Episodes

WIPP Radioactive Release Part 2

2 May 2015

Part 2 of an interview with Don Hancock on the radioactive release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, USA. Anica Niepraschk brings us up to date on the Federal Governement's search for a national radioactive waste dump site in Australia.

Don Hancock, Anica Niepraschk

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Radioactive Responsibility – Impacts of uranium mining in Australia and abroad

18 Apr 2015

Business and government seeking short-term profit are distancing themselves further from their responsibility to safeguard radioactive materials from endangering life on earth. Lauren Mellor (Environment Centre of the Northern Territory) brings us an update on the Ranger uranium mine and Kumar Sundaram (Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in India) talks about developments in the negotiations for a nuclear deal between Australia and India.

Guests: Lauren Mellor, Kumar Sundaram. Presenter: Michaela Stubbs

group photo of the walkers, cyclists and runners

Banish the Bomb with Footprints and Bike Tracks

11 Apr 2015

Throughout April 2015, Footprints for Peace are walking, cycling and running from Oak ridge Tennessee, the site of the manufacture of the first nuclear bomb, to New York City for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review, an event which occurs only once every five years.

Jim Toren, Ralph Hutchison, Dr Farhang Jahanpour

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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission in SA

4 Apr 2015

Nuclear-free campaigners Dr.Jim Green (Friends of the Earth and WISE International) and Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara and Aboriginal Language Worker with Uni of SA) join the show this week to take a closer look at what we can expect to be investigated and the issues and ideas that we will have to work hard to ensure make it into the inquiry.

Guests: Karina Lester & Dr.Jim Green. Presenter: Michaela Stubbs.