Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Biden – a primer for the new president.  Alyn Ware is a New Zealand peace educator and campaigner in the areas of peace, non-violence, nuclear abolition, international law, women’s rights, children’s rights, indigenous rights, and the environment. He has served as the Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. He hosts the television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman, is the author of six books, and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper and Internet articles. That doesn’t even come close to describing his...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Oregon Nuclear Legislation is being proposed that will knock the knees out of 1980’s ballot initiative that banned nuclear reactors in Oregon until/unless they were approved by voters AND the federal government had a working long-term storage facility for the resulting high level nuclear waste.  Lonnie Clark – both a podcaster...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Downwinders stories preserved – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, written by Trisha Pritikin, was published in 2020. She is an attorney and a Hanford downwinder who felt compelled to preserve the stories of Hanford downwinders who tried to take part in the law suit. Joining...

Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons passes into international law as of Friday, January 22, 2021! SPECIAL FEATURE: Nuclear Hotseat at 500!  A look back featuring excerpts from: NOTE:  This is not an all-inclusive rundown of episodes, just a saunter through some moments that have stuck with me from the first 9-1/2 years of Nuclear Hotseat...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay – Again! – Beverly Findlay-Kaneko is Nuclear Hotseat’s Voices from Japan producing partner.  She evacuated Japan with her son following the 2011 nuclear disaster.  Here, she provides details from on-the-ground reports out of Fukushima Prefecture, along with direct statements by former residents of Futaba translated from Japanese blog posts exclusively...

This Week’s Featured Interview:  Radioactive Olympics – Dr. Alex Rosen is one of two co-chairs of the German affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), where he is responsible for the topic of nuclear energy.  Dr. Rosen is a pediatric specialist and head of the pediatric emergency department of the...

This Week’s Feature SPECIAL: NUCLEAR NUMNUTZ 2020 – Numnutz of the Week is Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature – always good for a laugh, a head-shake, or a deep sigh at some freshly revealed nuclear absurdity, or to provoke a sense of outrage at how a single industry has been allowed to play so loose...

A SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat interview that considers what Peace is, what Peace Culture is, and how we might work on a planetary basis to institute new ways of being and building for a sustainable future.  A Holiday gift from me and the crew at Nuclear Hotseat for those who are working in what this interview...

Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation’s Radioactive Legacy –Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of 94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation land. This Week’s Featured Interview:

Social Media for Activists:  Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above)explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons. Colleen has experience...

Children of Atomic Veterans – DNA damage, penile cancer,and the message: Don’t have kids! The American devastation of military personnel from the atomic bomb test radiationthat devastated the Marshall Islands and its people. This Week’s Featured Interview: Children of Atomic Veterans focuses on medical and genetic issues in those whose parents – primarily fathers –...

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson,Director of Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomShe was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Interview: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban:  Ray Acheson is Director of the Disarmament Programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...

This Week’s Featured Interview – A Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Chernoby Truth, World Health Org. Lies Revealed – Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima.  The...

Seabrook Nuclear Concrete Containment Degradation – 40 miles from Bostonand licensed until 2050! This Week’s Featured Interviews: Seabrook Nuclear Station watchdog Natalie Hildt Treat is Executive Director of the C-10 Foundation, which operates the only real time radiation monitoring system open to the public.  This allows it to keep a sharp and critical eye on...

Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis called out by Dave Kraft of NEIS, seen here at hiscommand control console for slaying nuclear dragons. NOTE:  Letters are still needed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing plans for Holtec to build a so-called “Interim” high level radioactive waste storage site in New Mexico.  Deadline is September 22, 2020.  PLEASE: ...

Los Alamos Toxic Nuclear Tour – LANL is the Manhattan Project site where Little Boy,the first atomic bomb, was designed and built. Schematics of bomb above. This Week’s Special Feature:  Los Alamos Toxic Tour Smug Stupid Los Alamos – its history and current problems – is the subject of this week’s show. Joni Arends is...

