On Friday 13th November the Federal Government released their shortlist of six nominated sites to be investigated for a national nuclear waste dump. Today we'll speak with Dr.Jim Green - national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth, Regina McKenzie from Yapala Station - an Indigenous Protected Area which neighbours a site nominated in the Flinders ranges in SA and Tracey Carpenter from the Bathurst Climate Action Network.

The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance: defending country together

This week features Tauto Sansbury (2015 NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award) reporting back on a meeting between 16 Traditional Owner groups in South Australia and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission. Followed up by some recordings from a panel discussion at the Environmental Film Festival's Melbourne screening of the documentary on radiation and nuclear waste, 'Containment', featuring Dave Sweeney (Nuclear Free campaigner with ACF and Dr.Margaret Beavis (President of MAPW).

Looking at the condescending and insidious ways that Cameco buys social license for its uranium mining operations.

Yukiyo Kawano creates life size replicas of the 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' nuclear bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago. One of these artworks, sewn from her grandmother's kimono's and her own hair, featured in 'Ten Minutes to Midnight' - a multimedia exhibition in Brisbane. The exhibition is a showcase of collaborative works from atomic survivor communities and artists as part of Nuclear Futures. Program manager Ellise Barkly brings us the details of this initiative.