Nuclear Hotseat

by Libbe HaLevy | Jun 10, 2020 Space Force and Nukes in Space – what, we don’t have enough nuclear problems on earth? I spoke with Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear. She is their international nuclear specialist, an experienced journalist, and writes columns on the follies and false representations of nuclear energy and the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The full list of her credits would take too long, but as a journalist, she is knowledgeable on a wide range of nuclear issues and can discuss all of them with depth, specificity, and clarity. We spoke on Friday, June 5, 2020Film referenced by Linda Pentz Gunter: The Atomic Soldiers and Beyond Nuclear International article on The Atomic SoldiersSpecial 9th Anniversary Messages from: Voices from Japan co-producers Beverly Findlay Kaneko and Yuji Kaneko Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education Nancy Burton, Executive Director, Connecticutt Coalition Against Millstone Tsukuru Fors, Los Angeles-based activist originally from Hiroshima Hervé Courtois from France Kevin Hester from New Zealand Award-winning veteran investigative journalist Karl GrossmanAlso posted on YouTube at nutzforartsubscribe to Nuclear Hotseat: www.nuclearhotseat.com

This Week’s Featured Interview: RADIOPHOBIA? Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how “radiophobia” 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.LOG: Majia’s Blog https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for more infopodcasts are also listed on YouTube at: nutzforart

by Libbe HaLevy | May 20, 2020 Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has more than 45 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US. Here, he goes over the problems at the Vogtle nuclear reactor build in Georgia, where the weight of the unit is already causing it to sink into Georgia’s red clay. Arnie analyzed the data that became the basis for the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)’s petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission called on regulators to revoke the plant’s license for false statements made by its owners, Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Here is the latest Fairewinds blog post by Arnie and Maggie Gundersen about the sinking reactor of Vogtle.Here is the BREDL legal petition and Arnie’s expert report for BREDL via the Fairewinds website.Fairewinds’ research about safety issues of AP1000 reactor design, the same reactors at Vogtle Nancy Burton is Director of Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone (MothballMillstone.org), and she joined us to talk about the implications of the latest Covid cases at Millstone nuclear reactor in Waterford, CT during the current refueling outage.Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to sign up for weekly information directly to your email boxPodcast is also putlished on YouTube: nutzforart

by Libbe HaLevy | May 13, 2020This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Nuclear and Covid nightmares get explained and exposed by Tom Carpenter, Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, the Washington state watchdog group. He is an attorney and worked as the Director of the Nuclear Oversight Campaign for the Government Accountability Project from 1985 to 2007. Previously, Tom founded Cincinnati Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) and served on the Cincinnati Mayor’s Environmental Advisory Council. In this interview, he provides background on the current status of the neverending clean-up, how Hanford has become a budgetary football for the current administration, and the impact of Covid19 on the site’s safety.Sign up for weekly newsletters at:www.nuclearhotseat.comAlso posted on YouTube channels: nutzforart & UCYTV

May 6, 2020Nuclear Baloney – that’s what this week’s guest calls the lies, manipulation and PR of the nuclear industry – and he does a great job explaining what it is and what he means. Karl Grossman has done investigative reporting in a variety of media for more than 50 years. He is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, where his courses include Investigative Reporting.For 28 years Karl has hosted the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up, produced by the New York-based video production company EnviroVideo. He’s written and presented TV documentaries including: Three Mile Island Revisited; The Push to Revive Nuclear Power; and Nukes In Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens. He’s also been the chief investigative reporter for Long Island-based WVVH-TV. His documentaries for WVVH have included Renewables Are More Than Ready and Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us?Karl is the author of six books including Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power; Power Crazy; The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat to Our Planet, and Weapons in Space.For a free download of the newest edition of Karl Grossman’s Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, go to his website, www.karlgrossman.com, look under the "books" tab, click on the link that says "Sample" (it's actually the entire book).Please become part of the movement demanding truth from science, and an end to the lethal industry, or as Karl states, we are demanding an end to being forced to swallow the poison pill. Sign up at www.nuclearhotseat.com

New Mexico – so-called “interim” storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste given go-ahead by Nuclear Regulatory Commission – and the fight against it continues.Kevin Kamps is the radioactive waste watchdog for Beyond Nuclear, where he specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; and federal subsidies. He’s been involved in the nuclear waste battle for decades now, as you’ll hear from the breadth, depth and specificity of his information. We spoke on Monday, April 27, 2020. Bruce Gagnon is co-founder and coordinator for Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, found online at www.Space4Peace.org. On April 19, 2020, Bruce took part in the zoominar: War in Space: Weaponizing the ‘Final Frontier.’ I found what he spoke about critical to our understanding of what’s happening in these Covid times, not just on earth, but what the Pentagon and the billionaires are planned for the heavens. This is an excerpt from his talk. Also on the zoominar and of great value were

Covid19/Nuclear UPDATE: This Week’s Featured Interview: Covid19/Nuclear impact – bad news in even more places. Learn about the uranium industry Covid19 money-grab from Alicyn Gitlin. She is with the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, where she is Conservation Coordinator of the Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign. Alicyn explains the history of uranium mining contaminating the groundwater of Grand Canyon; the areas near popular trails where hikers and backpackers are warned not to collect water; the devastating impact to the Havasupai native people who have lived for millennia in the Canyou; and the pity-party uranium mining conglomerates are throwing to make themselves appear eligible for stimulus package monies. LINK to the letter Alicyn Gitlin mentions that the nuclear industry sent to the Trump administration. And here’s A LINK to the letter just submitted to the government signed by 75 different groups opposing a uranium bailout. Go to http://nuclearhotseat.com/podcasts/ for all podcasts.All podcasts are also posted on YouTube: nutzforart

