Podcasts about nuclear responsibility

Hometown Radio 06/09/25 4p: David Weisman from the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

Dr. Gordon Edwards, speaking at the United Nations This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly...

Uranium Mining in Northern Saskatchewan―What You Need To Know; Part 2, Small Nuclear Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Consent in Saskatchewan: What You Haven't Been Told Originally broadcast as a live-to-air online webinar, this four-part series was shortened to audio for your listening pleasure. We want to help you learn more about uranium mining in Northern Saskatchewan, why it is happening, and what the future looks like for Indigenous Peoples and allies resisting uranium mining and nuclear waste in their traditional territories.  Tori Cress hosts this episode's guests, including Paul Belanger, Keepers of the Water Science Advisor. Dr. Gordon Edwards, President and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, and Benjamin Ralston BA, JD, LLM, Assistant Professor at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. Between our guests, you will gain decades of combined knowledge of uranium extraction and nuclear energy. You can watch the original broadcast on Facebook and YouTube. Please note the YouTube video is of lower quality due to connectivity issues during the live broadcast. In this episode, we will hear from Dr. Gordon Edwards, president and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Dr. Edwards is dedicated to education and research on all issues related to nuclear energy, whether civilian or military, including non-nuclear alternatives. A retired professor of mathematics and science at Vanier College, Doctor Edwards has also served as a consultant on nuclear issues for governmental and non-governmental bodies for over 45 years. He has been accepted as an expert witness by US and Canadian courts and tribunals, has cross-examined nuclear experts during provincial commissions of inquiry, and has been invited to address various countries. Nuclear energy is not clean energy that will save us from the climate crisis. This false solution is being sold to citizens by the same industries that are the source of the climate problem. Nuclear power, including SMRs, is not a climate solution because it is filthy to mine, physically dangerous, too expensive and very slow. The rise of nuclear energy as a solution to the climate crisis is a looming threat to clean, fresh water for the entire planet. Current extraction practices and policies have brought us to this global crisis, and colonial practices are not how we save ourselves from ourselves. Natural law shows us that we are not separate from our environment, and the time to pay attention to that teaching is now. This episode was edited and produced by Beverly Andrews.

Decouple host Dr. Keefer faces off against Canada's most prolific antinuclear activist Dr. Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, in a cordial but passionate debate on the question “Do We Need to Scale Up Nuclear Power to Combat Climate Change?” This public debate took place at the University of Ottawa on April 25th and was hosted by Canada's former ambassador of Climate Change and former ambassador to Chile Patricia Fuller.

Hometown Radio 02/13/23 4p: David Weisman from the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

Frank von Hippel, Emeritus Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University, had a big influence with Gorbachev in ending the Cold War and promoting nuclear disarmament. Erika Simpson is an Associate Professor of International Affairs, Western University. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. They point out that the recent publicity about a breakthrough in nuclear fusion is meant to deceive the public into considering it as a great day for sustainable energy, whereas the real research was done by nuclear weapons scientists for the sake of the continued development of nuclear weapons. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-536-fake-fusion-story.

Gordon Edwards is the president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

Russia continues assaults on Ukraine nuclear sites, controls Chernobyl & Zaporizhzhia. All radiation monitors down. What are the risks? How much worse will it get? Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear PLUS Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more of us than you might suspect.   Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City journalist and writer whose award-winning play, Exposed, puts a human face on the cost of nuclear testing. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime...

Now that the last Indian Point nuclear reactor - situated only 25 miles from Manhattan and 20 million people - has been shut down for good, the activist battle shifts to the decommissioning process. Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, explains from her 20 years of working to get the dangerous reactor shut down. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, gives a brilliant, clear and brief tutorial on what decommissioning consists of and why it is such a fraught process.

Now that the last Indian Point nuclear reactor - situated only 25 miles from Manhattan and 20 million people - has been shut down for good, the activist battle shifts to the decommissioning process. Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, explains from her 20 years of working to get the dangerous reactor shut down. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, gives a brilliant, clear and brief tutorial on what decommissioning consists of and why it is such a fraught process.

A backgrounder with international expert Dr. Gordon Edwards. Learn the basics on radioactivity, uranium mining and processing in Canada, and the truth about uranium's unnatural offspring, plutonium. Dr. Gordon Edwards is a co-founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility www.ccnr.org

A coalition of organizations hosted a national virtual event in August on the 75th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to commemorate the survivors of nuclear weapons and production. Still Here: 75 Years of Shared Nuclear Legacy included highlights from local events, stories from survivors, and a look toward a future free from nuclear threats. Salt Lake City writer Mary Dickson, a long-time advocate for downwinders and the playwright of Exposed, was a featured speaker at the event. Mary Dickson was recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime work on behalf of downwinders. She is our guest for the hour today.

