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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#97: CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
April 24, 2013 05:46 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBIn commemoration of the 27th anniversary of Chernobyl on April 26, three interviews: Dr. Alexei Yablokov, author of the groundbreaking book, CHERNOBYL: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment; Dr. Janette Sherman, who edited the English translation of Dr. Yablokov's book and speaks to her own expertise about the impact of radiation on fetuses, children and adults; and Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, who as a teenager lived 800 miles away in Bulgaria... but it wasn't...
Nuclear Hotseat #96: Shocking Full Story of Fukushima Rad-Nuked US Sailors
April 17, 2013 05:58 - 1 hour - 55 MBYou may have heard about the sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan suing TEPCO for their radiation exposure, but you haven't heard the whole story. "The devil's in the details," as they say, and the details in this story will change you. Presentation by and uncensored press interview with former quartermasters Jaime Plym and Maurice Enis, taken from the Dr. Caldicott/PSR Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima. PLUS: EPA thinks it's just dandy for 1 in 23 of us to ...
Nuclear Hotseat #95: Radioactive Food, Activist Petitions
April 10, 2013 05:39 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBFukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN), represented by Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network), on their new citizen-action petitions. Want clean food? Sign and send to your list! PLUS: Former NRC Chair Jaczko says nuke reactors not safe and need to be shut down; So Cal Edison trying to dictate restart plans to a compliant (somnambulant?) NRC; TEPCO rat-chasers knock fuel pool #3 offline - again!; Fukushima leaking highly radioactive wa...
#94: Study Shows Shut Down Reactors, Local Cancer Rates Go Down!
April 03, 2013 05:07 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBQuick: Southern California Edison asks NRC for licensing hearing - good or bad? Gary Headrick reveals recent SCE feints, manipulations and slickery, as well as sudden NRC personnel changes (investigation lead Elmo Collins "retires," engineer Art Howell takes over!) that may directly impact the results of the restart hearings. PLUS: Arkansas nuke plant accident kills 1, injures 8; new study indicates nuke plant shutdowns reduce local cancer rates; Quebec puts a moratorium on uranium explorat...
#93: SPECIAL: THREE MILE ISLAND ANNIVERSARY
March 27, 2013 03:43 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBNuclear Hotseat Special Report on the 34th Anniversary of the Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Live through the first three days of the nuclear meltdown from an inside/outside perspective that will have you feeling like you've gone through the looking glass! Featuring nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com; longtime Middletown resident Mary Stamos; Walter Cronkite, "The Most Trusted Newsman in America;" the long-suppressed Dictaphone recording m...
#92: FUKUSHIMA BLACKOUT!
March 20, 2013 05:02 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBFukushima power outage timeline and potential consequences; Interview on maintaining health in the face of radiation with Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and author of Silence Deafening: Fukushima Fallout... A Mother's Response; SCE wants to restart San Onofre at full power despite likelihood of breakdown ; NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs ; Caldicott Symposium smashing success w/online viewers in 650 cities worldwide; France wins Numnutz of the Week for ...
#91: Dr. Caldicott Global Symposium on Fukushima - SPECIAL!
March 13, 2013 03:41 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBActivists from around the world report on their experiences at the Global Symposium on the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, produced by Dr. Helen Caldicott. Get a ringside seat and hear what they heard, learn what they learned!
Nuclear Hotseat #90: Organizational Psychosis & the Nuclear Industry
March 06, 2013 01:21 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBInterview w/international Fortune 100-level coach/consultant/organizational psychologist Dr. Lloyd Williams on organizational psychosis as it relates to Japan, TEPCO, the NRC and the rest of the nuclear industry, with tips to activists on how to break the nuclear cycle of abuse. BREAKING NEWS: Canadian company recycling radwaste into consumer goods forced out of business (now comes the clean-up). PLUS: World Health Organization issues shameful, lying report claiming no health damage in Jap...
#89 - Documentary on Japan's Post-Fuku Pain, Hanford Leaking, Nuke Workers Dying
February 27, 2013 05:45 - 36 minutes - 33 MBInterview w/Christopher Noland, whose documentary, "3.11: Surviving Japan," captures the raw pain, confusion and anger of the Japanese people in the first six months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. Film debuts on 3/11/13 around the country. PLUS: Hanford leaking up to two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of plutonium-laden waste, endangering Columbia River; Germany facing nuke waste dangers and admit they haven't a clue how to handle it; Rep. Markey suspects Southern...
