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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Nuclear Hotseat #191: "Atomic Eggs" w/NIRS' Mary Olsen
February 18, 2015 06:44 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Mary Olsen, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation. DNA damage, and a phenomenon she labels "Atomic Eggs." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: When is a flawed nuclear evacuation plan not a flawed nuclear evacuation plan? When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives it a "White Finding," basically saying this snafu has only a "low to moderate safety significance." ...
Nuclear Hotseat #190: Anniversary - WIPP Radiation Leak
February 11, 2015 06:40 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBNTERVIEW: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Information and Research Center, provides an update on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) accident of Valentine's Day, 2014 and perspective on the magnitude of the problem, the contaminated workers, and the likelihood that it will ever be able to be cleaned up. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Tennessee's senior senator can't imagine a world without nuclear, even as a dam in his state is continuing to show signs of possible failure... and it's ...
Nuclear Hotseat #189: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Symposium, "On the Beach"
February 04, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons for producing her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, "On the Beach." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mmm mmm good – Fukushima rice balls fed to British Commonwealth ambassadors! Just shut your eyes and think of England, Dearies... PLUS: TEPCO's Fukushima water woes; 50% of children tested in Ibaraki Prefecture showing A2 or B thyroid nodules and...
Nuclear Hotseat #189: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Symposium, "On the Beach"
February 04, 2015 06:18INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons for producing her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, "On the Beach." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has WHAT as its main sponsor? Are we sure the story's not sourced from The Onion? PLUS: TEPCO's Fukushima water woes; 50% of children tested in Ibaraki Prefecture showing A2 or B thyroid nodules and cysts; former Californi...
Nuclear Hotseat #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN SPECIAL
January 28, 2015 07:03 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBFull show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo. Speakers heard in this program: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother's for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo Canyon for more than 40 years; Daniel Hirsch's testimony before Sen. Barbara Boxer's Committee on Environment and Public Works; Jerry Brown of World Business Academy on Radiation and Public Health Project's epidemiolog...
Nuclear Hotseat #187: Rocky Flats & Nuked Worker Compensation
January 21, 2015 05:04 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBInterviews: Author Kristen Iversen on her book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats; and the US government program for compensating atomic industry workers whose health was damaged by their jobs - IMPORTANT PRECEDENT FOR CURRENT CASES AT WIPP, USS REAGAN, HANFORD, MORE! Plus: Tweet the Pope to come out against nukes as part of climate change encyclical and in support of Sister Megan Rice; Two worker deaths in a single day at Fukushima Daiichi; sea animals dying...
Nuclear Hotseat #186: Kimberly Roberson on Radiation Awareness, Protection
January 14, 2015 06:24 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network joins Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy to discuss a program they created, Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT, which covers ways to best help protect from nuclear radiation. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Lettuce now consider the lunacy of Panasonic and Fukushima. PLUS: Beta radiation (cesium 134/137) spikes 57 times higher than four days earlier at Fukushima, w/TEPCO analysts unable to ID the reason (DUH!); record level of...
Nuclear Hotseat #185: ACTIVIST SPECIAL!
January 07, 2015 06:07 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBAudio montage of celebrating activists at Vermont Yankee party - includes Leslie Sullivan Sachs, along with Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear; Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley Cares on today's (1/6/15) successful vigil at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to protest their plans to vaporize plutonium ; and Dr. Sheila Parks explains why all of us need to TWEET THE POPE! For example: @pontifex Nuclear power is not clean, green or sustainable. Don't support nuke energy in your ...
Nuclear Hotseat #184: Radiation Lies and Truths about Fukushima
December 31, 2014 00:23 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBSpecial encore presentations of interviews with Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations' UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO's interpretation of radiation data is wrong as it tries to undermine the legitimate claims of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, ...
Nuclear Hotseat #183: UN, IAEA, WHO Lies about Chernobyl
December 24, 2014 05:11 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSociologist and psychologist Alison Katz dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations' World Health Organization in its reporting on the health impact of Chernobyl. Katz worked inside the WHO for 18 years and now is a leader within Independent WHO, which reveals the pro-nuclear lies in the agency's reports on Chernoby. and Fukushima. A Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive. (Originally aired September 17, 2013)
Nuclear Hotseat #183: UN, IAEA, WHO Lies about Chernobyl
December 24, 2014 05:11 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSociologist and psychologist Alison Katz dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations' World Health Organization in its reporting on the health impact of Chernobyl. Katz worked inside the WHO for 18 years and now is a leader within Independent WHO, which reveals the pro-nuclear lies in the agency's reports on Chernoby. and Fukushima. A Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive. (Originally aired September 17, 2013)
Nuclear Hotseat #182: Prof. Quamrul Haider - Nukes "6th Horseman of Apocalypse"
December 17, 2014 06:55 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider, nuclear physicist from Fordham University in New York, on his op-ed calling nuclear "The sixth horseman of the Apocalypse," the dangers of Russian-made nuclear reactors, and how Bangladesh is being duped into funding nuclear technology that is both dangerous and unnecessary; and Dr. Helen Caldicott on her upcoming Symposium on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction - cheerful stuff for the holidays! NUMNUTZ: How about using a prescribed burn at a plut...
