Nuclear Hotseat
Nuclear News, Expert Interviews, Active Opportunities
Libbe Halevy
Show overview
Nuclear Hotseat has been publishing since 2011, and across the 15 years since has built a catalogue of 658 episodes. That works out to roughly 620 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 738th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 59 min and 1h — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 26 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Libbe Halevy.
Latest Episodes
View all 658 episodesNH #782: Mic Reversal! Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy Interviewed by Physics Chanteuse Lynda Williams on Start of Year 16
NH #781: Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! Caldicott, Jaczko, Starr, Graff, Church Rock, Rainbow Warrior, More!
NH #781: Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! Caldicott, Jaczko, Starr, Graff, Church Rock, Rainbow Warrior, More!
NH #780: Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine – Nuke Reactors in a War Zone – Joseph DeMare
NH #779: Women, Children At Greatest Risk from Nuclear Radiation – UN Report by Mary Olson, Dr. Amanda M. Nichols
NH #778: NEW NUCLEAR BOOK – EnviroVideo Book 1 – Handbook for Action and Change – Karl Grossman, Frank Melli
NH #777: Arctic Ice Melt & Nuclear Radiation Dangers: UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones
NH #776: Deadly Irony & Blind Spots at UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference – John LaForge of Nukewatch
NH #775: Infant Mortality Rates Soar Near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors – New RPHP Report – Joseph Mangano, Christie Brinkley
NH #774: Nuke Tax Costs You HOW MUCH?!? Annual Nuclear Weapons Programs Tax Calculator – PSR’s Dr. Robt. Dodge + NRC Comments NOW – Lynda Williams
NH #773: NE Ohio Nuclear Waste Superfund Site Exposes EPA Collusion + Nuke Industry “Playbook” to Avoid Clean-up – Reporter Greg Schwartz
NH #772: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster at 40 – New Safe Confinement UN-SAFE; Bulgarian Survivor Kouneva; Gundersen on Fukushima Comparison
S15 Ep 771NH #771: HEADS UP, MICHIGAN, CHICAGO! Palisades Reactor Restart Risks Nuclear Catastrophe – Gundersen
This Week’s Featured Interview #1: A growing body of technical evidence is raising urgent concerns about a potential double standard in nuclear safety enforcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Drawing on decades of regulatory precedent, nuclear engineer and expert witness Arnie Gundersen warns that the NRC is failing to apply the same rigorous inspection...
S15 Ep 770NH #770: NO TO NUCLEAR – Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story’s Linda Pentz Gunter’s HOT New Book
This Week’s Featured Interview: I have the privilege of working with some tremendously skilled, knowledgeable, big-hearted people for this show, but we’re usually so focused on the work at hand that we don’t get to engage in longer, more wide-ranging conversations. Linda Pentz Gunter That’s why this week’s featured interview is a particular joy for...
S15 Ep 769NH #769: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 47: Restart? Radwaste? Bill Gates/Microsoft AI? TMI Alert’s Eric Epstein Explains the Bad Ideas
This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations. He is also coordinator of  the EFMR Monitoring, Inc., a nonpartisan community based organization established  in 1992. EFMR monitors radiation...
S15 Ep 768NH #768: Records of Veteran’s Depleted Uranium Exposure Disappear – DOD Incompetence or Cover-Up? Iraqi War Vet Nate Teach
This Week’s Featured Interview: Nate Teach is a retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class and an advocate for veterans affected by toxic exposures, including depleted uranium (DU). A combat veteran of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, Teach reports how he was exposed to radioactive DU contamination in 2003 while participating in cleanup operations near...
S15 Ep 767NH #767: Fukushima at 15 – Danger from Nuclear Triple Meltdown is Far From Over – Nancy Foust of Simply Info
Fukushima Daiichi, Explosion in Reactor 1 on March 12, 2011 This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust Simply Info 15th Anniverary Report Fukushima Daiichi: LINKS to other Fukushima Anniversary Materials: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko – Voices from Japan Beverly Findlay-Kaneko at The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futuba, standing next to her “buddy,”...
S15 Ep 766NH #766: Iran War – Is the Nuclear Threat Real? Col. Ann Wright (Retired), 29 Year Military Vet & Diplomat, Now a Peace Activist, Parses the Issues
Retired Colonel Ann Wright This Week’s Featured Interview: The United States, in conjunction with its ally Israel, has launched a war against Iran. There is no stated justification for it, no approval from the US Congress as required by the constitution before starting a war, not even an attempt by our current president to gain...
S15 Ep 765NH #765: Nuclear Humor?! Foreign Policy Expert Bill Hartung Relieves Ugly Nuke Facts w/Stand-Up Comedy + Reactor Radiation Mutations
This Week’s Featured Interview: William L. Hartung Bill Hartung at West Side Comedy Club, February, 2025 Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Links:
S15 Ep 764NH #764: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Omits Victims in California, Piketon Ohio, Palomares Spain <!> – Dr. Michael Ketterer Has the Tests, Data
Radiation warning sign in Palomares, Spain, where a U.S. bomber plane crashed in 1966, releasing four hydrogen bombs, two of which scattered radioactive plutonium over 200 hectares (@2-1/2 acres each) of farmland and residential areas. It’s still not cleaned up. This Week’s Featured Interview: It may only look like a trailer to you, but this...