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Covid19/Nuclear Connection – Alicia Sanders-Zakre is the Policy and Research Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). She directs and coordinates research on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, and general nuclear weapons policy. Sanders-Zakre did the research that led to creation of the infographic above, which has electrified even mainstream media outlets. She joined us from her home in Geneva, Switzerland. Alice Slater serves on the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War and is the UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She is on the Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Global Council of Abolition 2000, and the Advisory Board of Nuclear Ban-US, supporting the mission of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in realizing the successful UN negotiations for a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Susi Snyder is project lead for the PAX No Nukes Project and coordinates 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. Go to http://nuclearhotseat.com/podcasts/ for all podcasts.Also posted to YouTube channel: nutzforart

This Week’s Featured Interview:Covid/Nuclear Dangers and Lies: As the Covid pandemic continues to ravage its way through society, the nuclear industry is placed in serious jeopardy of being able to maintain safety at its 98 U.S. operating nuclear reactors. How bad are the problems? How much should we believe the industry’s claims of being “safe” while asking for enormous bailouts from the Covid stimulous package? We turned to two experts to find out. Arnie Headshot.jpg Arnie Gundersen has more than 45-years of nuclear power engineering experience. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he earned his Bachelor Degree cum laude while also becoming the recipient of a prestigious Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship for his Master Degree in nuclear engineering. Arnie holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie also managed and coordinated projects at 70 nuclear power plants in the US. Maggie Gundersen founded Fairewinds Energy Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, in 2008. Its mission has remained to educate the public about nuclear power production, engineering, reliability, and safety issues. Maggie also founded Fairewinds Associates, Inc, a paralegal and expert witness services firm in 2003. She has a history as well expertise within the nuclear power industry.Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to subscribe and contribute to Nuclear Hotseat: Be Part of the SolutionAll podcasts are also posted on Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel: nutzforart

This Week’s Covid19/Nuclear Features and Interviews: A news roundup of nuclear facilities already being impacted by the novel corona virus pandemic Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear provides follow-up commentary to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) public conference call of March 20, 2020, that was meant to calm our fears… and most certainly did not. Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert, who was on the NRC call and did not have his question answered, talks about how CoVid19 creates new complications in the decommissioning and spent fuel storage problems at TMI. Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear was also on the call, and though he asked perceptive questions, the NRC did its best to “foof” him along, including a complete audio blackout after he made a particularly pointed observation.Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com, sign up for weekly updates, subscribe and contribute and SHARE, SHARE, SHAREAll podcasts are also posted on YouTube channels; nutzforart and UCYTV.

A CoVid19 UPDATE – How is the growing pandemic impacting the nuclear and anti-nuclear world? A FINAL THOUGHT on on how the impact of CoVid19 may feel familiar to those who have been following nuclear issues, especially after Fukushima… and why we might be uniquely qualified to not freak out in the face of yet another existential threat. Mary Olson of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project on how radiation disproportionately impacts women and especially little girls, and why that information has been hidden from us. This was conducted for a specially-produced program broadcast on KPFA-FM in San Francisco in commemoration of International Women’s Day. Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to subscribe and contribute.All Nuclear Hotseat podcasts are also posted on You/Tube: nutzforart

From the producer, Lonnie Clark: My apologies to Nuclear Hotseat fans, this podcast is a few weeks old; Mar 6, 2020 | 2020 Olympics"This Week’s SPECIAL Voices from Japan Interviews: Takeshi Yamakawa is a reporter and editor, part of Tokyo Shimbun’s Nuclear Power Reporting Team. He has been covering Fukushima since the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. He’s interviewed in Japanese by Nuclear Hotseat investigative reporter Yuji Kaneko. CONTACTS: Tokyo Shimbun Nuclear Power Reporting Team: (THIS IS CLICKABLE) Website原発取材班サイト- https://genpatsu.tokyo-np.co.jp/ 原発取材班 Twitter – https://twitter.com/ kochigen2017"Visit www.nuclearhotseat.com for all podcasts.also posted on Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel: nutzforart

This Week’s Featured Interviews: San Onofre nuclear reactors on the coast of southern California continue to offer a smorgasbord of nightmares to the eight-million people living within 50 miles of its radioactive waste. Public Watchdogs, a San Onofre citizens oversight group, consulted with veteran nuclear engineer Paul Blanch about the feasibility of flooding of high level radioactive waste storage canisters. Might these 5/8″ thin-walled canister – sited 108 feet from mean high tide – cause superheated steam flashes and geyser-like emissions of radioactive waste? Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy interviews engineer Blanch on the possibilities. Want to stop nuclear weapons? 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. Until the 2019 report is released, here’s Don’t Bank on the Bomb‘s LINK to the 2018 Global Report on the Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers. The 2019 report, due in May, 2020, will contain all the same companies; only details and financial figures will change. To find out which financial institutions provide funding for nuclear weapons producers, CLICK HERE.Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):Water, water everywhere… and nuclear boosters in government think it’s just swell to dump radioactive waste from weapons production, nuclear submarines, fracking and whatever else into whatever body of water happens to be closest! This week, Oregon, Japan, and the UK Ministry of Defense off the coast of Scotland.Action Links: Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Fukushima and the Olympic Games by Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace. 2.5 Million Pounds Of Radioactive Waste Illegally Dumped In Oregon Landfill Near Columbia River Trident commanders ‘not legally responsible’ for nuclear attack

Radioactive Waste Dump in Ontario, sited less than one mile from the shores of Lake Huron, was resoundingly rejected by a vote by the Saugeen Ojibway Nation the First Nations people, on whose sovereign land Ontario Power Generation (OPG) sought to build it. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility fills us in on what was proposed, how and why it fell to this First Nations people to make the ultimate decision, and what happens – or doesn’t happen – now.These are the two videos Dr. Edwards mentioned. They are from the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN-TV:Part 1: Indigenous communities courted as nuclear industry looks for place to put used fuelhttps://aptnnews.ca/2020/02/07/indigenous-communities-courted-as-nuclear-industry-looks-for-place-to-put-used-fuel/Part 2: Opportunity for youth, or sacrifice zone? Community reaction to nuclear waste burial plan is mixedhttps://aptnnews.ca/2020/02/14/opportunity-for-youth-or-sacrifice-zone-community-reaction-to-nuclear-waste-burial-plan-is-mixed/ Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com

