358 episodes
Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! A look back at a decade-and-a-half of hghlights from nuclear stories, activists, actions & awards.
Groundbreaking United Nations report shows women & girls at greatest risk from nuclear radiation, written by Mary Olson & Amanda M. Nichols, PhD
New book by award-winning journalist Karl Grossman based on interviews from his show Enviro Close-Up: EnviroVideo Book 1: A Handbook for Action & Change
Irony & Blind Spots at UN NPT Review Conference - Nukewatch's John LaForge looks behind the posturing to systemic flaws in this quest to get rid of nukes.
New report from Radiation and Public Health Project reveals soaring infant mortality rates near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in CA. Joe Mangano, Christie Brinkley featured.
Nuclear collusion between EPA, NE Ohio's Industrial Excess Landfill Superfund site & discredited remediator Tetratech - the playbook on how to dismiss nuke danger.
HEADS UP MICHIGAN, CHICAGO - Proposed Palisades reactor restart risks nuclear catastrophe on Lake Michigan; even the owners admit it won't run 18 months! -Gundersen
Govt incompetence or cover-up? Army vet exposed to depleted uranium in Iraq reveals health impact, struggles with DOD & VA for testing, treatment, acknowledgement.
15 years after the Fukushima triple nuclear meltdown, clean-up problems persist even as Japan pushes a pro-nuke agenda. Simply Info's annual report, with Nancy Foust.
RECA not covering communities in Ohio, California & Palomares Spain contaminated by US nuclear weapons. Dr. Michael Ketterer on the testing & what the data shows
Greg Mello, Exec Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, reports from "belly of the beast" - DC's annual Nuclear "Deterrence" Summit.
Documentary NUKED reveals US lies & betrayal of Marshall Islands people in order to conduct atomic bomb tests that destroyed their ancestral lands, lifestyle, and health. + Doomsday Clock set at 85 seconds to midnight
Supreme Court refuses to hear petition protesting New Mexico proposed high level radioactive waste dump. Greenland as target for US explained in award-winning 2017 film.
Nukes & state governments. New Hawaii report nixes nuke reactors. So Cal court favors Boeing over parents on Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up case.
BOMBSHELL, explosive new PBS documentary, on how media manipulation after WWII atomic bombings engineered American consent to all things nuclear.
Yes, fighting nuclear is an uphill battle - but sometimes we win! Here, for a year-end boost of optimism, hope & community is Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister.
At 82, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.
Japan's 7.6 earthquake stirred up radionuclides from Fukushima silt into Pacific currents & fish - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones. And activist media strategies from Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker Helen Young.
Tom Clements, Director of Savannah River Site Watch, monitors DOE management of weapons-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, & clean-up of high-level nuclear waste.
Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano reveals how nuclear industry hides health impacts of low level radiation emissions & why there MUST be health studies BEFORE new reactors get built.
35th Westheimer Peace Symposium brings together academics, activists, artists to create awareness about need achieve local, national & global justice & peace.
The nuclear energy/nuclear weapons connection w/Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibiity + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Small Modular Nuclear Reactor lies.
Wilmington College Peace Resource Center presented Libbe HaLevy’s new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, to audience raves. PRC uses art to communicate nuclear truths.
Physicist M.V. Ramana spells out all the ways that nuclear cannot help mitigate climate change in his new book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION.
Nuclear weapons kill twice: fast by blast, slow by glow = radiation. Robert Jacobs's book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha - radiation’s slow nuclear war.
Legacy of US atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki continues in the lives & health of generations that followed. 2nd generation Hibakusha Prof. Yuki Miyamoto
Michigan's Palisades nuclear restart moves ahead despite dangers - Gundersen. Japan busted on lies about Fukushima radioactive tritium water release into Pacific - Deere-Jones
"Physics Chanteuse" Lynda Williams presents Atomic Cabaret at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Songs, satire, videos, even a sing-along! PLUS: Remembering Church Rock - the interviews.
On the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb blast, Downwinders share stories of what the radiation did to their families and way of life, how the government failed them, and how RECA, while a victory, may be too little too late.
Round-up of what's currently known about US bombing of Iran nuclear sites + Supreme Court reverses ban on building nuclear waste dumps in Texas, NM.
Illinois ban on building new nuclear reactors still stands - barely - while the exchange of missiles and drone fire between Israel and Iran heats up.
Japan claims Fukushima is AOK for people to move back. But is it? In new book, Return to Fukushima, author Thomas Bass refutes Japan's nuclear propaganda.
Author Greg Mitchell on his new film, THE ATOMIC BOWL: Football at Ground Zero. Playing games on a Japanese killing field in Nagasaki only 5 months after A-bomb explosion.
AI & nukes: Former Commander of SAC Gen. Kehler offers insights into AI & nuclear launch codes, & an investment advisor on how to keep your money out of nukes!
Alison Katz of Independent WHO on the World Health Organization’s lies about the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster & failure to protect its victims.
Lakenheath Peace Camp opposes US nukes at UK RAF base, sets 10 days of action mid-April to keep US nuclear weapons out of England.
Ontario's building 4 US nuclear reactors threatens irreversible vulnerability to Canada's sovereignty - nuclear blackmail forcing it to become 51st state.
At Three Mile Island, 46 years after meltdown, will Unit 1 restart so its electricity will exclusively power Bill Gates' Microsoft data center? 1974-era technology that's spent 5+ years in mothballs What could go wrong? Veteran activist Eric Epstein of TMI Alert explains
UN Meeting on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons condemns "deterrence" as a dangerous myth, brings together 1,000 int'l campaigners
Fukushima disaster site, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. This Week’s Featured Interview: We get all kinds of overly optimistic reports about the clean-up of radioactive water and debris from Fukushima, with
Plowshares peace activist Susan Crane, arrested for protesting US nukes at Germany’s Buchel AFB, released from prison. PLUS Peace Resource Center to produce Libbe's play ATOMIC BILL!
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!
New UN report analyzes studies showing disproportionate health risks of radiation to women, children. Interview w/co-authors Mary Olson, Amanda Nichols.
Wildfires & nuclear dangers - what's at risk, how can we defend against fire threats to reactors, spent fuel, weapons manufacturing, waste? 3 Experts weigh in on this week's Nuclear Hotseat.
The annual Nuclear Hotseat Numnutz of the Year award - a look back at 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week at the most boneheaded moves by the nuclear industry & its enablers.
At 83, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.
THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION: new book on how those who tried to warn about radiation risks were discredited & censored by nuclear interests.
Nobel Peace Prize went to Japanese A- & H-bomb survivors + Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit gathered 100+ media pros to DC for a 2-day braintrust - & Nuclear Hotseat was there!
New strategy to combat nuclear greenwashing - pro-nuke propaganda lies - is taking hold in Canada. Physicist Lynda Williams on the problem & possible solution.
Radiophobia is a nuclear industry disinfo term that fear of radiation is worse than radiation. NOT! Radiation expert Prof Majia Nadesen debunks the lie.
Episode #700! examines outrageously elevated cancer rates around Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, w/Joe Mangano
UN promotes Resolution for 21-scientist panel to examine nuclear war & climate change + G20-Rio hosts Int'l Uranium Film Fest. Art meets nuclear weapons, Hibakusha!
Pt 2 - interview w/authors of new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. New info on health dangers from “permitted” reactor radiation releases.
Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change - meticulously detailed new book on the science that exposes nuclear lies. Interview w/authors Datesman, Brugge.
Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory near Boulder, Colorado - dismantled and hidden by govt., is exposed by new documentary, Half-Life of Memory.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese A-bomb survivors group. Small modular nuclear reactors/nuke weapons connection - Pt. 2, Physicist MV Ramana from his book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.
Federal court rules that plutonium pit production at Los Alamos and Savannah River Site breaks the law + Int'l Uranium Film Fest officially "COOL!"
Physicist M.V. Ramana spells out all the ways that nuclear cannot help mitigate climate change in his new book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION..
Bill Gates makes deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to power AI data center. Why is this not a good idea? TMI Alert's Eric Epstein explains.
UK marine biologist Tim Deere-Jones connects the dots from climate change to arctic ice melt leading to rising sea levels to nuclear radiation dangers.
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in his book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha.
Depleted uranium (DU) weapons - what they are, what they do, who's got them, who's using them? Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister focuses on Ukraine, Russia, Israel.
Radioactive fallout f/1945 Trinity atom bomb test contaminated air, water, land, people. Downwinders' struggle to gain US govt compensation focus of FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO.
Canada seeks to site radioactive nuclear waste dump on indigenous lands and Ohio Christian group buys radioactive school for a rehab center! Activists push back.
Govt agency used obsolete data to deny radiation dangers at MO Landfill. New Reuters report blasts them. Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL responds.
79 yrs since Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing. Atomic Cover-Up film of bomb aftermath, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Radiation contamination of water, soil, plants near shuttered Piketon/Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant site shown in new study by Dr. Michael Ketterer.
Nuclear anniversaries: First A-Bomb Test at Trinity in NM, Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill on Navajo Nation lands - both happened on July 16, 34 years apart.
What do Youth Want to Know About Nukes? Q&A with students at Wilmington College & Peace Resource Center + Congressional briefing on radioactive contamination of food/water.
Nuclear group messaging coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund; eps from both groups explain. PLUS: ICAN Update.
The ADVANCE Act - a nuclear industry wish list - raises serious questions for nuclear safety & regulation. Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at NIRS, explains the dangers.
Atomic Museum in Las Vegas tries to make nukes seem like FUN! but ignores radiation dangers, Hiroshima, Downwinders issues - No history, just PROPAGANDA.
Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibiity on nuclear energy/nuclear weapons connection + Dr. Gordon Edwards on SMNR lies.
