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 #145: More "Voices from Japan"
April 01, 2014 23:45The latest information on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Project Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico from Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Service; Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, shows us what the post-reactor decommissioning and clean-up process looks like, with lots of suggestions for local activists in the US; and Voices of Japan focuses on a father's reflection on his voluntary evacuation and the attorney who filed the Colle...
Nuclear Hotseat #144: Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL
March 26, 2014 03:44 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBThree Mile Island at 35: A Nuclear Hotseat Special. Featuring Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, long time Middletown resident Mary Stamos, TMI Alert tech expert Scott Portzline on possible sabotage, excerpts from news reports, including the CBS Special with Walter Cronkite, and Libbe HaLevy's personal story of what it was like to be one mile away from a nuclear reactor accident as it was happening.
Nuclear Hotseat #143: WIPP Update #4 w/Don Hancock
March 19, 2014 04:40 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: We revisit Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center to learn the latest developments on the radiation leak at the Carlsbad WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Project) site. PLUS: We introduce a new regular feature on food safety with Certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator Kimberly Roberson, who also founded the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network. NEWS: Fukushima news round-up; radwaste leak in Nova Scotia and fire in Scotland; Fairbanks, AK passes Fukushima ra...
Nuclear Hotseat #140: Fukushima Anniversary Special
March 10, 2014 21:45 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBNuclear Hotseat marks the third anniversary of the start of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster with a special program. Interviews with Japanese anti-nuclear scientists, politicians, activists and more - what it is like in Japan since the accident began, what information is not getting out and what they want the world to know. Featuring Prof. Hiroaki Koide, Diet member/actor Taro Yamamoto, and actress Midori Kiuchi. Posting simultaneously in Japanese.
Nuclear Hotseat #141: Diablo Canyon Cancer Stats w/Dr. Jerry Brown
March 05, 2014 05:29 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown of Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy blows the lid off the presumed safety of "permissible" radiation releases from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant w/a newly commissioned report on cancer statistics in nearby counties by esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano. We revisit the WIPP radiological accident and radiation release in Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. PLUS: Hanford site threatened by cracked dam 40 mi...
Nuclear Hotseat #140: WIPP RadLeak Update w/Don Hancock
February 27, 2014 16:46 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her...
Nuclear Hotseat #140: WIPP RadLeak Update w/Don Hancock
February 26, 2014 05:42 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. And Chizo Hamada shares international Fukushima 3 Anniversary event...
Nuclear Hotseat #139: WIPP Rad Release w/Watchdog Don Hancock
February 19, 2014 06:02 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBBREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice, 84, gets 2 years 11 months in prison for her peaceful protest at the Y-12 National Security complex, a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Details next week. For this week's program, focus on the recent fire and radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. Then the featured interview w/Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar, on tour in the US with his award-winning film...
Nuclear Hotseat #138: USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO Lawsuit Update
February 12, 2014 05:37 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Charles Bonner, attorney for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, on their lawsuit against TEPCO for radiation exposure after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. PLUS: Eight more children diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Fukushima; TEPCO admits their radiation data is "wildly wrong" as new sources of radiation leaks keep showing up; Tokyo gets Abe-baby's hand-picked pro-nuke misogynist Masuzoe as anti-nuke vote gets split; Hawaii getting hit with radiation; kayakers reporting F...
Nuclear Hotseat #137: Sierra Club Nuke Chair Susan Corbett
February 05, 2014 07:11 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterview w/Susan Corbett, Chair of the National Sierra Club Nuclear Issues Activist Team that watchdogs nuclear issues. Learn what's going on to ensure nuclear-industry-intensive South Carolina does NOT turn into the "nuclear waste paid toilet of the South." PLUS: Sen. Boxer KO's NRC over missing San Onofre documents; Congress calls for investigation into radiation contamination of sailors after Fukushima on USS Reagan; Sen. Sanders tries for repeal of Price-Anderson; NHK forbids its broad...
