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IEER President Arjun Makhijani recorded 25 three-minute radio commentaries, in 2003 and 2004, on KUNM, the Albuquerque National Public Radio affiliate.
He covers war and peace, energy policy, and various nuclear issues. Click on the links below to read and/or listen to these outstanding shows.

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Other Radio Shows or Audio Recordings
(in reverse chronological order)

The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, by Arjun Makhijani. See Report, Press Release, and listen to the streaming audio of the news event, with Arjun Makhijani and Frank von Hippel. (April 8, 2010)

Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results: IEER News Event: U.S. Has Agreed to Store Enough Nuclear Reactor Waste to Fill Two Yucca Mountains ... Or Face Billions of Dollars in New Penalties. Read about DOEs contracts to accept high-level radioactive waste for power reactors that are not yet built. See the contracts obtained by FOIA requests. Listen to the streaming audio of the news event, with Arjun Makhijani, Kevin Kamps, Deborah Katz, and Diane Curran. (March 24, 2010)

The Progressive Radio Show, Matt Rothschild interviews Arjun Makhijani about a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future. (Aired week of August 9, 2009)

Democracy Now!, "U.S.-India Nuke Deals Raise Fears of Escalated Indo-Pakistan Arms Race," Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview Arjun Makhijani and Siddharth Varadarajan (July 24, 2009, audio, video, and transcript)

Earthbeat: Waxman-Markey Passes & Coal Protests Heat Up. Radio interview, with host, Daphne Wysham. (June 30, 2009). Interviewing Arjun Makhijani and others.

EarthSky: Arjun Makhijani believes nuclear power too costly, risky. Radio interview, with host Lindsay Patterson. (May 25, 2009). More than 1,800 radio outlets around the world, including Voice of America and Armed Forces Radio Network

Living on Earth: Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago. Radio interview of Arjun Makhijani, with Bruce Gellerman. (Aired week of March 27, 2009)

Locus Focus: Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco. Radio interview, with Barbara Bernstein. (Aired March 4, 2009). KBOO Community Radio in Oregon.

Inside Track: Discussion on proliferation of nuclear weapons.... Radio interview of Arjun Makhijani, with hosts Emil Franzi and Tom Danehy (Aired February 28, 2009 (hour 3) on KVOI, Tuscon, Arizona)

Democracy's Edge: Should We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Bomb? Radio interview of Arjun Makhijani, with hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger (Aired February 7, 2009 on KMMS-AM, Bozeman, Montana)

Earthbeat: Carbon Taxes & Nuclear Debates. Radio interview, with host, Daphne Wysham. (December 30, 2008). Includes excerpts of the December 10, 2008 debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore.

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, a talk given by Arjun Makhijani at the City Club of Boise Forum (November 19, 2008). Forum Chair: Geoff Baker, Forum moderator: Marcia Franklin

Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy and alternative energy sources. Radio broadcast of the KOHO Morning Show, June 4, 2008. Broadcast by KOHO 101.1 FM, in Leavenworth, Washington; moderated by the host, Clint Strand.

Action Point with Cynthia Black: "Will the rush to global nuclear power be a dangerous first step toward enriching plutonium for weapons?" with Arjun Makhijani. A 1480 KPHX (Phoenix) radio broadcast, May 18, 2008. Listen to Hour 1 and Hour 2.

The Conversation: on an energy future that is carbon free without resorting to nuclear power, with Arjun Makhijani and the host, Ross Reynolds. Broadcast by KUOW 94.9 Public Radio, in Seattle, May 13, 2008 (starting at minute 34, the second half of broadcast).

Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy. Radio broadcast of a talk by Arjun Makhijani given at the University of Maine, Orono, on November 8, 2007, and broadcast by WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine, on January 1, 2008, with an introduction by Eric T. Olson.

Nuclear imperialism versus global democracy (on Voices of Our World Free Radio Program, Week of October 5, 2003 and week of March 7, 2004) Listen

Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 radio, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, February 4, 2002) Listen (requires RealPlayer)


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Updated July 14, 2010