Nuclear Hotseat #88: Bicoastal Activist Special - Priscilla Star, Gary Headrick
February 20, 2013 05:24 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBSpecial report on two major actions this week: the NRC's public meeting on San Onofre in southern California and the Climate Change Rally in DC. Interviews w/San Clemente Green leader Gary Headrick, member Grace Van Thillo, plus Priscilla Star of Coalition Against Nukes (CAN). PLUS: Hanford radwaste leak threatens Columbia river; Russian meteor barely missed 7 nuke facilities; two more confirmed cases of thyroid cancer in children near Fukushima; snow collapses roof at Chernobyl; It's offic...
Nuclar Hotseat #87: Zach Ruiter f/Train Blockade, Boxer/Markey NRC/SCE Bombshell
February 13, 2013 18:50 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBSen. Boxer and Rep. Markey blister the NRC over report showing SCE knew about steam generator design flaws and STILL went ahead with installation; Interview w/Zach "No Cameco" Ruiter on the recent Idle No More demonstration in Toronto that stopped a train outside of GE-Hitachi's uranium processing facility; NRC to meet with community on San Onofre; Navy seamen exposed to Fukushima suffering laukemia, brain lesions, testicular cancer; Fukushima boy found w/6,000 bq/kg cesium in his body.
Nuclear Hotseat #86: Nuclear Hotseat #86: US Dumps Military Radiation Database; Crystal River Down Makes 102!
February 06, 2013 05:49 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBNuke protest is in the air w/Vermont Yankee activists arrested and the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory 6 convicted and awaiting sentencing. During our interview with one of the LANL 6, Dr. Catherine Euler, she describes getting arrested by cops but detained by Bechtel, along with info on the underestimated dangers of uranium mining and low level radiation. PLUS: Duke Energy to close Crystal River for good; US dumps medical registry for military personnel and families exposed to Fukushima radi...
Nuclear Hotseat #85: Journalist Karl Grossman Decodes Nuclear History
January 30, 2013 05:50 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBVeteran journalist Karl Grossman traces nuclear media manipulation back to before Hiroshima and up to the present day. A special encore presentation of one of our most popular interviews. PLUS: Republicans on House Energy and Commerce Committee refuse to learn any lessons from the NRC's technical staff and the Japan Lessons Learned from Fukushima Task Force, reject safety recommendations. NRC pushes back San Onofre never-start decision to late April or early May. Vogtle and Sum...
Nuclear Hotseat #84: Nuclear Collusion, Radioactive Food
January 23, 2013 05:05 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBBeyond Nuclear's Cindy Folkers (the brain behind those great weekly action bulletins) provides insights into nuke industry collusion and manipulation, as well asher specialty: ionizing radiation and its impact on health and the environment. PLUS: IAEA declares 47 Japanese reactors in "Long Term Shutdown;" allegations of fraud in Japan's general election that brought in a pro-nuke government; Nuke industry pre-3/11 talking points pushing the disinformation that "radiophobia" - fear of radiati...
Nuclear Hotseat #83: Dr. Helen Caldicott & Fukushima Symposium
January 16, 2013 05:44 - 39 minutes - 36 MBBEST NUCLEAR HOTSEAT INTERVIEW EVER: Dr. Helen Caldicott. She talks about her March 11-12 Symposium: "The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima" - a watershed event for our movement - as well as how she became an activist while still a teenager, major breakthroughs along her journey, and specific tips to make our activism even more effective. PLUS; Vogtle reactor ready for the nuclear "ding and dent" center (but the NRC says the shrinkwrap wasn't damaged!); Fukushima Governo...
Nuclear Hotseat #82: Did Iran's Nukes Goof?
January 09, 2013 06:09 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBSan Onofre steam generators may hold the key to global push-back against nuclear. Learn facts and strategies from DAB Safety Team principles Ace Hoffman and Don Liechtling, representing their network of whistleblowers from around the country. PLUS: Did Iran's Bushehr nuke plant have city evacuation-level accident? Thousands protest against 6 proposed nuke facilities in Jaitapur, India; Japan unlawfully detaining nuke protesters. Turkey tests all Japanese food for radiation while US does N...
Nuclear Hotseat #81: Nuke-Year's Resolutions w/CAN's Priscilla Star
January 02, 2013 03:58 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBHOT INTERVIEW w/Coalition Against Nukes founder Priscilla Star sharing her New Year's Resolutions, which include a run at the White House in 2013! Plus: US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO for lies that subjected them to radiation levels that have already destroyed their health; NRC gets tough w/Southern California Edison over their restart plans, demands answers; Japan's Prime Minister Abe wins NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK for his plans to BUILD MORE NUCLEAR REACTORS ; Quebec's Chantilly 2 NPP offline ...