RECA delayed is RECA denied? Mike Johnson holds compensation for US victims of nuclear radiation hostage; June 7 deadline; CALL HIM NOW! 202-225-2777
Patti Ameno almost single-handedly forced clean-up of the radioactive NUMEC nuclear fuel processing site in Apollo, PA. She passed on May 10.
Time to catch up: Uranium Film Fest N. American tour ends in Las Vegas, RECA lobbying in DC as deadline looms, activist Patti Ameno passes.
After a delay of more than one year, Oppenheimer opens in Japan, the only country nuked during war. Protests? Or Silence? Prof. Robert Bo Jacobs
We continue to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a CLASSIC episode on World Health Org's radiation lies.
SPECIAL: Chernobyl 38th Anniversary of one of the world's two worst nuclear disasters. Doctors, researchers, survivor, reports on animal mutations.
UC Santa Barbara Conference brings together int'l activists to share perspectives on the Nuke/Race/Gender/Religion/AI/Climate/Health Connection
Concerned citizens fight expansion of a nuclear fuel processing facility in Erwin, TN. 5 top experts on why it's unnecessary, dangerous, expensive.
$14+ billion taxpayer dollars for nuclear bailouts? Outrageous! Veteran nuclear waste watchdog Kevin Kamps exposes the absurdity of the nuclear money pit.
SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary - Timeline, Met Ed lies, mutated plants, cancers, decommissioning mess - what now?
Anti-nuclear financial fitness: how to keep your money out of nukes? Mary Beth Gallagher explains methods, tools to keep your money clean.
Nuclear Hotseat's annual Fukushima anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN SPECIAL focuses on earthquake dangers to Japan's nuclear reactors.
International Uranium Film Festival coming to US/Canada for two months, 12 cities! Holtec illegally boiling off radioactive water from Pilgrim in MA.
Melissa Parke, head of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on strategies to ally the nuclear & climate crisis movements to abolish nukes.
US stages nuclear weapons in Europe. John Laforge offers analysis of how nuked-up the US really is on the first monthly Nukewatch Report
Numnutz of the Week highlights absurdity, stupidity, short-sightedness & greed in the nuclear industry. These from 2023 culminate in Numnutz of the Year
At 82, Peace hero nun Sister Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the highly guarded "Fort Knox" of the US uranium stockpile to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.
International politicians at UN to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. US Congressman, MPs, mayors meet to end nukes.
While recovering from the hack, here's a classic Nuclear Hotseat: World Health Organization lies about Chernobyl persist. Alison Katz of Independent W.H.O.
"Safety" tests of radioactive Fukushima water releases into the Pacific are inadequate, IAEA approval just wrong: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones.
Halloween is supposed to be a scary holiday - and what's scarier than nukes? 35 activists weigh in on "What scares me most about nuclear." BOO!
LOOPHOLE! The new Grand Canyon National Monument protects 1 million acres from NEW uranium mines, but the OLD mines can still operate!
Highlights from 2022 Nuclear Free Future Awards online event for Laureates Anthony Lyamunda (Tanzania), Malte Gottsche (Germany), Libbe HaLevy (USA), plus announcement of 2023 winners.
In 2019 Dr. Michael Ketterer discovered radioactive particles from Ohio’s Piketon Gaseous Diffusion Plant in a public school. Now he has more on Piketon + a shocking discovery of Nevada Test Site radioactive fallout on 2 California counties.
US "depleted" uranium weapons sent to Ukraine risks nuclear radiation contamination & Downwinders recount recent lobbying in DC to support Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
SOS – San Onofre Syndrome – Knockout Film on So Cal Nuclear Reactor – Directors Mary Beth Brangan, Jim Heddle Directors Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, interviewed by Libbe HaLevy To buy tickets: https://app.entertainmen
Oppose nuclear? Good news! Downwinder compensation, no license f/TX radwaste dump, Hudson River safe from radwater release, ILL keeps no new nukes law
Post-Oppenheimer nuclear group messaging is being coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund, plus Japan really is dumping radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific.
Media fallout from Oppenheimer film is growing awareness and opportunities for anti-nuclear movement. And new Radiation Class covers what Oppenheimer forgot.
We are all Hibakusha - Downwinders - hit by radiation from (still!) Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Trinity, & 100 US atmospheric nuclear tests.
Flashy but problematic Oppenheimer omits radiation, Japanese faces, on-the-ground visuals of Hiroshima devastation while supporting US rationale.
The 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill in Navajo Nation - the biggest nuclear contamination accident in US history. Ex-miner, survivors, explain.
With Japan's planned release of 1.3 million tons of radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific, 4 SPECIAL reports on S Pacific, media propaganda.
IAEA OKs Japan's dump of 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive tritium-contaminated water into Pacific Ocean despite international protests.
Whistleblower leaks IAEA/Japan collusion on release of Fukushima radioactive water. PLUS: Illinois set to allow new nukes after 37 year moratorium.
Just 1 nuclear explosion in space would create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would fry the US electricity grid back to the stone age.
