Nuclear Hotseat #182: Prof. Quamrul Haider - Nukes "6th Horseman of Apocalypse"

Published: Dec. 17, 2014, 6:55 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider, nuclear physicist from Fordham University in New York, on his op-ed calling nuclear "The sixth horseman of the Apocalypse," the dangers of Russian-made nuclear reactors, and how Bangladesh is being duped into funding nuclear technology that is both dangerous and unnecessary; and Dr. Helen Caldicott on her upcoming Symposium on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction - cheerful stuff for the holidays! NUMNUTZ: How about using a prescribed burn at a plutonium-polluted former nuclear manufacturing site in order to control invasive weeds? That'll show 'em!