Nuclear Hotseat #80: Dear Santa - NO NUKES!
December 26, 2012 05:05 - 20 minutes - 19 MBActivists ask Santa for their favorite nuclear-free future. PLUS: US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; French electricity giant EDF's Flamanville reactor's construction delays and cost overruns loses Italy as their partner -- a win for our side; death toll from Chernobyl now believed to be 1.5 million; and Fukushima kids are getting fatter because they can't exercise outside any more. Ho ho ho?
Nuclear Hotseat #79: Home for the Hellidays: 2 Japanese Evacuees Return
December 19, 2012 05:10 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBTwo Japanese evacuees in Southern California are returning to Japan with their families for Christmas. Hear what Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are up against, how they're preparing, what they face. PLUS: LA City Council gamed out of having a voice in NRC's actions as SCE continues to forge towards a San Onofre restart; Japan's election manipulations bad news for nuclear sanity; TEPCO proves once again it doesn't know its ass from its elbow when it comes to the condition of Fukushim...
Nuclear Hotseat #78: Nuclear Perpetrators, Urban Planners
December 12, 2012 08:25 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBInterview with Harvard-educated urban planner Torgen Johnson on the true impact in human and financial terms if/when San Onofre has an accident; Passionate final word from producer/host Libbe HaLevy; Japan 7.4 double-quake raises new concerns about the SFP at Unit 4; UN tries to straightjacket international nuclear conversation, while WHO actually has the gall to say there's no health danger from radiation at Fukushima ; tens of thousands join P-MANE at Koodankulam to again blockade the sea i...
Nuclear Hotseat #77: SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT
December 05, 2012 06:17 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBSAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT: Sabotage, Buddhist monks, a pre-planned restart on Feb. 2 and SCE expects a softball from NRC; will they get it? Things heated up at San Onofre last week! Plus Greenpeace weather balloon models radiation dispersal pattern show Toronto will get nuked if/when Darlington NPP goofs up, Oyster Creek leaking and still offline after Sandy, and whistleblowers charge NRC with favoring secrecy over safety - can you imagine?!?
Nuclear Hotseat #76: SPECIAL San Onofre/NRC/SCE vs. Anti-Nuke Activists
November 28, 2012 04:44 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBSAN ONOFRE SPECIAL: Interviews with four So Ca activists on this week's events surrounding Friday's NRC public meeting with Southern California Edison on their numnutz plan to restart San Onofre. Hear from video activist Myla Reson, Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green, Gene Stone from Residents Organized for a Safe Community, and engineer Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight on the politics, the positioning, untwisting pro-nuke spin and how in the world Buddhist monks came to be meditating and pr...
Nuclear Hotseat #75: Activists Share Gratitude; Nuclear's the Turkey
November 21, 2012 06:24 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBWhat do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for? Listen as a dozen activists from all over the country express their gratitude for wins, shared battles, unexpected camaraderie and the miracle that is our growing community. If you need a reminder of why we do it, listen with your heart, because it's all about love. PLUS THESE WINS: Whales and dolphins safe from PG&E! Exelon to shut down Oyster Creek? Switzerland to have a national initiative to shut down its nuclear reactors! And this NUM...
Nuclear Hotseat #74: First Nations Battle Nuclear Genocide in Canada
November 21, 2012 06:21 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBInterview w/Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching "black stone" (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politics of poverty in guaranteeing the nuke interests always win, and the genocidal dangers of building Canada's proposed nuclear waste repository on their ancestral homelands. Plus: NRC, SCE duck the public and their responsibility for safety re: San Onofre wh...
Nuclear Hotseat #73: Japanese Seniors Not Allowed Fukushima Clean-up
November 07, 2012 05:49 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBRemember the senior citizens who volunteered to help clean up Fukushima to spare younger workers from radiation exposure? Nuclear Hotseat interviews Yastel Yamada, the man who helped start the group, as he talks about graft, censorship and the politics of the Fukushima clean-up. Plus the Japanese prince who's no prince, the nuclear amusement park, and radioactive tobacco so hazardous to your health, even Japanese cigarette makers won't touch it!
Nuclear Hotseat #72 - Hurricane Sandy Special
October 31, 2012 01:49 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBIt seems we ducked the nuclear bullet from Superstorm Sandy... but what happens the next time there's an attack like this from Mother Nature? Learn about what the real nuclear dangers were that we faced from Sandy, how the NRC "responded," what Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com and Michael Mariotte of NIRS.org say about the unfolding events, and what we in the nuclear-free movement can do to reinforce the need to shut down these disasters-in-waiting.