Depleted Uranium expert/academic Damacio Lopez on why Ukraine's President Zelensky MUST NOT use DU weapons in Ukraine.
International Uranium Film Festival in Rio concludes w/awards ceremony & Lifetime Achievement Award to Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy.
SPECIAL! Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy reports on the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our history made visible, on film.
France's A-bomb Tests in French Polynesia, sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, refusal of reparations to indigenous people - 2 experts report.
World Nuclear Industry Status Report: Conclusion to last week's show - Zaporizhzhia Safety Zone lie, media blind spots, decommissioning fails.
World Nuclear Industry Status Report - a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data worldwide. Learn the facts & how the nukesters twist them.
Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin, TN gets $57.5 million from gov't for duplicate fuel processing already covered at Oak Ridge. Citizens gear up f/fight.
Japan plans to dump radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific. How bad could it be? Marine biologist explains the risks.
Gender bias behind radiation exposure levels revealed by Mary Olson. St. Louis Coldwater Creek, Bridgeton clean-up activists mourn Mary Oscko.
Fukushima child cancer rates soar, Japan Prime Minister ignores them, but epidemiologist Mangano of Radiation & Public Health provides truth.
Radioactive fallout from the Nevada Test Site contaminated St. George Utah...and John Wayne? DOWNWIND, a new documentary, at Slamdance.
NRC ducks out of in-person nuclear license meetings less than 24 hrs before scheduled. Enraged citizens call for Congress to investigate.
U.S. nuclear campaigner John LaForge, about to be sent to German prison for 2020 peaceful protest of nuclear weapons at Buchel Air Force Base.
Strontium 90 in baby teeth led to 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Now, a new study will focus on health of kids living near nuclear reactors.
Interview w/Dr Helen Caldicott on her Oscar-winning film, If You Love This Planet - medical impact of nuclear war & she resets the Doomsday Clock!
This week, we revisit Dr. Caldicott's 2015 Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction. Int'l experts, activists, even humor and hope. NH #572
In Pt. 2 of interview w/nuclear icon Dr. Caldicott, she sets sights on talking w/Biden, Harris & Congress on what nuclear war actually means.
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 –
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
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
Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together
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
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 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
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
Ocean Radioactivity from Dumped Hinkley Point Nuclear Mud – Protests in Cardiff, Wales, against radioactive mud-dumping by EDF in Cardiff Bay only 2 km offshore Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Ocean rad
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
Hiroshima watch frozen at the exact time the atomic bomb landed on August 6, 1945. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration: Marylia Kelley , executive director of Tri-Valley CARES , explains the group’s special focus on the Lawrence Livermor
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
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
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
How close is nuclear annihilation? Check the Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. CEO Rachel Bronson explains its origins.
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
This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge . He addresses Hanford’s recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out t
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Since 9/11, she has been co-counsel on the groundbreaking litigation
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
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
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
Featured Image: Ce n’est pas une bombe atomique. Listen Here: [powerpress] The University of Chicago produced a month-long orgy of pro-nuclear self-congratulations to celebrate the first atomic pile, the chain reaction which started o
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
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: Protesters against proposed Chalk River nuclear waste dump, intended to be sited next to the Ottawa River This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter , Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclea
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
Encore Presentation of Nuclear Hotseat #272: EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan vs. TEPCO Hearing Attorneys, Sailors + John Edwards On September 1, 2016, Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan
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
Six years of weekly Nuclear Hotseat and still going strong! Please DONATE to support our work! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gerry Condon is a national board member of Veterans for Peace and Presiden
This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps , Nuclear Waste Watchdog/Bulldog for Beyond Nuclear , gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste problems faced by not just the United States, but the world. Included in his dis
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
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Laura Welch of Nuclear Care Partners, a company that provides in-home health care to approved government atomic industry workers. Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL, on the sad fat
Listen here: [powerpress] HANFORD EMERGENCY SPECIAL – Interviews: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert , r
Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dawn Chapman , one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill. Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never un
This Week’s Featured Interview: Alison Katz , a psychologist and sociologist heads Independent WHO , the international watchdog group drawing attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those popu
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
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation , was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons and offers some stunning ob
