Best LANL Podcasts (2024)

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NH #694: Court Rules Plutonium Pit Production at LANL, SRS Breaks Federal Law – Jay Coughlin + IUFF “COOLEST FILM FESTIVAL!” 59:51

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BREAKING NEWS: MARY OLSON IS OKAY! Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project (genderandradiation.org) is alive and well! She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and we hadn’t heard from her since before Hurricane Helene ripped through that town on September 27. As of October 9, Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear reports that Mary is...…

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LANL Power Line Opposition 34:53

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This week Lou DiVizio introduces two segments from Our Land's Laura Paskus. First, Laura sits down with a historian and a Santa Fe County Commissioner who oppose federal plans to build a new transmission line across the Caja del Rio to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Laura asks what harm this transmission line will cause to the area. Then, Laura ta…

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Understanding Money’s Growing Influence in Elections 25:56

1h ago25:56

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Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with former New Mexico state senator Eric Griego and journalist Trip Jennings about money’s growing influence in our elections. Griego explains the impact the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United has had on funding limits and oversight and the competitive realities of fundraising while running…

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Turmoil at The Albuquerque Journal 28:46

6h ago28:46

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Lou DiVizio starts the show out with some headlines from around the state including a federal judge's ruling that the federal government violated environmental regulations by approving nuclear pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with a journalism professor and a criminal defense lawyer t…

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NH #693: Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change – Physicist M. V. RAMANA 59:08

6d ago59:08

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This Week’s Featured Interview: TOTALLY FICTITIOUS WESTINGHOUSE ANIMATION OF A 116 WEEK BUILD SCHEDULE FOR THE AP 1000 NUCLEAR REACTOR. Taken from the Westinghouse website in 2014. Westinghouse has long since taken it down.NO WONDER! IThis is a LINK to the video.) Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Let’s applaud climate activists wi…

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NH #692: Bill Gates’ Microsoft Three Mile Island Restart Madness w/Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert 59:02

13d ago59:02

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Three Mile Island This Week’s Featured Interviews: Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the 40th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown – March 28, 2019 Scene of the Crime: Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy in front of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge...…

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NH #691: Arctic Ice Melt & Nuclear Radiation Dangers: UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones 59:02

20d ago59:02

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This Week’s Featured Interview: The next United Nations Climate Change conference, COP 29, is scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November, 2024 – an annual bone tossed to those who are striving to reverse the climate catastrophe despite not having any power to do so. Incessant pro-nuclear doubletalk has infested...…

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Environmental Author Dan Flores 30:31

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Lou DiVizio opens the podcast with headlines from around the state. Then, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus interviews author Dan Flores. Flores is the author of more than a dozen books including Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History and most recently, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. Flores was in A…

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Labor Day Lookback: Historical Context & the State of Labor in NM Today 39:29

1M ago39:29

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This week, Lou DiVizio explores the history of Labor Day and the state of labor in New Mexico in 2024. Lou sits down with University of New Mexico professor Dr. Jason Scott Smith as he explains the roots of the holiday and considers how Americans should measure economic success in our country. Then, Albuquerque-based labor lawyer Stephen Curtice ta…

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NH #690: The Global Hibakusha – We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs 1:07:52

1M ago1:07:52

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Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs and his brilliant book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha This Week’s Featured Interview: This is a. SPECIAL full-length interview with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs on his book, NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha.By Libbe Halevy

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NH #689: Depleted Uranium Weapons in Russia, Ukraine… Israel? Jack Cohen-Joppa of the Nuclear Resister with Verifiable Info 1:00:01

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Russia’s war in Ukraine has put another nuclear power plant in danger: their own. The ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett Monthly update on issues and actions regarding the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear War from ICAN –...…

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NH #688: Trinity Downwinders’ Nuclear Legacy Exploded in Film: FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO – Director Lois Lipman 59:02

2M ago59:02

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Poster for film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Downwinder Tina Cordova demonstrating outside entrance to Trinity site. From the film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO. Links from Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): The Democrats went wild for Harris and Walz… but nobody was talking …

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100th Zozobra in Santa Fe 12:51

2M ago12:51

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In an extra podcast episode from New Mexico in Focus, we're looking ahead to this Friday’s 100th Zozobra in Santa Fe. Every year tens of thousands of New Mexicans gather in Fort Marcy Park to burn away their gloom – in the form of a 50-foot monster names Old Man Gloom. The event is put on each year by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe led by event chair…

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NM at the DNC & Minimum Wage Across Our State 56:12

2M ago56:12

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Lou DiVizio kicks off the podcast with headlines from around the state, including news New Mexico is failing to leverage Medicaid dollars for home visiting programs. Then, Whitney Holland, president of New Mexico's chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, is one of 45 delegates who attended this month's Democratic National Convention in Chic…

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NH #687: Radioactive Ohio School Auctioned Off to Christian Group + Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands – Edwards, Petrone 59:36

