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J. Robert Oppenheimer (in hat) and Gen. Leslie Groves at ground zero of the Trinity a-bomb test in New Mexico, six weeks after Trinity test and one month after Hiroshima. NH #634: Post-Oppenheimer Media Fallout + Superb Radiation Class – Greg Mitchell, Mary Olson Everything Oppenheimer Inspired in the Media: Author/Filmmaker Greg Mitchell New Radiation...

NH #633 – Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Global Hibakusha: “Now We Are All Downwinders” – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs, Pt. 2 Map of radiation contamination in the United States from Trinity test, 100 atmospheric blasts, and 921 underground from 1945 to 1992. Check article: Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Radiation Aftermath – We Are All Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivors) – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs New study reveals that radioactive fallout from the Trinity atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945, deposited in 46 states, Canada and Mexico. (Map from New York Times; CLICK here for the article. This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Robert “Bo”...

Problematic Oppenheimer film OMITS Radiation, Japanese Faces, Hiroshima Devastation: Greg Mitchell Albert Einstein (l) and J. Robert Oppenheimer, both at the top of the nuclear bomb-creating food chain. With all the hooplah surrounding the release of Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer film, we weigh in with two experts on nuclear films: Greg Mitchell Links: Nuclear Hotseat Hot...

Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster In 1979 Navajo Nation suffered the worst radioactive materials spill in US history – 90-million gallons of uranium mining waste into the Puerco River that permanently contaminated land and water, devastating the health of the Diné people. These interviews are from the 40th anniversary of...

SPECIAL: Japan’s Radioactive Fukushima Water Release – Media Propaganda, Report from Vanuatu in S Pacific This Week’s SPECIAL Report: With Japan’s pending release of 1.3 million tons of Tritium-contaminated radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approval of that plan, it is time for an examination of...

IAEA OKs Japan’s Fukushima Radioactive Water Release + Ukraine Nuclear Disaster Imminent? Google map photo of Fukushima water tank storage, showing open, unused land surrounding it which could be used to expand the radioactdive water storage area. Japan and TEPCO are acting like they have run out of space for storage, which they most definitely...

More Nuclear Reactors for Illinois? + Whistleblower: IAEA Pre-Approval of Fukushima Radioactive Water Release – the Fix is In 1.3 million tons of radioactive water at Fukushima that IAEA and Japan have already agreed to release into the Pacific Ocean. This shows the “outhouse” through which the radioactive water will be pumped. BREAKING: Internal IAEA...

Just One Nuclear Explosion in Space = Massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) = Buh-bye Grid! – Prof. Steven Starr This Week’s Featured Interview: Zoomathon interview (more more than you heard!) with the brilliant Prof. Steven Starr (l) Steven Starr LINKS: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): So exactly what could the U.S. buy instead...

12th Anniversary! + Depleted Uranium Expert Damacio Lopez to Ukraine’s Zelensky: DON’T! Damacio Lopez (l) and Norbert Suchanek during a break from the 2023 International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Special 12th Anniversary Look Back over the Past Year of Nuclear Hotseat A tongue-in-cheek look at some of the “highlights” from Nuclear...

A Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Uranium Film Festval, 2023. Wow, was I ever surprised – and chuffed! SPECIAL – International Uranium Film Festival in Rio – Pt. 2, The Awards! In this second of two reports from the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with interviews with Festival Founders and...

NOTE: Return travel from the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio has delayed my ability to produce the second show on that amazing, important event. Pt. 2 will post next week as Episode #624. Feel free to check out last week’s #622 for Pt. 1. This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC Episode: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz...

International Uranium Film Festival Founders/Directors Marcia Gomes de Oliviera and Norbert Suchanek with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the opening of the 2023 Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil SPECIAL! International Uranium Film Festival – Report from Rio Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to cover the 12 th annual...

NOTE: Keystone photo is of a baby born after the mother’s exposure to depleted uranium from DU weapons. Published in the free PDF, DEPLETED URANIUM: A Scientific Approach to the Hazards of Military Use of Depleted Uranium by Prof. Dr. Massimo Zucchetti. Yes, it’s upsetting – and that’s the point in responding to something as...

