Nuclear Hotseat

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock.  She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the criteria used to determine just how close to global annihilation...

Featured Image:  Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast, an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment.  It teaches how to build your own radiation monitor and connect it with the Safecast database of real-time, automatically uploaded radiation...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge.  He addresses Hanford’s recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out the timeline of recent events, which are still breaking in the news. Health Effects of Plutonium – article Information on radiation monitors mentioned in the interview: ...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Since 9/11, she has been co-counsel on the groundbreaking litigation against Indian Point’s violation of the Clean Water Act for thermal and radiation pollution of the Hudson River; and...

Featured Image:  Two exhausted warriors – Karen Nickel (l) and Dawn Chapman (r) of Just Moms StLin video mere moments after EPA’s announcement of the West Lake Landfill clean-up plan This Week’s Featured Interview: Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel are two North St. Louis mothers who discovered the fact of WWII radioactive atomic weapons waste...

Featured Image:  Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” –Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body.You can’t “duck and cover” from that.  LINK to full film below. This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org...

Featured image:  Wealthy guest at Trump’s Mar A Lagowith the poor schmuck who used to carry the nuclear football, when he was still carrying it.Nothing like a semi-selfie with the nuclear bomb launch codes!   Nuclear Hotseat Year-End SPECIAL: A look back at 2017 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week.  Revisit the gaffs,...

This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education , former nuclear industry Senior Vice President and whistleblower, explains global warming in terms of an apple <!>, then takes apart the nuclear industry’s claims that we “need” 1,000 new nuclear reactors to combat climate change.  Brilliant, concise, filled with talking points we all...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans.An Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat, #295, February 14, 2017. Karl Grossman’s Links: Article – “An...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high tide in canisters that are vulnerable to cracking in 2 years and leaking within 20 years.  Each one contains a Chernobyl disaster’s...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bob Corker, which confronted the president’s – any president’s – authority to use nuclear weapons. Congressman Ted Lieu’s presentation on...

Featured image:  Prof. Chris Busby (r) with the late Alexey Yablakov,editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation.  He often appears in UK court as an expert...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in  Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can’t be put out and is...

Featured Image:  Cartoon by Khalil Bendib, OtherWords.com This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. www.NuclearDarkness.org Make sure you check out the Firestorm Simulator. NukeMap – Find out what a nuclear bomb of any size would do to your, yes...

This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Straight talk on North Korea from Bob Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, who served as a senior policy advisor to...

Featured Image:  Children show map of pediatric cancers surrounding Santa Susana Field Labat Feb. 21, 2017 Department of Energy (DOE) meeting Featured Interview: Denise Duffield is associate director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA). She directs PSR-LA’s nuclear threats program, which advocates for health protective policies related to nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and radiation...

Featured Image:  Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World” (1936-2017) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marianne Birkby is a wildlife artist who founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 to oppose geological dumping of nuclear waste and new nuclear developments in Cumbria in the UK.  The groups aim is nuclear safety and that has recently included...

Never doubt that a single activistcan make all the difference in the world.  This week’s featured interview: Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world.  Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from...

Hurricanes and Nukes:A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about nuclear power production, engineering, reliability, and safety issues.  She is also a former employee of the nuclear industry.Fairewinds Reports: Article – Hurricane Season and...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org again joins us to review the actual flooding at South Texas Project’s nuclear reactors next to Bay City, Texas. Satellite map of flooding at South Texas Project nuclear facility (UC Davis via Simply Info, with permission) Rundown on nuclear threat at Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear...

A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL:The Ongoing Nuclear Aftermath ofHurricane Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear. Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Research Team Member at SimplyInfo.org,  a not-for-profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster. Susan...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear...

This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke...

Featured Image:  Protesters against proposed Chalk River nuclear waste dump,intended to be sited next to the Ottawa River This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means.  For SC ratepayers, the news is not...

Featured Image:  What a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would do to Lower Manhattan. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.  Not exactly your light bedtime reading! Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology.  He speaks on the Chalk River proposed Nuclear Waste Dump, its history, and the many ways it’s a dangerous, wrong-headed idea.  The first of three segments with Dr....

Encore Presentation of Nuclear Hotseat #272:EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan vs. TEPCO HearingAttorneys, Sailors + John Edwards On September 1, 2016, Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company.  The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake...

Nuclear Hotseat: Downloaded in 122 Countries!(May, 2017 audit) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marshall Islands Sites: Nuclear Savage, the film: 465458 from adam horowitz on Vimeo.

Six years of weekly Nuclear Hotseat and still going strong!Please DONATE to support our work!  Listen Here: This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gerry Condon is a national board member of Veterans for Peace and President of the Golden Rule Committee.  He will be aboard the anti-nuclear Peace Ship Golden Rule when it sails down the California...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog/Bulldog for Beyond Nuclear, gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste problems faced by not just the United States, but the world.  Included in his discussion are: Hanford Site Waste Isolation Pilot Plant San Onofre Yucca Mountain US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Numnutz of the...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Mari Inoue of Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World talks about the issues surrounding the US-Japan Nuclear Energy Cooperation Treaty – and why we really don’t want it to be renewed. LINK to information on the June 17, 2017 NYC protest of the proposed treaty renewal. Alicyn Gitlin coordinates the Campaign...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Alison Katz, a psychologist and sociologist heads Independent WHO, the international watchdog group drawing attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination.  The group has held a vigil in front of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, five days a...

This Week’s Featured Interviews San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz of Citizens Oversight Project Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green Ray Lutz with San Onofre protest kite SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons  and offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group...