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October 18, 2018 NH #382: San Onofre SPECIAL: Songs for SONGS Protest Rally – PLUS EXCLUSIVE: New Nuclear Bombshell re: SanO RadWaste from Donna Gilmore
San Onofre rally, Songs for SONGS – Filmmaker Adam Salkin Listen Here: [powerpress] San Onofre SPECIAL: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety with the latest bombshell revelation about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadvertent admission of a lie about the canisters at San Onofre. Songs for SONGS Excerpts from speakers at the October 8 music/rally Songs...
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October 17, 2018 San Onofre SPECIAL: Songs for SONGS Protest Rally
San Onofre nuclear nightmares continue: San Onofre Safety’s Donna Gilmore w/latest bombshell on dangerous spent fuel incompetence & NRC/Edison lies.
Excerpts from speakers at the October 8 music/rally Songs for SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – get it?) at San Clemente’s famous Belly Up music club:
Report on a videotaped Welcome by Gregory Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ian Cairns is a former champion surfer who was influential in establishing the world professional surfing circuit and particularly the World Championship Tour. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Ian has lived in California for 27 years and has family in Laguna Beach.
Cathy Iwane was living in Japan with her husband and two children when the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdown happened. She shares how that event play out in her personal life and led to her leaving that country with her two children.
Leona Morgan is a member of the Nuclear Issues Study Group, Haul No, and Diné No Nukes, and she traveled from her home in New Mexico to address the crowd on nuclear colonialism and the range of nuclear problems in her state.
Filmmaker Adam Salkin gave a powerful presentation, based not only on what he has learned about nuclear in the process of shooting his latest film, but because it’s an important part of his personal history growing up in the shadow of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, just north of Los Angeles.
A report on the speech by Admiral Len Hering on the need for risk management and why San Onofre scares him. (I was asked not to use the audio of his speech on Nuclear Hotseat, but a video has been posted and is available in its entirety HERE.)
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October 11, 2018 NH #381: Holtec so-called “interim” Nuke Waste Dump in NM – Legal, Activist Pushback w/Attny Terry Lodge
Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the company trying to own nuclear waste and all its attendant monies, has a ferocious opponent in Terry Lodge. He is an Ohio trial lawyer who...
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October 10, 2018 Holtec "interim" Radioactive Waste Dump in New Mexico?
Holtec proposed so-called "interim" radioactive waste dump in New Mexico meets stiff fight-back from environmental activists, NM legislators, anti-nuclear groups. Attny. Terry Lodge reports from the front lines: where we are and what's at stake. #NuclearHotseat 381 https://bit.ly/2pNdrGI
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October 04, 2018 NH #380: Ocean Radioactivity Transfer to Land, Food, People: UK Marine Pollution Expert Tim Deere-Jones
Ocean Radioactivity from Dumped Hinkley Point Nuclear Mud – Protests in Cardiff, Wales, against radioactive mud-dumping by EDF in Cardiff Bay only 2 km offshore Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Ocean radioactivity and the way it transfers to land is the area of expertise of Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant who...
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October 03, 2018 Cardiff Nuclear Mud Dump, Ocean Radioactivity Transfer to Land, Food, People
Ocean radioactivity and the way it transfers to land is the area of expertise of Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant who is a specialist in the behavior and fate of pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He has been a consultant for many of the major environmental campaign groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund.
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September 27, 2018NH #379: Chris Busby Strikes Back against Trumped-Up Attempted Arrest + Dawn Chapman on Good/Bad News re: N. St. Louis Toxic Landfills
Chris Busby in iconic - and so-called "suspicious" - beret.
This Week's Featured Interviews:
Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from Republic Services’ two landfills that had contaminated the neighborhood, back yards, even inside the houses where they and others live. She provides background and context for this week's report issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services regarding the health effects of the Bridgeton landfill stench. There's good news - and bad news.
Dawn Chapman, self-described "soccer mom" and co-founder of Just Moms StL,
fighting Republic Services and the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills
UK's Dr. Chris Busby, a successful science-based foe of the nuclear industry and the government's lack of support for nuclear workers, speaks out on aspects of his attempted arrest on trumped-up suspicions of bomb making -- all because, as a scientist, he has a laboratory in his home.
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
Right hand to left hand, nuclear right hand to nuclear left hand -- WTF are you saying about bombs and reactors NOW?
Activist Links:
Dr. Jim Green of Friends of the Earth, Australia, rips former environmentalist and nuclear shill-burger, Michael Shellenberger, a new one. https://theecologist.org/2018/sep/20/nuclear-power-lobbyist-michael-shellenberger-learns-love-bomb
Geraldine Thomas goes mirror image on the shill-burger's talking points - how like the nuclear industry to not get its lies straight! http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Help-the-public-understand-radiation,-advises-canc
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September 26, 2018 Anti-nuke Scientist Chris Busby Strikes Back against Trumped-Up Attempted Arrest
UK’s Dr. Chris Busby, a successful science-based foe of the nuclear industry and the government’s lack of support for nuclear workers, speaks out on aspects of his attempted arrest on trumped-up suspicions of bomb making — all because, as a scientist, he has a laboratory in his home.
And Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from Republic Services’ two landfills that had contaminated the neighborhood, back yards, even inside the houses where they and others live. She provides background and context for this week’s report issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services regarding the health effects of the Bridgeton landfill stench. There’s good news – and bad news.
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September 20, 2018NH #378: Brunswick Nuclear/Hurricane Florence UPDATE w/Dave Lochbaum of UCS; Rocky Flats w/Leroy Moore
Brunswick Nuclear site map of vulnerability to flooding from ocean surge, Cape Fear River.
From Dave Lochbaum powerpoint (available below)
This Week's Featured Interviews:
BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE - Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown - and how the industry simply uses "shutdown" to spinspeak us all!
LINK to Dave Lochbaum's pdf on Brunswick specs, CLICK HERE.
LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
So many choices, so hard to choose, when the entire industry is out of it's f'ing mind!
Activist Links:
Intertribal Gathering at Red Butte, Arizona - Oct. 5 - tribal members only; open to the public Oct. 6-7. Sponsored by the Havasupai Tribal Council. CONTACT: 928-448-2731
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September 19, 2018 Brunswick Nuclear/Hurricane Florence UPDATE w/Dave Lochbaum of UCS
BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all!
LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.
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