Repurposing the TV Series into a Handbook for Action and Change By Karl Grossman, Frank Melli This book brings together decades of groundbreaking interviews from veteran investigative journalist Karl Grossman-a pioneer in environmental broadcasting and Frank Melli, whose vision and production expertise have transformed the historic Enviro Close-Up television series into a powerful, accessible guide for a new generation. Featuring Nobel laureates, scientists, physicians, Indigenous leaders, legal innovators, and activists, this volume turns hard-won truths about nuclear power, climate change, toxic pollution, and justice into inspiration for action. Both a ...

Lynda Williams is known as “The Physics Chanteuse.” She is “an American physicist, singer, writer, and activist known for blending science, music, satire, and performance art,” as her website notes. In this Enviro Close-Up, she explains how she developed a strong interest in physics after going to a talk given by Dr. Helen Caldicott and watching Carl Sagan’s TV series “Cosmos.” After studying physics, she taught it as a college professor for 20 years. Meanwhile, while in graduate school, she began her science-themed stage production, Cosmic Cabaret, blending physics concepts ...

Helen Caldicott: The Nuclear Threat Is Greater Than Ever In our latest podcast, legendary anti-nuclear campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Helen Caldicott, now in her 80s, issued a stark warning: the risk of thermonuclear war is as high as ever—perhaps more so than during the Cold War peaks of the 1980s. Her Historic Role in Averting Disaster Dr Caldicott’s activism began in the late 1970s, mobilizing millions of Americans (she was then living outside Boston) through Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) symposia on the effects of nuclear war ...

Australia has long been at the forefront of global efforts towards the containment of nuclear threats. Now, in the wake of the American military strikes on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency says the global nonproliferation system is on the brink of collapse. Australian campaigners are calling on the government to step up its advocacy for nuclear disarmament. “It’s an alarmingly dangerous time – the nonproliferation regime is under severe threat,” says Dr Tilman Ruff, who is co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Nobel Prize-winning ...

In 1982, Helen Caldicott, one of Australia’s most prominent anti-nuclear campaigners, spent an hour with Ronald Reagan at the White House, warning the then-president about the dangers of nuclear. “I came out of that saying I thought, because I’m a physician, that he had impending Alzheimer’s,” Caldicott, now 86, says. “Which he did.” Caldicott fears Australia’s memory is also faltering. From her home in regional NSW, Caldicott says people have forgotten that period where anti-nuclear activism was a key cause of the left and nuclear safety fears ran high. Helen ...

By Helen Caldicott In light of Peter Dutton’s enthusiastic endorsement of the latest nuclear reactors, it is pertinent to review this technology in depth. There are three types of SMRs which generate less than 300 megawatts of electricity compared with current day 1000 megawatt reactors. Light water reactors designs – smaller versions of present-day pressurized water reactors using water as the moderator These SMRs will be expensive because the cost per unit capacity increases with decrease in reactor size. To alleviate costs, it is suggested that safety rules be relaxed, ...