NH #71 - Alice Slater: "Nuclear Reactors = Nuclear Bombs"
October 24, 2012 03:27 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBSan Onofre leaks again and it's not even on line! Wisconsin nuke plant Kewaunee goin' down because no one wanted to buy it! Interview w/Alice Slater of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on the reactors/bombs connection and how all our current political struggles are just outposts in the same battle; Lithuanian democracy's nonbinding referendum's 62% against nukes bums out GE-Hitachi (awwwww!); butterfly mutations showing up in genomic progression in Japan; and a "nuclear preparedness" boiler...
Nuclear hotseat #70: Karl Grossman Demystifies Nuclear Media Manipulation
October 17, 2012 00:41 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBJournalist Karl Grossman distills 45 years of covering this country's nuclear insanity into a compelling interview with Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy. The gamesmanship started BEFORE Hiroshima and continues to this day; learn how it happened and what we can do about it. PLUS: Greenpeace camps out atop a Swedish nuclear reactor... and nobody notices ; Japan set to again export Kobe beef to US but doesn't mention the "R" word (radiation); Lithuania nixes new nuke plant; citizens...
Nuclear Hotseat #69: Japan's Ongoing Nuclear Tragedy
October 09, 2012 21:53 - 36 minutes - 33 MBInterview with Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, on secrets both nuclear and familial. A stunningly well-researched, well-written book. PLUS: An update on Japan's ongoing nuclear tragedy, including governmental genocide towards Fukushima's children, cattle deaths, deadly condition of Units 1 and 4. Even the NRC's premiere pro-nuker, Commissioner Magwood, weighs in as not having much hope for Japan.
Nuclear Hotseat #68 - US Tells Noda: No Nuke-Free Japan!
October 03, 2012 06:07 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBInterview w/Nuclear-Free Illinois founder Dr. Lora Chamberlain on setting up a Rapid Response Network that pulls small local groups into a statewide unit; US strongarms Japan's Noda away from no nukes by 2030 policy; Exxon to drill near massive Soviet radiation dump in Arctic ocean; Koodankulam protestors blockade sea lanes, thousands bury them selves in sand so they can't be moved, but India continues to fuel-up the nuclear reactors; five quakes of 6.3 to 4.4 in Northeast Japan, three at Fuk...
Nuclear Hotseat #66 - Sean Bonner of Safecast
September 18, 2012 23:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBInterview w/Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsewhere in the world to map radiation levels. The group uses open source designs and encourages anyone who likes to use or adapt their designs. Humanitarianism at its best. Plus: Japan declares they're phasing out nuclear by the 2030's, but there are some holes in their announcement; two nukes in Belgium shut down because of cracks; Quebec will shut down its one ...
Nuclear Hotseat #65 - Dr. Janette Sherman/Joseph Mangano on 14,000 Post-Fukushima US deaths
September 12, 2012 04:59 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBRe-engineered interview of January 10 w/Dr. Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on their analysis of EPA and CDC death statistics post-Fukushima that point to 14,000 additional US deaths in the weeks after the nuclear disaster. A classic of information on radiation effects of Fukushima as well as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. PLUS: Police kill anti-nuke protesters at Koodankulam in India, including a small girl; the fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life t...
Nuclear Hotseat #64: Fukushima Diary's Mochizuki, NRC Denies License <!>
September 05, 2012 05:49 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBFukushima Diary blogger Iori Mochizuki on how he accidentally founded one of the world's most read anti-nuclear blogs; NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs - only the second time in its history these rubberstampers have turned down a nuclear request!; San Onofre to get cost/benefit analysis to see if it makes sense to attempt to reopen it (CLUE: The answer is NO!); Dr. Michael Nobel of the Nobel Prize family focuses attention on radioactive contamination of US milk and water in Hawaii and wes...
Nuclear Hotseat #63 - BREDL's Lou Zeller on SE Nuke Issues
August 29, 2012 16:45 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBInterview with Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Executive Director Lou Zeller on how to grow grassroots activism, southeastern U.S. nuke issues, plus his organizaation's support for the CAN Rally for a Nuclear Free Future. PLUS: Picketing Whales, India's $9 numnutz protection of nukers (say it isn't so!), tsunami debris already hitting Alaska hard, and Katie, the radioactive goat, has died. In a related story, Dominion Resources denies that its Millstone nuclear power plant, only fi...