Saskatchewan First Nations activists Candyce Paul (r) and a lurking Marius Paul (lower l)Interview by Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Saskatchewan First Nations activist Candyce Paul has lived in northern Saskatchewan for more than three decades with her husband, Marius Paul. She spent many years living and learning the traditional northern culture which she...

Nuclear Hell:  Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow at the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Awards Ceremony, giving her acceptance speech on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons This Week’s Special Commemorative Features: Nuclear Hell began 75 years ago with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It continues to this day, with...

Nukegate in Ohio:  Activists against Ohio’s bailout of failing nuclear reactors were gamed out of their referendum to block it in 2019.  Now, there’s a scandal with criminal indictments against the Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder for taking First Energy money (aka “bribes”).  This may show the way to bailout reversal.  Attorney Terry...

Trinity downwinder Tina Cordova First photo of the Atomic Age – the Trinity atomic bomb test of July 16, 1945, 0.025 seconds after detonation. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders advocating for justice: Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles from the explosion of the first atomic bomb...

Church Rock 40th anniversary commemoration, July 16, 2019 –former Uranium Miner Larry J. King (center) explains the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach.  This under-reported radioactive disaster dumped more than 94 million gallons of uranium-contaminated waste water into the adjacent Puerco River.  Now 41 years later, it has yet to be...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary of the United States dropping atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities —  for the first time, activists will provide international online peace and anti-nuclear programs on August 6 and 9.  This will be counterprogramming to a media deluge by pro-nukers seeking another bombgasm.  A coalition of...

Navajo Nation’s Janene Yazzie, protesting the missing and dead Navajo women, working on uranium mining/contamination issues, and now on the front lines of covid pandemic relief  This Week’s Featured Interview:  Navajo Nation’s Janene Yazzie is a community organizer and human rights advocate who has worked on development and energy issues with indigenous communities across the...

Leaning (Nuclear) Tower of Vogtle: Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersenon the dangers of a sinking nuclear reactor in Georgia This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has more than 45 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a...

Hanford Nuclear Nightmares – before Covid times – being addressed byHanford Challenge Executive Director Tom Carpenterat January, 2018 Senate hearings. This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Nuclear and Covid nightmares get explained and exposed by Tom Carpenter, Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, the Washington state watchdog group.  He  is an attorney and worked as the Director...

Nuclear Baloney – Award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman provides history, context, and where even more nuclear bodies are buried – aka the “baloney” – along with Covid19/Nuclear observations. Interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Baloney – that’s what this week’s guest calls the lies, manipulation and PR of the nuclear...

New Mexico radioactive nuclear garbage dump approved by NRC behind Covid smokescreen –Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (above) gives history, context, dangers, legal objections, and next steps.   This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico – so-called “interim” storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste given go-ahead by Nuclear Regulatory Commission – and the fight against it...

Chernobyl Fire – representation of radioactive smoke dispersion over Europefrom the 3+ week wildfire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won...

Covid19/Nuclear impacts felt even in the wilds of the Grand Canyon as uranium minescry crocodile tears in an attempt to grab stimulus money. Covid19/Nuclear UPDATE: This Week’s Featured Interview: Covid19/Nuclear impact – bad news in even more places.  Learn about the uranium industry Covid19 money-grab from Alicyn Gitlin.   She is with the Sierra Club...

Covid19/Nuclear – ICAN infographic demonstrating how this year’s nuclear weapons budget could be better applied to Covid 19 supplies and personnel This Week’s Featured Interviews Covid19/Nuclear Connection – Alicia Sanders-Zakre is the Policy and Research Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). She directs and coordinates research on the Treaty on the...

Covid/Nuclear Dangers – More industry lies, problems revealed:Arnie Gundersen and Maggie Gundersen,interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Covid/Nuclear Dangers and Lies: As the Covid pandemic continues to ravage its way through society, the nuclear industry is placed in serious jeopardy of being able to maintain safety at its 98 U.S....