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Project 2025, Musk & DOGE, resumption of atmospheric bomb testing - nuclear dangers dominated the week's news. Veteran environmental journalist Karl Grossman explains.
Parents pushing Boeing to clean up radioactive/toxic waste at LA’S Santa Susana Field Lab win a major victory. And Doomsday Clock? How about a Peace Clock? Veteran peace activist Alice Slater's profound thoughts.
Harvey Wasserman, veteran anti-nuke campaigner, is organizing a digital broadcast network of anti-nuclear/pro renewable programs to get our message out!
Nuclear Hotseat's annual Fukushima anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN SPECIAL focuses on earthquake dangers to Japan's nuclear reactors.
Los Alamos Study Group's Greg Mello in the Belly of the Beast: DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit, the nukesters' conference and trade show for Armageddon.
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act now attached to Foreign Aid spending bill. Dawn Chapman on educating Congress, working w/Sen. Hawley.
International politicians at UN to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. US Congressman, MPs, mayors meet to end nukes.
Harvey Wasserman hosts hot discussion on CA's Diablo Canyon embrittlement w/Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace, & Palisades in Michigan’s planned restart w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear.
We are all Hibakusha - Downwinders - hit by radiation from (still!) Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Trinity, & 100 US atmospheric nuclear tests.
Indian Points Shutdown! But the battle for safety has just shifted to another gear. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Indian Point Shutdown ! The closure of Indian Point’s last operating nuclear reactor –
Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown: Never Forget! March 28, 1979 in Middletown, Pennsylvania Nuclear Hotseat producer/Host Libbe HaLevy was one mile from the nuclear accident when it happened. In this picture, taken 10 days after the
Radioactive Olympics deja vu – While they’re set to happen in 2021, they’re still called the 2020 games… same schedule, same dangerous locations for torch relay and first games. Will Japan and the IOC never lea
Peace and Peace Culture : Are they possible? Steve Leeper, Executive Director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Village , explains how conflict resolution on a planetary level is the key to achieving peace… along with a real plan o
UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson , Director of Reaching Critical Will , Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom She was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Intervie
Los Alamos Toxic Nuclear Tour – LANL is the Manhattan Project site where Little Boy, the first atomic bomb, was designed and built. Schematics of bomb above. This Week’s Special Feature: Los Alamos Toxic Tour Smug Stupid L
Hanford Nuclear Nightmares – before Covid times – being addressed by Hanford Challenge Executive Director Tom Carpenter at January, 2018 Senate hearings. This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Nuclear and Covid nightmares
Nuclear-Free Earth – Is it possible? Veteran journalist Karl Grossman lays out the options. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear-Free Earth – can we achieve it? Karl Grossman provides the visio
Radioactive Nuclear Waste in Southern California : Google Maps image of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ‘s radioactive fuel rod storage canisters. Each one contains as much radiation as was released during the Chernobyl acci
Childhood leukemia rates proven to soar in kids living near nuclear reactors, such as has been shown through epidemiological study at this one at Douneray, Scotland. This Week’s Featured Interview: Childhood leukemia rates near nuclear reac
Nuclear weapons – a reminder of what they look like and what they can do. LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear weapons – their design, engineering, chances for implementation – that’
The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Inter
Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of 94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation la
Nuclear Earthquake fears for Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors (above) got kicked up by the 7.1 Ridgecrest quake on July 5. According to veteran activist Harvey Wasserman , if the quake had hit closer than its less than 200 miles from Diablo C
Radioactive Waste Storage – NUCLEAR NIMBY: Activists rally against the proposed Holtec-Eddy/Lea consolidated so-called “interim” nuclear waste dump in New Mexico – January, 2019 SPECIAL REQUEST: Next week, I will be
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) doesn’t care for nuclear engineer/whistleblower Arnie Gundersen , seen here speaking on Three Mile Island Accident Reconsidered on March 27, 2019 (video link below) This Week’s Featured Interv
Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown! One of the many demonstrations by Cape Downwinders that helped make the closure happen. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts – the exact same design as
Nuclear Divestment: Taking money out of the WRONG Financial Choice. Cover of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb pdf report on every company that manufactures components for nuclear weapons. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nuclear dives
Chernobyl play-by-play of how the disaster happened: new book by Adam Higginbotham This Week’s Featured Interview: Adam Higginbotham is the author of MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster , t
Chernobyl at 33: The melted, still highly radioactive nuclear fuel at the bottom of Chernobyl, nicknamed the “elephant’s foot.” Listen Here: [powerpress] The Chernobyl nuclear disaster marks its 33rd anniversary on April 2
Three Mile Island at 40 – TMI Vigil at the gates to the reactor facility, March 28, 2019, 3:57 a.m. Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy (right) commemorates her past. Listen Here: [powerpress] A very SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat as
San Onofre Madness: nuclear waste storage in “lemon” of a Holtec system? No thanks! We deserve better! This Week’s Featured Interview: Nina Babiarz is a board member of Public Watchdogs , a non-profit safety watchdog
Three Mile Island button protest designed by Jules Feiffer NOTE : I am currently in Harrisburg, PA, for events surrounding the 40th anniversary of the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island. Today’s program, Nuclear Ho
Diablo Canyon Nuclear activists from 2015 planning event This Week’s Featured Interviews: Harvey Wasserman is a veteran activist, author, and host of Pacifica’s KPFK-FM program Solartopia . He’s a firebrand when it c
Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL: Japanese anti-nuclear activist Misao Redwolf takes a stand at the Friday night Tokyo demonstrations against reactor restarts. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuc
Fukushima Update: Photo sequence of the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, March 14, 2011, that spewed radioactive microparticles into the environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Fukushima UPDATE SPECIAL –
As Brexit looms over the UK, there'st another pending boondoggle: the Hinkley Point C proposed new nuclear power plant in Sellafield.
