Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” overview of the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  She is the producer behind our Voices from Japan series and this year is the Voice from Japan Kimberly Roberson is the founder of Fukushima...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).  On behalf of that group, he takes on the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report on Fukushima that drastically, perhaps criminally downplayed the health dangers of that ongoing nuclear disaster. A pdf transcript...

“Atoms Next Door” Symposium on the St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: A Full-Length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL Dr. Helen Caldicott (R) interviewed by Libbe HaLevy (L) on-site at the Bridgeton Landfill in North St. Louis. Behind them: (L-R) – Mali Martha Lightfoot, Byron DeLear, Kay Drey In North St. Louis, World War II era nuclear weapons waste...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Diane Sandler is doctor of Oriental medicine and a craniosacral therapist who has been practicing in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles for three decades. Her focus has been to support her patients in co-creating optimum health through lifestyle changes and deep core work that lead to cellular change....

Full program devoted to the radon risk hiddenin the methane gas leak disaster at Porter Ranch in Los Angeles.  This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear.  He gives an overview of the problems created by radon and suspicions about its impact on the people of Porter Ranch. Cindy...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis, Missouri, and has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com and is currently running for state representative. We spoke about latest developments on radiological nightare site...

Special Encore Presentation: To celebrate the end-of-year holidays, a reminder from May of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of three brave peace activists who staged the 2012 peaceful protest against nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  We’ll hear from: Sister Megan Rice, the 85-year old...

This week’s featured interview: Mitsuhei Murata is a career diplomat and former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland who has been very outspoken in his opposition to Japan’s nuclear policies, especially since Fukushima began in 2011. Recently, his proposal that Japan should seek an “honorable retreat” from the 2020 Olympics because of Fukushima has been gathering international...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Hester was born in New Zealand and became involved in the early 1980’s in that country’s environmental movement, which was heavily influenced by the anti-nuclear activities that resulted in having NZ declared nuclear-free.  Here, he talks about the COP 21 cop-outs, the Climate Change/Nuclear Connection, his witnessing the Rainbow Warrior’s...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Ed Smith, who is with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, explains the proposed legislation to put Federal supervision of the West Lake Landfill under the Army Corps of Engineers and the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, or FUSRAP. Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives two miles from West Lake...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand of an international activist in India’s fight against nuclear technology.  Kumar is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP). Right now, he’s in the middle of a two-week trip to Japan, where he has been speaking to groups and rallys...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE INTERVIEW: Karen Nickle is a long time resident of the North St. Louis area who grew up close to Coldwater Creek, where a social media survey revealed a cancer cluster caused by  Manhattan Project-era radioactive nuclear waste in the water. Since 2012, she has been involved in fighting for appropriate action to...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW Mary Olson is Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the impact of radiation and how it wrecks disproportionately greater havoc on females than males. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK What are they calling out at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 76 times over?  “Heeeeere,...

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill.  He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative.  We talked about the legal situation...

A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis – a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump – and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. FEATURED INTERVIEWS: The history of the West Lake Landfill nuclear waste with Bob Alvarez, who served as senior policy adviser to the...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco, one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders, discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down… by the end of 2019. Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org explains what her research has shown about the dangers of the “thin” (tin can) dry...

THIS WEEK’S EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK, explains how radiation from the UK’s Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at the Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as “safe!” —...

Interviews: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; Carol Jahnkow, Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on safety problems she learned about USS Reagan when it was homeported in San...

FEATURED INTERVIEWS:  Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, reports from events in Berlin about the week’s screenings and specific films, plus plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles next year.  Countries represented by the 29 films include  Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Macedonia, Spain, Denmark, Brazil, Poland, Austria, India, Ukraine, Ireland, Tajikstan,...

INTERVIEW: Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge <!>.   NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The New York Times goes in for hard core “hormesis” (no – Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as...

INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Options Network (EON3) reports on the recent California event she helped to produce: FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with scientists Timothy Mousseau on mutations at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and Ken Buessler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on radiation testing of the Pacific Ocean and seafood. ...

INTERVIEWS:  Susannah Frame, award-winning investigative reporter for KING 5 (NBC Seattle) on her two years of investigations into the Hanford site. Prof/Dr Celine-Marie Pascale on mainstream media’s epic fail re: Fukushima coverage. Do-it-yourself media, Social Media Supertips, w/Dave Parrish. http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NH220-JournalismSpecial.mp3

Featured Interview: Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo reveals the political manipulations, intimidation tactics and loose-and-fast burying of nuclear waste at WCS in West Texas, along with personal recollections of growing up the son of the man who designed both Hanford in Washington state and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The Nuclear Regulatory...

FULL-LENGTH INTERVIEW:  Alison Katz is a sociologist and psychologist who worked inside the World Health Organization (WHO) for 18 years.  Now a leader within Independent WHO, an organization dedicated to revealing the lies and coverups perpetrated by WHO, Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations agency we’re supposed to be able...

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; www.ippnw.org Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO’s...

INTERVIEW: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org gives lie to dry cask manufacturerer Holtec’s presentation to Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel regarding long term storage of the plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste at the now-defunct Vt. Yankee Nuclear Reactor. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  I guess that, according to the Pentagon’s new tome, The Laws of War, I‘m a...

INTERVIEWS:  Urs Ruegg of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Switzerland on that country’s nuclear problems and IPPNW’s upcoming Nuclearization of Africa Symposium in South Africa. Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment gives us an update on the Senate’s approval of Fast Track for the Trans...

