Nuclear Hotseat

Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about a breakthrough in creating a real-time, inexpensive, publicly accessible radiation monitoring system for the “spent” fuel canisters at San Onofre… and everywhere else.

Alecya Casse of Candelas Glows, a group dealing with Rocky Flats in Arvada, Colorado, explains how local developers and the government are trying to “sell” the public on the plutonium-contaminated site re-imagined as a wildlife refuge. Don’t buy a home in Arvada without listening to this report!

FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearce
includes, of course, Chernobyl, pictured here immediately after the disaster began.

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Fred Pearce is an English journalist based in London. He is a science writer, reporting on the environment, popular science, and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years, and specializes in global environmental issues, including water and climate change. His latest book is FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

NO!  Put away the cell phone and get back in the car!  Selfies in the Fukushima radiation zone are never a good idea!

Photo by U. G. Kaneko.  Used with permission.

Action Links:

• SIGN THE PETITION!  Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment asking for signatures on a petition to support for Real-Time Radiation Monitoring at San Onofre Nuke Dump
• COMMENT TO THE NRC!  David Lochbaum, Director, Nuclear Safety Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, requests comments - open until July 23 - on preventing nuclear plant owners from conducting unreviewed and unapproved fuel experiments on-site at your local neighborhood nuclear reactor.  Of course the NRC makes it harder than it should be to comment:
  
  • Go to:  www.regulations.gov
  • Enter "NRC-2018-0109" in the Search window and CLICK
  • Type your comments in the Comment box. Alternatively or additionally, upload a file with comments by clicking on the CHOOSE FILES icon.
  • The form asks for your name. You have the option of providing your contact information or not doing so.
  • After filling out comments and contact info, click on the CONTINUE icon.
  • The next page will tell you that your comment has been submitted and give you a receipt number. You may elect to have the receipt emailed to you.
• More information on this issue, to guide your comments, is available if you CLICK HERE.

It's more than just Chernobyl! Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy interviews Fred Pearce, London-based environmental journalist and author of the new book FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age. Author

New Mexico's other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,
or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine's Day, 2014. It cost taxpayers more than $2 billion and severely limits the ability to store radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste there. What "goodies" might an "interim" high level radwaste storage site have in store for New Mexicans, eh...? 

This Week's Featured Interview:

• New Mexico - John Buchser serves as the two-term Chair of the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter, which is part of a coalition of New Mexico groups fighting against a so-called "interim" storage dump site for high level nuclear waste -- "interim" being defined as 60-120 years! Their website is: www.riograndesierraclub.org/holtec.
• Not an interview, but such a great picture, I must to use it.  Greenpeace France flying a drone disguised as "Superman" into the side of the nuclear fuel pool filled with high level radioactive fuel rods at Bugey in France.  They then crashed a second one, disguised as the mild mannered Clark Kent/uncostumed drone, into the exact same place.  Need any other proof of nuclear reactor vulnerability?

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear  Boneheadedness):

NPR - we hardly knew ye!  Pro-nuke titles on features, burying the opposition position without contradiction - and using Three Mile Island as a model of why state renewable energy funds need to be shifted over to nukes?  SHAME!  CLICK HERE for link.

TAKE ACTION! Links:

• Weapons Free Funds will let you know in what companies your mutual funds are invested.  Check it out, then talk with your financial advisor about taking your money out and investing in weapons-free, war-free companies.

John Buchser is the two-term Chair of the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter, part of a coalition of groups fighting against a so-called “interim” storage dump site for high level nuclear waste — “interim” being defined as 60-120 years! Their website is: www.riograndesierraclub.org/holtec

Nuclear war – what one Russian 800 kiloton bomb would do to Washington DC Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.  Learn how your tax dollars are at work protecting the politicians...

Your tax dollars at work! How the government's secret plans for survival do not include "normal" Americans; as far as they're concerned as long as they survive, the rest of us can fry.

Anniversary time! Listen here: [powerpress] Anniversary time!  Nuclear Hotseat – Now beginning its 8th year of  weekly programs on nuclear issues… “from a different perspective.” Please consider donating to help us celebrate!  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Heidi Hutner is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear...

On the 7th anniversary of the start of Nuclear Hotseat, Producer/Host LibbeHaLevy interviews Dr. Heidi Hutner on her two new projects: ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: VOICES OF WOMEN FROM NUCLEAR DISASTERS, and the film: ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: VOICES OF WOMEN FROM THREE MILE ISLAND.

San Onofre update at the 5th anniversary of permanent shutdown of two Pacific oceanfront nuclear reactors. Big problems remain. Charles Langley, Executive director of Public Watchdogs, & board member Nina Babiarz interviewed by Libbe HaLevy. PLUS: Bangladesh getting a nuke? Fordham nuclear physics Prof. Quamrul Haider on why that's a bad, bad idea in his home country. Nuclear Hotseat 364. https://bit.ly/2t71Wey