Nuclear Hotseat #136: DC Anti-Nuke Showdown w/NRC, EPA, EPW
January 29, 2014 05:01 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterviews with two participants in the recent DC meetings with the NRC, EPA and reps for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: Dr. Marvin Resnikoff on NRC "duh!" over the dangers of high burn-up fuel and Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS on how the EPA squandered every opportunity to record radiation levels on the west coast after Fukushima. PLUS: Sr. Megan Rice sentencing called on account of snow; Alaska cites the Twinkie, uh, banana defense to radiation charges as seals die of "whi...
Nuclear Hotseat #135: Fukushima On-the-Ground Report
January 22, 2014 06:52 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBBeverly Findlay-Kaneko of Families for Safe Energy reports on the deeply human side of Fukushima following her recent trip back home. Catch up with Setsuko Kida, interviewed for Nuclear Hotseat #127, and learn how these nuclear refugees cope with radiation and how you can help. PLUS: nuclear pork barrel in Congressional budget, military meltdowns suspend 34 nuke site officers, NRC Alert for fire at Harris nuke in North Carolina, Alaska salmon showing signs of Fukushima radiation but US gove...
Nuclear Hotseat #134: NIRS new Exec Director Tim Judson
January 15, 2014 05:48 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBFeatured Interview with Tim Judson, the new Executive Director of NIRS. He shares strategies for propelling our movement forward as well as exposing the soft, vulnerable underbelly of nuclear slumlord Entergy. Also, India's anti-nuclear firebrand Kumar Sundaram explains the significance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming trip to India and how anyone can join in the protests with a selfie. RadCast w/Mimi German, of course! PLUS: Special Ocean report, with Woods Hole's Ken Bu...
Nuclear Hotseat #133: Sky Not Falling!
January 08, 2014 05:14 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBContrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government ...
Nuclear Hotseat #132: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance
December 31, 2013 21:31 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBSpecial Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance censors WHO's nuclear information. Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the "Unholy Alliance" between the agency we're supposed to trust to safeguard the world's health – especially in nuclear matters -- and the pro-nuclear IAEA. This is an Encore Presentation (NH #118) and a Nuclear Hotseat exclusive.
Nuclear Hotseat #131: Caldicott, Gundersen, Nader, Oh My!
December 25, 2013 02:40 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBA trio of Christmas gifts: three of the top, most respected voices within the anti-nuclear community, taken from the past year of Nuclear Hotseat. Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about how she became an activist and her then-upcoming Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (NH #83 - 1/15/13). In our most popular program ever, with 489,195 downloads in the first five days (and still getting play), Arnie Gundersen explains what he would do with Fukushima if ...
Nuclear Hotseat #130: Aussie Nuke Issues w/FoE's Dr. Jim Green
December 18, 2013 06:41 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterview w/Dr. Jim Green, Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner for Australia on that country's culpability for Fukushima and whether it's really safer from radiation down under than in the Northern Hemisphere. RadCast with Mimi German gives the "nuclear weather report" for the US, showing increased radiation across the country. PLUS: TEPCO admits what they knew and when they know it re: meltdowns in Fukushima Units 1,2,3 and Dr. Caldicott labels their actions criminal irresponsibility...
Nuclear Hotseat #129: Attny Charles Bonner reps USS Reagan Sailors
December 11, 2013 07:05 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, who is representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors nuked by Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi in their lawsuit against TEPCO. PLUS: RadCast w/Mimi German, Japanese citizens rebelling against state secrets act, how Japan ignored Chernobyl in setting safety standards, explosion and fire in Arkansas nuke facility, more demands for radiation testing for food and the ocean, AARP going after Florida "advance fee" law, and who knew Mexico had a National C...
Nuclear Hotseat #128: Talkin' Nuke Trash w/Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps
December 04, 2013 08:04 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog/Bulldog for Beyond Nuclear, talks through our possible eternal futures as regards radioactive waste. PLUS: Japan in uproar as PM Abe-Baby pushes Secrecy Act through the Diet; Strontium 90 predicted to start hitting the Pacific this week; World Bank sniffs, "We don't do nuclear energy" while Norwegian investment fund dumps TEPCO stock; Chernobyl getting new containment mega-building; NRC DUCK! and Cover report; plus RadCast radiation "weather" ...
