Latest Fukushima Podcast Episodes
No Nuclear “Sacrifice Zone” in New Mexico!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 18, 2018 21:08Nuclear sacrifice zone for high level radioactive reactor waste proposed by nuke industry for New Mexico meets with powerful, organized pushback from Diné activist Leona Morgan and Prof. Eileen Shaughnessy. Learn how you can join the fight with comments to the NRC! PLUS: more Fukushima Food Fight...
Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 - Libbe HaLevy Returns
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 11, 2018 20:13Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, who was at the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, returns to cover TMI at 39, an event featuring a panel discussion with journalists who covered the accident as it happened and researchers reporting on the long-hidden medical impact...
Cancer Stats found to Skyrocket around Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 04, 2018 22:56Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health. He is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An...
SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown: Yes People Died/Are Dying!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 27, 2018 02:27SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 Words or audio featured include: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education. Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident. Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Is...
Pacific Radiation Levels off CA Coast Triple: John Bertucci, Molly P. Johnson
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 21, 2018 21:41Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists: John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast of Pt. Reyes done in conjunction with the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanograp...
Doomsday Clock Confidential! Rachel Bronson, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 14, 2018 20:34How #Nuclear (along with Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence) got us to 2 minutes to the midnight of annihilation on the Doomsday Clock - interview with Rachel Bronson of Bulletin of the #Atomic Scientists on #NuclearHotseat 351 with host #LibbeHaLevy.
Fukushima Child Thyroid Cancer Rates Soar
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - March 07, 2018 03:40Exclusively on #Nuclear Hotseat 350: Interviews w/Japanese doctor, attorney, representative of support group for families of children with thyroid cancer – all fighting for safety, transparency, health. Is anybody listening? Fukushima 7th Anniversary Special
Citizen Scientists – Build Radiation Monitors! Map Global Radiation! – Sean Bonner of Safecast Tells You How
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 28, 2018 05:50Citizen monitoring of radiation has created the world's largest database of international radiation readings. Safecast teaches how to build your own monitors and then plug into their digital/wifi/bluetooth/fully automated system so your reading become part of the database without you needing t...
WA State Hanford’s Dangerous Incompetence Fuels Growing Radiation Contamination
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 21, 2018 19:46Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge on the latest escalation of radiation contamination at the Hanford site and now into the surrounding communities. Numnutz of the Week - Nothing like a little snack of green laver seaweed – now in new, hot hot hot Fukushima flavor! – NH #348
Hidden Politics Behind NY’s (Possibly Illegal) Billion Dollar Nuke Bailout
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 14, 2018 20:42Word directly from two who are leading the legal battle against NY state's billion dollar bailout of four failing, unprofitable nuclear reactors. Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Tim Juds...
EPA’s “70% Plus” West Lake Landfill WWII Nuclear Weapons Waste Clean-Up Plan: The Battle Continues
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - February 07, 2018 20:29Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel are two North St. Louis mothers who discovered the fact of WWII radioactive atomic weapons waste illegally buried in a neighborhood landfill. They founded the group Just Moms StL and shepherded the protests by friends and neighbors to radioactive waste in the neighb...
Nuclear’s Resurrected Safety Lie of “Duck & Cover” – Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 31, 2018 06:08Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.” He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the long-discredited “Duck and Cover” method for “surviving” a nuclear a...
Arnie Gundersen on the Human Toll of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 24, 2018 06:07Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, focuses on the human toll inflicted by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. Recorded December 2, 2017, at DePaul University, at an event sponsored by Chicago’s Nuclear Energy Information Service - NEIS. More on the incompeten...
Hawaii Dress Rehearsal for Nuclear Hell
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 17, 2018 05:32Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, brings us up to date on the latest at Fukushima and the TEPCO/Japanese government attempts to clean up the site. Shaun McGee of Nuclear-News.net gets down to the nitty gritty on 2017 mystery radiation releases from Eastern Europe and some of the UK’s most diffic...
Nuclear Hotseat #247 ENCORE: 10,000 Excess Cancer Deaths Post-Fukushima
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 10, 2018 01:42NOTE: ORIGINALLY AIRED MARCH 16, 2016: The PSR/IPPNW report released projecting at least 10,000 excess cancer cases in Japan because of the radioactivity releases from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. We’ll hear from: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Socia...
Chernobyl Mutations, Fukushima Implications: Dr. Timothy Mousseau
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - January 02, 2018 22:52Chernobyl Mutations, Fukushima Implications: Dr. Tim Mousseau + Don Safer on TVA and Small Modular Reactor dangers, interviews by #LibbeHaLevy. #NuclearHotseat 341 http://ow.ly/sTz830hxQLF
Nuclear Numnutz of the Year, 2017!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 27, 2017 18:05A look back at 2017 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week. Revisit the gaffs, goofs, cover-ups, misdirections and madness of the nuclear industry and those who support it through our most popular feature. All this will lead to the announcement of Nuclear Numnutz of the Year, 2017!
A True Christmas Story: Sister Megan Rice, the Peace Nun
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 20, 2017 02:01To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of Sister Megan Rice, one of three brave peace activists who broke into high security US weapons manufacturing site at the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to protest nuclear weapons ...
Nuclear Reactors & Climate Change Lies
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 13, 2017 20:40Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education , former nuclear industry Senior Vice President and whistleblower, explains global warming in terms of an apple , then takes apart the nuclear industry’s claims that we “need” 1,000 new nuclear reactors to combat climate change. Bril...
SPECIAL: Activists De-Code U-Chicago Atomic Propaganda Orgy
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 08, 2017 05:24The University of Chicago produced a month-long orgy of pro-nuclear self-congratulations to celebrate the first atomic pile, the chain reaction which started our collective nuclear nightmare. The events culminated in a Symposium, “Nuclear Reaction,” held on December 1, 2017, featuring relentles...
RUSSIA CONFESSES: Europe's Radioactive Cloud Came f/Disaster-Prone Mayak
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 29, 2017 05:20Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans. An Encore presentation from Nuclear ...
San Onofre's "Chernobyl in a Can" - Donna Gilmore, SanOnofreSafety.org
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 22, 2017 19:54Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high tide in canisters that are known to crack and leak. Each one contains a Chernobyl’s worth of radiation on the...
Trump's 1st-Strike Nukes Authority Challenged - PSR's Martin Fleck Was There, Reports
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 15, 2017 05:51Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bob Corker, which confronted the president’s – any president’s – authority to u...
Busby: Why Child Leukemia Rates Soar Near Power Lines & Nukes
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 08, 2017 06:20The surprising connection between high power lines and atmospheric radiation. Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation. He often appears in UK court as an expert witness in radiation-related cases. His website is: Green...
N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 01, 2017 06:17Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can...
N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 01, 2017 06:16Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can...
UN/WHO Chernobyl Death LIES , Suppression of Critical Yablakov Book
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 25, 2017 16:58How the United Nations World Health Organization has systematically suppressed and misrepresented Alexei Yablakov's collection of over 500 Eastern European studies on the devastating impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Nuclear Winter: NOT the cure for Global Warming
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 18, 2017 00:14Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He specializes in information on nuclear winter. www.NuclearDarkness.org
Bob Alvarez Decodes N. Korea, Nukes & US Policy
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 11, 2017 05:28Former White House Energy advisor Bob Alvarez provides history, context & a sober perspective on our current situation with North Korea and how we got there. And Big Honking Win for those who oppose nuclear weapons as the Int'l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is awarded Nobel Peace Pr...
LA's Nuclear Nightmare Continues - Boeing's Lies re: Santa Susana Field Lab "Clean-Up"
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 04, 2017 04:29Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner B...