Anti-nuclear, anti-war – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. These Catholic Peace Activists performed a peaceful action protesting the nuclear weapons aboard Trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia, 38 miles from Jacksonville, Florida. They were arrested, tried, and found guilty on three felony counts and one misdemeanor. Now, nearly two years after the action took place, they are still awaiting sentencing.We talk with Martha Hennessey and Patrick O’Neill (71) about the Plowshares Movement, their religiously-based dedication to peace, how the Kings Bay action was planned and executed, and what happened the night they did it — April 4, 2018, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death. Then we learn what has happened to them since the trial.On October 24, 2018, all seven were found guilty of three felony charges and one misdemeanor, which could lead to 20 or more years of imprisonment for each of them. Sentencing has been delayed almost two full years because, according to them, it’s an extension of the cruelty with which the government has treated them, and punishment that cannot be claimed as “time served” once they are sentenced.NOTE: I’m not often moved to tears by my Nuclear Hotseat interviews, but this one really got to me.WHAT YOU CAN DO: The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 request the following actions be taken by listeners to Nuclear Hotseat: Sign the petition asking for leniency from the court Write a letter to Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, requesting leniency for the protestors. Visit the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 website to keep informed about the case and learn further actions you can take. Copy n paste this link to contribute to Nuclear Hotseat:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=YqfDrrC-oM6aeWP9rjZ9Lo10d3TXedRtkGPm_Pytlg4MwXfiuut61xlfagWV7Gg8EteDym&country.x=US&locale.x=USwww.nuclearhotseat.com

Smug Stupid Los Alamos – its history and current problems – is the subject of this week’s show. Joni Arends is one of the founders of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and a 32 year veteran of that group. She provided the guided tour of public lands around the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of the original Manhattan Project sites. This is where, during World War II, the United States military kicked local farmers, ranchers and a children’s school off their ancestral land in order to build the first atomic bomb in isolation and secrecy. Joni’s Toxic Tour (as it has come to be known) took us to bluffs overlooking Manhattan Project-era laboratories, nuclear weapons facilities, radioactive waste dump sites, and the Rio Grande river, which has been and continues to be impacted by the migration of LANL radioactive, hazardous and toxic contaminants through surface and ground water pathways. Additional information on the tour was provided by Leona Morgan, Diné, who helped to found the Nuclear Issues Study Group of Albuquerque, and Ian Zabarte, Head Man of the Western Shoshone Nation. Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to support Nuclear HotseatFollow Lonnie Clark on YouTube at: nutzforart

Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together November 7-11, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate work against the nuclear nightmares in their own backyards, as well as national issues. More than 100 individuals shared the most successful and most challenging aspects of their work, trading actions and talking points, networking and bonding, and working to create a unified force against this never-ending nuclear menace.Among those heard on the show: Dave Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear Mary Olson, retiring veteran staff member of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Acting Director of Gender and Radiation Impact Project Holly Harris, Snake River Alliance (Idaho) John LaForge, Nukewatch (Wisconsin) Molly Johnson, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (California) Dr. Scott Williams, HEAL Utah (Utah) Mervyn Tilden, Navajo Nation Petush Gilbert, Laguna/Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (Navajo Nation) Wally Taylor, attorney (Iowa) Eileen O’Shaugnessy, Nuclear Issues Study Group (New Mexico) Steve Kent (New York, Indian Point) Pat Marida, Sierra Club (Ohio) Pat Townsend (Northwest New York state) …and many more! A report on the van trip we took through Los Alamos National Laboratory-adjacent lands and the town of Los Alamos will be in next week’s show, Nuclear Hotseat #443. This Toxic Atomic Road Trip was guided by Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety and Leona Morgan of Nuclear Issues Study Group, with pertinent additions by Ian Zabarte, Director of the Nuclear Oversight Project of the Western Shoshone Nation.Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to support Nuclear Hotseat

Harvey Wasserman is a journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for more than 30 years. His books include History of the United States (1972), The Energy War: Reports From the Front (1979), and Killing our Own: the Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation. Media-wise, he has been a featured speaker on Today, Nightline, National Public Radio, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight and other major media outlets. We spoke on Monday, December 2, 2019. Pat Marida became an anti-nuclear activist in 1981, after her son gave her a copy of Cosmos by Carl Sagan. When she read the last chapter, which talked about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, she realized how a nuclear war could end most of live on Earth. Since then, Pat worked all through the 1980s with the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. From the 1990s to the present time she has volunteered with the Sierra Club, where she is currently a member of the Ohio Sierra Club’s Executive Committee and chairs their Nuclear Free Committee. She is a member of the Core Team of the national Sierra Club’s Nuclear Free Campaign. Pat is also part of an international group of Americans and Canadians raising issues of nuclear threats to the Great Lakes. We spoke on Sunday, December 1, 2019. Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for all archived podcasts

Fukushima Journey: The “Disappearing” Nuclear Disaster – 4 days on-the-ground in Fukushima Prefecture with Beverly Findlay-Kaneko continues. She lived in Yokohama, Japan for 20 years until March 2011 after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. She worked at Yokohama National University and The Japan Times. Beverly has a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and speaks Japanese fluently.Since returning from Japan, Beverly and her husband, Yuji Kaneko, have been active in raising awareness about nuclear issues, including the nuclear accident at Fukushima. Their main activities have included organizing speaking tours, giving presentations, networking in activist and nuclear-impacted communities in the U.S. and Japan, and co-producing the annual Nuclear Hotseat podcast “Voices from Japan” special on Fukushima. This is the second half of the “Fukushima Journey” Nuclear Hotseat interview, based on more than three hours of source material. Pt. 1 appeared in episode #439 from November 19, 2019. www.nuclearhotseat.com