Nuclear Hotseat #127: Nuclear Refugee Setsuko Kida
November 27, 2013 07:51 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Former Fukushima resident Setsuko Kida on the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, her emergence into activism and her recent trip to the US to meet with attorneys for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors who are suing TEPCO. PLUS: Japan Diet's lower house passes State Secrets Protection Bill amid fears of growing fascism and censorship; world's engineers express concern over TEPCO's attempts to remove fuel rods from Unit 4 spent fuel pool; unofficial reports (which will pr...
Nuclear Hotseat #126: Wasserman, Gundersen, RadCast
November 20, 2013 07:17 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBINTERVIEW: Anti-nuclear/Pro-alternatives veteran activist Harvey Wasserman blasts through TEPCO lies, how and where and why to get active NOW! Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org explains specifics about Spent Fuel Pool 4 and the dangerous operation TEPCO has just launched. Mimi German delivers the RadCast - radiation readings around the US (the international report starts next week). PLUS: TEPCO pulls first fuel rods out of Fukushima... but they're "blanks;" first pics of the leaks (two) a...
Nuclear Hotseat #125: Radical RadCast w/Mimi German
November 13, 2013 08:16 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBMimi German, founder of RadCast Radiation Reports - a new online and mainstream media "radiation weather report" - explains how the service started and how quickly it has grown to broadcast and online outlets, including Thom Hartmann on RT.com. Then listen to the first RadCast report as we inaugurate the service on Nuclear Hotseat. PLUS: T-minus ten days to TEPCO's yakuza-recruited workers' attempt to remove spent fuel rods from SFP4 without triggering Armageddon; world scientists, engineer...
Nuclear Hotseat #124: Pandora/Schmandora -
November 06, 2013 08:52 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBInterview with Norbert Suchanek, founder of the Rio de Janeiro-based Uranium Film Festival, on this international ingathering of anti-nuclear voices, the growing archive of our nuclear history, and the Festival's first showing in America this month. PLUS: TEPCO delays Armageddon for tests of whether or not they can do anything right; US Energy Secretary Moniz offers American help at Fukushima... with rope-like strings attached; world's voices raised in warning to help pull Japan from the bri...
Nuclear Hotseat #123: NUCLEAR HALLOWEEN FRIGHT HOUSE!
October 30, 2013 19:30 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBWhat's scarier than Nuclear? Join the spooky terror as activists from both coasts share their worst nuclear fears. Then hear from experts from the October 19 Community Symposium on Decommissioning San Onofre to hear the most frightening information about nuclear waste as part of the Nuclear Hotseat Halloween Fright House! PLUS: 7.3 Quake damage at Fukushima suspected; TEPCO resorts to slave labor to get workers into the danger zone; Caldicott/Gundersen/Yablokov letter to UN Secretary Gen...
Nuclear Hotseat #122: Puncturing Pandora's Propaganda
October 23, 2013 18:41 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBBeyond Nuclear's Linda Gunter, Physicians for Social Responsibility's John W. Rachow and nuclear physicist Dr. M.V. Ramana give us the facts to counter CNN's November airings of the pro-nuclear propaganda film "Pandora's Promise." Learn the facts, prepare for action! Activists can be ready with op-eds, letters to the editor and more by using the information they provide. PLUS: Japan radiation, the world's voices rise to make Fukushima subject to an international coalition of experts inste...
Nuclear Hotseat #121: Nuclear Nader but Can Kan?
October 16, 2013 18:47 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBSPECIAL REPORT: On-the-scene reporting on two top level east coast anti-nuclear events held last week featuring Ralph Nader, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, former NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen, and via tape, Jean-Michel Cousteau. The topic : Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons. The New York event focused on the Indian Point NPP and the one in Boston on Pilgrim NPP. Inspiring, infuriating,...