2M ago59:36

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Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands: Tons of radioactive waste from nuclear reactor operation keeps piling up, with no resolution in sight. What to do with the waste? Canada has been making plans… but they’re bad ones. Here to explain how we got ourselves into this problem, what’s wrong with Canada’s current...…

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Outrage Over Racist Remarks by APD Officers 34:00

2M ago34:00

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This week on the podcast, Lou DiVizio updates you on some statewide headlines including news Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will be speaking at the DNC in Chicago Tuesday night. Then, two advocates examine a recording that captures APD officers using racial slurs and violent language, taken moments after police shot and killed a 30-year-old man. Danie…

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NH #686: Reuters Investigation Blasts Govt. Agency Incompetence, Lies at N St. Louis Radioactive West Lake Landfill – Dawn Chapman 59:43

2M ago59:43

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Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL (l) and Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy at symposium on West Lake Landfill issues in North St. Louis, February 19, 2016. Keystone Photo – activists Dawn Chapman and Kay Drey on-site at radioactively contaminated Coldwater Creek in N. St. Louis, MO. February 19, 2016. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear...…

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Unhoused in Albuquerque 59:21

2M ago59:21

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Lou DiVizio returns to the podcast with headlines from around the state, including news that 1-in-3 New Mexico counties is considered a "maternity care desert." Then, Lou speaks with three experts about the City of Albuquerque’s approach when dealing with a growing number of homeless people. Attorney Peter Cubra, Rachel Biggs from Health Care for t…

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NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -“Atomic Cover-Up” film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN 59:21

2M ago59:21

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The remains of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb destroyed the city, 1945 ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with..…

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NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD 59:24

2M ago59:24

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A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste. This Week’s Special Feature The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive …

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NH #683: Ohio Radiation Contamination – More Radioactive Water, Soil, Plants Found at Piketon/Portsmouth: Dr. Michael Ketterer 59:11

3M ago59:11

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The shuttered Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered for contamination with nuclear materials from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, only 3 miles away. And now the school district is trying to auction it off “AS-IS” without explaining what the “AS-IS” is?!?!??? This Week’s Featured Interview: To contact Dr. Michael Ketterer and Others Re: POR…

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NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster 59:17

3M ago59:17

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Annual walk to commemorate Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation land – from 2019. Site of the mine and tailings pond in the background. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders Advocating for Justice – Tina Cordova: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles...…

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An Our Land Special: Loving Our Changing Homelands 59:19

3M ago59:19

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For seven years on NMPBS, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future” has covered so many aspects of climate change: from the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to how human-caused warming affects our rivers, forests, and public health. In an all-new special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands,” Our Land Senior Produce…

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NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson 59:11

3M ago59:11

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This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom …

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NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk 57:02

3M ago57:02

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A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...…

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Thoreau Teens Oppose Radioactive Dump 15:41

3M ago15:41

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Across the Navajo Nation, contaminated uranium mines have been polluting the air and water and making people sick for generations. As part of a plan to finally clean up more than a million cubic yards of contaminated uranium and radium waste at just one of those sites, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed relocating the waste to pr…

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Questions Remain for July’s Special Session 43:08

4M ago43:08

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Lou DiVizio opens the podcast this week with headlines from around the state including how a Supreme Court decision on homeless encampments might impact New Mexico. Then, we look ahead to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's special session in July. You’ll hear from the Governor’s public safety advisor as we ask about the specific problems the administrat…

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NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo 59:14

4M ago59:14

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill op…

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Pride Month in NM & Public Education Report Card 36:29

4M ago36:29

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Lou opens the podcast with an update on the South Fork and Salt Wildfires burning in the Ruidoso area. For More Information: NM Fire Info National Interagency Fire Center Cooler temps and rain over weekend mean ‘minimal fire activity’ for teams battling NM fires - Source NM U.S. Supreme Court rejects NM and Texas deal on Rio Grande - Source NM Our …

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NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia 59:51

4M ago59:51

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Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda...…

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Juneteenth in NM 46:54

4M ago46:54

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Lou DiVizio opens the podcast this week with headlines from across the state, including news Santa Ana Pueblo is taking back 60,000 acres of ancestral lands. Then, Lou sits down with a group of leaders in New Mexico's Black community to ask about the importance of celebrating Juneteenth. In the first of three conversations, Senior Producer Lou DiVi…

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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Runs Out 48:49

4M ago48:49

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This week on the podcast, Lou DiVizio updates the status of the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act which came to an end late last week. Then, Source New Mexico reporter Danielle Prokop asks U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., about his efforts to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to cover New Mexico. For context on the efforts to…

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Primary Preview, Don Schrader's World & Farmington Graduation Cap Controversy 42:55

4M ago42:55

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Lou DiVizio returns to the podcast with a breakdown of Tuesday's primary election in New Mexico. Then, Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold speaks with state Indian Affairs Secretary Josett Monette about the cap removal at Farmington High that sparked local and national outrage. Monette shares her reaction to the viral video, the sacred signific…