This week’s full-length Three Mile Island SPECIAL includes interviews with or information from: Arnie Gundersen , Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Enery Education . Watch a video of Arnie Gundersen speaking about the accident at the 40th
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 Interviews: SimplyInfo’s Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report explored and its sometimes shocking revelations explained by Nancy Foust, Communications manager & research team member SimplyInfo.org. Ver
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue , which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone and rescued 760 animals after the March 11, 2011 meltdown of the
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 Interview: Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels . Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translati
This Week’s Featured Interview: Scott Portzline is the the Security Consultant to Three Mile Island Alert in Harrisburg, PA. He fills us in on cyber security attacks, near-misses and lack of vigilance at US nuclear reactors. Ale
This Week’s Featured Interview: Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Christopher Busby , a British nuclear scientist who has been representing UK nuclear test veterans in a major court case, shares some remarkable new information about the impact of low dose radiatio
Nuclear Hotseat takes a look back at 2016 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week: Thrill as you hear the unbelievable truths about: Fukushima 2020 Tokyo Olympics (aka the NOlympics) Rocky Flats Radioactive waste shipments Nuclear industry
Radiation SPECIAL – UN’s Fukushima Radiation Lies Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) , uses that group’s fo
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Stat
This Week’s Featured Interview: Lucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the wor
Photo: Mike Dailey, hanging Christmas Lights at his home in Spanish Village, where tests confirmed radioactive Thorium 230 contamination. © Copyright Christen Commuso and Humans of West Lake Landfill, used by permission This Wee
This Week’s Featured Interview: Mitsuhei Murata , former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan’s nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an “Internation
This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University , where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The DragonR
This Week’s Featured Interviews: LaVerne Thraen is a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s. We spoke less than an hour after it was shut down for good, o
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986; received his doctorate from Princeton on the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel
This Week’s Featured Interview: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand in India’s ongoing fight against nuclear technology. He is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, known as CNDP and had done
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been passionately involved in its clean-up, as well as being active in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a c
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
This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after deliverin
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only
This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine , and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billi
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie is an independent consultant on radiation risks and a former scientific secretary to the UK government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters. www.IanFairlie
INTERVIEWS: Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes is a Diné (“Navajo”) advocate for clean water, focused on protecting her people and the land from new uranium mining and nuclear developments in the Southwest, specifically around
“Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?” at Frieze Art Fair in London INTERVIEWS: At Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) near Carlsbad, NM, Department of Energy restarts exhaust fan exposed to Plutonium and Americium during Februa
Rudolph’s not the only reindeer glowing in Norway… INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, pediatrician, veteran anti-nuclear activist and author
INTERVIEWS : Focus on the American southwest and the fallout from the Valentine’s Day radwaste container explosion at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Don Hancock, Executive Director of Sout
Leona Morgan (C) and Japanese activist Yuko Tonohira (R) at the NYC Climate Change Rally, 9/21/14 LISTEN HERE: TO DOWNLOAD, CLICK HERE INTERVIEWS: Special report last Sunday’s massive, historic Climate Change Rally in NY
INTERVIEWS: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko , Nuclear Hotseat’s “boots on the ground” in Japan, talks extensively about the recent death of Asahi TV news director Masaki Iwaji , whose passing was officially categorized as suicide b
INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear goes after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s latest actions in speeding approval of all nuclear reactor license extensions and new builds, plus highlights the votes of compromised lame duck
Here’s the weekly Jon Stewart/Daily Show Tweet; please retweet and favorite: Fukushima nuke fuel exploded to 15 miles f/Tokyo suburb. Ready to order 2020 Olympic tix yet? #newCNNshows #nonukes http://t.co/z8zrYYcxU4 — Libbe HaLe
HERE’S THE JON STEWART TWEET! RETWEET (click the square arrows) AND FAVORITE (click the star), PLEASE! Indian Point nuke reactors only 44 miles f/your studio, Jon. That’s why you need to cover nukes. #NuclearHotseat
Abe Road? INTERVIEWS: The United States military just issued a Congressionally-mandated report that says, in effect, that Fukushima’s radiation could not possibly be responsible for the catastrophic illnesses being experi
FEATURED INTERVIEW: Dr. Alex Rosen , a German pediatrician and Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Germany, cites his organization’s recently published Critical Analysis of the UNSCE
URGENT – THE EPA PLANS TO RAISE “ALLOWABLE” RADIATION LIMITS BY AS MUCH AS A FACTOR OF 350! ACCEPTING COMMENTS UNTIL AUGUST 3, 2014 – WRITE TO THEM NOW! http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2
USS Reagan sailor Steve Simmons and his wife, Summer INTERVIEW: Steve Simmons , a 17-year Navy veteran who served on the USS Ronald Reagan when it was called to do humanitarian aid work in Japan following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on M
