Nuclear Hotseat

Space Force - will it make the U.S. the Evil Empire?
Global Network's 2018 Keep Space for Peace week poster.

This Week's Featured Interview:

• SPACE FORCE / EVIL FORCE?  Bruce Gagnon, Co-Founder and Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, and a 30 year veteran of actions against nuclear weaponry and expansionism in space.   Bruce reveals the shocking roots of our space program and NASA, corporate/military/industrial goals for space, and what China and Russia are doing to sidestep our best laid plans.
• Category 4-5 Hurricane Florence bearing down on N. Carolina coast, with Brunswick 1 and 2 nuclear reactors - THE EXACT SAME MODEL GE MARK I REACTOR MODEL AS MELTED DOWN AT FUKUSHIMA - dead center at landfall. 

Two Fukushima-model GE Mark I nuclear reactors at Brunswick on North Carolina Coast -
smack in the middle of Hurricane Florence landfall.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Is it pro-nuclear?  Anti-nuclear?  a re-envisioned Bob's Big Boy?  How political art based upon a mixed metaphor makes no statement at all.

Japan Railroad's Fukushima Space Boy looks like a post-nuclear survivor, finally safe
and embracing solar... but given the controversy, who can tell?  Not the artist, it seems...

Activist Links:

• Beyond Nuclear Handbook - The Case Against Nuclear Power: Facts and Arguments from A-Z
• What Are Coastal Nuclear Power Plants Doing to Address Climate Threats? 
• Fukushima Microparticles: An Unrecognized Threat by Nancy Foust and SimplyInfo.org

Space Force, the proposed new military branch, has roots in Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists brought to USA after WWII. Bruce Gagnon of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space reveals its dark heart. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat 377.

United Nations UNSCEAR report maintains nothing bad happened to people's health after Fukushima.  Photos of explosion at Fukushima Daiichi, March 14, 2011.  Look harmless to you?

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Dr. Alex Rosen is a German pediatrician and Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Germany. We spoke originally in July of 2014, just after the United Nations UNSCEAR report was released.

LINK to Full IPPNW report in English, Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR Report “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami”

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

A practice run dropping a nuclear bomb from a B-2 stealth bomber?  What are they practicing FOR?

Activist Links:Olympics and Paralympics Warning:

Radiation map of Tokyo area, computed in accordance with Chernobyl radiation standards.
Red indicates areas w/right to immigrate and cities under contamination surveillance.
Is attending the Olympics really worth the exposure?

• Indigenous and women filmmakers - and others - encouraged to submit your films to the International Uranium Film Festival for the 2018 screenings in Window Rock, NM and the US Southwest.
• Bob Alvarez article for Union of Concerned Scientists: Under siege: Safety in the nuclear weapons complex
• Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight by Rebecca Moss

Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War takes down official UNSCEAR report w/footnotes, peer-review studies, truth. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat. PLUS: "sexiest" Numnutz of the Week yet! Those nuclear bombs really turn the military industrial complex creeps on!

Vermont Yankee protest from 2012, two years prior to shut-down.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• An update on problems being faced with the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vermont.  Sandra Levine is senior attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation in Montpelier, Vermont, where her work focuses on climate change, clean energy, land use, transportation and natural resource protection. I became aware of Sandy after I was sent a link to her op-ed article, Risky Vermont Yankee Transfer Should be Stopped.
• Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, or CCNR, offers a brief masterclass in what radiation is and what it does.  This 10-minute talk was prepared for the Science for Peace Forum “How to Save the World in a Hurry,” held at the University of Toronto on May 30, 2018.  LINK to transcript, CLICK HERE. 

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Rocky Flats plutonium-contaminated Superfund site is rebranding itself as a "wildlife refuge" - and they've got the signage to manipulate it!