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NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards 59:02

4M ago59:02

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This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activis…

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NH #675: RECA Held Hostage by Mike Johnson’s Stupid Congress Tricks – Nuclear Victims’ Compensation Act Down to the Wire – Mary Dickson 59:15

5M ago59:15

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The Miller Map. The path radioactive fallout took from the 100 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Actually, it took three or more nuclear fallout clouds overhead to make it onto this map. Compiled by Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. This Week’s Featured Interview: PHONE NUMBERS TO CONTACT CONGRESS...…

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NH #674: The Passing of an Anti-Nuclear Activist Hero: Patti Ameno 59:14

5M ago59:14

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Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium an…

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NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno 59:02

5M ago59:02

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American...…

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Pro-Palestinian Protests at UNM 47:42

5M ago47:42

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On the podcast this week, Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold hosts a two-part roundtable discussion on the pro-Palestine protests taking place at the University of New Mexico and college campuses around the nation. In the first half of their conversation, Shaun asks what legal rights students have to protest at the Duck Pond and at the Student…

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NH #672: “Oppenheimer” Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute 59:12

5M ago59:12

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Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima...…

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Exploring CABQ’s Plan to Address Homelessness 57:42

6M ago57:42

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On this week's podcast, KUNM News Director Megan Kamerick sits down for a two-part discussion on Daymon Ely’s proposed plan to address homelessness in Albuquerque. Then, James Freeman, a person who once lived on the streets of Albuquerque and is now a director at HopeWorks, gives his thoughts on the proposal. Plus, homeless advocate and attorney Pe…

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NH #671: Chernobyl Lies by World Health Org. – Chernobyl Truth with Alison Katz of Independent WHO – a Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC 59:02

6M ago59:02

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This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes. Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources: No official Numnutz of th…

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Dem NM Primary Election & Fighting Child Poverty 27:35

6M ago27:35

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Executive Producer Jeff Proctor talks to Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold and freelance reporter Justin Horwath about how voters could reshape the state's Democratic Party during this summer's primary elections. Plus, Gabrielle Uballez, the new executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, talks to correspondent Russell Contreras abo…

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NH #670: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman, Tim Mousseau, Alexei Yablakov, Ryuichi Hirokawa 58:50

6M ago58:50

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The Elephant’s Foot – solidified melted fuel core at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Still highly radioactive, still dangerous. SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a…

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Earth Day's New Mexican Roots 28:04

6M ago28:04

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On the podcast this week, Our Land’s Laura Paskus sits down for a two-part discussion with Arturo Sandoval, one of the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970. In the first half of their conversation, Sandoval tells us about his role in putting together the first event and takes a step back to look at how it has since changed. Later, the two talk…

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NH #669: UCSB Global Nuclear Legacies Conference on the Nuke/Race/Gender/Religion/AI/Climate Connection 59:16

6M ago59:16

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WHY WE DO IT: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace shows off a picture of her 3-week old great grandson – the next generation of reason for working against nukes. KEYSTONE PHOTO: Dream Team of Activists at the UCSB Global Legacies conference: (l-r) Jane Swanson, Libbe HaLevy, Linda Seeley, Melissa Bumstead, Heidi...…

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Food Justice in NM 39:10

6M ago39:10

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land’s Laura Paskus sits down with a special roundtable to discuss all things food — why it costs so much, why so much of it gets thrown away and the social justice issues associated with access. Laura begins by asking the group why more than 100,000 tons of food is wasted each year in Albuquerque. Then, the ro…

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Lobo Hoops Season Assessment with Geoff Grammer 26:54

6M ago26:54

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Albuquerque Journal sportswriter Geoff Grammer stops by to chat with Lou and look back at this year's Lobo basketball season, as the men's team made the NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade. Looking Back at the 2023-24 Lobos Men’s Basketball Season Correspondent: Lou DiVizio Guest: Geoff Grammer, sportswriter, Albuquerque Journal For More…

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NH #668: Erwin, Tennessee Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – Citizens Fight Back w/5-Expert Panel – Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue 59:02

6M ago59:02

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Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States...…

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Gov. Lujan Grisham Pushes for Special Session 44:44

6M ago44:44

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This week on the podcast, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham tells us why she wants to call a special session centered on public safety. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks the governor why she thinks a special session is necessary and whether she has the votes to get what she wants passed. Correspondent Gwyneth Doland looks further at the proposed special s…

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Oil & Gas Lease Fight; New-Look Legislature 39:51

7M ago39:51

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Lou DiVizio introduces the show with some headlines from around the state. Then, State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard tells Lou why she chose to hold off on selling the state's most valuable oil and gas leases until officials lock in a higher royalty rate than the office is charging now. Reactions to her decision have been mixed and Lou…

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