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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.
New UN report analyzes studies showing disproportionate health risks of radiation to women, children. Interview w/co-authors Mary Olson, Amanda Nichols.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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: A focus on Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) and the impact on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the impact on athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olym
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: 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
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Activists and genuine experts from around the US, Canada and First Nations gathered in Chicago last weekend for a National Radioactive Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit – a 3-day planning extravaganz
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
This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE , about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclea
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
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
Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gunderson w/Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host, Libbe HaLevy INTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (Fairewinds.com), Nuclear Hotseat’s favorite nuclear engineer, gives a concise
“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
INTERVIEWS: Two views across the Pacific on homeporting issues for the USS Ronald Reagan , which sailed into the worst of the Fukushima Daiichi radiation plume beginning the day after the earthquake and tsunami set off the nuclear dis
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
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING HERE INTERVIEW: Nancy Burton, founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, on the horrifying history of Connecticut’s aging Millstone nuclear power station, on the ongoing dangers posed by
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
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
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
ニュークリアーホットシート 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): http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/933b7c4e-aae7-fb97-d946-e757dab5cbbf.mp3 FEATURED: Voices from Ja
Interview w/award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman on how the nuclear industry has gamed the media since before Hiroshima, why mainstream media continues to resist coverage of nuclear news, and thoughts on how to start breakin
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
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