Nuclear Hotseat #120: Tokyo Blogger Dennis Riches on Nuclear Self-Deception
October 02, 2013 06:20 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBTokyo resident, blogger and neighborhood activist Dennis Riches, living 120 miles from Fukushima, gives us a first-hand glimpse at the mental twists and turns that let TEPCO executives and PM Abe live with themselves. BONUS INTERVIEW: Michael Leonardi of Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy and the Coalition Against Nukes gives a first-hand account of police shenanigans around Canadian hearings on nuclear waste dump proposed for less than a mile from Lake Huron. PLUS: FDA "decision" to test o...
Nuclear Hotseat #119: Don't Trust WHO/IAEA Rad Stats!!
September 25, 2013 04:20 - 27.5 MBJoseph 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 no big deal. PLUS: Japanese...
Nuclear Hotseat #119: WHO/IAEA - Don't Trust their Stats
September 25, 2013 04:17 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBJoseph 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 no big deal. PLUS: Japanese...
Nuclear Hotseat #118: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance - EXCLUSIVE!
September 17, 2013 17:05 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBIt's one thing to say that the World Health Organization is completely subservient to the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency -- but what exactly does that mean? In this Nuclear Hotseat exclusive, Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Independent WHO - Health and Nuclear Power, explains the history, politics and scientific manipulations of the one agency the world is supposed to be able to trust with its health. Whether you're an activist, a member of the media or just a c...
Nuclear Hotseat #117: Fukushima w/Gundersen in Charge?
September 11, 2013 06:55 - 1 hour - 29 MBArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education provides a vision of how he would proceed with Fukushima, including missed opportunities, TEPCO incompetence and the all-important moves he would make to minimize the negative impact of the world's worst nuclear/industrial disaster. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Could anyone top the International Olympic Committee this week? Two strong contenders, but still, the IOC wins, hands down. PLUS: Spin-speak attaining dizzying speeds as Japan seeks to quash ...
Nuclear Hotseat #116: On-the-Ground in Activist Japan w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko,
September 04, 2013 07:36 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBFormer Japanese resident Beverly Findlay-Kaneko reports on her recent trip to Japan, where she met with committed activists, two symposia, demonstrations and followed through on her humanitarian work helping Fukushima's children spend time in a camp far from the nuclear disaster, where they can again experience sunshine and air they can breathe without fear. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for offering "prompt" solutions to Fukushima almost 30 months after the disaste...
#115: VERMONT YANKEE SHUTDOWN SPECIAL
August 29, 2013 07:36 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBEntergy announces closure of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant at the end of 2014 - so what does it mean? Get perspective from two Vermonters: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, a former nuclear industry insider who explains nuclear problems and dilemmas a la Mr. Wizard; and Hattie Nestle, veteran protester who lives within 20 miles of Vermont Yankee and who's been arrested 35 times protesting the facility. PLUS: Japan finally accepts foreign assistance, PM Shinzo Abe says his...
#114: Organizational Psychosis & the Nuke Industry
August 21, 2013 06:33 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBOrganizational psychologist Dr. Lloyd C. Williams gives a clinical explanation of why nukes are nuts -- the industry, that is -- along with strategies we might use in dealing with pro-nukers. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Fukushima -- the tourist destination? PLUS: No States Rights for Vermont state when it comes to Vermont Yankee; Fukushima governor labels situation a "national emergency;" TEPCO goes to Hanford to learn about radioactive waste control ; salmon disappearing from Canada, Alaska, Rus...
#113: BREAKING! San Onofre Symposium Takes On Decomissioning
August 14, 2013 07:34 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBClosing down San Onofre didn't end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted to the radwaste front. Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about how the problems of decommissioning, those pesky spent fuel rods, and some surprising news about fuel radiation levels lead to a regrouping of activists and the upcoming Symposium on Decommissioning San Onofre and the Ongoing Dangers of Nuclear Waste. Then Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health in an en...