Fukushima Disappearing? An on-the-ground report by Beverly Findlay-Kaneko. She lived in Yokohama, Japan for 20 years until March 2011 after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. She worked at Yokohama National University and The Japan Times. Beverly has a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and speaks Japanese fluently.Since returning from Japan, Beverly and her husband, Yuji Kaneko, have been active in raising awareness about nuclear issues, including the nuclear accident at Fukushima. Their main activities have included organizing speaking tours, giving presentations, networking in activist and nuclear-impacted communities in the U.S. and Japan, and co-producing the annual Nuclear Hotseat podcast “Voices from Japan” special on Fukushima. http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/11/20/fukushima-disappearing-journey-thru-japans-radioactive-olympics-prefecture/PLEASE, go to www.nuclearhotseat.com and CONTRIBUTE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TO HELP THIS VITAL STATION.Thank you for subscribing to all our podcasts on www.spreaker.com/LonnieClark

Childhood leukemia rates near nuclear reactors shown to increase in 2014 report by Dr. Ian Fairlie. He is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment living in London UK and has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in 1986. He has a degree in radiation biology from Bart’s Hospital in London and his doctoral studies at Imperial College in London and (briefly) Princeton University in the US concerned the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel reprocessing. Fairlie formerly worked as a civil servant on the regulation of radiation risks from nuclear power stations. From 2000 to 2004, he was head of the Secretariat of the UK Government’s CERRIE Committee on internal radiation risks. Since retiring from Government service, he has been a consultant on radiation matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, and private individuals. His areas of interest are the radiation doses and risks arising from the radioactive releases at nuclear facilities. In 2014, Dr. Fairlie published a scientific paper that compiled the results of 60 studies on child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors and blew the lid off the nuclear industry’s claim that living near a reactor is perfectly safe. He also exposes how the industry intentionally kept that information from the public until it was forced to reveal the data in 2012. Support Nuclear Hotseat at: www.nuclearhotseat.com

Nuclear Launch Codes are in the hands of the president, under his sole authority to launch a nuclear bomb strike anywhere in the world. Is there any recourse? Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself while the Rest of Us Die, explains the workings of the so-called “nuclear football” which contains the nuclear bomb launch codes, plus the survival plan for our “leaders” that lets them (maybe) survive while the rest of the world dies. Quite a pertinent discussion to have in this era of impeachment inquiry, don’t you think?Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for all podcasts (without commercials) and to support Nuclear Hotseat

Eric Epstein, head of Three Mile Island Alert, on what it means for the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania to finally close… and what lies ahead for the local activist community Once a nuclear reactor closes, the need for citizen action doesn’t end; it just shifts to what to do with the highly radioactive waste that remains deadly for literally hundreds of thousands of years. Here in southern California, that focuses on San Onofre and the use of thin-walled storage canisters – only 5/8” of stainless steel – hold the so-called “spent” fuel rods, all of which contain plutonium. Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs talk about legal action taken by their group to stop the loading of the flawed waste canisters, and bring us up to date on where we stand with San Onofre’s nuclear waste legacy. Activism against nuclear weapons is again building up to take on the build-up of nuclear weapons and what’s turning into the new Cold War. One extremely active group is the Washington state Physicians for Social Responsibility. To find out more about what grassroots activism is happening in that state, I talked with Carly Brook, WPSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Organizer. Washington Against Nuclear Weapons Coalition Uranium mining is the start of the nuclear fuel chain, and we examine its continuing impact on First Nations people in Northern Saskatchewan with Candyce Paul. She is a member of the English River First Nations and works with the Committee for Future Generations. She and her people live a traditional lifestyle, close to the land, which is why you will hear her mention moose more than once.

This Week’s Featured Interview: We talk at length with Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, authors of LOOKOUT AMERICA! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War. Learn about the U.S. Government’s secret Hollywood studio that not only filmed nuclear above ground blasts and turned them into pro-nuke propaganda, but cranked out other images and films the government used to use to manipulate nuclear consent during the coldest of the Cold War. It’s a whole new take on understanding how we’ve been deceived into believing what we believe about nukes. www.nuclearhotseat.com

Nuclear Numnutz deja vu because, let’s face it, with nukes, everything old is new again, and again, and again… So we take a look back at 2018 through the lens of Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature, Numnutz of the Week. Listen to the “wacky” antics of the world’s most dangerous technology as it sails through: Japan’s hard work to “normalize” Fukushima and its radiation so the tourists dumb enough to show up for the 2020 Radioactive Tokyo Olympics will think that everything is AOK! US nuclear crews who opt for “high” crimes and misdemeanors – not once but twice! Ancient, decrepit or just irrelevent so-called “experts” opining to a transfixed mainstream media in support of nukes… when they have nothing to do with them The ongoing Fukushima Food Fight – whether it’s propaganda on the ground selling Fuku sake to New York hipsters or Japan taking South Korea and now Taiwan to the World Trade Organization to try to ram Fukushima fish down the throats of safety-conscious residents of other countries. Department of Energy playing word games to make us believe that high level waste is really low level waste – and when the citizens arise against you, with good cause, just invest your money in a good PR firm. Nuclear Regulatory Commission incompetence in letting reactors operate at full power during “snow cyclones” and hurricanes, forgetting that there’s no way to evacuate or get emergency crews on site because, hey, “snow cyclone” and/or hurricane. …and much much more! All of it leading to that Numnutz of all Numnutz for 2018, which is…Well, you’ll have to listen to find out! www.nuclearhotseat.com

Nuclear weapons – their design, engineering, chances for implementation – that’s the topic we explore with Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nukewatch NM. Jay goes over the division of responsibility for nuclear weapons of mass destruction between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia Laboratory, and California’s Lawrence Livermore Lab. He then rips into Department of Energy for the lies and “theatre” surrounding claims of a “more-than-halfway-completed” so-called “clean-up” of LANL that ignores the vast majority of radioactive contamination… and ultimately is funding the new nuclear arms race. New Chris Busby website – www.chris.busby.exposed – tells the truth about this tireless British scientist. Chris is creating serious questions in the UK and beyond about the health effects of ionizing radiation and exposure to Uranium Weapons. And be sure to check out the Nuclear Hotseat interview with Chris Busby from Episode #333, November 7, 2017. Kevin Hester is a lifelong veteran of the eco-wars, with a fierceching, unflin attention to climate change and issues of human extinction. He currently produces and hosts the podcast Nature Bats Last, where he talks the difficult talk about the abrupt and exponential nature of global warming and the ultimate threat to human survival. But in this short interview (scroll down), we hear a different side of Kevin, about his life on a tiny New Zealand island and the real sense of community that sustains him. He’s been a staunch supporter of Nuclear Hotseat since our earliest days, and if you want to learn more about this important international activist, here’s a link to our interview on Nuclear Hotseat #233 from December 8, 2015. https://waihekeradio.org.nz/podcast/rakino-island/https://waihekeradio.org.nz/podcast/rakino-island/?fbclid=IwAR1Bxah9Ja8zONJ8H_1ws8qM1ZIOhyiN7H-On3LOLwPimv7eay9-PU_O6CIhttps://waihekeradio.org.nz/podcast/rakino-island/?fbclid=IwAR1Bxah9Ja8zONJ8H_1ws8qM1ZIOhyiN7H-On3LOLwPimv7eay9-PU_O6CI http://nuclearhotseat.com/

Nuclear Update USA checks in on several – far from all! – nuclear hotspots around the United States to find out the latest. We hear from activists on the front lines of ongoing nuclear problems: Vina Colley, in her own words, a “sick worker” from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio and also a Co-Founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ) and Portsmouth/Piketon Resident for Environmental Safety and Security, or (PRESS). As a whistleblower, Vina has spent decades fighting for transparency in all matters dealing with the uranium enrichment plant in Piketon. Terry Lodge is an Ohio trial lawyer who has represented many clients in civil rights, civil liberties, and environmental cases. An advocate for the public interest in energy policy issues, he has litigated nuclear power safety and environmental issues for 40 years, Lodge has also represented opponents of nuclear weapons and mountaintop removal mining. Mary Lampert is founder of Pilgrim Watch. Diane Turco is co-founder of of Cape Downwinders.

http://nuclearhotseat.com/RUSSIA! BREAKING & ONGOING:Explosion of a Russian nuclear reactor-powered cruise missile during a test on Thursday, August 8, has killed at least 7 – including 5 high level nuclear scientists. Story continues to develop as details from Russian sources keep changing – hey, it’s Russia. Top of the show has a 7-minute update on what is known, plus a caution to avoid giving credence to pictures and video circulating on the internet purportedly showing a nuclear explosion at the site. Those images are from an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Krasnoyarsk region that started on August 5, and are unrelated to the missile explosion.Hiroshima, Nagasaki Commemoration in Los Angeles was held in downtown’s Little Tokyo on August 8, 2019. Audio and interviews with peace activists, a Fukushima survivor, a Hiroshima resident, and those who stand opposed to nuclear weapons and nulcear war to remember the two times atomic bombs have been used — and why such weapons of mass destruction must NEVER be used again: Tsukuru Fors Lauritsen, primary organizer of the event. She is from Hiroshima and during the interview, we discover the profound link she shares with Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN. Tsukuru speaks about the culture of remembering in Hiroshima and what has moved her to her fierce, ongoing anti-nuclear activism. Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla, formerly of Peace Action Los Angeles, currently a candidate for Congress. Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles. Dr. Jimmy Hana, board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The music heard in the background of several interviews is by Bicultural Music Samurai Goh Kurosawa, who performs under the name, GOH. In addition, we hear the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN. As a school child, she survived the bombing that killed 350 of her classmates. In this moving account, she admonishes us about nuclear: NEVER AGAIN.

Uranium mining marks the start of the nuclear fuel chain and the deadly journey that element takes to become atomic weapons, nuclear reactors, and tons of highly radioactive waste that we do not know how to store safely for tens of thousands of years.On July 13 and 14, Nuclear Hotseat attended commemorative events for the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach and spill, which dumped more than 94 million gallons of highly acidic radioactive water into the adjacent Puerco River. The contamination reached Sanders, Arizona, and was recorded at least 80 miles away. The spill has never been cleaned up, and even now, while it has been declared a Superfund site, it will take at least two years before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finishes its review of the EPA’s clean-up plan – and clean-up can’t even begin until and unless the plan is approved.. And even that plan has come in for criticism by activists and community members.This very special Nuclear Hotseat is an audio montage of interviews with community leaders from Navajo Nation – most specifically the Red Water Pond Road Community, located adjacent to the spill site; commemoration event attendees; government officials; and activists from as far away as Japan. We spoke with:Former uranium miner Larry J. King, who was on-site at the United Nuclear Corporation mine the day of the tailings pond spillFormer UNC Church Rock uranium miner Larry J. King on his land facing the site of the 1974 uranium tailings pond breach and spill. He holds a commemorative kerchief.Redwater Pond Road Community members Jackie Bell, Edith Hood, Terracita Keyanna, Anna Benally, who live next to the spill site.Terracita Keyanna next to sign warning “no uranium mining” in Navajo Red Water Pond Road Community member Edith Hood, on the land where she has lived her entire life.Become a contributor of Nuclear Hotseat at:www.nuclearhotseat.com (hit the green or red donate button)Podcasts are also posted on Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel at: nutzforart

Chernobyl is again in the news as a result of the HBO series – but Nuclear Hotseat was there getting the truth about its impact on health years before that program even went into production. This is a classic Nuclear Hotseat episode, one of our most requested and downloaded: Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima. The group has held a vigil in front of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, five days a week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., since April 26, 2007 – the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Given the HBO Chernobyl series visibility and popularity around the world, it seemed the right time to reintroduce this classic Nuclear Hotseat episode to an audience that either has not yet heard it, or wishes to have their understanding of Chernobyl’s devastating impacts refreshed. Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #118, September 17, 2013.Chernobyl – Other Excellent Information Sources:Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown. Superb accounting of the health devastation of Chernobyl, constructed from over three years of investigation into medical archives in eastern Europe.Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higgenbotham. NOTE: the author does a superb job reconstructing the horrors of Chernobyl, then goes full-on pro-nuke during the final chapter, citing statistics from only the pro-nuclear WHO, IAEA, and UNSCEAR. I recommend that you skip that chapter and read the rest of the book for its narrative of nuclear lies, miscalculations, cover-ups, and destruction of people and the environment. In particular, the description of the physical devastation of high level radiation exposure is comparable to the visuals provided in the HBO series.)

Chris Shuey is Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program for Southwest Research and Information Service. He has worked with Navajo Nation communities on uranium mining issues for 38 years. Chris has helped document the persistent impact of the 1979 uranium tailings pond disaster, which dumped 94 million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into the Puerco River and traveled beyond Sanders, Arizona. In this special extended interview, he goes over the resulting degradation of the water, land, and health on Navajo Nation, as well as cultural issues that make the people unwilling to leave their ancestral lands, no matter how contaminated. We spoke on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 – just before I left for Church Rock, NM to cover the 40th anniversary commemoration events. Navajo Birth Cohort Study – a link to a PDF explanation and some of its findings. NEXT WEEK: Church Rock SPECIAL Pt. 2Voices of the People,Commemoration MarchGo to www.nuclearhotseat.com

Radiophobia? Schmadiophobia! The Lie at the Heart of Nuclear Ignorance: Majia Nadesan – 8th Anniversary! NH #4160By nhadmin on June 11, 2019 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Activism, Cancer, Chernobyl, Consolidated Interim Storage, Dakota Access Pipeline, Department of Energy, DOE, Fukushima, Hanford, Holtec, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion PlantRadiophobia? Fear of radiation is worse than exposure to radiation?Lies and propaganda!!Listen Here:Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Podcast: DownloadThis 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/Please like, share and subscribe. Follow Nuclear Hotseat at www.nuclearhotseat.comPodcasts are also on Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel: nutzforart

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. Please like, share and subscribe. Follow Nuclear Hotseat at www.nuclearhotseat.comAll podcasts are also posted to Lonnie Clark's YouTube channel: nutzforart

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 Todaywww.nuclearhotseat.comPlease like, share, subscribeAlso follow Lonnie Clark on YouTube (where this podcasts also posts) at: nutzforart

Radioactive waste generated by U.S. nuclear reactors stands at over 80,000 TONS of the stuff – with nowhere safe to store it long-term. The nuclear industry is pushing hard for an ill-advised so-called “interim” storage site in either New Mexico or West Texas – or both. Recent hearings held by the House and Senate barely allowed the public to be heard, and more hearings are on their way. But what does it all mean to the people most immediately affected?Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy talks with four genuine experts on various aspects of the radioactive waste problem: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, gives the horrifying overview. Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director for Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), goes into the legal issues and current manipulations being attempted by the nuclear industry. Leona Morgan, Nuclear Issues Study Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reveals what it’s like on-the-ground, protesting and working to raise public awareness. Karen Hadden, SEED (Sustainable Energy and Economic Development) Coalition, reports on the West Texas proposed site and how the state government is responding to industry pressure… and public outrage. www,nuclearhotseat.comPlease like, share and subscribe.Also follow Lonnie Clark on YouTube: nutzforart

Radioactive Nuclear Reactors and their impact on public health is the focusof the work of this week’s featured interviewee. Joseph Mangano is a health researcher and epidemiologist who has served as a director of Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health, and 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). He 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. In an act of overt cynicism, if not evil, the newly announced route for the 2020 Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay will not only START in Fukushima Prefecture… the FIRST THREE DAYS will zig zag a path around the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear meltdown site and throughout the evacuation zone! Callous disregard for human life, courtesy Dentsu Advertising’s PR campaign to convince the world that everything in Fukushima Prefecture is AOK! and you should all c’mon down to the Olympics! Here’s the map: Join Nuclear Hotseat at www.nucearhotseat.comThank you for subscribing, liking and sharing.

Still catching up on loading the missed podcasts. Every podcast produced by Nuclear Hotseat is too valuable to miss.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. 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. Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for all podcasts and to subscribe and DONATE. Thanks for subscribing to our podcasts.It takes all of us to change the world.

Indigenous Nuclear Genocide: The start of the nuclear fuel chain is uranium mining, the weight of which comes down disproportionately on indigenous people, the poor and/or people of color This week’s Nuclear Hotseat features excerpts from a webinar produced on May 4, 2019, by Stop New Nuclear in the UK and moderated by Nikki Clark. Participants featured on today’s show are: Candyce Paul is an artist and activist of the English River First Nations in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. She works with the group Committee for Future Generations, and talks here about uranium mining and waste burial issues being pushed in what is perceived as being pristine forests and lands in far northern Canada… when it’s all being contaminated by the nuclear fuel chain. Other groups dealing with these issues include: Say NO to Nuclear in Northern Saskatchewan and First Nations Say ENOUGH. Leona Morgan is of the Dineh people, what the western world thinks of as the Navajo people of Arizona and New Mexico. She works with many groups, most recently Halt Holtec, against the proposed so-called “interim” high level nuclear waste dumps being pushed onto New Mexico. Ashish Birulee is of the traditional Adavasi people from Jarkhand in India. You can follow his work at Jhakhandi Organization Against Radiation. ‘I’ve Seen My Own Relatives Die Of Radiation’: Life As An Activist’s Son In Jadugoda Jadugoda: Drowning in Nuclear GreedGo to www.nucleahotseat.com for all podcasts.Subscribe and donate and PLEASE SHARE.Thanks for joining us. Thank you for subscribing to my channel and for sharing our podcasts.