Activist Links:

• Karl Grossman interviewed on the Evan Greer show: 
• Keep Space for Peace Week - let them know about local events in your area by sending an email to: [email protected]
• More from Dr. Gordon Edwards:  These five audio files, recorded on August 22, 2018 and dealing with the "Red Canoe" protests in Ottowa, have all been posted on the Digileak web site:

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZxM6s7ZijIl7b91lsYfsJpYHoEjgQWidzLk

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ3M6s7ZH7U0YNc3JfhmJemmBVVYA8E3QkhV

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZcM6s7Z5C7nTJ6bni0bVuA6t4W1854pc2ty

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZRT6s7Zagwdz3OInzyxKyJFon1tOysxXKek

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZQT6s7ZXJcU6NF3QNJMdyHTaDRHHFwPhV17

This week's show covers Vermont Yankee's risky decommissioning - owner Entergy wants to sell radioactive dead nuke reactor to inexperienced demolition company! San Onofre near-accident update - the NRC is coming to town. Dr. Gordon Edwards on what radioactivity is and does. Plus the week's nuclear news and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding nuclear boneheadedness.) Nuclear Hotseat 375 w/Libbe HaLevy

San Onofre from the air shows how close storage silos are to the Pacific Ocean.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• San Onofre Safety's Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9 Community EnRagement, uh, Engagement Panel when the "experts" shouted her down.  More scary information on how the nuclear industry is playing loose and fast with highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste, as well as Southern California's future.
• Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explains a new project, Beyond Nuclear International - a source for in-depth news stories that get beyond the nuclear headlines to provide history, context and details.  Sign up for this weekly email delivery.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

As TEPCO confesses that the radioactive water from Fukushima contains more deadly radionuclides than they'd previously admitted, another Fukushima beach opens to the public! 

Activism Links:

• California Wildfires and Nuclear Radiation
• Did a Canadian foreign minister's tweet about Saudi Arabia women's rights scuttle a new nuclear deal for Westinghouse?
• Kevin Hester/New Zealand links:
  
  • Kevin Hester interviewed on Nuclear Hotseat #233 about the climate change/nuclear connection. 
  • Archive for climate change show Nature Bats Last
  • Interview with Kevin Hester, Gary Null and Paul Beckwith

San Onofre Safety‘s Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9 Community EnRagement, uh, Engagement Panel when the “experts” shouted her down. More scary information on how the nuclear industry is playing loose and fast with highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste, as well as Southern California’s future.

Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explains a new project, Beyond Nuclear International – a source for in-depth news stories that get beyond the nuclear headlines to provide history, context and details. Sign up for this weekly email delivery.

San Onofre Demonstration in San Clemente, CA, August 12, 2018

SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS
A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL  Featuring:

• Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the picture of how Southern California Edison, Holtec, and the NRC continue to mishandle the forever-deadly radioactive legacy of San Onofre.
• The shocking statement by the San Onofre OSHA worker, whistleblower and HERO who blew everyone away (fortunately just figuratively... for now).  It involves more than 30,000 lbs. of highly radioactive used fuel rods, equal to One Chernobyl of radiation that almost fell 18 feet!
  
• Doubletalking points from Southern California Edison's Tom "Twitchy" Palmisano, showing that SCE was ready to "manage" awareness of the accident if necessary, BUT NOT TO REVEAL IT TO THE PUBLIC!
• Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org , trying to call out Palmisano's statements as a lie, which got her shouted down by the Edison cabal.

Note #3 and #4.  Sound like anyone we know...?

SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS - A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL

Featuring:

Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the picture of how Southern California Edison, Holtec, and the NRC continue to mishandle the forever-deadly radioactive legacy of San Onofre.

The shocking statement by the San Onofre OSHA worker, whistleblower and HERO who blew everyone away (fortunately just figuratively… for now). It involves more than 30,000 lbs. of highly radioactive used fuel rods, equal to One Chernobyl of radiation that almost fell 18 feet!

Doubletalking points from Southern California Edison’s Tom “Twitchy” Palmisano, showing that SCE was ready to “manage” awareness of the accident if necessary, BUT NOT TO REVEAL IT TO THE PUBLIC!

Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org , trying to call out Palmisano’s statements as a lie, which got her shouted down by the Edison cabal.