Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

Nuclear Hotseat's 6th Anniversary, same old nuclear story: HANFORD AGAIN! Plus Anti-Nuke Peace Boat Golden Rule in California, with Veterans for Peace Gerry Condon, and latest Grand Canyon UPDATE w/Alicyn Gitlin. http://ow.ly/fY5M30cB5ez Sign up for free weekly Nuclear Hotseat email with link to the latest show at NuclearHotseat.com. Questions? Story leads? Email us at: info@NuclearHotseat.com #Nuclear #NuclearDiseases #NuclearReactor #Radiation #Fukushima #NRC #NuclearRegulatoryCommission #Radioactive #Cancer #IAEA #UNSCEAR #WHO #ThreeMileIsland #WestLakeLandfill Nuclear, Nuclear Diseases, Nuclear Reactor, Radiation, Fukushima, NRC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Radioactive, Cancer, IAEA, UNSCEAR, WHO, Three Mile Island, West Lake Landfill

Hanford, WIPP, Yucca Mt., San Onofre, transport issues - when you're dealing w/radioactive waste with a half-life of 24,000 years, there are no quick fixes. Kevin Kamps gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste storage issues faced by not just the United States, but the world.

Mari Inoue of Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World talks about the issues surrounding the US-Japan Nuclear Energy Cooperation Treaty – and why we really don’t want it. Alicyn Gitlin coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. (Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #273, September 13, 2016.) And Hanford.

ANOTHER #Hanford accident! #Radiation leak f/underground storage tank. OLDER Hanford accident - tunnel collapse covered w/plastic tarp. WTF? + #YuccaMountain illegally on Western Shoshone Nation land & activist office occupation forces MO politicians to file legislation giving #WestLakeLandfill clean-up jurisdiction to Army Corps.

This week's interviews: Laura Welch of Nuclear Care Partners, a company that provides in-home health care to approved government atomic industry workers. Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL, on the sad fate of SB 22, the home buyout bill for families living in closest proximity to the West Lake Landfill and its 70,000 tons of illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste.

Alternative, Activist Perspective on 5/917 Tunnel Collapse: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert, researcher and member, Radiation Watch, on radiation spike recorded at Hanford on Monday, May 8. Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Power Task Force Director for the Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Mimi German, No Nukes NW and Radcast.org, the citizen radiation monitoring network. Kimberly Roberson, certified nutrition educator and founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) Radiation Awareness Protection Talk – for more information on how to protect your health and the health of your loved ones from nuclear radiation.

Dawn Chapman, one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill, on the "Nuclear Boogeyman" of radiation and the struggle to gain a buyout of contaminated homes. Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never understanding that it was one mile away from a nuclear time bomb that had been going off for years.

Radiation, mutations, health damage, deaths - learn how the United Nations World Health Organization cooked the books and scammed the number to make you think that Chernobyl was no big health deal. Libbe HaLevy interviews Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland based watchdog group, Independent WHO. A Chernobyl Anniversary SPECIAL.

San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz of Citizens Oversight Project and Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green. SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA REPORT: Kerry Anne O’Connor provides an intimate report on bullying of children from Fukushima, their unresolved trauma, and the breakdown of Japan’s usual social order. Exclusive to Nuclear Hotseat.

Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons. She offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group in The Netherlands, and with Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a brilliant strategy for forcing banks and pension funds to remove their funds from nuclear bomb manufacturing companies.

Activist Alex Cohen on a successful series of non-violent civil disobedient actions to push awareness of the illegally buried World War II nuclear weapons waste and the underground, unstoppable fire barreling towards it from the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill. And Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) hones in on the impact of Fukushima on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the dangers posed to athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network; Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Specialist at Beyond Nuclear; and Nancy Foust, Communications Manager & Research Team Member at SimplyInfo.org

Radiation plume, cancer spike, animal deaths/mutation, kids w/PTSD, parental fears: Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL: Three Mile Island at 38. Residents, media reports, interviews w/NRC Commissioner, plus Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy's harrowing story of having been caught one mile away when the accident was happening. Nuclear Hotseat #301 http://ow.ly/lkpH30am2UK

Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, explains the dangers of nuclear deterrence, how the Pentagon plans to rob entitlements to pay for Star Wars, and the US drive to nuclearize space — all a run-up to exciting info on “Pivot towards War: US Missile Defense and the Weaponization of Space” Global Network’s 25th anniversary conference, April 7-9 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Radiation spikes in Europe: Cause? Source? Coverup? Missing Data? Shaun McGee digs up the story. + SimplyInfo's Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report – Fukushima Facts w/Nancy Foust

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster. Featuring: Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida. Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida. “Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama. Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government. Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone to rescue 760 animals abandoned after the March 11, 2011 nuclear triple-meltdown.

Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea.

Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Ithe hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, a nuke industry trade group that helps the industry outwit regulators; the Indian Point Closure agreement; and strategies and tactics for activists that have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels. Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe. Step away from the hysteria…

Tom Carpenter heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy. Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is.