Nuclear Hotseat #181: Entergy Loses (Nuclear) Power!
December 10, 2014 05:57 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on longstanding safety and embrittlement issues at Entergy's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shores of Lake Michigan and the coalition of environmental groups that has intervened against the nuke operator's attempt to get the NRC to roll back safety requirements. Then Leslie Sullivan Sachs of Vermont's Safe and Green Campaign helps us celebrate the year-end closing of Entergy's Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant -- the exact same GE Mark...
Nuclear Hotseat #180: Dr. Chris Busby - Radiation Doses, Nuke Veteran Lawsuits
December 03, 2014 05:43 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Chris Busby on internal/external radiation doses, similarities between UK nuke veteran cases and USS Reagan lawsuit, strategies and languaging for activists. NUMNUTZ OF TH WEEK: Nuke and Frack dance the Fuel Cycle Tango and show how closely they're aligned. PLUS: Former WHO director blasts United Nations' UNSCEAR report as "unscientific;" Exelon on verge of shutting down three nuke sites in Illinois; Soaring tachyarrhythmia rates (abnormally rapid heartbeat) rates at Sendai ...
Nuclear Hotseat #179: BREAKING: 2nd USS Reagan Death
November 26, 2014 08:10 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBBREAKING: Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case. Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner, attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Research and Information Center, again updates us on the most recent radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site, in Carlsbad, NM. Gail Snyder, Board President of Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Infor...
Nuclear Hotseat #178: Fukushima Kids, Moms, Thyroids
November 19, 2014 07:41 - 68.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash on his film, "A-2, B, C" about Fukushima radiation's devastating impact upon children, seen through the eyes of their mothers. VOICES FROM JAPAN: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko voices her husband, fine artist and photographer Yugi Kaneko, on his recent revisit to Fukushima and the problems of radioactive waste incineration. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: You call THAT an evacuation drill?!?!?????
Nuclear Hotseat #177: Fukushima Update w/Arnie Gundersen
November 12, 2014 21:22 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen interprets the latest developments at Fukushima Daiichi and provides a stunningly simple way to deny the nuclear industry its profits on peak energy, which has the power to effectively sink the whole technology in the US. PLUS: UK correspondent Shaun McGee reports from Ireland on manipulations by the government regarding the British Nuclear Test Veterans Case, as well as actions taken against Prof. Christopher Busby and Dr. Ian Fairleigh.
Nuclear Hotseat #177: Fukushima Update w/Arnie Gundersen
November 12, 2014 06:39 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen interprets the latest developments at Fukushima Daiichi and provides a stunningly simple way to deny the nuclear industry its profits on peak energy, which has the power to effectively sink the whole technology in the US. PLUS: UK correspondent Shaun McGee reports from Ireland on manipulations by the government regarding the British Nuclear Test Veterans Case, as well as actions taken against Prof. Christopher Busby and Dr. Ian Fairleigh.
Nuclear Hotseat #176: USS Reagan Lawsuit Passes Judicial Hurdle!
November 05, 2014 06:28 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Attorneys for the USS Reagan sailors, who are suing TEPCO to create a $1 Billion fund to help cover their medical costs, win big in preliminary hearing as judge decides they can not only proceed against TEPCO, but allows the addition of four corporations that designed and built Fukushima Daiichi. Hear from Charles Bonner and Paul Garner on the background of the case, the series of hearings, how they got the news -- and what this will mean to the sailors.
Nuclear Hotseat #175: SPECIAL - Pilgrim Grandmothers Trial
October 29, 2014 06:21 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSPECIAL: Full coverage of the trial of the Four Grandmothers, whose Mother's Day protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station got them arrested for attempting to plant flowers on the Entergy property. Interviews with Cape Cod Downwinders co-founder Diane Turco; a first-time activist, 71-year-old Mary Conathan; and attorney Bruce Taub. PLUS: Halloween is scary - and what's scarier than nuclear? A whole bunch of activists weigh in on their worst nuclear fears - BWAAAAHAHAHA...
