NH #315: Three Mile Island 2019 Shutdown – Exelon’s Promise or Threat?  Scott Portzline of TMI Alert

NH #315: Three Mile Island 2019 Shutdown – Exelon’s Promise or Threat? Scott Portzline of TMI Alert

This Week’s Featured Interview: Scott Portzline, Cyber-Security advisor to Three Mile Island Alert, sorts through the verbiage and posturing around Exelon’s announcement that they’ll be shutting down the Three Mile Island in 2019.  Is it a promise or a threat to extract funds from Pennsylvania to keep on running?  Plus Scott updates us on Eric…

NH #272: EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan v. TEPCO Hearing – Attorneys, Survivors + John Edwards

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Interviews: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company.  The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns.  TEPCO never informed the US Navy…

NH #145: WIPP & San Onofre Updates + More Voices from Japan

Fukushima Collective Evacuation Lawsuit attorney Toshio Yanagihara (left), and voluntary evacuee Katsumi Hasegawa (right), met with Noam Chomsky and a Fukushima mother and child in Tokyo recently. FEATURING: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides the latest information on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Project Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico;…

NHt #138: USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO Lawsuit Update w/Attny Charles Bonner

USS Reagan sailors on deck trying to clean up radiation during Operation Tomadachi, their humanitarian aid mission to Fukushima immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  (Note the lack of protective gear.) INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors harmed by Fukushima radiation, with an update on their lawsuit against TEPCO. …

NH #133: SKY NOT FALLING! Debunking False Info w/Bonner of Safecast, German of RadCast

INTERVIEWS:  The holiday season saw rumors flying about Fukushima, radiation and elevated dangers in the U.S.  Wildly exaggerated claims got picked up by mainstream media and had people panicking.  Nuclear Hotseat gets to the root of the problems with Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast.  He talks about how a radiation reading can…

NH #129: US Sailors Vs. TEPCO w/Attorney Charles Bonner

Japanese citizens protest the newly-passed Secrecy Law INTERVIEW:  Attorney Charles Bonner, one of the team representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for the health damages they sustained from Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi, the humanitarian aid mission to Japan immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  NUMNUTZ…

NH #113: BREAKING! San Onofre Decomish Symposium w/Gene Stone, + Joe Mangano

INTERVIEW:  Closing down San Onofre didn’t end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted focus.  Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about how the problems of decommissioning, those pesky spent fuel rods, and some surprising news about fuel radiation levels lead to a regrouping of activists and the upcoming Symposium…

NH #112: Hiroshima Anniversary, Fukushima Survivor Chikako Nishiyama, SLOMP’s Carole Hisasue

INTERVIEWS: Carole Hisasue left a successful media career in Japan for an idyllic life in America… but landed within six miles of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.  Now active with San Luis Obispo Nothers for Peace (SLOMP), she talks about this year’s northern California Hiroshima commemoration, including a Peace Walk with Buddhist Reverend Gyosen…