Nuclear Hotseat #62 - Mary Olson on Nukes in Hot Water
August 22, 2012 04:02 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBMary Olson on nuclear reactors in hot water and what it really means; How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN); Hanford leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for those who live near nuclear reactors; SCE letting 730 San Onofre workers go "beause Unit 3 is unlikely to produce power any time soon" (Let's retrain them to work in solar!); Kucinich demands NRC investigate its own handling of Davis Besse restart; mutated worms and eggplant in Japan; radioactive fish 2...
Nuclear Hotseat #61 - Mary Olson of NIRS.org
August 15, 2012 04:29 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBInterview w/Mary Olson, Director of the SE office of NIRS.org, on what the June 8 DC court ruling means to the battle against nuclear waste production (meaning reactors and their radioactive legacy). PLUS: 82 year old "terrorist" nun breaks into Oak Ridge nuclear facility armed w/a Bible, candles and spray paint - embarrassing the National Nuclear Security Administration for their ridiculous lack of security for 100 tons of highly enriched uranium (Jellyfish*, meet Numnutz**); on a scale of...
Nuclear Hotseat #60 - Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear
August 08, 2012 03:29 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBKevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on radioactive waste storage problems, options, how we got in this mess and what if anything can be done about it. BREAKING NEWS - NRC freezes all nuclear reactor construction and operating licenses! PLUS: San Diego's COPS (Citizens Oversight Projects) challenges San Onofre's failure to review steam generator failure (Go, Ray Lutz!); California Democratic party calls for independent design review before restart can be considered; Prime Minister "The Pendulum" ...
Nuclear Hotseat #59 - Anti-Nuclear Consciousness Raising w/West Hollywood Mayor's Office
August 01, 2012 05:49 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBAnatomy of a consciousness raising meeting with an aide to the Mayor of West Hollywood - a basic how-to for activists. PLUS: Japanese anti-nuke demonstrators get pushy at their Parliament building; Extreme increase in mortality from heart attacks in Japan since Fukushima disaster began; Southern California Edison laying plans to restart San Onofre by November while activists launch their "Hell, no!"; US nuclear power production at 9-year low because of heat and drought; and the Numnutz of t...
Nuclear Hotseat #58 - July 24, 2012 - Lutz "Nukes" NRC's Whitewash of SanO
July 25, 2012 03:36 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBEngineer and activist Ray Lutz "nukes" the NRC's cover-up of SCE's responsibility for San Onofre's steam generator problems; 4 nuke plants trigger NRC "Unusual Events" in a single day... but no blackouts; Illinois reactor in "hot water" - at 102 degrees, cooling water can't cool; Japanese prime minister admits that nuclear energy is dividing the nation; TEPCO gets a rate hike as well as a bailout, while temperature gauge cables on verge of breaking at Fukushima and subcontractor forces clean-...
Nuclear Hotseat #57 - Filmmaker Chris Noland, Radioactive CA Almonds
July 18, 2012 03:44 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBInterview w/filmmaker Chris Noland (NOT Christopher Nolan from "Batman"), who recorded the first months after Fukushima as a relief worker in the field. His film, "311 Surviving Japan" is in post-production and already garnering overwhelming response in preview screenings. PLUS: 170,000 march against nukes in Japan; KEPCO cooked the energy books, turning off 8 functioning thermal plants to "justify" restarting the nukes; Cesium 134 and 137 found in 2011 crop CA almonds and prunes; internal ra...
Nuclear Hotseat #56 - July 10, 2012 - Fukushima Activist Cheiko Shiina
July 11, 2012 05:09 - 30 minutes - 28 MBReport on Fukushima resident and activist Chieko Shiina's heartrending presentation on current life in Japan and Fukushima, along with information on how to help her start the Fukushima Children's Clinic to address pressing health problems. Plus: Fukushima determined by Japanese committee to be "a man-made disaster" (incompetence can do that!); TEPCO top execs resign... only to get their golden parachutes ; San Onofre whistleblowers not covered by state protective laws (blame it on the Marin...
Nuclear Hotseat #55 - July 3, 2012 - September CAN Rally in DC
July 04, 2012 04:05 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBGet the inside scoop on this September's Coalition Against Nukes rally and actions in Washington, D.C. from Dr. Heidi Hutner and Michael Leonardi, long time anti-nuclear activists serving as coordinators for the event. Plus Japanese scientists share earthquake data and dire predictions as KEPCO restarts the Oi reactors; Fukushima Unit 4 a mere gasket failure away from catastrophe, while Unit 1 radiation is so high its dismantling (a 40 year process at best) will require robot technology that...
