Events
“A creeping Chernobyl” at Portsmouth
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) in Piketon, Ohio, was the site of uranium enrichment for the US nuclear weapons program. It operated from 1954 to 2001. The Department of Energy (DOE) has been conducting “cleanup” at the site since 1989. Plant operations generated hazardous, radioactive, mixed (hazardous and radioactive),…
Read MoreRADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown–the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers-turned-activists, two women lawyers who took the local community’s case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist…
Read MoreAn update on baby teeth and radiation
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Writes podcast host, Libbe HaLevy: “Strontium 90 in baby teeth helped convince U.S. President Kennedy and Russian Premiere Khrushchev to sign the limited test ban treaty in 1963, which prohibited nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space. “Joseph Mangano is a…
Read MoreThe risks at Zaporizhzhia
The inherent dangers of nuclear power plants are exacerbated during war as we are currently seeing in Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia, the six-reactor nuclear power plant, closest to the most intense fighting, is of greatest concern. Please join the Massachusetts Peace Action online event — Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Plants in War and Peace —…
Read MoreLeaders speak about the Ban Treaty
Enviro Close-Up #671 with Karl Grossman features representatives from the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Writes Grossman: “This Enviro Close-Up focuses on the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)—especially it being a leader in getting action on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This visionary pact was passed at the UN in 2017.…
Read MoreOnline radiation course: U.S. radiation exposure standards!
SIGN UP FOR OUR DECEMBER COURSE! Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) have set out to teach about radiation. One more class is slated for 2022: UNDERSTANDING THE HOW AND WHY OF U.S. RADIATION EXPOSURE STANDARDS December 6, 7 and 8 noon, ET In this third class hosted by…
Read MoreDrowning in double-talk as Arctic ice melts
From this week’s Nuclear Hotseat: Writes host, Libbe HaLevy: “Given the pro-nuclear double-talk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of it is created by nuclear contamination…
Read MoreAn update on TMI decommissioning
Eric Epstein, chairman of Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA), provides an update on the seemingly endless decommissioning process at Three Mile Island as this week’s guest on Nuclear Hotseat. TMIA is a safe energy organization based in Harrisburg, PA that monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations. For more than 35…
Read MoreA legend in her lifetime
This week’s Nuclear Hotseat with Libbe HaLevy features an extended interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott. Writes HaLevy: “Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other individual in history. During…
Read MoreVirtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis, Thursday, October 27, 7 to 9pm ET
Vasily Arkhipov Day: After 60 Years, The Nuclear Threat Returns A Virtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis, Thursday, October 27, 7 to 9pm Thursday, October 27 marks the 60th anniversary of the day Vasily Arkhipov (pictured above) single-handedly saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Off the coast of Cuba, the US Navy was attacking…
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