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, 2020 Film referenced by Linda Pentz Gunter: The Atomic Soldiers and Beyond Nuclear International article on The Atomic Soldiers Special 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 Grossman Also posted on YouTube at nutzforart subscribe to Nuclear Hotseat: www.nuclearhotseat.com [http://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/ [https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/] Go to www.nuclearhotseat.com [http://www.nuclearhotseat.com] for more info podcasts 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 [http://www.nuclearhotseat.com] to sign up for weekly information directly to your email box Podcast is also putlished on YouTube: nutzforart

by Libbe HaLevy | May 13, 2020 This 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.com [http://www.nuclearhotseat.com] Also posted on YouTube channels: nutzforart & UCYTV

May 6, 2020 Nuclear 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 [http://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 [http://www.nuclearhotseat.com]