Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: CLICK on book cover to purchase from Amazon. Beyond Nuclear Article on M.V. Ramana’s Book: NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

PERSONAL NOTE: Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I’m in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured...

William L. Laurence – “Atomic Bill” (l) – and J. Robert Oppenheimer (r) at the Trinity Site, one month after detonation of the first atomic bomb. Libbe’s Play: ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUEPremieres Sept. 9 at Wilmington Peace Resource Center Next Tuesday, September 9, my play on media manipulation at the dawn of the...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Cindy Folkers is Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, with close to 20 years experience. She co-authored with Dr. Ian Fairlie the book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. Here, she breaks down what’s wrong with the recent nuclear Executive Orders, including the mandate to...

United Nations report on the generational impact of nuclear radiation on women and children, written by Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project and Dr. Amanda M. Nichols. This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is...

This Week’s Featured Interview: ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke in Hiroshima. Photo: ICAN / Takeo Nakaoku Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, traveled to Japan for the 80th anniversary commemorations of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She is a former Australian Minister for International...

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: On the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at what this meant for further generations’ health and psychology. Yuki Miyamoto is Nisei Hibakusha, second generation daughter of an atomic bomb survivor, and brings a personal perspective to her powerful work. She is a Professor...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Japan’s False Narrative of Fukushima Tritium-Contaminated Water Release: Planned Restart of Palisades Zombie Reactor in Michigan: ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT

This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: Remembering Church Rock: Last week, we noted the dual nuclear nightmare anniversaries of July 16, focusing on the Trinity atomic test blast 80 years ago. There was no time on that show to go into the second July 16 anniversary, 1979’s Church Rock uranium tailings spill on...

The new commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Trinity site of the world’s first atomic bomb explosion finally acknowledges and commemorates Downwinders. (l-r) Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison of ICAN; Tina Cordova of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – New...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and he regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly what is going on, why we should...

US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES – WE ARE UNOFFICIALLY AT WAR A roundup of what is currently known about last Saturday’s bombing attack by the United States on Iran nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Next week will feeature an extensive interview on what level of uranium enrichment Iran has achieved and how close...

Yup – 14 years and 729 episodes down. What’s the half-life of a nuclear podcast? This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Featured Interview: Israel/Iran Bombings – Susi Snyder of ICAN Susi Snyder of ICAN parses the meanings and history of the current Israel/Iran escalating exchange of drone and missile attacks. Given the recent and almost...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear product rep claims to represents a process to “kill” radiation, tries to get Nuclear Hotseat host to endorse it. This does not end well for him… THE ICAN UPDATE – The Latest on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons from the International...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Piles of bags containing radioactive topsoil scraped from all over Fukushima, still awaiting removal. Links from Interview: To purchase Return to Fukushima, go to: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Why the Golden Dome is another “insane” Trump obsession that won’t work. LINKS to Linda’s other work this week:...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Interview: The Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Trump “unleashes” five nuclear executive orders that while reckless and dangerous are also total fantasy. The Nuclear Resister w/Jack Joppa-Cohen There’s something about a train… and in the early 1980s, anti-nuclear activists from coast-to-coast turned that truth into a successful...

One of the many sessions held at the Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit, December This Week’s Featured Interview: Gen. C. Robert Kehler, Ret., former Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, explains (he’s retired so it’s from his personal perspective) the issues of AI and nuclear weapons, and the nature of debate about it taking place inside...

One portion of the clean-up site at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Investigative Journalist Jason Salley This Week’s Featured Interview: (l-r) Vina Colley, Gina Doyle, Jason Salley A quote on the women in the photo, from Jason Salley: “There are two inspiring women pictured from left to right in the photo. The woman on the left...

HOT! India/Pakistan Escalation of Hostilities Risks Nukes + Inside Nuclear Launch Command Chain w/Former Head of U.S. Strategic Command + IPPNW’s Ira Helfand at UN for NPT What you never want to see in your neighborhood… This Week’s Featured Interview: Gen. C. Robert Kehler, Ret., former Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, explains from inside...

Pubic Watchdogs’ Nina Babiarz (l) and Charles Langley (r) This Week’s Featured Interview: Public Watchdogs Petition on AB 305: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): DANCES WITH OPPENHEIMER – A pro-nuclear rave with Oppenheimer’s grandson to brainwash Gen- Z-ers into loving nuclear energy. They see absolutely no irony in dancing to the Britany...

Russian drone strike damage to the Chernobyl New Safe Containment building

(KEYSTONE COVER IMAGE). The wreckage of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine, shortly after the explosion and meltdown on April 26, 1986. (ABOVE) Color shot of Chernobyl in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and meltdown. The fuzziness of the picture is due to radiation hitting the film and creating spots. NOTE: I have...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Photo from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981 – 2000, the model for the upcoming Lakenheath Peace Camp. LINKS from Interview: For people in the USA or other countries wanting to get involved or send a statement of support to the Lakenheath Peace Camp, you can write to: [email protected] or use this link:...

Dr. Gordon Edwards, speaking at the United Nations This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly...

At the 40th anniversary of the TMI accident in 2019. Unit 1 in background was still in operation. This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that was founded in 1977. TMIA monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island...

