Latest Fukushima Podcast Episodes
Nuclear Hotseat #285: When Nuclear Worlds Collide!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - December 07, 2016 05:01Illinois' "corporate welfare" bailout of #Exelon's two nukes hits while activists hold Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit in Chicago. Whatt're the odds?And if you’re anywhere in the EU – DON’T EAT THE UKRAINE “ORGANIC” BERRIES! #Nuclear Hotseat http://bit.ly/2gANd4o
Nuclear Hotseat #284: CHERNOBYL EXCLUSIVE!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 30, 2016 05:32Lucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the workers. We spoke initially while he was in Ukraine, but waited until he was back in the US to t...
Nuclear Hotseat #283: Homeowner Nightmare - Radwaste In Kitchen Dust
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 23, 2016 19:30Robbin Ellison Dailey and her husband Mike own the home in North St. Louis less than half a mile from the radioactive nuclear waste burial site at Republic Service’s West Lake Landfill. They recently had the house tested for radiation… and discovered Thorium 230-contaminated dust at 1000x above b...
Nuclear Hotseat #282: Vt. Yankee Shutdown Film POWER STRUGGLE
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 16, 2016 06:28Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE, about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Audio excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclear engineer and Fairewinds Energy’s Arnie Gundersen. A tribute to Dr. Steven Wing of the Unive...
Nuclear Hotseat #281: Nukes Require UN Global Ethics Summit – Japanese Ambassador Murata
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 08, 2016 23:33Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan's nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an "International Day for Global Ethics" in the wake of their resolution to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. ...
Nuclear Hotseat #280: The Long Slow Violence of Nuclear Technologies
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 02, 2016 03:52Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor o...
Nuclear Hotseat #279: Fort Calhoun SHUTDOWN! w/LaVerne Thraen
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 26, 2016 05:41The Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor is OVER AND OUT, FOR GOOD! (...except for the radioactive waste, which will be with us forever...) Libbe HaLevy interviews LaVerne Thraen, a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s. They spoke l...
Nuclear Hotseat #278: Dr. Ian Fairlie on Attempted NRC Radiation Measurment Con Job
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 20, 2016 17:06Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and has been a consultant on radiation matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, and private individuals. Second interview: Eiji Ogama made the film “Tell t...
Nuclear Hotseat #277: US Nukes Barely Dodge Matthew's Bullet
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 12, 2016 18:06US nukes dodge Hurricane Matthew’s bullet - barely - w/three NRC “Unusual Events” at east coast reactors. India/Japan #nuclear agreement subverts post-Bhopal international liability laws, dumps costs on Indian people - of course! That's what the nuclear industry does! India's Kumar Sundaram (at l...
Nuclear Hotseat #276: NUKES IN SPACE - Bruce Gagnon
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 05, 2016 18:15Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy interviews Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space's Bruce Gagnon on the nuclear agenda of the US space program, the pieces already in place, and international attempts to stop it during this, the week of #KeepSpaceForPeace actions around the world...
Nuclear Hotseat #275:New Mexico OK's Land Sale for Nuke Waste Storage - Don Hancock
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 28, 2016 17:29Byron DeLear brings us up to date on the latest dithering by EPA and Congressional turf wars while the people who live near the West Lake Landfill in N. St. Louis continue to suffer and get sick. Don Hancock is Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, a nuclear watch...
Nuclear Hotseat #274: Post-EIJ Journalism Conference
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 21, 2016 21:22Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, D.C. is a sociologist who did a study of mainstream media coverage in the first two years after Fukushima – and not only are her observations stunning, she’s got the data to back them up. Originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #20...
Nuclear Hotseat #273: BREAKING: Pilgrim Protest Arrests + USA Wild, Wild Nuclear West!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 14, 2016 05:22BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediat...
Nuclear Hotseat #272: EXCLUSIVE - USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 07, 2016 19:30Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple reactor meltdo...
Nuclear Hotseat #271: Nukes Contaminate Food via Oceans
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 31, 2016 18:19Tim Deere-Jones is an independent marine pollution consultant who has worked on some of Europe's major marine pollution incidents as a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. Tim has worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and...
Nuclear Hotseat #270: Niagara Falls Dirty Nuke Secrets w/Lou Ricciuti
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 24, 2016 23:42Niagara Falls! It's got more than its share of nuclear problems. Lou Ricciuti has been a nuclear researcher, writer and speaker for nearly 20 years on the radioactive waste-stream generated by Niagara Falls' vast involvement in the earliest days of the Atomic Age. Veteran anti-nuclear activ...
eagle-eye-man: INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE CLAN MOTHERS & BENEFIT OF BEING A SAVAGE
EARTH AID NOW!/HEMPAID-NOW - August 21, 2016 19:00 - 1 hourIntroduction to the Foundation of International Law. eagle-i-man, defacto international legal advisor: "We live in a world of law to the letter of the law. and the civilized do not break the law regardless of what it may seem like on the surface because they just make their laws such that they c...
Nuclear Hotseat #269: Pt. 2 - Australia World's Nuke Waste Dump?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 18, 2016 18:22Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the world’s nuclear waste in the land down under. It includes LATE BREAKING NEWS of the internati...
Nuclear Hotseat #268: Australia: Nuke Waste Dump to the World?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 10, 2016 23:43Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vi...
Nuclear Hotseat #268: Australia: Nuke Waste Dump to the World?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 10, 2016 23:42Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vi...
Nuclear Hotseat #267: INDIAN POINT Documentary - LA Opening
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 08, 2016 17:19Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City. We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devo...
Nuclear Hotseat #266: UK Nuked Soldiers Lawsuit w/Dr. Chris Busby
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 08, 2016 17:07Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in...
Nuclear Hotseat #265: EPA’s NON-Consent-based Siting of Radwaste
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 08, 2016 17:01When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…
Nuclear Hotseat #265: EPA’s NON-Consent-based Siting of Radwaste
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 08, 2016 16:58When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…
Nuclear Hotseat #264: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Steam Generators
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 30, 2016 14:40Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclai...
Nuclear Hotseat #263: Oh, Canada! Pt. 2 - Dr. Gordon Edwards
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 07, 2016 15:48Oh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!
Nuclear Hotseat #262: Diablo Canyon shutdown plan or PG&E PR ploy?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 29, 2016 17:46CA Lands Commission bails on EIR; cautious optimism dashed yet again. Pre-crash interviews w/Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, who has been fighting against Diablo Canyo since before it was built; and Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia.org, who talks deep background politics. Both ...
Nuclear Hotseat #261: NZ's Kevin Hester - Is No-Nukes Country going Yes-Nukes?
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 22, 2016 07:28BREAKING: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN ANNOUNCED; Delayed Gratification Requested. NZ's Kevin Hester - is No-nukes country going Yes-nukes? Mimi German eyewitness account of ramming of Peace Boat by WA state police boat. Byron DeLear on EPA's cover-up of West Lake Landfill report. And how dangerous...
Nuclear Hotseat #260: 5th Anniversary SPECIAL!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 15, 2016 06:19Nuclear Hotseat 5th Anniversary SPECIAL! Updates on stories old and new: Kevin Kamps on Fed radwaste storage lawsuit, Mary Olsen on EPA radiation in water, Don Hancock on the latest from WIPP, Erica Gray on US nuclear's newest nightmare, Watts Bar 2, Linda Seeley on Diablo Canyon shutdown strateg...
Nuclear Hotseat #259: Oh, (nuclear) Canada! s/Dr. Gordon Edwards
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 08, 2016 05:36Oh (nuclear) Canada! Dr. Gordon Edwards traces Canuck involvement in Nagasaki bomb, uranium mining, First Nations betrayals, radioactive contamination of land, sea and air, more. Part 1 of a 3-part interview