#112: Hiroshima Anniversary; Chikako Nishiyama
August 07, 2013 07:16 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBHiroshima and Nagasaki Anniversary. Interviews wth Fukushima survivor Chikako Nishiyama and San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace organizer Carole Hisasue on the northern California commemorative events. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: UC Berkeley professor claims Fukushima radiation "no problem" for USA while EPA spokesidiot claims "Any kind of release i Japan would be non-detectable here!" Flat Earth Society, anyone? PLUS: TEPCO admits radiation at Fukushima up 47 TIMES since just last week and they...
#111: "Fukushima is Here" Human Billboard How-To w/John Bertucci
July 31, 2013 07:59 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBPsssst! Wanna be part of a 2,000-person human billboard to stop nuclear? Listen in as John Bertucci, a San Francisco-area anti-nuclear activist, explains the planned October 19 action and how you can participate, either in SF or your own nuclear-riddled home turf. Then hear a special encore presentation of Daniel Hirsch, nuclear policy lecturer from UC Santa Cruz talk about how his students discovered a hidden US nuclear disaster -- the 1959 reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Labor...
#110: DisaDisaster Prep Pro Chuck McCune on FEMA, Global Warming & Nukes
July 24, 2013 07:01 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBWhat would a natural disaster do to nuclear power facilities? How vulnerable are our nuclear reactors to global warming? Veteran disaster preparedness pro Chuck McCune shares information FEMA doesn't make public about exactly what we face, along with a vision of activism that gives real muscle to our movement. PLUS: Former San Onofre partners SCE, SDG&E and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries battling it out over who owes who what for those faulty steam generators that got the site SHUT DOWN FOREV...
#109: Ace Reporter Susannah Frame on Nailing Nuclear Hanford
July 17, 2013 07:16 - 1 hour - 55 MBAward-winning investigative reporter Susannah Frame from KING 5 News in Seattle has not only covered the problems at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington, she has broken several of the most important recent stories. Listen to what a real reporter goes through to get the hottest nuclear news and put it out into mainstream media. PLUS: Greenpeace invades French nuclear power plant; Kudankulam activists "drop dead" as facility fires up to criticality; Switzerland outraged after radioact...
#108: Nebraskashima? Ft. Calhoun Update
July 10, 2013 06:25 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBTwo years ago, the Ft. Calhoun nuclear reactors near Omaha were surrounded by an inflatable berm that was surrounded by flood-level water - a veritable island of nukes. What's happened since? Nebraska energy activist LaVerne Traen fills in the picture, and like all things nukes, it's not a pretty one. PLUS: Fukushima radiation levels soaring for unexplained reasons; TEPCO failings revealed by Japanese comedienne; Japan's Labor Democratic Party pushes for nuke restarts and nuke-adjacent ma...
#107: Food/Radiation Update w/FFAN's Kim Roberson
July 03, 2013 06:22 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBDo you know where your green tea came from? Might it be northeast Japan? Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network brings us up to date on the latest foods and supplement ingredients to avoid, and with Citizens for Health's Sean Witzling, tells us about the FDA petition that can make a big difference in our food safety. PLUS: Scientists and medical experts take on the UN over Fukushima radiation report; Energy Dept. considers dumping $3.7 billion boondoggle Savannah River S...
#106: Davis Besse Next? Michael Keegan on SanO Strategy for Ohio Nuke
June 26, 2013 07:14 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBMichael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will be the model for shutting down Davis-Besse. Then MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native medicine man Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways. PLUS: Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;" MacFarlane re-nominated as NRC Chair; Lochbaum provides the NRC "DUCK!" ...
#105: EXCLUSIVE Naoto Kan Interview
June 19, 2013 07:27 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBNuclear Hotseat's producer/host Libbe HaLevy's exclusive interview with former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan after the June 4 "Fukushima Daiichi Disaster: Lessons for California" panel discussion in San Diego. PLUS: more from PM Kan's presentation and more celebratory interviews with So Cal activists following the San Onofre closure; Hanford leaks getting worse; Canada planning to bury nuke waste less than a kilometer from Lake Huron; current Japanese Prime Minister's wife is anti-nuke; ...