This Week’s SPECIAL on the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – Third Meeting of States Parties March 2-7, 2025 Posing with the iconic gun sculpture in front of UN headquarteers in New York. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held its Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) at...

Fukushima disaster site, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. This Week’s Featured Interview: We get all kinds of overly optimistic reports about the clean-up of radioactive water and debris from Fukushima, with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Japanese government, and their political enablers all claiming that things are going well!...

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: LINKS to Access TPNW Coverage: Recap of 2023 interviews at 2MSP with International Politicians Against Nukes JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA STUPID DEBRIS TRICKS Photo of the fabled Fukushima debris particle removed from Reactor 1. Note the lack of comparison for scale – it’s not a boulder; it’s only 0.7 grams, or the equivalent...

Keystone Photo: President John F. Kennedy signing the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. We haven't had an atmospheric nuclear test since 1962. BUT under Project 2025, atmospheric tests - and their attendant health-destroying radioactive fallout - may soon resume. Journalist Karl Grossman spells it out.

This Week’s Featured Interview Activists from around the world gathering to demonstrate against U.S. nuclear weapons housed at the Buchel Air Force Base in Germany (Susan Crane far right, Nukewatch’s John LaForge behind Nukewatch banner in red hat) Libbe’s Play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE Coming to Wilmington Peace Resource Center in Ohio! Numnutz...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) A trifecta! From the Onion… and then unfortunately, NOT the Onion: New Orleans has a National Nucleaer Security Administration helicopter scanning the city for nuclear weapons (say what? In Mardi Gras beads?); and NRC’s updated mission statement turns the already captured regulator into...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Anti-nuke icon Harvey Wasserman is a veteran of five decades of activism against nuclear reactors. He has authored books, organized demonstrations that deeply impacted the movement, helped successive generations of activists to learn the issues, the talking points, and the actions they can take. In recent years, he has included a...

This Week’s Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is damaging to human health. But how do we know that? Who figures out how bad it can be? How much radiation we can be exposed to without risking our...

This Week’s SPECIAL: NUKES AND FIRE – California Wildfires and Nuclear Dangers Libbe’s Story: I live in Los Angeles in the foothills less than a mile away from what became the Eaton (Altadena/Pasadena) fire Evacuation Warning zone. There was no new Nuclear Hotseat last week because after the Eaton fire broke out on Tuesday, I...

This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Feature: Numnutz of the Year! It’s been a year, all right, with plenty of Numnutzery to go around. We look back on 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) – the nuclear stories that made no sense, defied logic, infuriated me, touched my “Despair” button,...

The late, great, Sr. Megan Rice. This Week’s Peace Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder: What You Can Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons

This Week’s Featured Interview: A new book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION, is a devastating look into the history of radiation harms and the scientists who attempted to reveal the truth by defying political and institutional pressures. It explains how those who tried to warn us were censored and discredited...

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Three Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) were in Oslo, Norway to accept the award. Link: This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: The first ever Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit drew together more than 100 reporters, editors, nuclear experts, activists...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and Activist Lynda Williams – a foe of nuclear greenwashing Lynda Williams is a Hawaii-based physicist, activist, writer and performance artist – AKA The Physics Chanteuse. She battles against nuclear greenwashing (aka lying) with public presentations, lectures, theatre, and a ferocious activist spirit. Lynda is bringing her new one woman...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Majia Nadesan’s LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Like pie? You won’t enjoy this one and it’s nothing to be thankful for. Links:

SPECIAL PROPOSAL! #Nuclear80 The 2025 Campaign to Reclaim the Nuclear Narrative 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Atomic Age and all the ensuing nuclear madness covered by the show every week. We already know that the media is going to make a “thing” out of this, because it’s an anniversary that...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): French household goods made from radioactive metal – what could go wron Links:

This Week’s Featured Interview Part 2 of a talk with Doug Brugge and Aaron Datesman, authors of a brilliant new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. Last week was Part 1. This week, we focus on new information about the health dangers of so-called “permitted” radiation releases from operating nuclear reactors in...

Map of radiation doses at Three Mile Island – new information from the book Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change: This Week’s Featured Interview: FREE download of pdf of the book: Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. Numutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness:...

Cold War Horse, sculpture by Jeff Gipe – the only acknowledgement of the radiological history of Rocky Flats nuclear factory present at the site. This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear Regulatory Commission “apologizes” for “misinformation” about – OOPS! – radioactive water from Monticello nuclear in the Mississippi river...

Lead Story: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for...

BREAKING NEWS: MARY OLSON IS OKAY! Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project (genderandradiation.org) is alive and well! She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and we hadn’t heard from her since before Hurricane Helene ripped through that town on September 27. As of October 9, Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear reports that Mary is...

This Week’s Featured Interview: TOTALLY FICTITIOUS WESTINGHOUSE ANIMATION OF A 116 WEEK BUILD SCHEDULE FOR THE AP 1000 NUCLEAR REACTOR. Taken from the Westinghouse website in 2014. Westinghouse has long since taken it down.NO WONDER! IThis is a LINK to the video.) Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Let’s applaud climate activists willing...