Nuclear Hotseat

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...

INTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider of Fordham University, a nuclear physicist, authored the op-ed explaining nuclear reactor dangers and calling nukes “The Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse.”  He blasts nuclear reactors built by Russia as unsafe, reveals why Bangladesh has ordered a technology it doesn’t need, and  explains why he left behind his (non-classified) work at...

INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear, goes into the longstanding issues against Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, a “lemon” of a nuke reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan only 70 miles from Chicago.  Highlighted is a coalition of environmental groups that has intervened against Palisades’ operator Entergy Nuclear’s attempt to get the...

BREAKING: Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case.  Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner, attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Research and Information Center, again updates us on the most recent radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot...

INTERVIEW:Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (Fairewinds.com), Nuclear Hotseat’s favorite nuclear engineer, gives a concise, clear interpretation of what’s behind TEPCO’s recent announcements regarding water radiation levels, the removal of fuel rods from the fuel pool at Unit 4, and the hole in the roof of Unit 1; manipulation of Japanese doctors to eliminate evidence...

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, it adds as defendants General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi – the companies that designed and...

SPECIAL:  Full coverage of last week’s trial of the Four Grandmothers, Cape Cod Downwinders who were arrested for trespass for their Mother’s Day, 2014 protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Hear from Downwinders co-founder Diane Turco; first-time-ever activist Mary Conathan (71); and attorney Bruce Taub.  Talk about speaking Truth to Power!...

INTERVIEWS: At Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) near Carlsbad, NM, Department of Energy restarts exhaust fan exposed to Plutonium and Americium during February 14, 2014 radiation leak; Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Center provides us with an update and insights. One From the Vault:  Nuclear Hotseat #7, July 26, 2011Jon Solomon of...

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 disaster.  Is the ship still radioactive?  What happened to the debris from the purported “clean-up?”  And why would...

 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 – discusses her latest book,“Crisis Without End” about Fukushima’s medical and ecological consequences, and her upcoming2015 Symposium on Nuclear Weapons. Dr. Helen Caldicott (r) with Nuclear Hotseat’s...

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 Southwest Information and Resource Center, corrects some misinformation about radiation levels surrounding the site, then gives his take on the “plans”...

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 but  which is believed by many to have been something else.  Beverly also discusses how Japan’s political shift to the right has impacted the...

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 (now former) Commissioner Magwood’s blatant, possibly illegal conflict of interest.FOR SAMPLE WORDING FROM KEVIN KAMPS TO SEND TO SEN. BARBARA BOXER...

 JON STEWART TWEET-OF-THE-WEEK: Avoid rice in Singapore, Jon; it’s imported f/Fukushima! Now enriched w/99 Bq cesium per kilogram! #NuclearHotseat #newCNNshows #nonukes — Libbe HaLevy (@NuclearHotseat) August 27, 2014 EPISODE #166 – LISTEN HERE: TO DOWNLOAD, CLICK HERE EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL REPORT:  The USS Reagan v. TEPCO Hearing Nuclear Hotseat’s exclusive coverage of this week’s hearing in...

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 HaLevy (@NuclearHotseat) August 13, 2014 FEATURED INTERVIEW:  Kumar Sundaram, India’s “Anti-Nuclear Gandhi,” as he concludes a successful two week trip to Japan to...

 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 experienced by the sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan, despite all appearances and common sense to the contrary.  So two genuine experts take on that...

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 UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee On The Effects Of Atomic Radiation) report on Fukushima that seriously – some might say criminally — minimizes...

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-2013-0689-0001 INTERVIEWS: WIPP ACCIDENT – Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM, brings us up to date again about the February 14...

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 March 11, 2011, which began the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He is one of 112...

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 originates in Russia.  This is a story that has not yet made it into mainstream media.  Hear it here first! INTERVIEW:Donna Gilmore,...

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 Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) on this September’s People’s Climate March and why anti-nuclear activists must rally and participate...

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 14, 2014 plutonium leak that shut the facility down. AND – For Nuclear Hotseat’s third anniversary, Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy shares...

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 (radiation.org) shreds the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) stranglehold on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ability to present honest information on radiation dangers to public...

THIS IS A SPECIAL ENCORE PRESENTATION of Nuclear Hotseat, the first of two on the unholy alliance between the World Health Organization and the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency.     Alison Katz, today’s interviewee, is a sociologist and psychologist who worked inside the WHO for 18 years.   Now a leader within Independent WHO, which she...

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 Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A Kennedy and a Beatle?  Yep!  When they could get together...

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM, brings us up to date on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, including his take on the “green kitty litter” now being blamed for the “explosion that was not an ‘explosion'” that caused a radiation leak at the government’s only...

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 breaking that logjam.  www.KarlGrossman.com FREE KARL GROSSMAN BOOK (pdf):  Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power...

Nuclear Hotseat #149: WIPP Radiation Leak SPECIAL – Download Here Spotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees: Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center Karen Hadden, Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition Diane...

Nuclear Hotseat #148: Chernobyl Anniversary Special + Voices from Japan: The Chernobyl/Fukushima Connection – DOWNLOAD HERE Interviews with: Dr. Janette Sherman on the medical consequences of Fukushima Dr. Alexey Yablokov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment Bonnie Kouneva, Chernobyl downwinder living in Bulgaria, on the personal impact of the...

Nuclear Hotseat #147: BREAKING – Texas OK’s Foreign-owned Nukes; Italy’s Anti-Nuke Powerhouse Massimo Greco – Click here for download link.

Nuclear Hotseat #146: Latest WIPP Radiation Release Update, Bequerels Awareness Day, UN’s Deadly Radiation Lies – http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/1a1ba8c9-5529-9e3b-4a42-98a476bb2688.mp3.

Three Mile Island – 35 Years Later NUCLEAR HOTSEAT SPECIAL:  Three Mile Island Anniversary  Thirty-five years after the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, what do we remember of it?  What is it other than a moment we mention but do not understand?  Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy was one mile away when the accident happened. ...

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.  What exactly happened, how much leaked, how far has it traveled in which direction, what are the radiation levels — we...

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 the Japanese Diet Upper House.http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307220053 Midori Kiuchi, popular television and movie actress Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center Ruiko Muto, lead plaintiff of a large group of Fukushima...

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 Academy, talks about the new study commissioned from esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano.  It reveals shocking cancer statistics in counties...

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Memoir is PUBLISHED AS OF FEBRUARY 27, 2014!   Get ebook directly from Amazon at:  http://amzn.to/1euWD8a Nuclear Hotseat #140 THE INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center (www.sric.org) again provides us with on-the-ground information of what’s really going on with the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation...