Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy
443 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Nuclear news from a different perspective, including safeguarding from radiation, interviews w/leading activists, and how you can help stop the nuclear madness. Nuclear Hotseat is produced and hosted by 3 Mile Island survivor Libbe HaLevy.
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San Onofre's "Chernobyl in a Can" - Donna Gilmore, SanOnofreSafety.org
November 22, 2017 19:54 - 54 MBDonna 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 known to crack and leak. Each one contains a Chernobyl’s worth of radiation on the Pacific Ocean less than 70 miles from Los Angeles!
Trump's 1st-Strike Nukes Authority Challenged - PSR's Martin Fleck Was There, Reports
November 15, 2017 05:51 - 54 MBMartin 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 the legalities surrounding use of nuclear weapons, taken from the October 26, 2017 Ploughshares conference, “Nuclear Weapons Policy in a ...
Busby: Why Child Leukemia Rates Soar Near Power Lines & Nukes
November 08, 2017 06:20 - 54 MBThe surprising connection between high power lines and atmospheric radiation. 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 witness in radiation-related cases. His website is: GreenAudit.com.
N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary
November 01, 2017 06:17 - 54 MBFocus 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 advancing on the radioactive waste. Interviews with director and two of the subjects, both Just Moms.
N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary
November 01, 2017 06:16 - 54 MBFocus 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 advancing on the radioactive waste.
UN/WHO Chernobyl Death LIES , Suppression of Critical Yablakov Book
October 25, 2017 16:58 - 54 MBHow the United Nations World Health Organization has systematically suppressed and misrepresented Alexei Yablakov's collection of over 500 Eastern European studies on the devastating impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Nuclear Winter: NOT the cure for Global Warming
October 18, 2017 00:14 - 54 MBSteven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He specializes in information on nuclear winter. www.NuclearDarkness.org
Bob Alvarez Decodes N. Korea, Nukes & US Policy
October 11, 2017 05:28 - 27 MBFormer White House Energy advisor Bob Alvarez provides history, context & a sober perspective on our current situation with North Korea and how we got there. And Big Honking Win for those who oppose nuclear weapons as the Int'l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is awarded Nobel Peace Prize! HUZZAH!
LA's Nuclear Nightmare Continues - Boeing's Lies re: Santa Susana Field Lab "Clean-Up"
October 04, 2017 04:29 - 27 MBDenise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans. Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat...
LA's Nuclear Nightmare Continues - Boeing's Lies re: Santa Susana Field Lab "Clean-Up"
October 04, 2017 04:29 - 27 MBDenise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans. Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat...
North UK Nuke Waste Storage Dump Pushback - Marianne Birkby
September 27, 2017 19:47 - 27 MBNuclear issues in the Lake District in the north of the UK, where activists in Cumbria are fighting government plans for a geological nuclear waste dump in their World Heritage Site. We’ll talk with Marianne Birkby, who founded Radiation Free Lakeland, and who is leading the fight against a range of nuclear issues in her region that have the potential to impact us all.
Hometown Activist Beats Nuclear Goliath
September 18, 2017 16:58 - 27 MBNever 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 the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste that impacted the health of everyone in the area — including Patty. A tr...
(Almost) #Fukushima in Florida? Hurricanes & Nukes - SPECIAL
September 13, 2017 05:17 - 27 MBFloods, winds, storm surge... and four nuclear power plants allowed to run at full power??? Examination of insane nuclear industry risks during Hurricanes Irma and Harvey - A #NuclearHotseat SPECIAL w/Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nucleaer, and Nancy Foust of Simply Info. Nuclear Hotseat #325.
Texas Nuke Site FLOODED f/Harvey, IRMA Aims at FLA
September 06, 2017 23:24 - 27 MBNancy Foust of Simply Info with the latest on flooding on-site at South Texas Project nuclear reactors as Hurricane Irma takes aim at Turkey Point, Ste. Lucie nuclear reactors in Florida. NRC lets reactor operators decide when/if/how to shut down reactors in the face of possible 185 MPH winds.
Fukushima in Texas? Hurricane Harvey SPECIAL
August 30, 2017 05:06 - 27 MB#Fukushima in Texas? 2 South TX #Nuclear reactors ran at 100% during #Hurricane #Harvey, now face storm surge from Gulf, up to 15' more rain, Colorado river cresting at record highs! Will design basis hold? Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust, Susan Dancer.
Plutonium & Epilepsy? Rocky Flats Health Spotlight
August 23, 2017 03:41 - 27 MBKristen 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 weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Tiffany Hansen, M.A., is co-founder of Rocky Flats Downwinders, a community activist group that focuses on dangers faced by local resid...
Trump's N Korea WARGASM! - Will It Ever Come? NH #321
August 16, 2017 04:55 - 27 MBBruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK 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 on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-p...
Nuclear Boondoggle! V.C. Summer DOA but SC Ratepayers Stuck w/the Bill
August 09, 2017 05:04 - 27 MBPaul 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 good! Terrie Barrie of the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups (ANWAG) explains how recent whistleblower accusations about intentional Department of Labor obstruction to delay payment to radiation-exposed workers workers have led to action. Hiroshima, Nagasak...
Nuclear War from a "Denny's Menu" - Govt. Continues while Everyone Else Dies
August 02, 2017 04:51 - 27 MBGarrett 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 pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel. Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.
Scottish Protest of UK Trident Nukes + Int’l Disarmament Camp
July 26, 2017 18:24 - 27 MBOn-the-ground interviews by veteran UK anti-nuke activist Nikki Clark at the Coulport Disarmament Camp in Scotland, just after a successful blockade of a Trident nuclear submarine base.
More Canadian Nuclear Waste Nightmares - Dr. Gordon Edwards
July 19, 2017 05:11 - 26.8 MBMore Canadian Nuclear Waste Nightmare - Threats to Great Lakes, Savannah River Site – Libbe HaLevy interviews Dr. Gordon Edwards,
UN Passes Nuclear Weapons Ban - Heidi Hutner
July 12, 2017 17:14 - 27.4 MBDr. Gordon Edwards on Chalk River Nuke Waste Madness, dangers to Ottawa, Quebec drinking water. Historic audio from inside United Nations as Heidi Hutner calls Nuclear Hotseat from #UN just minutes after Nuclear Weapons Ban passes.
Three Mile Island 2019 Shutdown – Exelon’s Promise or Threat? Scott Portzline of TMI Alert
July 05, 2017 20:48 - 27.4 MBExelon saying it will close the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, site of the infamous 1979 partial core meltdown... IF it doesn't get a whole buncha money from Pennsylvania to keep the money-losing, leaking, dangerous technology running. Scott Portzline of TMI Alert sorts the wheat from the lies.
Fukushima Radiation-Hit USS Reagan Sailors Win Right to Sue TEPCO in USA – #314
June 28, 2017 04:59 - 27.4 MBOn 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 and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors and as a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic leve...
Marshall Islands Nuclear Atrocities & the United Nations Bomb Ban Treaty - The Human Perspective
June 21, 2017 05:27 - 27.4 MB#MarshallIslands #Nuclear test Atrocities fuel #UN activism on Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. Featured interview w/Desmond Doulatram, co-founder of the NGO #REACH-MI (#Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity - Marshall Islands).
Nuclear Hotseat 6th Anniversary: HANFORD AGAIN!
June 14, 2017 20:16 - 27.4 MBNuclear Hotseat's 6th Anniversary, same old nuclear story: HANFORD AGAIN! Plus Anti-Nuke Peace Boat Golden Rule in California, with Veterans for Peace Gerry Condon, and latest Grand Canyon UPDATE w/Alicyn Gitlin. http://ow.ly/fY5M30cB5ez Sign up for free weekly Nuclear Hotseat email with link to the latest show at NuclearHotseat.com. Questions? Story leads? Email us at: [email protected] #Nuclear #NuclearDiseases #NuclearReactor #Radiation #Fukushima #NRC #NuclearRegulatoryCommissio...
SPECIAL: The Eternal Problem of Radioactive Nuclear Waste
June 06, 2017 17:52 - 27.4 MBHanford, WIPP, Yucca Mt., San Onofre, transport issues - when you're dealing w/radioactive waste with a half-life of 24,000 years, there are no quick fixes. Kevin Kamps gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste storage issues faced by not just the United States, but the world.
Hanford! Hanford! Hanford! + US-Japan Nuclear Energy Cooperation Treaty
May 31, 2017 04:59 - 27.4 MBMari 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. Alicyn Gitlin coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. (Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #273, September 13, 2016.) And Hanford.
HANFORD Accident #2! Radiation f/800K Gallon Underground Storage Tank
May 24, 2017 06:12 - 27.4 MBANOTHER #Hanford accident! #Radiation leak f/underground storage tank. OLDER Hanford accident - tunnel collapse covered w/plastic tarp. WTF? + #YuccaMountain illegally on Western Shoshone Nation land & activist office occupation forces MO politicians to file legislation giving #WestLakeLandfill clean-up jurisdiction to Army Corps.
Hanford Tunnel Collapse Problems Continue
May 17, 2017 19:45 - 27.4 MBThis week's interviews: Laura Welch of Nuclear Care Partners, a company that provides in-home health care to approved government atomic industry workers. Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL, on the sad fate of SB 22, the home buyout bill for families living in closest proximity to the West Lake Landfill and its 70,000 tons of illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste.
HANFORD EMERGENCY SPECIAL - Activist Perspective
May 10, 2017 20:36 - 27.4 MBAlternative, Activist Perspective on 5/917 Tunnel Collapse: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert, researcher and member, Radiation Watch, on radiation spike recorded at Hanford on Monday, May 8. Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Power Task Force Director for the Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Mimi German, No Nukes NW and Radcast.org, the ...
St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare UPDATE: West Lake Landfill Radwaste Fire
May 03, 2017 19:31 - 27.4 MBDawn Chapman, one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill, on the "Nuclear Boogeyman" of radiation and the struggle to gain a buyout of contaminated homes. Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never understanding that it was one mile away from a nuclear time bomb that had been going off for years.
UN/World Health Org. Chernobyl Health Cover-Up Exposed
April 25, 2017 21:35 - 27.4 MBRadiation, mutations, health damage, deaths - learn how the United Nations World Health Organization cooked the books and scammed the number to make you think that Chernobyl was no big health deal. Libbe HaLevy interviews Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland based watchdog group, Independent WHO. A Chernobyl Anniversary SPECIAL.
San Onofre Radwaste Insanity vs. Google Earth
April 19, 2017 05:35 - 27.4 MBSan 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 and Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green. SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA REPORT: Kerry Anne O’Connor provides an intimate report on bullying of children from Fukushima, their unresolved trauma, and the breakdown of Japan’s usual social order. Exclusive to Nuclear Hotseat.
UN Int'l Nuke Bomb Ban + Don’t Bank on the Bomb
April 12, 2017 06:05 - 27.4 MBAlice 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. She offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group in The Netherlands, and with Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a brilliant strategy for forcing banks and pension funds to remove their funds from nuclear bomb manufacturing companies.
St. Louis Nuke Waste Protests Erupt + Radiation in 2020 Olympics Food?
April 05, 2017 05:03 - 27.4 MBActivist Alex Cohen on a successful series of non-violent civil disobedient actions to push awareness of the illegally buried World War II nuclear weapons waste and the underground, unstoppable fire barreling towards it from the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill. And Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) hones in on the impact of Fukushima on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the dangers posed to athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Kimberly Robe...
Three Mile Island's Legacy: Radiation Plume, Cancer Spike, Animal Deaths, Kids w/PTSD
March 29, 2017 04:28 - 27.4 MBRadiation plume, cancer spike, animal deaths/mutation, kids w/PTSD, parental fears: Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL: Three Mile Island at 38. Residents, media reports, interviews w/NRC Commissioner, plus Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy's harrowing story of having been caught one mile away when the accident was happening. Nuclear Hotseat #301 http://ow.ly/lkpH30am2UK
Pentagon's Nukes in Space to Eat Entitlement Programs!