Nuclear Hotseat #174: WIPP Fan Restart, Food Safety from 2011 Still Timely
October 22, 2014 05:52 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides another sterling update on the fan restart at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad, NM; and One from the Vault, Nuclear Hotseat #7 from July 26, 2011 - interview w/Jon Solomon, VP of Purchasing for Eden Foods, on the food safety protocol the company put in place in the days immediately after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Nuclear tourism to New Mexico - take ...
Nuclear Hotseat #173: USS Reagan Homeporting in Japan?
October 15, 2014 04:33 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Two looks across the Pacific at the fate of the USS Ronald Reagan after being hit with the heaviest of Fukushima's radiation: Mr. Masahiko Gotu on legal actions to prevent the US and Japanese government's plans to home port the Reagan in Yokusuka; and southern California veteran activist Carol Jahnkow with the background on the history of nuclear ships in San Diego, where the Reagan is currently docked, and the dangers posed by our atomic fleet. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Did the Jap...
Nuclear Hotseat #172: Dr. Helen Caldicott
October 08, 2014 05:25 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott - Nobel Peace Prize nominee, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, pediatrician, veteran anti-nuclear activist and author, discusses her latest book, "Crisis Without End." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: When your nuclear reactor has cracks in its core, just say you expected them and now expect some more and everyone steps away from their panic - oy! PLUS: Did the explosion near the Parchin military facility near Tehran in Iran have anything to do with their n...
Nuclear Hotseat #170: Southwest Radiation Leak Update
October 01, 2014 04:28 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Southwest Radiation Leak Update: What's really happening at WIPP and WCS? Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Center corrects some misinformation and brings us up to date on the real info regarding the problems at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, while Karen Hadden of SEED Coalition in Texas enumerates the problems with the waste that couldn't go to WIPP that ended up at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews, Texas. NUMNUTZ OF T...
Nuclear Hotseat #170: Nuclear Hotseat #170: Climate Change March Special w/Michael Mariotte, Gail Payne, Dr. Sheila Parks
September 24, 2014 05:18 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEWS: Special report on last Sunday's massive Climate Change March in New York City with Michael Mariotte, President of NIRS; graphic designer Gail Payne; and long time Boston activist Dr. Sheila Parks. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: the nuke industry itself decodes what bankers hear when the industry speaks. It's a guidebook for our presentations to anyone in the financial world that undermines the nukers! PLUS: new leak suspected at WIPP; more Fukushima water woes; and Japanese Prime MIniste...
Nuclear Hotseat #168: Japanese Broadcaster's Death - Suicide or Something Else?
September 16, 2014 21:00 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW SHOW: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, Nuclear Hotseat's "boots on the ground" in Japan, on the recent death of Japanese broadcaster Masaki Iwaji - suicide or something more sinister? Beverly weighs in with exclusive information on that story, plus reports on the impact of Japan's right-wing militarization push on the anti-nuclear movement and her time spent on retreat in the mountains with mothers and children from Fukushima. Then award-winning journalist Karl Grossman fills us in on Nuk...
Nuclear Hotseat #168: Millstone's Unreported Radiation Leak Nancy Burton
September 10, 2014 06:09 - 1 hour - 13.7 MBINTERVIEW: Nancy Burton, founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, on the horrifying history of Connecticut's aging Millstone nuclear power station, on the ongoing dangers posed by owner/operator Dominion Resources' bottom line approach to safety, and the unreported radiation release that happened during the double-reactor shutdown on May 25, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The international nuclear industry is so screwed up, it qualifies. I wouldn't buy a used car from these idi...
Nuclear Hotseat #167: Kevin Kamps Outs NRC's Rubberstamp of Nuke Renewals
September 03, 2014 05:05 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear explains the recent outrageous decisions by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to lift all delays in reactor license extensions and proposed new builds, along with now-former-Commissioner Magwood's blatant conflict of interest; and Don Hancock of Southwest Information and Research Center updates us on the WIPP Valentine's Day radiation leak, including EPA findings on deficiencies and errors in radiation monitoring data. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Do we re...
Nuclear Hotseat #166: EXCLUSIVE: USS Reagan v TEPCO Hearing
August 27, 2014 05:09 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSPECIAL REPORT: San Diego Federal Court hearing in the $1 billion lawsuit by the sailors of the USS Reagan vs. Tokyo Electric Power Company based on their exposure to lethal levels of radiation following the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Interviews with attorneys Charles Bonner and Paul Garner, USS Reagan sailor Steve Simmons, and his wife, Summer Simmons. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Does the nuclear industry actually pay its trolls to remove Dr. Ian Fairlie's article from acade...
Nuclear Hotseat #165: Dr. Ian Fairlie - Soaring Leukemia
August 21, 2014 23:39 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie on his correlation of more than 60 studies on the impact of nuclear reactors on children who live within 3 miles of a nuclear reactor -- and which shows a 37% increase in leukemia rates in kids 5 and under. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Grand Hyatt Fukuoka's "Fukushima Supporter Chef" feeds fresh, local, irradiated produce to the hotel's guests. PLUS: Japanese government accused of "crimes against humanity" in its refusal to evacuate children from Fukushima; French nucle...
Nuclear Hotseat #164: India's Kumar Sundaram in Japan
August 13, 2014 05:55 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram, India's "Nuclear Gandhi," on his recent trip to Japan to raise awareness of the pending deal for Japan to sell nuclear technology to India. MINI-INTERVIEW: Beverly Kerr, Associate Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, comments on last week's Numnutz of the Week about the scuttled Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab plans to offer Southern accent reduction classes at $805/person. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: the NRC wants to join the fun on Facebook! "Friends?" PLUS...
Nuclear Hotseat #163: Hiroshima Day w/PSR's Catherine Thomasson
August 06, 2014 05:38 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Hiroshima Day interview on the current state of nuclear weapons and the dangers they still represent; and award-winning journalist Karl Grossman on recent developments in solar space propulsion technology that gives lie to the nuclear industry's claims that only nukes can power inter-planetary exploration. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: C'mon down to Oak Ridge, y'all! PLUS: Government confirms 1,750 USS...
Nuclear Hotseat #162: US Military Report Downplaying Fukushima RadiationRefuted
July 30, 2014 04:56 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: USS Reagan veteran Steve Simmons, an interviewee on Nuclear Hotseat #159, offers a well reasoned and deeply felt response to the US military's recent report that denied Fukushima radiation could have anything to do with Steve's and 111 other sailors' catastrophic illnesses. Joseph Mangano, Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project, offers an epidemiological analysis of that report, pointing out its historic similarity to other times the US government downplayed n...
Nuclear Hotseat #161: UNSCEAR Report Blasted by IPPNW's Rosen
July 23, 2014 04:13 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Germany and a former Vice chair of the International IPPNW Board of Directors. He uses that organization's recently published Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR radiation report on Fukushima to decode its flawed methodology and demolish its credibility. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK - kids "education" program from Fukushima City government, "Let's Build a Radiation Resista...
Nuclear Hotseat #160: WIPP Radiation Release Update, NRC's Flawed Computer Program
July 16, 2014 05:07 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again updates us on the latest problems at the WIPP nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad, NM; Scott Portzline of Three Mile Island Alert helps us understand the flawed nature of the NRC's computer progra to analyze potential nuclear accident consequences; and our Voices from Japan series presents filmmaker Yumiko Hayakawa talking about TEPCO censorship against her film, "A Woman from Fukushima."
Nuclear Hotseat #159: USS Reagan's Steve Simmons
July 09, 2014 05:42 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterview: Steve Simmons, who was aboard the USS Ronald Reagan when it went through the radiation plume from Fukushima Daiichi, gives a candid interview about what it was like aboard the ship as life-changing decisions got made, his declining health and frustrations with a governmental health system that refused to consider radiation as the cause of his illnesses and denied an accurate diagnosis. Powerful information in advance of the next hearing in the lawsuit against TEPCO for medical dam...
Nuclear Hotseat #158: New San Onofre Dangers w/Donna Gilmore
July 02, 2014 06:10 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety breaks down the dangers of inferior dry casks for storage of San Onofre's waste for high burn-up fuel. Breaking News report from Three Mile Island Alert's Scott Portzline on a new cyber-threat to US energy companies, including nukes. When is an NRC "Unusual Event" not an Unusual Event? When it's Numnutz of the Week! PLUS: Rad levels up at WIPP; Fukushima radiation release into ocean now dwarfs Chernobyl's releases on land and at sea; Japan ...
Nuclear Hotseat #157: Climate Change w/Nuke Engineer Ernie Goitein
June 25, 2014 06:11 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Nuclear engineer Ernie Goitein offers clear explanations of engineering problems w/aging nuclear plants and provides a new insight as to how nukes directly impact global warming. Then Tim Judson, Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). PLUS: Fort Calhoun NPP faces flooding from the Missouri River... again; call for NRC Commissioner Magwood to resign in conflict of interest case; cow showing possible radiation-created "dots" brought to Tokyo in pro...
Nuclear Hotseat #156: 3rd Anniversary Special!