New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( WIPP ) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don
Rogue Nuclear Regulator: Former Chair of the NRC, Greg Jaczko This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko , the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission , has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nu
UChicago’s Henry Moore Statue “Nuclear Energy” was surrounded by body outlines representing the civilians who were killed by atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photos: Brittney Dorton This Week’s Featured
Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage charges for her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Int
Nuclear Fox Hervé Courtois & Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy @ the Window Rock of Window Rock AZ This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Fox – Hervé Courtois of France, aka D’un Renard , or “The Fox” &
Norbert Suchanek & Marcia Olviera Gomez, Organizers Filmmakers, Audience Members – and one Podcaster w/a Book – at the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock, Arizona. SPECIAL: International Uranium Film Festival
Montage of protesters at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, organized by Independent WHO This Week’s Featured Interview: Alison Katz , the head of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) , co
Santa Susana Field Lab – aerial photo of the start of the Woolsey Fire BREAKING: Arnie Gundersen and Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education have just released the protocols for collecting dust and dirt samples within 25 miles
San Onofre canister comparison chart courtesy SanOnofreSafety.org Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: San Onofre gets failing marks from NRC on August 3 near-miss disaster while loading “spent” fuel t
Nuclear Fire: Helicopter view of the start of the Woolsey fire, on Santa Susana Field Lab Property Photo courtesy Safecast. NUCLEAR FIRE – WOOLSEY’S NUKE ORIGINS SPECIAL: Denise Duffield , Administrator of Physicians for Social
Nuke films from around the world featured in AZ and NM at Int’l Uranium Film Festival This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nuke films? This man’s got ’em! Norbert Suchanek is the Executive Director of the Int
Gender & Radiation’s depiction of “Reference Man” vs. size of a little girl: all radiation doses are not equal! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Mary Olson is Nuclear Waste Specialist at
San Onofre rally, Songs for SONGS – Filmmaker Adam Salkin Listen Here: [powerpress] San Onofre SPECIAL: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety with the latest bombshell revelation about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadverten
Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the comp
Chris Busby in iconic – and so-called “suspicious” – beret. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from
Brunswick Nuclear site map of vulnerability to flooding from ocean surge, Cape Fear River. From Dave Lochbaum powerpoint (available below) This Week’s Featured Interviews: BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum , Director of t
Space Force – will it make the U.S. the Evil Empire? Global Network’s 2018 Keep Space for Peace week poster. This Week’s Featured Interview: SPACE FORCE / EVIL FORCE? Bruce Gagnon , Co-Founder and Secretary/Coordinat
United Nations UNSCEAR report maintains nothing bad happened to people’s health after Fukushima. Photos of explosion at Fukushima Daiichi, March 14, 2011. Look harmless to you? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Alex Rosen is a
Vermont Yankee protest from 2012, two years prior to shut-down. This Week’s Featured Interviews: An update on problems being faced with the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vermont. Sandra Levine is senio
San Onofre from the air shows how close storage silos are to the Pacific Ocean. This Week’s Featured Interviews: San Onofre Safety ‘s Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9
San Onofre Demonstration in San Clemente, CA, August 12, 2018 SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL Featuring: Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the pic
Nuclear Trainwreck? – San Onofre high level radioactive waste lurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark – and proposed rail transport is a “mobile Chernobyl” disaster just waiting to happen. This Week&
Congress briefing pros Kevin Kamps (l) of Beyond Nuclear and Ian Zabarte of the Western Shoshone tribe let DC insiders know a genuine nuclear truth. Photo by Galen Tromble SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobby
FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies and the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearce includes, of course, Chernobyl, pictured here immediately after the disaster began. This Week’s Featured Interview: Fred Pearce is an English journalist based in London. He i
New Mexico’s other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine’s Day, 20
Nuclear war – what one Russian 800 kiloton bomb would do to Washington DC Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Garrett Graff , author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itsel
Chernobyl – Dr. Timothy Mousseau heads research into plant, insect, bird and small mammal mutations This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist best known for his research on-the-gro
Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas? No way! Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No! Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr
Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY , which examines lives
Chernobyl’s “Elephant’s Foot” – radioactive lava flow which solidified into a mass made of melted nuclear fuel and reactor debris – still highly radioactive. Listen Here: [powerpress] This week’s Nu
Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy (l) and Leona Morgan at International Uranium Film Festival, 2015 This Week’s Featured Interview: Leona Morgan and Eileen Shaughnessy of the Nuclear Issues Study Group , based in Albuquerque,
Cancer researcher Joseph Mangano (r) and supporter Christie Brinkley (l) photo by: Greg Allen Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executi
Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 NOTE: I am traveling to TMI for events surrounding the 39th Anniversary. As a result, donations to help me get there will be rewarded with the following bonuses: For $20 , you will receive a qu
Featured Image: Human mural spells out “Fukushima is Here” on San Francisco beach in August, 2013 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists: John Bertuc
Fukushima 7th Anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN Listen Here: [powerpress] Featured Interviews: Chikako Chiba is a representative of the Ajisai-no Kai Support Group for families with children who have thyroid cancer. Toshio Yanagihara is an atto
