Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Special Feature: In 2015, Dr. Helen Caldicott brought together world experts for two day Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction. Meeting at the New York Academy of Science, experts in nuclear policy, politics, the impact of radiation on life, nuclear winter, weaponry joined forces to speak on the exact nature of the nuclear dangers...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons and has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including: ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen; promoting human...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with Robert Jay Lifton) and “Atomic Cover-up.” He has...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use...

Nuclear War on Film: Screen shot of the moment the nuclear fireball hit the people of Lawrence, Kansas. Taken from ABC-TV movie THE DAY AFTER, which is the subject of the documentary TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels. This Week’s Featured Interview: The 1983 TV movie THE DAY AFTER depicted the start of a nuclear war...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist, as well as its media and development director. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Norbert Suchanek, Founder and General Director of the International Uranium Film Festival – now in its 11th year – previews this year’s slate of films. He also announces a unique highlight of this year’s proceedings: a live Zoom meeting that brings together indigenous people from two hemispheres, from Navajo Nation in...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education and a licensed nuclear reactor operator, provides a more nuanced view of the consequences of Russian troop actions at Chernobyl. He also gets into how the dangers created by the loss of power to the New Containment Building have much to teach us...

Nuclear Ukraine, Month 2: Chernobyl evacuated by Radioactive Russian troops who are sickening, perhaps dying, from radiation exposure. FULL CHERNOBYL UPDATE on contamination risks. BREAKING: DRONE FOOTAGE OF RUSSIAN TRENCHES AT CHERNOBYL AND PROXMITY TO THE CONTAINMENT BUILDING OVER THE HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE RUINS: Go to: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100002022159635/videos/742329896935558 Working to get a viewable link here. Stay...

Nuclear reactors = dirty bombs in your backyard.  Dr. Paul Dorfman on international issues, climate change, why renewables have “already won,” and taking back power through social media. THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Dr. Paul Dorfman is the Founder of the Nuclear Consulting Group; a Member of the Irish Govt. Environment Protection Agency Radiation Protection Member...

Kate Brown, author of the award-winning Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, is a historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Here, she shares information that is as timely now as it was when we first spoke, on Monday, April 15,...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps is Nuclear Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Dr. Gordon Edwards has been president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR.org) since 1978.  He graduated from the University of Toronto after studying mathematics, physics and chemistry with a gold medal in mathematics and physics. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Dear Bulletin of the Atomic...

Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates. Nuclear Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors first shelled,then captured by Russians. Pumping stations are #4; reactors are at #3; building that got hit and burned is #15. FUKUSHIMA 11 th...

NEW! Video with Slideshow: Nuclear Ukraine in a Russian War Zone – There are more ways to trigger a nuclear catastrophe i  Ukraine than mainstream media is currently reporting.  For this Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL, we have three interviews with genuine experts.  Each knows the nuances of nuclear issues and covers the nightmare variants of possible...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more of us than you might suspect.   Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City journalist and writer whose award-winning play, Exposed, puts a human face on the cost of nuclear testing. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is Executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project.  He is an epidemiologist – one who searches for the cause of disease, identifies people who are at risk, determines how to control or stop the spread, or prevent it from happening again. Joe has over 30 years of experience...

This Week’s Featured Interview: The Idaho National Laboratory – a major Department of Energy site in the nuclear complex – has appeared in stories about waste and submarines and a smattering of other issues, but it’s never been a real focal point on Nuclear Hotseat… until now.  We learn details of the site and the...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Ukraine – No, not bombs, but 15 nuclear reactors on the ground, including six of them just 120 miles away from where Russia has amassed troops on the Ukrainian border.  And let’s not forget the radioactive remains of Chernobyl in the north.  What are the risks?  What is behind this...

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a marine biologist – a radiation researcher and consultant – who specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here he provides a SPECIAL report produced exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat on the Nuclear Arctic radiation dangers.  Tim...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Tonga tsunami nuclear dangers are explored in two featured interview this week.  We look at the possible impact both on Fukushima and United States domestic nuclear reactor sites, most specifically San Onofre in southern California Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Research Team Member SimplyInfo.org, a not-for-profit research collective that holds...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator.  (NOTE:  Link is to Amazon, but we recommend you order it through your local independent book store.) In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers...