Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear sacrifice zone for high level radioactive reactor waste proposed by nuke industry for New Mexico meets with powerful, organized pushback from Diné activist Leona Morgan and Prof. Eileen Shaughnessy. Learn how you can join the fight with comments to the NRC! PLUS: more Fukushima Food Fight. Olympics, anyone?

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s RETURN TO TMI at 39 – SPECIAL: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, who was at the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, returns to cover TMI at 39, a panel discussion featuring journalists who covered the accident as it happened and researchers reporting on the long-hidden medical impact of...

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, who was at the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, returns to cover TMI at 39, an event featuring a panel discussion with journalists who covered the accident as it happened and researchers reporting on the long-hidden medical impact of TMI.

Excerpts from the panel discussion feature:

Heidi Hutner, PhD, Director of Sustainability Studies & Associate Dean at the School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University

Cindy Folkers, Radiation Health Specialist Beyond Nuclear

Dr. Renu Joshi, PinnacleHealth Endocrinology Association

Michele LeFever Quinn, former anchor and reporter with WKBO Radio

Frank Goldstein, former 1979 photo journalist with WCAU-TV

Cancer researcher Joseph Mangano (r) and supporter Christie Brinkley (l)
photo by: Greg Allen

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This Week's Featured Interview:

• Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project.  Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health.  He is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998) and Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008). Mangano managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, just because the San Onofre Nuclear Power station is permanently closed, there is no need for cybersecurity protection!   So it has allowed Southern California Edison to remove it -- even thought there is still "spent" fuel rods containing weapons-grade plutonium on site!

The Missing Link:

• Stats on the University of Hawaii study on radiation in Hawaian soil from Fukushima, found at levels 100 times higher than the "models" had predicted.
  
  • Report from University of Hawaii
  • Fukushima-derived radiocesium fallout in Hawaiian soils

Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health. He is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998) and Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008). Mangano managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, just because the San Onofre Nuclear Power station is permanently closed, there is no need for cybersecurity protection! So it has allowed Southern California Edison to remove it — even thought there is still “spent” fuel rods containing weapons-grade plutonium on site!

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39

NOTE: I am traveling to TMI for events surrounding the 39th Anniversary.
As a result, donations to help me get there will be rewarded with the following bonuses: 

• For $20, you will receive a quality facsimile of the LA Weekly article I wrote at the evacuation site that was published 3 weeks later PLUS an exclusive teleconference Q and A on nuclear issues.   
• $100 or more, you will receive a signed first edition copy of my book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark.
• $500 or more, you will receive all that plus a signed copy of the cover photo (one you've never see before) and an acknowledgement in the book for having helped me travel to what promises to be my final chapter. 

This week's full-length
Three Mile Island 39th Anniversary SPECIAL
includes interviews with or information from:

• Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.
  Watch a video of Arnie Gundersen speaking about the accident at the 40th Anniversary of the founding of Three Mile Island Alert. 
• Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner  during the TMI accident.
• Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert at TMIA.org.
  Three Mile Island Alert's Radiation monitoring at EFMR.org
• Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member
• Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as "the most trusted newsman in America.  To view his CBS network reports on TMI click here.
  
  
• Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more.
• PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy's personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening.  This is the subject of Libbe's soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark!  One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat. 

To get your free chapter, fill out the yellow form to the right.

Trajectory of the Radiation Plume released from Three Mile Island

Gratitude to filmmaker Robert (Robbie) Leppzer, producer of the two-hour audio documentary Voices from Three Mile Island (http://www.turningtide.com/voicesfromtmi.htm), for permission to use excerpts from that work in this program.

To hear an interview with Robbie Leppzer on Nuclear Hotseat #282, Click HERE .  That episode also contains a memorial to Dr. Steven Wing, who studied TMI's radiation impact on health and was mentioned in Arnie Gundersn's comments.  Dr. Wing died on November 9, 2016.

To Donate to help Libbe HaLevy get (back) to Three Mile Island
for the 39th Anniversary Events,
CLICK HERE.

(And yes, that's me in the photo below, at the Middletown neighborhood "hot spot,"
about 12 days after the TMI partial meltdown.)

SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39

Words or audio featured include:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.

Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident.

Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert

Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member

Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America.

Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more.

PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.

SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39

Words or audio featured include:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.

Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident.

Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert

Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member

Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America.

Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more.

PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.

SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39

Words or audio featured include:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.

Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident.

Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert

Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member

Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America.

Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more.

PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.

SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39

Words or audio featured include:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education.

Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident.

Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert

Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member

Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America.

Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more.

PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.