I am catching up posting Nuclear Hotseat podcasts.I missed this one in February. STILL vital and pertinent, here are the info from this week's podcast:This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Brexit? This week, as Brexit looms over the United Kingdom, we learn about another pending boondoggle in that country: the Hinkly Point C nuclear power plant proposed new build. What’s so wrong with this particular new nuke and what are activists doing about it? We talk with Nikki Clark, one of three founders of the UK direct action group South West Against Nuclear, which came into existence in 2010 in response to government plans to go ahead with a program of new nuclear reactors. She’s been involved in anti-nuclear campaigning for the best part of 17 years, during which time she’s been arrested and taken to court over my actions against Trident submarines – the UK’s nuclear bomb delivery service. South West Against Nuclear links: Stop New Nuclear on Facebook stopnewnuclear[dot]org.uk Springaction2019[at]stopnewnuclear.org.uk Link to booklet: Spotlight on Springfields – https://issuu.com/wildart/docs/spotlight_on_springfields_-briefingPlease go to www.nuclearhotseat.com to hear all the podcasts, get current information and to sign up to contribute to Nuclear Hotseat, which is listener funded.

his Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and management don’t like whistleblowers, and somebody who probably ranks as their least favorite one is this week’s Nuclear Hotseat guest. Arnie Gundersen is a former nuclear industry executive and nuclear engineer with more than 44 years of nuclear industry experience. He became a whistleblower in 1990. Gundersen has written dozens of expert reports for non-government organizations and the state of Vermont. His curriculum vitae shows Gundersen is a licensed Critical Facility Reactor Operator from 1971-1972. He is Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education. In this extended interview with Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, Gundersen goes into his history as a nuclear industry insider, the consequences of his bringing safety considerations to the attention of his boss, and the personal and professional “fallout” that resulted from his standing up for the truth. Included is Arnie’s update on what can be shared thus far about the Woolsey Fire at the Santa Susana Field Lab and the challenges faced in trying to learn more from ash and soil samples. Links: CNN video of Arnie Gundersen’s presentation during the 40th anniversary of TMI: Three Mile Island Accident Reconsidered – March 27, 2019: https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/nuclear-spring-a-legacy-of-lies?fbclid=IwAR2BpO7qiv3i2j_78Cy_gXWyy28S-CRjpRNFrGk1k0Sn5edEV9y5ZtjRFwg PETITION: Demand the presidential candidates oppose the first use of nuclear weapons – petition from WinWithoutWar.org. Add your name to demand a public commitment from every 2020 presidential candidate to institute a policy against the first use of nuclear weapons if elected president.Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for all podcast inventory and to sign up for your monthly contribution.

Still catching up posting Libbe's valuable interviews and show.Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for all podcasts and infiormation. While you are there, please contribute to Nuclear Hotseat to help LIbbe continue her valuable work.www.nuclearhotseat.com

My apologies to Libbe HaLevy for posting her shows in the last few months late. This information is as vital as ever, so I am catching up on posting all of her shows on my available channels. I should be caught up within the next week.I've gotten back in the saddle, so to speak, to face down the nuclear liars and promote the truth tellers and leaders who work to expose the deception and insanity of the nuclear industry. Please go to Libbe's webiste: www.nuclearhotseat.com for all her podcasts and to make a financial contribution to her work.

Radioactive contamination found at Ohio School – where is it from and what does it mean? Interview with Vina Colley; she is, in her own words, “a Whistleblower, a sick worker from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio.” Vina is a Co-Founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice (NNWJ) and Portsmouth/Piketon Resident for Environmental Safety and Security, or (PRESS). For more than 30 years, she has pushed the government to take responsibility for the radiological contamination that came from the Uranium Enrichment site, and execute The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA), which was enacted in October 2000 to compensate workers for their health issues caused by working within DOE’s nuclear facilities. She provides history and insights into the radiation contamination at the Zahn’s Corner Middle School in Piketon, Ohio – only two miles from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant.BREAKING: Energy Secretary Rick Perry orders the last 4+ years of radiation monitoring around Portsmouth site to be released to the public.Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste watchdog for Beyond Nuclear, spoke at the May 13, 2019 Congressional Briefing on Nuclear Waste that was held in Washington, DC. In this excerpt from his presentation, he speaks against the proposed Consolidated “Interim” Storage site in New Mexico.http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/05/22/radioactive-contamination-ohio-school-whistleblower-vina-colley-exposes-truth-nh-413/Podcasts are also on Lonnie Clark's social media:Facebook: Lonnie ClarkTwitter: Tweetnot3Tumblr: nutzforartYouTube: nutzforart

http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/03/26/three-mile-island-40th-anniversary-pt-1-wtf-happened-at-tmi-nh-405/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.orgMary Stamos (Osborn), long time Middletown resident, TMI survivor, and TMIA member, whose collection of mutated plants and flowers has just been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution.Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America. (Cronkite’s CBS network reports on TMI have been SCRUBBED FROM YOUTUBE!)Podcast is also on Lonnie Clark's social media:Facebook: Lonnie ClarkTwitter: Tweetnot3Tumblr: nutzforartYouTube: nutzforart

http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/03/20/cooper-nuclear-flooding-threat-continues-paul-gunter-gail-snyder-illinois-dave-kraft/www.nuclearhotseat.comThis Week’s Featured Interviews:Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear and a longtime veteran of the anti-nuclear wars. He talks about the history of flooding and water leakage at Cooper Nuclear.Gail Snyder is Board Chair of Chicago’s NEIS – Nuclear Energy Information Service. She addresses the challenge that climate change poses for nuclear reactors and what the future may look like for Cooper nuclear and all other nukes.In a separate story, Dave Kraft, Executive Director of NEIS – Nuclear Energy Information Service, is working on testimony to the Illinois state legislature to stop a move by Entergy (in unholy alliance with the state’s high-profile “environmental” groups) to create a separate energy market in Illinois that would allow state nukes currently slated for shutdown to keep running as part of the lie of their contribution to “clean” energy.Podcasts are also shared to Lonnie Clark's media:Facebook: Lonnie ClarkTwitter: tweetnot3Tumblr: nutzforartYouTube: nutzforart

