Nuclear Hotseat

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...

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 Hotseat #140.  INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center on the fire and radiation release at...

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: Attorney Charles Bonner, representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors harmed by Fukushima radiation, with an update on their lawsuit against TEPCO. ...

NOTE:  From now on, Nuclear Hotseat will be posted to YouTube as the one place you’ll be able to get the programs.  No elaborate visuals yet; exploring ways to do that…   CONTENTS OF NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #137:  INTERVIEW:  Susan Corbett is Chair of the National Sierra Club Nuclear Issues Activist Team and Chair of the...

INTERVIEWS:  First-hand reports on the recent meetings between  anti-nuclear activists and top level reps of the NRC, EPA and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, Senior Associate at Radioactive Waste Management Associates, has been an international consultant on radioactive waste management for decades.  He met with NRC Chair Alison Macfarlane and Commissioners...

INTERVIEW:  Beverly Findlay-Kaneko of Families for Safe Energy reports on the deeply human side of Fukushima following her recent trip back home.  Learn how nuclear refugees cope with radiation and catch up with the heartbreaking story of former Fukushima resident Setsuko Kida, previously interviewed on Nuclear Hotseat #127. To contact Beverly Findlay-Kaneko: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesForSafeEnergy NUMNUTZ OF...

http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f6d50b6e-8387-69b7-4fb0-1dd602808c06.mp3  INTERVIEW:  Long-time anti-nuclear activist Tim Judson took over as Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) on the first of the year.   Hear what this long-time anti-nuclear activist sees as the strategies our movement can use against entrenched, monied nuclear interests, as well as a fascinating revelation about Entergy that exposes...

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 root of the problems with Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast.  He talks about how a radiation reading can...

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 understanding of nuclear radiation dangers.  Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the “Unholy Alliance” between the agency we’re supposed to trust to safeguard the...

FEATURING:  Season’s greetings in the form of a trio of gifts: the chance to revisit three of the top, most respected voices within the anti-nuclear community, all of them presented during the past year of Nuclear Hotseat. Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about how she became an activist and her then-upcoming Symposium on the Medical and...

Japanese National Cancer Institutecomic book telling kids thathalf of them will get cancer…and they need to practice “prevention.”  Like what?  Smiling? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Jim Green is Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth in Australia.  What’s that country’s culpability for Fukushima?  How does the country function as a “nuclear umbrella” for the...

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 Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi, the humanitarian aid mission to Japan immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  NUMNUTZ...

INTERVIEW:  KEVIN KAMPS is Radioactive Waste Watchdog forBeyond Nuclear.  He specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; federal subsidies — in other words, all the complex issues at the top of the nuclear-industrial-governmental food chain. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  TEPCO, Fukushima Prefecture AND the Japan Football...

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 edits the www.nukefree.org website. His Green Power & Wellness Show is at www.progressiveradionetwork.com.  Harvey Wasserman (in cap) and friends delivering 150,000...

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 by mainstream and online media.  Within days of its launch on Oregon radio, RadCast got picked up by Thom Hartmann for his...

INTERVIEW:  Norbert Suchanek is the founder and General Director of the Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of the nuclear issue.   A native of Germany, Suchanek is a journalist, author, filmmaker and activist living in Rio de Janeiro.  He shares with Nuclear Hotseat listeners how the festival got started, his vision for an international nuclear...