Image by 281_Antinuke BREAKING NEWS: Scott Portzline of TMI Alert, the Three Mile Island group based in Harrisburg, PA, on a new level of cyber-vulnerability in nuclear reactors and other energy generators , with a current attack that origi
Image by 281_Anti nuke INTERVIEWS : Nuclear engineer Ernie Goitein offers clear explanations of engineering problems w/aging nuclear plants and provides a new insight as to how nukes directly impact global warming. Tim Judson, Executive Dir
FEATURED: Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center , brings us up to date with another insightful update on what’s happening at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site following the February
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/9be8296a-eae1-763b-5077-de36432384a6.mp3 BREAKING – A NUCLEAR HOTSEAT EXCLUSIVE: First death of a USS Ronald Reagan sailor hit by radiation from Fukushima Daiichi wh
The second of two special encore presentations on the World Health Organization’s “Unholy Alliance” with the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (ra
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 Researc
INTERVIEW: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again fills us in on the latest developments at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico following the Valentine’s Day radiation leak.&nb
日本語版を聞く場合はここをクリックして下さい。LISTEN HERE: (JAPANESE): ダウンロードをして聞く場合はここをクリックして下さい。DOWNLOAD HERE (JAPANESE): FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hiroaki Koide, Asst. Professor, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Taro Yamamoto , actor and member of
Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Memoir Ebook #1 in Category on Amazon Kindle 3 Days in a Row! Buy it here: http://amzn.to/1llNo2w INTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown, director of the Safe Energy Project for the Santa Barbara-based World Business
BREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice sentenced to 2 years, 11 months for peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Co-defendants get 5 yrs. 2 months each. Details on next week’s Nuclear H
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
Kida-san was surprised to see clean dishes stacked on her kitchen sink. “The dishes were still dirty in the sink, but my husband must have brought along some water and washed them,” she said, choking back tears. 台所の食器が綺麗に洗ってあると驚く木田さん。 「汚れっぱ
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, “
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
INTERVIEW: Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance (IAEA) censors WHO’s nuclear information and distorts the world’s underst
Japanese National Cancer Institute comic book telling kids that half of them will get cancer… and they need to practice “prevention.” Like what? Smiling? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Jim Green is N
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 Fukus
Japanese protestor holds up graphic by 281_Antinuke INTERVIEW: KEVIN KAMPS is Radioactive Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear. He specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommiss
Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (L) and Setsuko Kida, mid-interview (via Skype) on Nuclear Hotseat. Setsuko is holding a book of photographs on Fukushima by Munesuke Yamamoto that is banned from bookstores in Japan. INTERVIEW IN JAPANESE HERE:
Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima INTERVIEW: Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear/pro-alternative energy activist for more than 40 years. He’s author or co-author of a dozen books, writes for the Huffington Post and edit
CNN gets lousy ratings, bad reviews, bad PR from Pandora . INTERVIEW: Veteran activist Mimi German, Co-Creator of RadCast, explains this Rad-ical new service to provide daily and weekly radiation “weather” reports for use
US Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz well on his way to blackmailing Japan into indemnifying GE over Fukushima. INTERVIEW: Norbert Suchanek is the founder and General Director of t he Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of th
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/e35ece8c-cc97-1261-4652-28535e758597.mp3 SPECIAL FEATURE: NUCLEAR FRIGHT HOUSE! BWA-HA-HA-HA-! What’s spookier than Nuclear? Hear what almost two dozen activists from bo
One way for pro-nukers to eliminate themselves from the gene pool: Japan’s PM Abe-Baby (center) and friends chow down on Fukushima seafood . LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/abec57e9-a
The Anti-Nuclear Dream Team: (l-r) Former nuclear insider/engineer Arnie Gundersen ; conference organizer Torgen Johnson , former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan , Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay , Ralph Nader , former NRC Commissioner Pet
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (l), TEPCO Chair Kazuhiko Shimokobe (c) and Lady Barbara Judge (r) (per Michio Kaku ) LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/2b3c0142-0034-8c6a-7541-4e43e
How the World Health Organization came under the domination of the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency – the first of two exclusive Nuclear Hotseat reports on the unholy alliance that underlies our global misunderstandings
The Future of Art in a Post-Fukushima World 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
Hiroshima Peace Park’s one remaining building from ground zero, August 6, 1945. 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
FEATURED INTERVIEW: Chuck McCune, veteran disaster preparedness pro, talks about the nuclear aspects to natural disaster, including some projections FEMA never intended to get out to the public. Chuck includes his vision of what
Ft. Calhoun nuclear reactors surrounded by the flooding Missouri River (June-July, 2011) INTERVIEW: Remember when Ft. Calhoun was a flood-surrounded nuclear island that threatened to pull a Fukushima? Nebraska energy activist La
Fukushima native Godzilla decides to get even with TEPCO. INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson — nutritionist, author and founder of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) on the latest in food/radiation safety, plus the n
Davis (R) and Besse (L) at home downwind of the nuclear disaster-in-the-making that bears their names. INTERVIEWS: Michael Keegan , Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes , fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact t
Entire village of Idinthakarai sleeps on the beach to protest Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant , Credit: Amirthraj Stephen /Gallery Ske from, “Koodankulam: In My Backyard” FEATURED INTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram, Research Consul