4TH ANNIVERSARY!NUCLEAR HOTSEAT NOW HEARDIN 58 COUNTRIES* ON 6 CONTINENTS!  FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray, Nuclear Issues Chair for the Virginia Sierra Club, reveals details of Dominion Power’s plans to experiment with dry cask storage of high burn-up nuclear fuel at North Anna in Virginia, which was 11 miles from the epicenter of the  5.8 east...

INTERVIEWS: Vicki Nelson, founder of  the Hawaii-based nonprofit, Fukushima Friends, Inc., a program that puts Fukushima radiation refugees in people’s homes for a stay of up to 3 months or longer, if the visas can be managed.  Tokiko Noguchi, participating in the program, came from Fukushima with her 10-year-old son, Michael.  She speaks through volunteer...

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock is Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.  Don, a Nuclear Hotseat regular, brings us up to date on the ongoing aftermath of the February 14, 2014 container explosion and radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP site) in Carlsbad,...

 INTERVIEWS: SPECIAL: Newly freed 85-year old nun, Sister Megan Rice, speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action against the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Now out of prison pending a re-sentencing hearing,...

INTERVIEWS: Alice Slater of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation brings us up to date on the UN’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; Dave Kraft of NEIS in Chicago eviscerates Exelon‘s attempts to strongarm a bankrupt Illinois into a $1.6 Billion bailout; Jules Cook of UCY.TV unveils a new archive of mainstream media’s TV coverage of the Fukushima...

 INTERVIEW: Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale, Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Professor for the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C.  She researched mainstream media coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that shows the bias that those of us in this movement always said was there — and she’s got the data to prove...

INTERVIEWS: Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, on the nuclear reactors downstream of the leaking, sinkhole’ed Boone Dam in Tennessee. Jim Hopson, Manager of Public Relations for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), on current status of Boone Dam. Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Christine Herrmann and Martin Fleck on PSR’s Nukebusters...

INTERVIEWS: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion  for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter.  She is joined by: Sandy Bahr, who is Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club. Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF...

INTERVIEW:  Dr. Ian Fairlie, author of a 2014 study that correlated more than 60 studies about health risks to small children living within 5 kilometers – 3 miles – of nuclear reactors. Important information that needs to be deployed in any battle against nuclear reactors.  An encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat #162. NUMNUTZ OF THE...

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project  on her recent study (with epidemiologist Joseph Mangano) showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima. Full report available at: JanetteSherman.com or Radiation.org Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network on Bequerel Awareness Day and why...

 SPECIAL REPORT:  THREE MILE ISLAND AT 36 The 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learned of it, the early lies and attempts at a cover-up, how the media dug into the...

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer for this year’s Uranium Film Festival in Quebec, explains how he coordinated the timing of this year’s event with an international scientific symposium on uranium issues and a political gathering of Canada’s Prime Minister and political elite of the Provinces.  www.UraniumFilmFestival.org. Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility...

VOICES FROM JAPAN INTERVIEWS: TV and Film star Midori Kiuchi No-Nukes Occupy tent veteran Taro Fuchigama Professor Hiroake Koide, Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center Seiichi Mizuno, businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House Taro Yamamoto, actor and member...

 Guess where I was…! (said the future Nuclear Pundit of The Daily Show)! SPECIAL REPORT:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy traveled to New York to cover the February 28/March 1 symposium put together by Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Video archive of the complete two-day event is available HERE.  This Nuclear Hotseat Special Report includes interviews, excerpts...

This Week’s Featured Interview:  Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and “zombie mines” at the world’s greatest hole in the ground. Sierra Club letter to President Obama asking him to designate a Grand Canyon Watershed National...

INTERVIEW: Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation, including trans-generational DNA damage and a phenomenon she labels “Atomic Eggs.“ http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radhealth/radhealthhome.htm NIRS‘ Mary Olson speaks on impact of radiation on girls and women at...

The 55 gallon drum of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Lab that “popped its lid” and released Plutonium and Americium into the environment on Valentine’s Day, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Sure, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the U.S. without nuclear would be “unthinkable” — but think about your state’s Boone Dam, with...

INTERVIEW:  Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons why she decided to produce her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, “On the Beach.” NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: British Commonwealth ambassadors chow down on Fukushima food and saki to...

THIS WEEK:  Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo, California, 12 miles from the nuclear reactors. Event speakers heard in this episode: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother’s for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo...

SISTER MEAGAN RICE’S MAILING ADDRESS: Megan Rice 88101-020 MDC Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center P.O. Box 329002 Brooklyn, NY 11232 TWEET THE POPE: @Pontifex – Free Sister Megan Rice, 84-year-old who protested nuclear weapons, in jail for 32 months. INTERVIEWS: Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,...

INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson and Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy discuss their new audio program, RAPT, which stands for Radiation Awareness Protection Talk.  It’s intended to introduce those who don’t know about radiation’s negative impact on health to the problem and some actions they can take to best protect their health.  To learn more about the...

Jon Stewart hasn’t said this on-air yet… but maybe he will in 2015! VERMONT YANKEE ORAL HISTORY MONTAGE Join activists from throughout New England as they celebrate the closure of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Hear from Leslie Sullivan Sachs, Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, plus locals who’ve been in the...

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; www.ippnw.org Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO’s...