French Polynesian A-Bomb Tests + Rainbow Warrior Bombing – Dennis Riches, Kevin Hester + BREAKING – NRC Approves NM Waste Dumps – Kevin Kamps Atomic bomb test in French Polynesia – with one A-bomb, there goes paradise… BREAKING: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has today approved the New Mexico nuclear waste “interim” storage facility. Could a...

The Antidote to Oliver Stone is Philippe Carillo’s Film “Fukushima Disaster: The Hidden Side of the Story” This Week’s Featured Interview: Watch the one-minute trailer here: Purchase/Rent Film Here: IMDB COMMENT LINK: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26734180/reviews/?ref_=tt_ov_rtNote that you will need to sign up for a free IMDB account to be able to post. Raw Footage of Interviews –...

SPECIAL: Chernobyl 37th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat classic episode to paint the picture of what happened and what it did to the people...

MORE INCONVENIENT NUCLEAR TRUTHS: World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Pt. 2 This Week’s Featured Interview: The conclusion to last week’s interview by Libbe HaLevy, joined by Linda Pentz Gunter, with three of the lead researchers/writers/creators of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report: This is Part 2 of the interview. Part 1 is in last week’s...

NUCLEAR TRUTH! World Nuclear Industry Status Report – Mycle Schneider, M.V. Ramana, Michael Sailer This Week’s Featured Interview: Libbe HaLevy is joined by Linda Pentz Gunter to interview three of the lead researchers/writers/creators of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report: This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. The conclusion will appear in next week’s...

Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness Panel features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United...

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island – Interview w/Director Heidi Hutner This Week’s Feature Interview: Today is the 44th anniversary of the start of the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was there, one mile away when it happened, and the experience completely changed the trajectory of my life. For...

TRITIUM: Japan’s Radioactive Water Dump Lies, Tritium Truth w/Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones This Week’s Featured Interview: Right now in the news there’s a lot of talk about tritium – Japan’s planned dump of more than 1.3 million tons of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. And in the U.S., decommissioning company Holtec...

“Acceptable” Radiation Exposure Standards & Gender Bias: Mary Olson + In Memorium: Mary Oscko, N. St. Louis Activist – NH #612 This Week’s Featured Interviews Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: There’s an ominous shift toward silencing those deemed not qualified to speak out. But you don’t need an engineering degree to understand...

Fukushima 12th Anniversary: Voices from Japan, On the Ground w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko This Week’s Special Featured Interview: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” report on the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Beverly lived in Yokohama, Japan, for 20 years until March 2011, after the...

Holtec Threatens Radioactive Water Dump from Pilgrim Nuclear into Cape Cod Bay & from Indian Point into Hudson River – Diane Turco, Manna Jo Green This Week’s Featured Interviews: Big nuclear decommissioning companies are planning to release radioactive tritium-contaminated water into major bodies of water. We usually think of this in connection with Japan, where...

Cover photo: Toxic cloud from “controlled burn” of toxic materials at train derailment Advice from Parallel Disasters: East Palestine Toxic Train wreck, Meet Nuclear Toxic “Train wreck” – Kevin Kamps This Week’s Featured Interview: Link from interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter It’s a year since Russia invaded Ukraine and new developments...

Soaring Child Thyroid Cancer Rates from Fukushima – Joseph Mangano LINKS from Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant escaped disaster during last week’s major earthquake,  but continuing the project is reckless. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): UK funnels billions into building new “improved” nukes that...

Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Trickery – San Onofre, Three Mile Island UPDATE This Week’s Featured Interviews: LINKS for San Onofre Information mentioned in interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Building small modular reactors; nuclear powered rockets to Mars; nuclear power plants on the Moon — They’re all Really Bad Ideas. So why do governments insist on...

Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group takes on Nuclear Deterrence Summit Warmongers! This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter A year into the war in Ukraine, a nuclear power plant disaster has only been averted due to luck. So why is Ukraine ordering more nuclear reactors? Numnutz of the...

NH #605: Nuclear Energy = Nuclear Weapons – Change the Arguments! Alfred Meyer Links from Interview: Doomsday Clock – 90 Seconds to Midnight Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): If you’re a nuclear weapons producer/promoter and have all the money in the world – the world that you are positioning yourself to take...