Nuclear Engineering at San Onofre (Photo: 10 News San Diego) INTERVIEW: When the LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant 125 miles from Chicago got hit with lightning on April 17, it set up a series of emergency shut-downs, unvented gas releases,
INTERVIEW: Radiation from Fukushima, nuclear reactors and leftover atmospheric testing continue to compromise the safety of our food. Learn the dangers of radiation contamination — and how to take action — from two m
INTERVIEW: Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green walks us through recent manipulations and slickery by Southern California Edison and explains why SCE’s request for a licensing hearing by the NRC is not the same as an adjudicated
Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy as a young, stupid woman standing in front of the still-leaking nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, approximately April 10, 1979 FEATURING : Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/73d1767f-132a-386d-6799-a727b2bb1f01.mp3 INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson is a certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator and has served on the board of the Nation
SPECIAL: Direct from Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Global Symposium on the Medical and Ecoogical Consequences of Fukushima, the voices of activists from around the world share what they saw, heard, felt — and decided they’d have t
INTERVIEW: Dr. Lloyd C. Williams, international Fortune 100-level coach/consultant/organizational psychologist, on Organizational Psychosis as it relates to Japan, TEPCO, the NRC and the rest of the nuclear industry, with tips to acti
PLUS: Hanford leaking up to two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of plutonium-laden waste, endangering Columbia River ; Germany facing nuke waste dangers and admits they haven’t a clue how to handle it; Nuke workers dyin
INTERVIEW: Zach “No Cameco” Ruiter, Canadian activist, on the recent Toronto Idle No More-led blockade of a train outside GE-Hitachi’s mid-city uranium processing facility. Plus words of wisdom and strat
Dr. Catherine Euler was arrested last August 8, the 67 th anniversary of the atom bomb blast at Hiroshima for blockading entry to the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico. As one of the LANL 6 and an articulate spokeswoman for
PLUS : IAEA declares 47 Japanese reactors in “Long Term Shutdown;” Allegations of voter fraud arise after Japan’s general election that brought in a pro-nuke government; Nuke industry pre-3/11/13 talking points pushing the
Dr. Helen Caldicott talks for the first time about her March 11-12 Symposium: The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima – a watershed event for our movement, involving doctors, scientists and researchers from around the
PLUS: Did Iran have a nuclear accident or is there some other cause for the evacuation of 1.5 million people ? Osaka to burn radioactive Fukushima debris as the government detains and arrests anti-nuclear protestors. Turkey to test all food
INTERVIEW: Torgen Johnson is a Harvard-educated Urban Planner with a professional degree in Architecture from USC. He brings a unique perspective to the nuclear conversation based upon three separate professional disciplines. As
SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditatin
FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hear from four activists involved with the battle to stop the San Onofre restart as we head into this Friday’s public meeting between the NRC, Southern California Edison and (hopefully squeezing in there, eventual
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f3b18260-038f-1942-bfd3-a757897d2180.mp3 INTERVIEW: What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for? Listen to a montage of national activist voices expressin
Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching “black stone” (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politi
INTERVIEW: Remember the senior citizens who volunteered to help clean up Fukushima to spare younger workers from radiation exposure? Nuclear Hotseat interviews Yastel Yamada , the man who helped start the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fu
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NUCLEAR THREAT OF SUPERSTORM SANDY It seems we ducked the nuclear bullet from Superstorm Sandy… but what happens the next time there’s an attack like this from Mother Nature? In this Special Nuclear Hot
INTERVIEW : Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation . Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the g
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/aa21a17d-314f-324c-c0a8-09317cc79b03.mp3 INTERVIEW: Karl Grossman condenses 45 years of reporting on nuclear issues into a primer on where the lies started (HINT: Before H
PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing
INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his
Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future September 20-22, 2012 An audio journey through three days of top-level activism, starring the best minds and hearts in the Nuclear-Free Future act
Listen here: Download here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/fbc331c3-4c4f-bf9a-0fae-8e74a74b5bbb.mp3 Interview: Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsew
Plus: Police kill anti-nuke protesters, including a small girl, as thousands continue to protest at Koodankulam NPP in India; The fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away
PLUS: For only the second time in history, the NRC denies a request for a license! NIRS Exec. Director Michael Mariotte labels this action, “A blow to the so-called ‘nuclear renaissance.'” San Onofre to get cost/bene
Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, on how to grow grassroots activism, southeastern U.S. nuke issues, support for the CAN Rally for a Nuclear Free Future. News: Whales Picket Diablo Canyon; India&
Mary Olson of NIRS on what it means when nuclear reactors are in hot water – literally. How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN – in time for the Coalition Against Nukes Congressional Briefing on Sept. 20 in DC);
Interview : Mary Olson, Director of Southeast Office of NIRS.org , on what the June 8 DC court ruling means to the battle against nuclear waste production (meaning reactors and their radioactive legacy). This woman is a c
Interview w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on radioactive waste storage problems, options, how we got in this mess and what if anything can be done about this ever-lasting health menace. www.BeyondNuclear.org BREAKING NEWS – NRC freeze