#104: SAN ONOFRE SHUTDOWN SPECIAL!
June 12, 2013 05:57 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBJubilant activists celebrate SCE's announcement that the San Onofre Nuclear Power Facility WILL NEVER BE GOING BACK ONLINE! Hear those on the front lines of the battle share how they heard the news, how they felt, how they celebrated -- and what's still ahead to get SanO decommissioned without ratepayers shouldering the payments. PLUS: Oak Ridge Y-12 facility broached again; Japanese parents take thyroid testing of their children into their own hands as 27 Fukushima children now confirmed o...
#103: ANTI-NUCLEAR SUMMIT in SAN DIEGO
June 05, 2013 16:51 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBSan Diego summit: speak-out on Fukushima Daiichi Disaster: Lessons for California from the men who had to take responsibility in a nuclear crisis: Former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan, former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregor Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, former nuclear industry vice president Arnie Gundersen. Plus interview with Torgen Johnson, the "I'm not an activist; I'm a concerned father" man behind the vision and actions that created this event. Listen ...
#102: NUCLEAR GANDHI
May 29, 2013 07:51 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBKumar Sundaram, Research Consultant with the Indian Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) on Japan's push to sell nuclear technology to India and his country's massive, growing anti-nuclear movement. PLUS: Sen. Boxer demands Justice Dept. investigates SCE execs after 2004 letter surfaces showing company doubts over steam generator design; Kentucky nuke faces disaster when TVA turns off the lights; seaweed shuts down 2 Scottish nuke plants while Greenpeace lands a warning on Swed...
#101: Hanford Spotlight w/PSR's Daniel Noonan
May 22, 2013 06:01 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBDaniel Noonan of Washington State Physicians for Social Responsibility on the complex history of the Hanford nuclear site, repository of 60% of America's high level nuclear waste and this week's public meeting at the University of Washington. Plus organic grape grower and winemaker Paul Frey on reactor accident impact on America's agriculture. BONUS: How to make a radiation impact map for your local neighborhood nuclear reactor! PLUS: Belgium's 2 nukes cracked "but safe!"; Hamburg ship fire ...
Nuclear Hotseat #100! - Big San Onofre Win: ASLB Mandates Public Hearings
May 15, 2013 06:43 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBFriends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner Kendra Ulrich explains the importance of the ASLB's determination calling for the NRC to hold an adjudicated evidentiary hearing - a TRIAL - on Southern California Edison's proposed restart of the damaged leaking Unit 2. Featured interview w/Rudolph Herzog, author of "A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY: MAD SCIENTISTS, DITHERING NAZIS, LOST NUKES AND CATASTROPHIC COVER-UPS." PLUS: 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice and two associates found guilty of consci...
Nuclear Hotseat #99: San Onofre Heats Up
May 08, 2013 05:57 - 1 hour - 55 MBFrom the Macro to the Micro on San Onofre: Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner Kendra Ulrich on facing down the NRC "in the belly of the beast," and nuclear videographer Myla Reson gets Rep. Henry Waxman all righteous on our behalf. PLUS: Palisades leaks "very slightly/mildly/diluted' radioactive water into Lake Michigan but "there's no impact on health and safety!"; Duke dumps plans for 2 new nukes; DU implicted in GI suicides?; 83-year-old nun + 2 on trial for breaking into Oak Ridg...
#98: LaSalle NPP Radiation Leak Threatens Chicago
May 01, 2013 05:53 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBLaSalle NPP near Chicago goes SCRAM four times w/an uncontrolled radiation leak in less than two weeks; is the country's most nuclear state about to go critical? Nuclear Energy and Information Service's Gail Payne and Andrew Kishner of NuclearCrimes.org explain the complex issues while admitting that no one knows exactly how much radiation was vented. Oy. PLUS: NYTimes says TEPCO "just hanging on," hasn't a clue; Japan refuses its responsibility to evacuate kids from Fukushima radiation z...