Nuclear Hotseat #54 - June 26, 2012 - Indian Pt., Legal Strategies
June 27, 2012 00:49 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBMUST LISTEN! Slammer interview w/environmental attorney Susan Hito Shapiro on the battle to shut down Indian Point near NYC, plus some legal strategies applicable for anti-nuke activists throughout the country. Plus: 45,000 Japanese protest at PM Noda's front door against Oi nuke restart, which has already been plagued by 27 ALARMS GOING OFF!; bulge in Fukushima Unit 4 now 40% larger than in May; the swallows did NOT come back to Fukushima, in a big way (Silent Spring, Summer, Fall...); LA...
Nuclear Hotseat #53 - June 19, 2012 - Radiation Monitoring
June 20, 2012 18:04 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBDr. Bill Cardozo and Darin McClure on radiation monitors, what they'll do and won't do, crowd-source radiation monitoring and how to hook up some monitors directly to the Internet for real-time result posting. Plus: Japan's PM Noda approves restart of Oi reactors over thousands of protestors; 10 Fukushima mothers confront elected officials with their painful truths before staging a die-in (video link on NuclearHotseat.com/blog); Friends of the Earth file lawsuit to force NRC relicensing hear...
Nuclear Hotseat #52 - June 12, 2012 - Larry Agran
June 12, 2012 23:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBSpecial extended interview with Irvine City Councilmember Larry Agran on the politics of nuclear power, San Onofre, and what we can do to keep the pressure up against nukes in all our communities. Grass roots encouragement at its best!
Nuclear Hotseat #51 - The Roy Process - June 5, 2012
June 05, 2012 23:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBNuclear Hotseat Exclusive: Special panel discussion on The Roy Process for Neutralization and Elimination of Nuclear Waste. Is this the missing technology for ultimately getting rid of the radioactive byproducts of the nuclear industry? Can it work? What will it take to find out? Learn about the process, the doubts, the tantalizing possibilities, and what stands in the way of this potentially game-changing nuclear technology from Dennis Nester, agent for The Roy Process; engineer and phy...
Nuclear Hotseat #50 - May 29, 2012 - Radioactive Tuna
May 30, 2012 03:19 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBMichael Mariotte of NIRS.org on NRC evacuation zone radius and emergency exercises; Bluefin tuna caught off CA all found contaminated with Fukushima Cesium 134 & 137; Jaczko stands for safety as NRC rubberstamps Massachusetts' Pilgrim reactor for 20 more years; Canada reports 3 radioactive nuke leaks in just one month!; former Prime Minister Naoto Kan comes out strongly against nukes; Japan radiation still circling the globe, prevents TEPCO from even starting decommissioning work, mutating ce...
Nuclear Hotseat #49, Hosted by Libbe HaLevy - May 22, 2012
May 23, 2012 06:19 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBInterpreter/anti-nuke activist Umi Hagitani talks about the real concerns of the Japanese people and her experiences translating for Fukushima survivors who addressed U.S. anti-nuke demos and the media. Plus: NRC's Jaczko resigns his Chairmanship; Sen. Barbara Boxer goes after Southern California Electric over sidestepped licensing amendment for steam generator design changes; Alaska Senator Mark Begich says tsunami debris will be worse than Exxon Valdez - but Washington still can't tell him...
Nuclear Hotseat #48 - Radiation Remediation, Neutralization
May 16, 2012 06:04 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBLong time activist Elise Longhi shared how to get radiation out of the soil using mushrooms and hemp, out of water using nano technology that already exists, along with information on long-suppressed research by physicist Dr. Roy that actually neutralized radioactive cesium and strontium! Why is no one grabbing onto these technologies to solve the radiation threat? Plus Koodankulam protests in India being taken to National Human Rights Commission, French election may sink British nukes, Iow...
Nuclear Hotseat #47 - Dan Hirsch on LA's Hidden Nuclear Disaster
May 09, 2012 17:22 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBInterview with Daniel Hirsch on the 1959 Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear meltdown - more radiation released than Three Mile Island! - and the current status of clean-up attempts. PLUS: The battle over San Onofre heats up with four times the number of damaged pipes in the steam generators as SCE assumes restart in June and NRC Chairman Jaczko smacks 'em down; Japan celebrates the shut-down of its last nuclear reactor; Physicians for Social Responsibility press conference in NYC present...