PLUS: Japanese anti-nuke demonstrators get pushy at their Parliament building; Extreme increase in mortality from heart attacks in Japan since Fukushima disaster began; Southern California Edison laying plans to restart San Onofre by Novemb
Interview w/filmmaker Chris Noland (NOT Christopher Nolan from “Batman”), who recorded the first months after Fukushima as a relief worker in the field. His film, “311 Surviving Japan” is in post-production and alrea
FEATURED: Report on Fukushima resident and activist Chieko Shiina’s heartrending presentation on current life in Japan and Fukushima, along with information on how to help her start a Children’s Clinic to address pressing health
Get the inside scoop on this September’s Coalition Against Nukes rally and actions in Washington, D.C. from Dr. Heidi Hutner and Michael Leonardi , long time anti-nuclear activists serving as coordinators for the event. Plus: Japanese
MUST LISTEN! Slammer interview w/ environmental attorney Susan Hito Shapiro on t he battle to shut down Indian Point near NYC, plus some legal strategies applicable for anti-nuke activists throughout the country. Plus: 45,000 Japanese
Dr. Bill Cardozo of CreativeElectron.com and Darin McClure of SanOnofre.com on radiation monitors, what they’ll do and won’t do, crowd-source radiation monitoring and how to hook up some monitors directly to the Internet for rea
A special interview on the politics of nuclear energy with Irvine City Council member Larry Agran , an outspoken anti-nuke Southern California politician. He offers a picture of how local community activism can move up the political f
Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive: Special panel discussion on The Roy Process for Neutralization and Elimination of Nuclear Waste. Is this the missing technology for ultimately getting rid of the radioactive byproducts of the nuclear industr
Listen here: Download Here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat-50-May29-2012-NIRS.mp3 This week on Nuclear Hotseat, produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy, Michael Mariotte of NIRS.org explains how NRC evacuation zone radi
Japanese interpreter/anti-nuke activist Umi Hagitani talks about the real concerns of the Japanese people and her experiences translating for Fukushima survivors who addressed U.S. anti-nuke demos and the media. Plus: NRC’s Jaczko res
Here’s the lastest ad regarding San Onofre’s dangers, courtesy our friends at Friends of the Earth. Check it out, feel free to link to it:
Play Here: Download Here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/2f9556c5-0532-961f-b3a4-bf4e37bf3aaa.mp3 Long time activist Elise Longhi shares info on how to get radiation out of the soil using mushrooms and hemp, out of water us
Interview with Daniel Hirsch of Committee to Bridge the Gap on the 1959 Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear meltdown – more radiation released than Three Mile Island! – and the current status of clean-up attempts. PLUS:
In this week’s episode of Nuclear Hotseat: Interview w/Shaun Burnie, nuclear consultant to Friends of the Earth U.S. and Greenpeace Germany, on the current status of Fukushima and Japan as the country is about to shut down its last op
An exclusive Nuclear Hotseat interview with Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com on San Onofre, how and when the problems happened with the steam generators, and the dangers of even thinking about a restart this summer (as SCE has announced th
Interview w/Cecile Pineda, author of “Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step By Step,” an eminently readable mosaic of information on the nuclear situation — terrific for the person in your life who hasnR
Interview with Gene Stone of ROSE on visit by NRC Chairman Jaczko and Sen. Feinstein to San Onofre last week in the wake of burst pipes and pipe degradation in the new steam generators. ACTIVIST ALERT: Requests for letters to the NRC
Terrific food safety interview w/Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Awareness Network. Learn about the increasing dangers posed to our food supply by the radiation from Fukushi
Download it here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/e0e8afa5-1b3d-95df-37be-2ffd0ba3ade2.mp3 Special report on Three Mile Island on the eve of the 33rd anniversary, including host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been on
On the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Special audio report from the March 11 San Onofre anti-nuke demo; Interviews with two survivors of Tohoku quake, tsunami and
Report on anti-nuke activists meeting w/CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aide; this weekend’s demonstrations at San Onofre features two Japanese survivors of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster at Fukushim
Japanese government shown to have been in chaos after Fukushima, w/possible Tokyo evacuation; only 2 nuke reactors left online in Japan… and no rolling blackouts; stillborn calves at Fukushima-area farm; NRC cites Palisades Power Plan
Kick-ass interview w/Hattie Nestle, 73-year-old anti-nuke activist arrested on Feb. 13 at Vermont Yankee nuclear facility; Fukushima 2 in recriticality; NRC licenses two new nuclear reactors for Georgia; Two quakes – 6.2 and 5.5 ̵
A summary of the current status of San Onofre nuclear reactors in San Diego after last week’s leaks, the discovery of over 800 damaged pipes, and an employee falling into the radioactive refueling pool. Featuring an interview wi
Reporters always need sources and don’t know where to find them. They’ll also take the easiest way out whenever possible. News and journalism have been so degraded since I got my BA in the field that it’s sad t
An email forwarded to me from Mary Olsen of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS.com) has been haunting me. It’s well known within the anti-nuclear movement that radiation most profoundly affects fetuses and the very young.&
Today’s Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: North Anna’s operators caught in a lie about quake-readiness of that plant, even as they break ground for reactor #3; Fukushima radiation levels for workers more than 10 times too high; Interview
An olde commercial from the 1970’s showed Mother Nature getting ticked off at some margarine that tasted to her like butter. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned, and at the stretch of her arms cre
The great cover-up of the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear accident in 1959 – the worst on U.S. soil because there was no containment building. Information only came out 20 years later when some of Dan HirschR