Hometown Radio 10/08/20 3p: David Weisman from the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility discusses Diablo Canyon

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

Hometown Radio 10/31/19 4p: David Weisman from the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility looks at PG&E

Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on short sighted Canadian nuclear waste schemes, Holtec's nuke decommissioning partner SNC Lavalin's political scandals, untangling nuclear industry radiation languaging and lies. + Frances Crowe memorial – Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist passes at 100. Nuclear Hotseat #427 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on short sighted Canadian nuclear waste schemes, Holtec's nuke decommissioning partner SNC Lavalin's political scandals, untangling nuclear industry radiation languaging and lies. + Frances Crowe memorial – Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist passes at 100. Nuclear Hotseat #427 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on short sighted Canadian nuclear waste schemes, Holtec's nuke decommissioning partner SNC Lavalin's political scandals, untangling nuclear industry radiation languaging and lies. + Frances Crowe memorial – Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist passes at 100. Nuclear Hotseat #427 w/Libbe HaLevy.

David Weisman from Citizens for Nuclear Responsibility

Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.” He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming. In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.“Jaczko Nixes Nukes” – A Backgrounder on Greg Jaczko’s book and the issues he addresses from Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.http://nuclearhotseat.com/Please go to Nuclear Hotseat and donate if you appreciate this source of information. Please follow Lonnie Clark on YouTube at: nutzforart

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. 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: globalnet@mindspring.comMore 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=XZxM6s7ZijIl7b91lsYfsJpYHoEjgQWidzLkhttps://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ3M6s7ZH7U0YNc3JfhmJemmBVVYA8E3QkhVhttps://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZcM6s7Z5C7nTJ6bni0bVuA6t4W1854pc2tyhttps://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZRT6s7Zagwdz3OInzyxKyJFon1tOysxXKekhttps://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZQT6s7ZXJcU6NF3QNJMdyHTaDRHHFwPhV17www,nuclearhotseat.comPodcasts are posted on Nuclear Hotseat website listed above or on YouTube channel: nutzforart

Canada Nuclear Waste Dump in Chalk River, Ontario –“Mobile Chernobyl” highway route waste would take from Los Alamos National Labs This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of that country’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. He has worked with the Canadian government,...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology.  He speaks on the Chalk River proposed Nuclear Waste Dump, its history, and the many ways it’s a dangerous, wrong-headed idea.  The first of three segments with Dr....

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue a conversation on the state of the nuclear industry and nuclear power six years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe by speaking with two experts. First up, Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility explains the Canadian government's 70 year embrace of the atom. And later Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education discusses the state of nuclear reactors and regulation in both Canada and the US, before bringing us up to date on Japanese government's efforts to protect the public as well as the nuclear sector.

Gordon Edwards, of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, describes Trumps comments on nuclear expansion, as absurd and scary.

Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, describes what is planned in transporting radioactive liquid nuclear waste, from Canada to the United States, and why it does not have to happen.

Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, talks about the focus on nuclear issues at this year's World Social Forum currently underway in Montreal.

Oh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!

Oh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!

Oh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!

BREAKING:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be interviewed by John B. Wells for Caravan to Midnight, airing Friday, July 8, 2016, available for download thereafter for a small fee. This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of Canada‘s best known independent experts on...

Last week PG&E announced an agreement with several environmental and labor groups to close down California's last remaining nuclear power plant in Diablo Canyon by 2025. How did this agreement come about? What does this mean for California's energy future and for the future of nuclear power in the United States? Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, discusses these questions with two veteran environmentalists who were involved in the historic two-week civil disobedience action against the plant back in 1981 — Rochelle Becker executive director of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity. The post End of Nuclear in California? appeared first on KPFA.

Our guest this week is Dr. Gordon Edwards, founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Gordon has been on the program several times before to provide his expertise on this or that current nuclear issue in Canada, but we decided it was time to hear from him why he does what he does. So be more specific, we asked him how he came to be an anti-nuclear activist? This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/461-nuclear-ambitions/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, explains why he thinks the Iran nuclear deal is a good one.

Gordon Edwards, of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, updates the controversy over the proposed deep geological repository not far from the shore of Lake Huron. U.S. Senator Kirk is asking President Obama to intervene.