March 22, 2017 05:12 - 27.4 MBBruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, explains the dangers of nuclear deterrence, how the Pentagon plans to rob entitlements to pay for Star Wars, and the US drive to nuclearize space — all a run-up to exciting info on “Pivot towards War: US Missile Defense and the Weaponization of Space” Global Network’s 25th anniversary conference, April 7-9 in Huntsville, Alabama.
Mystery Radiation Spikes in Europe - Shaun McGee Solves It
March 15, 2017 05:36 - 27.4 MBRadiation spikes in Europe: Cause? Source? Coverup? Missing Data? Shaun McGee digs up the story. + SimplyInfo's Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report – Fukushima Facts w/Nancy Foust
Radiation Road Signs, Nuclear Refugees, Government Cover-Ups
March 08, 2017 02:36 - 27.4 MBNuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster. Featuring: Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida. Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida. “Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, f...
Rescuing Fukushima's Abandoned Pets
March 01, 2017 07:00 - 27.4 MBKerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone to rescue 760 animals abandoned after the March 11, 2011 nuclear triple-meltdown.
Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima 6th Anniversary
February 22, 2017 06:36 - 27.5 MBDr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea.
Nuclear Hotseat #295: CODE RED x 100 - Nuke Danger Reports
February 15, 2017 05:24 - 27.5 MBAward-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Ithe hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, a nuke industry trade group that helps the industry outwit regulators; the Indian Point Closure agreement; and strategies and tactics for activists that have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans.
Nuclear Hotseat #294: NO New Radiation Spike at Fukushima
February 08, 2017 05:40 - 27.5 MBNancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels. Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe. Step away from the hysteria…
Nuclear Hotseat #293: Hanford Whistleblowers Risk All f/Nuclear Safety
February 01, 2017 02:29 - 27.5 MBInterview w/Tom Carpenter, who heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers. Mission statement; to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy. Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is.
Nuclear Hotseat #293: Hanford Whistleblowers Risk All
February 01, 2017 02:28 - 27.5 MBTom Carpenter heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy. Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is.
Nuclear Hotseat #292: Chernobyl/Fukushima Radiation Mutations
January 25, 2017 03:09 - 27.5 MBEvolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species. A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental Council and the Nuclear Matters Committee for the Sierra Club on the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Oak Ridge, and a possible reason behind the push for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). A must-listen for anyone living in...
Nuclear Hotseat #291: Nuclear Reactor Cyber-Security Risks, Near-Misses
January 18, 2017 06:02 - 27.5 MBCyber-Security risks to nuclear reactors, near-misses with Three Mile Island Alert's Scott Portzline. And a memorial on the passing of Chernobyl's fearless science-warrior, Dr. Alexei Yablakov. His book, CHERNOBYL: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environement, scientifically proved and broke the silence surrounding the devastation created by that nuclear disaster. Nuclear Hotseat 291, produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy.
Nuclear Hotseat #290: OMG! Faulty French Nuke Parts in 19 US Reactors!
January 11, 2017 05:56 - 27.5 MBPaul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty major nuclear reactor parts produced there which are reported to be in use by 19 US nuclear reactors on 11 sites. Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness): When is a new nuclear bomb NOT a “new” nuclear bomb? When the government says so, silly! Not even when it comes with – I kid you not – “Dial-...
Nuclear Hotseat #289: UK Military Nuke Veterans "Scrooged"
January 04, 2017 06:05 - 27.5 MBDr. Christopher Busby, a British nuclear scientist who has been representing UK nuclear test veterans in a major court case, shares some remarkable new information about the impact of low dose radiation on fertility and genetic health. European Report with Shaun McGee in Ireland. Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness): Mmmmm mmmmm! Japan’s newly discovered Hot Rad Potato Chips, straight from Fukushima-adjacent prefectures to your internal organs. Bet you can’t eat just one…...