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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.
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.
"Safety" tests of radioactive Fukushima water releases into the Pacific are inadequate, IAEA approval just wrong: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones.
Media fallout from Oppenheimer film is growing awareness and opportunities for anti-nuclear movement. And new Radiation Class covers what Oppenheimer forgot.
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.
France's A-bomb Tests in French Polynesia, sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, refusal of reparations to indigenous people - 2 experts report.
Japan plans to dump radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific. How bad could it be? Marine biologist explains the risks.
Pilgrim Nuclear, Holtec Safety Lies: Dry cask storage is not secure when anyone can walk up to them, this close, without any restrictions. So much for Holtec’s claims about “safety.” This Week’s Featured
Reference Man, used as the basis for evaluating radiation exposure risks, ignores the fact that girls are 10 times more vulnerable to the exact same radiation exposure, and women are 2 times more vulnerable. A Radiation Girl standard would
Chernobyl Anniversary: The “Elephant’s Foot” – final resting place of the molten, radioactive Chernobyl fuel. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examin
Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail – Erica Gray (above), Nuclear Issues Chair of the Sierra Club , provides the damning Nuclear Regulatory Commission “event” (accident) reports online, five days a week. This Week’s Feat
SPECIAL: Fukushima Anniversary Voices from Japan - Tokyo Shimbun reporter Takeshi Yamakawa on radiation doses in air, food.
Nuclear Launch Codes, referred to as the Nuclear Football, follow the president everywhere, carried by a military attache and stashed in a briefcase (pictured) making it possible for him to launch a nuclear strike at any country at any time
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’
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.
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
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” &
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
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
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
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
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
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&
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
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
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
How close is nuclear annihilation? Check the Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. CEO Rachel Bronson explains its origins.
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
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
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
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 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
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 – 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
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
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 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: 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
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 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 EXCLUSIVE Interviews: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Ja
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different r
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
BREAKING: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be interviewed by John B. Wells for Caravan to Midnight , airing Friday, July 8, 2016, available for download thereafter for a small fee. This Week’s Featured Interview:
Nuclear Hotseat – Now Downloaded in 112 Countries* To celebrate five years of continuous, weekly production, Nuclear Hotseat revisits some activists and stories we’ve been covering. Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuc
This Week’s Featured Interview: Mimi German is the founder of RadCast , which focuses on collecting and interpreting radiation data . It helps helping citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, which RadCas
This Week’s Featured Interview: How bad is the radioactive threat of t he Hanford Site in SE Washington State? Learn the facts, worthy of a Halloween horror house, from attorney Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of Ameri
This Week’s Featured Interview: West Lake Just Mom Dawn Chapman reveals the inner workings on the long-desired and oft-thwarted DC meeting she and fellow/sister Just Mom Karen Nickel had with Environmental Protection Agency head Gina
This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore , head of SanOnofreSafety.org , offers a chilling update on the problems of short term nuclear waste storage, calling the on-site dry storage canisters approved by the Nuclear Regulatory C
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
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
INTERVIEW: Attorneys for the USS Reagan sailors hit by Fukushima radiation won big in court last week: Judge Janis Sammartino ruled that the $1 billion lawsuit against TEPCO for health damages and medical treatment CAN not only move forward
“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
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: 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
JON STEWART TWEET OF THE WEEK – Please Retweet and Favorite: Kids 5 & under living 3 miles from a nuclear reactor 37% more likely to get leukemia – Get angry Jon! #NuclearHotseat #newCNNshows #nonukes — Libbe HaLevy (@Nuclea
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
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
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
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
FOIA email from EPA to air quality districts immediately after Fukushima obtained by Daniel Hirsch , Nuclear Policy Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and head of Committee to Bridge the Gap INTERVIEWS: First-hand reports on the recent meeting
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
Two visions of housing in Japan: Proposed Olympic Village (top) vs. Fukushima refugee “temporary” housing , now over 2 years old. PM Abe’s priorities are clear. (photo juxtaposition by Cathy Iwane) INTERVIEW:&
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
The Boys and Girls on the Nuclear Bus, June 4, 2013: (l-r) Gregory Jaczko, Kendra Ulrich, Cathy Iwane, PM Naoto Kan, Arnie Gundersen, Shaun Burnie, Peter Bradford, Eric Pica http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat105-EXCLUSI
Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan FEATURING: “The Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Lessons for California from Former Japanese Prime Minister Kan” was a public meeting of historic consequence for the anti-nuclear movem
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
Friends of the Earth’s mobile billboard, roving the 50-mile evacuation radius from San Onofre in So. California . FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Daniel Noonan of Washington state Physicians for Social Responsibili
INTERVIEWS: Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth , who explains what it’s like to stand up solo and face down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on their home turf — and what the macro conversation is
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Here’s the latest from Arnie Gunderson and Fairewinds, done in conjunction with Greenpeace. Fairewinds was retained by Greenpeace to write a chapter of their newly released report entitled “The Echo Chamber: Regulatory Capture a
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 ̵
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