear divestment means institutional nuke investments are going down -- and Susi Snyder explains how any one of us can join the movement.  She is project lead for the PAX No Nukes Project and coordinator for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign.  She’s an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades of experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights.    
  LINK to the 2018  Global Report on the Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers HERE. 
  To find out which financial institutions provide funding for nuclear weapons producers, CLICK HERE.
• Eric Epstein is the Executive Director of Three Mile Island Alert, and has been active in the movement for over 40 years.  He explains the failed bailout and what's next in dealing with the highly radioactive waste. 

Numnutz of the Week (For Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

The lying Shill-burger of Forbes strikes again. 

Activist Links:

• Frances Crowe, 92-year-old veteran activist who helped shut down Vermont Yankee, has written a book: Finding my Radical Soul.  Available on Amazon.
• Nuclear Decision Game  - Find out what's involved in determining whether or not to launch a  world-ending salvo of nuclear weapons.  NOTE:  Give yourself time; this  is a very intense exercise.

Beginning screen of the Nuclear Decision Game

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