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Nuclear Free Future: Gender Matters in the Atomic Era 07/30/2018

Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, talks about the greater danger faced by women and girls exposed to ionizing nuclear radiation. This includes trans-generational DNA damage. An expert in highly radioactive spent fuel policy, she discusses the dangers of transporting nuclear waste from nuclear power reactors and nuclear weapons facilities.

Mary Olson’s research and activism is a driving force for the Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This Nuclear Free Future conversation takes heed of this topic 73 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945.

Nuclear Free Future: Mobile Chernobyls, Revving Their Engines?! 06/25/2018

Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog with Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington on Nuclear Free Future. They discuss the dire consequences of shipping Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear waste to a proposed federal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and “interim” parking lot dumps.

Representative Peter Welch has signed HR 3053 - The Nuclear Waste Amendments Act of 2018 which provides for transporting nuclear waste from all around the United States to a federal facility by road, rail, and waterways through vulnerable communities.

They discuss U.S. Senate companion legislation and the U.S. NRC licensing proceedings regarding centralized interim storage facilities for irradiated nuclear fuel targeted at the Texas/New Mexico borderlands, which are a blatant environmental justice violation. (Large Hispanic communities are already heavily polluted by fossil fuel and nuclear activities.)

Feminist Media Review: Living in a Patriarchal Society 06/11/2018

Host Peggy Luhrs discusses Trump, the current use and the etymology of "cunt," and other facets of living in a patriarchal and capitalist society.

Nuclear Free Future: Picking Up the Pieces from Atoms for Peace 05/10/2018

Nuclear Free Future host Margaret Harrington talks with Maggie Gundersen, President of Fairewinds Energy Education, and Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds, about decommissioning nuclear power plants, “just transitions” for communities losing their nukes, costs, and long-term radiation after site clean up. They discuss “Interim Waste” storage in Texas and New Mexico, transportation problems, the cleanup of bomb factories and mining sites on native land, and the reality that the cost of nukes is astronomical.

For more information, please visit: www.fairewinds.org

Feminist Media Review: Ecofeminism 04/09/2018

Peggy Luhrs talks about ecofeminism and about why the ecology and feminism movements go together.

Nuclear Free Future: Nuclear Update with Fairewinds Energy Education 03/26/2018

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, talks with host Margaret Harrington about his 5-year monitoring project of radioactively-hot particles detected in dust and soils in Northern Japan after the Fukushima-dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown on March 11, 2011. The research identifies a meaningful number of samples whose radioactivity increase the risk of suffering future health problems.

EARTH SUMMIT REPORT 07/06/1992

Vermonters Report on the Earth Summit

Vermonters who attend the "Earth Summit" and Global Forum in Rio De Janeiro July 2 - 14 will share their views and impressions of the historic environmental gathering.

MICHAEL SACCA'S EARTH SUMMIT VIDEO FROM RIO 07/01/1992

Report on the Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro with interviews with Vermonters.

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