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Nuclear scam!
EVENT: NUCLEAR SCAM New nukes rob our future New nuclear reactors will cost the earth and do nothing for energy security or our electricity bills. With the spotlight on the UK government’s latest scheme to build new reactors, our panel discussion will look at how new nuclear reactor plans would worsen the energy and climate crisis,…
Read MoreNuclear madness in Ohio
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Nuclear Madness! Ohio House Bill 434 passed the Ohio House on March 23, 2022. This bill authorizes the creation of a new Ohio body, called the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority, which would be given the go ahead to do research and development on new nuclear reactors, defining them as “advanced.”…
Read MoreUkraine’s nuclear time bomb
If you are in Vienna, Austria for the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, June 18 and 19, please consider attending the session, Nuclear winter is coming closer, maybe from the Eastern Flank. Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter, Dr Jonas Jägermey from Columbia University Climate School, and Victor Chelashow, IPPNW Student Representative, Kenya, will discuss how nuclear…
Read MoreThe power of messaging
This week’s edition of Nuclear Hotseat looks at nuclear activism and social messaging. Host, Libbe HaLevy interviews Colleen Moore (pictured), Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero. Moore creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons and has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including: ending U.S. support…
Read MoreRemember when one million marched?
June 12 is the 40th anniversary of the largest U.S. peace demonstration in U.S. history, the nuclear disarmament protest that contributed to the end of the Cold war. That was when more than a million people gathered in New York City’s Central Park demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons. On that same date this year,…
Read MoreAtomic Cover-Up on Nuclear Hotseat
This week on Nuclear Hotseat, Libbe HaLevy interviews documentary film director, Greg Mitchell about his new film, Atomic Cover-Up, an award-winning documentary available for free at the International Uranium Film Festival until May 29. Atomic Cover-Up shows film that was shot in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was classified ‘top…
Read MoreA challenge to President Biden
On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Libbe HaLevy continues her interview with anti-nuclear icon and legend, Dr. Helen Caldicott. Caldicott issues a challenge to President Joe Biden, to sit down and really talk about what nuclear weapons mean and on the reality of what nuclear war would do to people, the environment, and the future. And…
Read MoreNuclear power hurts people
“The thing is that nuclear power happens to people. And what happens to them is, a lot of the time, a crime. It’s a crime against race, against justice, against the environment, against animals. It’s a crime against humanity. But it’s almost never looked at through that frame. Today, when people see nuclear power on their electric bill, they don’t know who really paid before they switched their lights on.” On April 28, 2022, Linda Pentz Gunter of…
Read MoreTornado in a library: a video primer of radiation damage
In this video, Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, reviews the nuclear fuel chain and its impact on human health, particularly the health of women, children and pregnancy. She summarizes how radiation damages cells, what studies reveal about living in contaminated environments, and how radiation exposure recommendations fail to protect us.…
Read MoreHelen Caldicott on Nuclear Hotseat
Anti-nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. Here, in the first of a two-part interview, she talks of her early years of international activism, leading up to her one-on-one talk with Pres. Ronald Reagan, and how close we…
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