Featured Image: Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast , an international, volunteer-centered organization
Featured Image: Two exhausted warriors – Karen Nickel (l) and Dawn Chapman (r) of Just Moms StL in video mere moments after EPA’s announcement of the West Lake Landfill clean-up plan This Week’s Featured Interview: D
Featured Image: Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” – Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body. You can’t “duck and cover” from that. LINK t
Featured Image: Arnie Gundersen in Japan, with bags of radioactive material in background. Sign says “Decontamination is still in progress.” Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen , Chief Engineer a
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org , brings us up to date on the latest at Fukushima and the TEPCO/Japanese government attempts to clean up the site. Shaun McGee of Nuclear-News.ne
Because I’m down with the flu, I’m unable to produce a new program this week, so here’s a chance for you to listen to an important story from 2016, where Physicians for Social Responsibility and the International Physician
Featured Image: Mutant Firebugs at Chernobyl. Photo permission Timothy Mousseau Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at C
Featured image: Wealthy guest at Trump’s Mar A Lago with the poor schmuck who used to carry the nuclear football, when he was still carrying it. Nothing like a semi-selfie with the nuclear bomb launch codes! Nuclear Hotse
Listen Here: [powerpress] To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of Sister Megan Rice, one of three brave peace activists who broke into high security nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuc
This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen , Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education , former nuclear industry Senior Vice President and whistleblower, explains global warming in terms of an apple <!>, then takes apart the nucle
This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement , the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators , and gives us examples of how activi
Southern California Edison plans to bury San Onofre radioactive waste 108 ft. from Pacific in cracking canisters 70 miles from LA! Madness!
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility , spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearin
Featured image: Prof. Chris Busby (r) with the late Alexey Yablakov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist an
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Focus this week is on “ Atomic Homefront ,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nucl
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Alison Katz of Independent WHO , again helps us understand why the dangers released by Chernobyl have been so downplayed for decades. In her second major interview for Nuclear
Featured Image: Cartoon by Khalil Bendib, OtherWords.com This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation .
This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn , Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons . Straight
Featured Image: Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World” (1936-2017) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marianne Birkby is a wildlife artist who founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 to oppose geological dumpin
Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. This week’s featured interview: Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Penns
Hurricanes and Nukes: A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about
This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org again joins us to review the actual flooding at South Texas Project’s nuclear reactors next to Bay City, Texas . Satellite map of flooding at South Texas Project nucl
A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL: The Ongoing Nuclear Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear . Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Re
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kristen Iversen , author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats , explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey , which is meant to det
This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space . He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context f
Featured Image: What a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would do to Lower Manhattan. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Garrett Graff , author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest o
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nikki Clark , a veteran UK nuclear campaigner who co-founded the group South West Against Nuclear, serves as Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent , on the ground at the Coulport Nuclear Disarmament Ca
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility continues his interview with Libbe HaLevy, covering the transport of highly radioactive liquid nuclear w
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. He speaks on the Chalk
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 Islan
Nuclear Hotseat: Downloaded in 122 Countries! (May, 2017 audit) This Week’s Featured Interview: Desmond Doulatram of the Marshall Islands is Co-Founder of the NGO REACH-MI (Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity – M
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Mari Inoue of Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World talks about the issues surrounding the US-Japan Nuclear Energy Cooperation Treaty – and why we really don’t want it to be renewed. LINK to infor
Listen Here: [powerpress] HANFORD UPDATE: New Accident – Radioactive contamination of worker’s clothes as underground double-sided tank containing 800,000 gallons of radioactive waste shows signs of leak. Old Accident – Ma
This Week’s Featured Interviews San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz
A reminder to help us celebrate our 300th episode with a donation – 300 pennies, 300 dimes, 300 dollars, 300 good wishes, or any percentage thereof! This Week’s Featured Interview: Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global N
This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement , the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators , and gives us examples of how
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, D.C. is a sociologist who did a study of mainstream media coverage in the first two years after Fukushima – and not only are her observa
Regarding the nuclear that Japan has sold overseas and wants to sell to India: in the case of a nuclear accident, it is the Japanese taxpayers who are obliged to pay (be inevitably billed for) damages. The boys in the manga are like, “