Doug Olthuis, Executive Director for the United Steelworkers of Canada joins us as the top of the program to talk about the potential use of Canada Revenue Agency charitable status audits as a political tool to punish and intimidate organizations that operate in odds with the priorities of the current government. Next, Dr. Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. A expert on all things nuclear, Dr. Edwards joins us again to talk about several current Canadian nuclear issues as well as comment on the recent Tesla Motors announcement by real-life Tony Stark (Iron Man) Elon Musk. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/451-death-from-taxes/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Nuclear Power: From Japan to California One month after the historic nuclear disaster in Japan, Terra Verde gets an update from Green Action Japan, and speaks with San Luis Obispo-based Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility to discuss the future of nuclear power in California. The post Terra Verde – April 8, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

In this podcast: terrifying yet boring — the Canadian election. A new rabble radio contest. Cracking the cover of human books. Fukushima Daichi and alt power. An ode to the ipad deux. Canada is enduring its fourth election in seven years. While the NDP and the Liberal Parties grapple for the vote from the Left, the Conservative Party of Canada is reaching for a majority government. As polls stand now, though, they aren't going to get it. For the NGOs and government watchdogs that have seen their funding go unrenewed under a government dominated by the Conservative Party, that could provide a bit of welcome relief. But voting day isn't here yet. Murray Dobbin is a political commentator and on the board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We thought we'd check in with him about what he sees happening in the 2011 election campaign. If I had $1,000, 000. The song is relatively well-known in Canada. But a million dollars sounds like pocket change when you compare it to the 30 BILLION dollars that Canada paid for a few fighter jets not too long ago. So rabble.ca is rewriting the lyrics to the tune, hopefully with some help from you. Tell us what you'd spend 30 billion dollars on and we'll put your suggestions our version of this song. So what do you think? A national Childcare program? Funding for  KAIROS? Solar power for the parliament buildings? Internet connectivity in the North? Candy for all? You tell us, and we'll put it in song. You can email billion@rabble.ca with your suggestions, or you can phone them in at 1-360-566-2214. Obviously, we take mp3 files too. Understanding breeds justice. That's the philosophy behind the human books project. The project is open to libraries all over the world. Here's how it works: Library visitors sign out a Human Book, and can ask their book any question they want. The books are volunteers who are willing to answer all kinds of questions about their lives. The Human Book Project recently came to Winnipeg. That's where Noreen Mae Ritsema stopped by the branch, and sat down with the human books there. She asked them what they're sharing and what kinds of questions they're fielding. The first human book she signed out was all about organic farming. Here's part of their discussion. Election aside, all eyes have been on Japan for the last month. The tsunami that swept away hundreds of thousands of people has passed, but the nuclear reactors on the countries east coast are still pumping radiation into the atmosphere and the water. Bottled water shortages and rolling blackouts have become facts of life in cities across the country. rabble.ca's redeye podcast had a few questions about Fukushima-Daiichi, so they called up Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. At the end of the interview, they talked about what the disaster will mean for the nuclear industry and other  power generation options here at home.  Here is that part of that conversation. The ipad 2 had only been in Canada a few days when Wayne used it to record a multi-track segment of Online Tools for the 21st century. Wayne says I'm crazy not to own one of these. Here's his column.

Media activist David Weisman from the California organization Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility (www.a4nr.org) reminds us that the negative effects of nuclear energy far outweigh the benefits. He recaps the problems experienced by such reactors as Diablo Canyon, Rancho Seco and the Three Mile Island meltdown and release of radiation. The problems that these older reactors had have not been solved since those times, and we run the risk of repeating them. Human error can have serious consequences at reactors, as was seen at Three Mile Island. Disposal options for dangerous “spent fuel” the negative effects of which last for millions of years, are still limited to storage in low-population areas such as Nevada, where there are already problems with contamination of soil and water. Contact with plutonium and nuclear waste result in deadly serious health problems including cancer. Another issue to consider is the security threat posed by countries moving to weapons manufacturing after establishing nuclear power plants built for peaceful uses. Finally Weisman points out that even if these issues could be solved in theory it will not happen soon enough to make any difference in global warming about which experts predict that we have 10 or at the most 15 years to make significant changes. Weisman’s film, Everything Nuclear (www.everythingnuclear.org), gives more historical and technical background on all of these issues. Weisman concludes that efforts to find new ways to generate power should focus on other sources with fewer problems, such as solar and wind power.Recorded February, 2009