Latest Fukushima Podcast Episodes
Nuclear Hotseat #199: Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Okay'ed by Court
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 15, 2015 02:34 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Rebuttal to Federal Court go-ahead for uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter; Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of th...
Nuclear Hotseat #198: Dr. Ian Fairlie, Nuke Reactor Impact on Child Health in 3 Mile Radius
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 08, 2015 04:13 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie on his study on the impact of nuclear radiation on children living within 5 km/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. An encore interview from Nuclear Hotseat #162. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Milan Expo 2015 will be another site of Japan's attempt to convince the world that Fukush...
Nuclear Hotseat #197: April Fools or Nuclear Fools?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 01, 2015 06:18 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project on the recent study showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima. PLUS: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network on Bequerel Awareness Day and why a...
Nuclear Hotseat #196: Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 25, 2015 03:09 - 1 hourThe 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learned of it, the early lies and attempts at a cover-up, how the media dug into the story instead of whitewashing ...
Nuclear Hotseat #195: Uranium Film Festival Quebec
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 18, 2015 05:16 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer of the 2015 Uranium Film Festival in Quebec; and Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility in Oregon and Washington State, on the problems at the Hanford site and with the Columbia Generating Station. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK...
Nuclear Hotseat #194: Fukushima Fourth Anniversary
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 11, 2015 05:23 - 1 hourSpecial Voices from Japan to mark the fourth Anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Interviews and direct address from actress/star Midori Kiuchi; No-Nukes Occupy tent stalwart Taro Fuchigami, who has been sued by the government for over $260,000 dollars for his activism; Pr...
Nuclear Hotseat #193: SPECIAL - Caldicott Symposium Report
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 06, 2015 00:06 - 1 hourSPECIAL: Full length report on Dr. Helen Caldicott's Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, held Feb. 28 - March 1 at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan. 24 presenters on all aspects of nuclear war, nuclear winter, the psychology of nuclear weapons researchers, alon...
Nuclear Hotseat #192: Zombie Uranium Mines at Grand Canyon
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 25, 2015 05:32 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals....
Nuclear Hotseat #191: "Atomic Eggs" w/NIRS' Mary Olsen
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 18, 2015 06:44 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 e...
Nuclear Hotseat #190: Anniversary - WIPP Radiation Leak
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 11, 2015 06:40 - 1 hourNTERVIEW: 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 b...
Nuclear Hotseat #189: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Symposium, "On the Beach"
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 04, 2015 19:00 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 Briti...
Nuclear Hotseat #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN SPECIAL
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 28, 2015 07:03 - 1 hourFull 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 th...
Nuclear Hotseat #187: Rocky Flats & Nuked Worker Compensation
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 21, 2015 05:04 - 1 hourInterviews: 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, MO...
Nuclear Hotseat #186: Kimberly Roberson on Radiation Awareness, Protection
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 14, 2015 06:24 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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...
Nuclear Hotseat #185: ACTIVIST SPECIAL!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 07, 2015 06:07 - 1 hourAudio 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 t...
Nuclear Hotseat #184: Radiation Lies and Truths about Fukushima
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 31, 2014 00:23 - 1 hourSpecial 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, executi...
Nuclear Hotseat #183: UN, IAEA, WHO Lies about Chernobyl
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 24, 2014 05:11 - 1 hourSociologist 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 Hotseat #183: UN, IAEA, WHO Lies about Chernobyl
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 24, 2014 05:11 - 1 hourSociologist 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 Hotseat #182: Prof. Quamrul Haider - Nukes "6th Horseman of Apocalypse"
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 17, 2014 06:55 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: 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...
Nuclear Hotseat #181: Entergy Loses (Nuclear) Power!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 10, 2014 05:57 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: 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...
Nuclear Hotseat #180: Dr. Chris Busby - Radiation Doses, Nuke Veteran Lawsuits
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 03, 2014 05:43 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 dire...
Nuclear Hotseat #179: BREAKING: 2nd USS Reagan Death
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 26, 2014 08:10 - 1 hourBREAKING: 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 Informat...
Nuclear Hotseat #178: Fukushima Kids, Moms, Thyroids
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 19, 2014 07:41INTERVIEWS: 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 F...
Nuclear Hotseat #177: Fukushima Update w/Arnie Gundersen
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 12, 2014 21:22 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 fro...
Nuclear Hotseat #177: Fukushima Update w/Arnie Gundersen
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 12, 2014 06:39 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 fro...
Nuclear Hotseat #176: USS Reagan Lawsuit Passes Judicial Hurdle!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 05, 2014 06:28 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 Fukush...
Nuclear Hotseat #175: SPECIAL - Pilgrim Grandmothers Trial
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 29, 2014 06:21 - 1 hourSPECIAL: 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 ...
Nuclear Hotseat #174: WIPP Fan Restart, Food Safety from 2011 Still Timely
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 22, 2014 05:52 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: 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 E...
Nuclear Hotseat #173: USS Reagan Homeporting in Japan?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 15, 2014 04:33 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: 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 act...
Nuclear Hotseat #172: Dr. Helen Caldicott
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 08, 2014 05:25 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: 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 yo...