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Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Ronnie Cummins This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, U.S. based network of 850,000 consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in human rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, consumer, environmental, and sustainable agriculture campaigns. As background, read Cumminss January 27 article The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Michael Pollok This weeks guest is Michael Pollok, an experienced criminal defense litigator who focuses his practice on matters in federal and New York state courts, as well as regulatory investigations and hearings. Pollok is one of a new movement of activists who are focused on reform, not revolution. He has recently been affiliated with two non-profit groups: Reasonable Solutions OWS Philadelphia, and the 99% Declaration Working Group, which have announced a National General Assembly to convene in Philadelphia the week of July 4, 2012. The 99% Declaration Working group invites participation from anyone interested in removing money from U.S. politics. The 99% Declaration is document which originated from one of the working groups of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City in 2011.

Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Arnie Gundersen This week Dr Caldicott receives another update on Fukushima from nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen. After this conversation, we hear an excerpt of Dr. Caldicotts lecture at a conference on Chernobyl in Berlin in April 2011. Read the February news articles Fukushima Nuclear Plant at High Risk for Major Earthquake: Scientists issue call for safeguards to prevent another nuclear disaster and Fears Growing as Fukushima Reactor Temperature Rising. Also relevant are three 2012 articles: Temperature Soars Mysteriously Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor; Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone Shows Few Signs of Life, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation and French Scientists: Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Reactors. Visit Dr. Caldicotts websites NuclearFreePlanet.org and HelenCaldicott.com, and read her book Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.

Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Father Mooney In this episode, Dr. Caldicott interviews Father Laurence Mooney, an Augustinian priest based in Melbourne, Australia. For the past five years, Father Mooney has worked in the boutique Augustinian seminary in Brookvale, Sydney, attending to the academic, vocational, spiritual, communal and language needs of young men aspiring to be Augustinian priests in Vietnam or Australia. He has lectured on spirituality in various countries, and worked with religious groups from around the world on social justice issues. Longer show description to follow.

Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Kono Taro This week, Dr. Caldicott speaks with Kono Taro for an in-depth look at Japans reaction to the Fukushima meltdown. Mr. Kono is Director General of Japans Liberal Democratic Partys International bureau and a fifth-term Member of the House of Representatives in Japan. He is especially critical of the governments pursuit of a so-called closed nuclear fuel cycle whereby plutonium is extracted from spent fuel by nuclear waste re-processing within Japan. Mr. Kono also opposes the building of new nuclear power plants as the government has not dealt with the nuclear-waste issue. Some of the topics Dr. Caldicott and Mr. Kono discuss are the Japanese government and industry reaction to the Fukushima disaster, how Japanese citizens are dealing with the after-effects of the meltdown, the likelihood of birth defects post-Fukushima, radioactive food, whether Japan will continue to rely on nuclear power, the threat of future earthquakes on the island, whether or not Japan has any interest in building nuclear weapons, and the Chinese military presence in the vicinity of Japan. Relevant to this conversation are the articles Japanese Govt Kept Secret Worst-Case Scenario Post-Fukushima, Cesium from Fukushima plant fell all over Japan, Fukushima cesium equals 168 Hiroshimas, Helen Caldicott, M.D.: After Fukushima: Enough is Enough, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation, Women Fight to Save Fukushimas Children, and Japan must say no to nuclear!

Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Jim Green Dr. Caldicott interviews Dr. Jim Green this week. Dr. Green is the national nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth Australia, a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with the history of the Lucas Heights nuclear plant in Sydney, and the debate over the replacement of its nuclear research reactor. Dr. Green is also a member of the Energy Science Coalition. Among the topics Dr. Green and Dr. Caldicott discuss are how Australia contributes to the U.S. nuclear-war fighting organization, how Australia having 40% of the worlds richest uranium contributes to nuclear weapons proliferation and the building of nuclear power plants around the world, and the threat of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan which could induce a nuclear autumn. Read a May 2011 interview with Dr. Green about renewable energy and why Australia should reject nuclear power. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interviews with Dr. Alan Robock here and here for more on nuclear winter and nuclear autumn scenarios.