John Wayne: Downwinder? New Documentary DOWNWIND on U.S. Nuke Radiation Poisoning of St. George, Utah – Director Mark Shapiro Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Bad bad bad bad vibrations! Vogtle 3 in Georgia, one of only 2 new reactors under construction in the US, has been delayed yet again, this time for...

NRC Cops Out on Planned In-Person Comanche Peak License Meetings – Citizens Call for Congressional Hearings to Investigate – SEED Coalition’s Karen Hadden LINKS from the interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story – Linda Pentz Gunter What could be more numnutz than substituting coal plants for nuclear ones? But this new scheme, Coal to Nuclear, is...

German Prison for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Protester – Nukewatch’s John LaForge This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Featured Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter: After repeated invitations to contribute her “expertise in the space” to a conference promoting small modular reactors, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter decided to tell them what she would say, given...

NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder w/Don’t Bank on the Bomb This Week’s Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder and Don’t Bank on the Bomb

CELEBRATION! 600th Episode + Libbe HaLevy wins Int’l Nuclear Free Future Award! Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy receives Nuclear Free Future Award for Education! As we celebrate 600 episodes with this week’s retrospective, Libbe HaLevy has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Nuclear Free Future Foundation Award for Education. According to the German...

Nuclear Corruption Panel, POWER STRUGGLE Film This Week’s Special Feature: Panel discussion was followed by a Q&A with viewers. Thanks to the producing efforts of the Museum of Political Corruption, spearheaded by Veronica Medina-Matzner and Bruce Broter. If you’re reading this before December 18, 2022, and would like to watch POWER STRUGGLE at no charge, go...

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island – New Film by Heidi Hutner Premieres This Week’s Special Feature: Libbe HaLevy Moderating Panel from Disrupt and Museum of Political Corruption on Power Struggle Film On International Anti-Corruption Day, the Museum of Political Corruption honors the fight of all of those who stand up against corruption, with...

BIG NEWS! Nuclear Hotseat is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit! Your donations are now tax-deductible. More info coming – stay tuned! More Radioactive Contamination Found in Ohio Homes Near PORTS Plant – Prof. Michael Ketterer Links from the Interview: Numnutz of the Week (For Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl interviews Rafael Grossi of the...

Nuclear Reactor Radiation Health Impact on Kids – New Baby Tooth Study – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher who has served Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) since 1989. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of...

Nuclear Arctic Ice Melt from Radiation Dangers: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones This Week’s Featured Interview: Given the pro-nuclear doubletalk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of...

Never Ending Three Mile Island Decommissioning UPDATE: Eric Epstein Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy. At TMI 40th anniversary commemoration, 2019. This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors...

“If You Love This Planet” – Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Oscar-Winner on Medical Impact of Nuclear War This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other...

Nuclear’s Ticking Doomsday Clock – Rachel Bronson of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 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...

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview we...

Uranium Mine to become Int’l Radioactive Waste Dump? Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Fights White Mesa Mill This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sarah Fields is Program Director of Uranium Watch, and has worked on uranium and other nuclear issues for over 20 years. We discuss how the White Mesa Uranium Mill is being allowed to process radioactive...

Nuclear History Education for Kids This Week’s Featured Interview: Illinois has become the first state in the nation to mandate the teaching of Asian American History for grades K-12. The intent is to combat hate crimes and racial discrimination against Asian Americans, which grew exponentially during the Covid 19 pandemic. As nuclear plays a major...

Increased Child Leukemia Rates Near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie This Week’s Featured Interview: Child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors have been shown to increase in 2014 report by Dr. Ian Fairlie. He is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment living in London UK and has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in...

NH #587: U.S. “Nuclear Survival” Propaganda & the Real Nuclear Nightmare – Karl Grossman This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: HOW TO GET INVOLVED:To learn about and get involved with the Initiative of the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative to get media to report on the Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, CLICK...

NH #586: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – Catholic Anti-Nuclear Activists Martha Hennessey, Patrick O’Neill This Week’s Featured Interview: The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia on April 4th, 2018, and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear...

Diablo Canyon Nuclear: CA Legislators Blow it – but It’s Not Over This Week’s Feature: When the California legislature voted on August 31, 2022 to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility open for a minimum of another 5 years – which will probably end up being 20 – this setback wasn’t for lack of evidence...