Podcast Ten - We Need to Talk About Korea?!

Hullo everyone!

Hope you have been soaking up the rarity that is the British summer season!! How about listening to this months show whilst having an impromptu BBQ or when sipping on a lukewarm Pimms in a ridonkulously overcrowded beer garden? We've certainly got everything covered! We'll be talking about EDF vs the Government, 1970s Anglo-German waste policy (or lack thereof), a mysterious facility in Germany and North Korea! Hope you enjoy the show!

Gunth

(NB. Correction - I mention America financing Al-Qaeda during the 1980s Afghan Conflict. It was, in fact, the Mujahideen which received weapons and training. Splinter groups of the Mujahideen later formed Al-Qaeda).

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Podcast Preview: We Need To Talk About North Korea

Hey guys!!

Our new episode will be going up at the beginning of May, so I just thought I'd give you a taster of what's going to be on the show!

At the risk of my repeating myself, nuclear appears to have fallen down a rocky road in recent weeks (NB. It seems quite ironic I've used rocky road as a negative as I loved those flapjacks at Uni!). Anyway, we'll be talking about the investment tightrope the Government has been walking these past few weeks in not yet reaching an electricity strike price deal with EDF Energy. This may well have huge implications!! In addition to the obvious impact on our CO2 emissions, foreign firms may not be confident in investing in future UK infrastructure projects due to the Government's ambivalence towards their own energy policy.

We'll also be discussing the mysterious closure of a manufacturing plant in Germany, which was backed by a former Iranian minister and may have possible ties to the nuclear black market. My own personal passion - nuclear waste - will also feature, as a number of  containers from the 1950's have been found at the bottom of the English Channel. Furthermore, we'll discuss the recent developments at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.

As we can't seem to avoid western media outlets' information assault on a small country in East Asia, I believe we need to talk about North Korea. With John Sweeney (BBC Panorama) going on an ethically-upstanding visit to the People's Republic - one in which the Beeb in no way damaged academic integrity with unstable foreign nations - it's about time we have a discussion on how we've arrived at this juncture with Kim Jong-un! So, there's plenty to look forward to on the show and if you have any questions for the recording don't hesitate to tweet us!!!

By the way, the Panorama investigation on North Korea is embedded below! Let us know what you think. Did it tell you anything you didn't know already? Was it worth placing the London School of Economics in disrepute? Oh, and you may have heard of the journalist John Sweeney before.... There's a reason for that. He channeled the power of Zeus during a debate with Tommy Davis (a Scientologist) on a previous Panorama investigation. 

Catch you hitchhiking down the road,
Gunth

Maximum Warp: Nuclear Power and Space Exploration

By Guest Blogger, Nathan Edge 

This month Nathan Edge discusses the nature and operation of nuclear devices being used in unmanned space operations. As an aside, I can't believe I wasn't the first person to type into Google, "nuclear engine...USS Enterprise"?! Nathan provides links to sites for more information throughout the piece. Anyway, on with the article!

Podcast Nine - The Nuclear Nostradamus

It's finally here!! Apologies once again for the delay in getting this out to you all. With that said, on this months show we discover Steve has an affection for Destiny's Child, Gunth likes chatting about Caroline Lucas (again) and wind turbines are prone to falling over.......in the wind. The news stories are the Centrica pullout, the Cumbria nuclear waste repository pullout and Sellafield running up a rather large bill.

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Podcast Preview - A Nuclear Nostradamus?

Hi everyone!!

Gunth here. Sorry for not updating the site since our Christmas episode but we've unfortunately been very busy as of late with research and what not. However, we will be recording our next episode within the following fortnight and it's going to be a show of Nostradamian proportions. 

I think it's safe to say that nuclear has been getting a bit of a battering in the press over the past few weeks.  With news stories such as the Centrica pull-out, the Cumbrian County Council pull-out and a Sellafield nuclear decommissioning bill as long as Bilbo Baggins' Dwarven contract, it promises to be a hotly-debated episode. With that, we thought it prudent not to include a discussion this month - as we'll probably be ranting incessantly on these issues at length.

Once again - to all our listeners - apologies for the delay in getting content out to you but we'll be back on the podcast-o-sphere in the next few weeks. Remember if you have any questions for the show, do not hesitate to tweet us @Nuke_Hitchhiker. In the mean time, here's Destiny's Child flying the nuclear flag with their aptly-titled new single "Nuclear"; 

See you at the end of Feb folks!!!

Episode Eight - A Nuclear Christmas

On this months show we discuss what we love and loathe about this festive time of year. We quickly discover that Lizzie lives in fear of brussel sprouts, presents are always better when bundled into a pillow case and Mike detests mulled wine?!!!

Our guest speakers on this months show are Lizzie, Mike Daly, Nick and Stephen. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

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Plants and Algae: Nature's Radioactive Vacuum Cleaners

By Guest Blogger, Matt Gunther

This month, Gunther discusses what is arguably the most glamourous organism in the scientific world: algae. The bane of pond-owners with clogged-up fiter pumps, algae has some very exotic properties, which make it the perfect candidate for sucking up radioactive contamination in the world's rivers and oceans. They also seem to get a kick out of smothering people in foam?!