June 18, 2014 04:49 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat celebrates three years of weekly production with a brief look back at where it all began. Plus a featured interview w/Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center on the continuing situation at the WIPP site in Carlsbad, NM, site of the February 14 plutonium leak. AND: Fukushima children's thyroid cancer cases increasing, ice wall around reactors refuses to freeze, Pacific Ocean continues ecological catastrophe as more species collapse, Greenpeace say French rene...
Nuclear Hotseat #155: Voices f/Japan - Komoro Homestay w/Laura & Giichi Inoue
June 11, 2014 05:17 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Laura and Giichi Inoue, who run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat from radiation for Fukushima mothers and small children. BREAKING: First death recorded from USS Reagan sailors. PLUS: NRC needs to "duck and cover" as Sen. Boxer demands accountability and Sen. Markey blows the lid off NRC reprisals against employees who stand up for safety; Vermont Yankee critics use laugh track on NRC and Entergy spokesmodels; radioactive groundwater spikes under Indian Point NPP; TEPCO admits i...
Nuclear Hotseat #154: Joe Mangano Shreds WHO/IAEA
June 04, 2014 03:31Special encore presentation: Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (radiation.org) shreds the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) stranglehold on the World Health Organization's (WHO) ability to present honest information on radiation dangers to public health. A point-by-point analysis of IAEA's flawed epidemiological mandate to WHO, based on the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell's analysis. Core information on how the entire world has been tricked into believing radiation is...
Nuclear Hotseat #153: The WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance
May 27, 2014 16:56 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSpecial encore presentation of a full-length interview w/Alison Katz of Independent WHO on why we cannot trust any nuclear information that comes from the World Health Organization.
Nuclear Hotseat #152: Voices f/Japan - Idogawa, Horikiri, Nosebleeds
May 21, 2014 23:23 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBVoices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. PLUS: Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA; radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week; thyroid c...
Nuclear Hotseat #152: Voices f/Japan - Idogawa, Horikiri, Nosebleeds
May 21, 2014 20:58Voices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. PLUS: Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA; radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week; thyroid c...
Nuclear Hotseat #151: "Kitty Litter" Caused WIPP RadLeak?!?
May 14, 2014 04:18 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again gives us the straight facts about the WIPP problems, including his interpretation of why the "Kitty Litter" solution may not be so; Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight Project (COP) tears the CPUC's "untouchable!" corporate bailout of SCE over San Onofre to shreds. PLUS: NRC takes its sweet time about setting earthquake hazard analyses in 21 nuke facilities; Fukushima Prefecture goes nuts over Manga comic that tells the ...
Nuclear Hotseat #150: Award-Winning Journalist Karl Grossman
May 13, 2014 17:26 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterview w/award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman on how the nuclear industry has gamed the media since before Hiroshima, why mainstream media continues to resist coverage of nuclear news, and thoughts on how to start breaking that logjam. PLUS: WIPP damage found to bags of magnesium oxide placed atop waste containers to stop radiation leaks - LOL!; Hanford explosion at the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition hidden for two weeks; Tokyo quakes register 6.6 and 6.1; TEPCO reg...
Nuclear Hotseat #149: WIPP Radiation Leak Special
April 30, 2014 03:31 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSpotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees: Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center; Karen Hadden, executive director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, and Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS. PLUS: Chernobyl - collateral damage in Putin/Ukraine clash? Nuclear refugees being...
Nuclear Hotseat #148: Chernobyl Anniversary Special
April 23, 2014 02:07 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterviews with: • Dr. Janette Sherman on the medical consequences of Fukushima • Dr. Alexey Yablokov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment • Bonnie Kouneva, Chernobyl downwinder living in Bulgaria, on the personal impact of the disaster on her life and the lives of her family “Voices from Japan” features Japanese photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa, the first non-Soviet journalist to document the Chernobyl disaster and one of the first journalists...
Nuclear Hotseat #147: Italy's Anti-Nuke Firebrand Massimo Greco
April 23, 2014 01:55 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterviews w/ Italy's anti-nuclear firebrand Massimo Greco on facing legal charges for his support of a Sardinian anti-nuke protest; and Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition on the WCS site in Andrews, Texas, where the WIPP waste is being sent -- and there are problems. Beverly Findlay-Kaneko on a different approach to informing people about nuclear problems and Fukushina without scaring them; and a Final Thought on the passing of Michael Ruppert.
Nuclear Hotseat #146: Latest on WIPP w/Don Hancock
April 09, 2014 05:58 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides the latest news on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project site in Carlsbad, New Mexico; Kimberly Roberson, founder of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, explains about Bequerels are BAD Day on April 10 and info on how to call in to elected representative to demand a lowering of the allowable limit of radiation in our food. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Evil Numnutz to UNSCEAR for having the NERVE to...