Apologies to Libbe Halevy for uploading her shows late.Due to unforseen circumstances, I am just now getting up caught up posting her previous shows. Apologies to our listeners also (the few you are, as of yet) for my silence. I've been learning the lesson of "Attraction, Attraction, Attraction" (It's all about attraction, we attract the lessons we need in our lives).Thank you for folloing Lonnie Clark on Spreaker.Please feel free to share our podcasts, with correct attribution.These podcasts are also uploaded to:YouTube: nutzforartFacebook: Lonnie ClarkTwitter: Tweetnot3Tumblr: nutzforartOnce again, much deep and heartfelt gratitude to Libbe Halevy, producer of Nuclear Hotseat and owner of www.nuclearhotseat.com, the ONLY professional journalist relentlessly covering nuclear truths. Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com and make a monthly contribution, any amount is appreciated, and subscribe to the newsletter and podcast notification.

Please go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for more links and info on this episode:Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuclear Hotseat continues with a series of interviews with on-the-ground activists from Japan and those who assist their work in the U.S.Misao Redwolf is an Activist/Member and one of the founders of of the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, which coordinated activist response after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In March 2012, at the one year anniversary, the Coalition began protesting the restart of Japanese nuclear power plants in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence (Kantei) on Friday nights. Interview produced, translated and voice over by Carole Hisasue. Nuclear Hotseat interview with Misao Redwolf in Japanese – 首都圏反原発連合のMisao Redwolf: https://youtu.be/zqrR11UDAcIRead the English language Japan Times article about Misao.Carole Hisasue is a former journalist and media personality from Tokyo. Now, she is an anti-nuclear activist living in California, where she continues to write and work on media projects. Carole has attended the Friday night demonstrations in Tokyo many times, and filed this report exclusively to Nuclear Hotseat.Nancy Foust is Communications Manager and Research Team Member at SimplyInfo.org. Simply Info is a not for profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster. This is the conclusion of our interview, the full length version of which is featured in Nuclear Hotseat #401 – February 26, 2019.Dr. Caitlin Stronell is an internationally-trained nuclear lecturer who is presently working as a researcher with the Japan-based Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center. She gives us a broader picture of the manipulation of Fukushima survivors and the difficulties they continue to face, eight years after having to evacuate their homes in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear triple meltdown.Tsukuru Fors Lauritzen, a Los-Angeles based member of the Fukushima Support Committee. Born and raised in Japan, Tsukuru graduated from a high school in Hiroshima, where 350 students lost their young lives on August 6, 1945 in the atom bomb explosion. She came to the U.S. at age 19 and considers it a life’s mission to be an active force to bring forth a nuclear-free future. Most recently, Tsukuru has been presenting presenting documentaries about Fukushima and its impact so audiences can see and hear for themselves what people in Japan are going through since the nuclear disaster began.

Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com for links and more information:Fukushima UPDATE SPECIAL – Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Research Team Member SimplyInfo.org, a not for profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster. Every year they publish an extensively researched and vetted update on what’s happening at the disaster site and to the people still living with the aftermath. This is a gold standard report, and we’re fortunate to have secured Nancy for an interview before the report is released to the public. We spoke on Monday, February 25, 2019.Copies of the Simply Info Fukushima at 8 – 2019 UPDATE Report will be available at: simplyinfo.org as of March 10, 2019, and on Amazon.com as of March 12, 2019.

This week’s featured interviews:Green New Deal languaging analyzed for hidden pro-nuclear landmines by Gail Snyder, Board Chair of Chiago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS).Are nukes “carbon-free” and can they actually help turn around global warming? Arnie Gundersen is Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, as well as a former licensed nuclear reactor operator and whistleblower — and he rips that nuclear industry propaganda campaign to shreds. On Sunday, December 3, 2017, Arnie spoke in Chicago and gave a brilliant explanation of global warming and why it’s impossible for nukes to help. “Carbon free?” NOT!Additional clarity from Arnie Gundersen and Fairewinds:Video of Arnie speech at McGill University – CO2 Smokescreen: New Nukes Make Global Warming WorseTwo-minute animation explains why new nukes will not help with global warming: SMOKESCREENhttp://nuclearhotseat.com/Also on YouTube: nutzforart

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Smithsonian accepts Mary Osborn’s Three Mile Island radiation/plant mutation collection. Mary Osborn, a long time member of Three Mile Island Alert, has been gathering flowers, leaves and plants that show signs of fasciation – mutations that reveal the negative impact of radiation on their growth and reproduction since shortly after the 1979 meltdown. Her full collection has been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution to be preserved, digitized, and made available to the public. This is a HUGE win! We spoke on January 17, 2019. Scott Portzline of TMIAlert sprovides background explanation of what it took to get the Smithsonian to consider Mary’s collection – and how rare it is that they accept anything that is offered to them, making this acceptance a real score. Inspired by the work of Daniel Ellsberg, activists Robert Manning and Kenny Dubroff have created a new website and an action to take. An explanatory video narrated by Peter Coyote and the pledge they ask that you sign are at: NuclearTerrorToday.orgSubscribe to:www.nuclearhotseat.comYouTube: nutzforart

This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque. The group focuses on the goings-on at WIPP, this country’s only deep geological repository for low level nuclear waste. He gives us an update on conditions at WIPP since its 2014 accidents closed it down, along with the intense political wrangling going on right now about changing regulations to allow WIPP to take high level waste it’s not designed to handle. We also go into the battle raging right now over the threat of the world’s largest radioactive waste dump being situated in New Mexico and/or New Mexico-adjacent in West Texas.