Yes, I Glow in the Dark!: One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat - Softcover

HaLevy, Libbe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991594118 ISBN 13: 9780991594115

Publisher: Heartistry Communications, 2018

Synopsis

CLOSE ALL YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS AND DO NOT GO OUTSIDE UNLESS YOU ABS0LUTELY HAVE TO. The police loudspeaker warned that what was not supposed to happen had happened: a malfunctioning nuclear reactor just down the road. That's where author Libbe HaLevy found herself in 1979, when she visited a friend in a small, quiet Pennsylvania town and ended up one mile away from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor during its radiation-spewing meltdown. YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK! tells the story of not only that meltdown, but its impact on a life beyond the mere physical damage caused by radiation exposure. From 1950's Duck-and-Cover exercises in case of a nuclear bomb and Disney's Our Friend, the Atom through decades of post-TMI nuclear PTSD to her current level of international media activism, HaLevy's YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK! tells how one nuclear victim learned to fight back with the facts, sarcasm, and a podcast. She draws parallels between the behaviors of nuclear industry officials and perpetrators of sexual abuse, and explains how the people at TMI and around other nuclear sites have been victims of perpetrational behavior by vested nuclear interests. She also nails the nuclear industry on how they have continued to get away with slow motion murder, from manipulating language to their ongoing, well-funded media propaganda campaigns, to flat-out lying. Fierce, uncompromising, yet surprisingly funny, HaLevy has written a book that Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate Dr. Helen Caldicott calls, “Absolutely fascinating. This book must be read by all people who care about the future of the planet and their children.”

About this title

About the Author

Libbe HaLevy is the producer and host of Nuclear Hotseat, a weekly program that covers nuclear issues “from a different perspective.” In weekly production since June of 2011, as a podcast it is downloaded in 123 countries, available at NuclearHotseat.com and on iTunes, and the show is syndicated for broadcast through Pacifica’s Audioport network. She is the co-creator of Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT, a six-audio series on best possible practices to protect against nuclear radiation. As a playwright and lyricist/librettist, her award-winning incest recovery play SHATTERED SECRETS has been internationally produced. Her musical, Now, Voyager, based on the same source material as the beloved Bette Davis movie, was optioned for Broadway, presented at the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop, and won both the Spirit of Moondance award at the Moondance International Film Festival and an Ana Sosenko Trust Grant. Her articles have appeared in the LA Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, and LA Weekly, and she’s been a columnist for seven different publications. Libbe HaLevy can be reached at: YesIGlowintheDark@gmail.com.

Review

Absolutely fascinating. This book must be read by all people who care about the future of the planet and their children. by Dr. Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate --Email

Excellent! Easy reading, breezy, personal, interesting, very well-written and highly informative. I find the content impeccable. by Karl Grossman, investigative reporter and environmental journalist, author COVER UP: What you ARE NOT SUPPOSED to KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER. --Email

Edition details

• Publisher: Heartistry Communications
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0991594118
• ISBN 13: 9780991594115
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240