Latest Fukushima Podcast Episodes
Nuclear Hotseat #228: St. Louis West Lake Landfill Hot Potato
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - November 05, 2015 03:23FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill. He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state represent...
Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 28, 2015 01:15 - 1 hourA full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored ...
Nuclear Hotseat #226: Pre- and Post-Decommissioning Nuke Woes
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 21, 2015 05:05 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nucl...
Nuclear Hotseat #225: How Radiation Spreads from Sea to Land
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 14, 2015 04:45 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK and a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation from the UK's Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to...
Nuclear Hotseat #224: USS Reagan Dangers on Return to Japan
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - October 07, 2015 04:20 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego,...
Nuclear Hotseat #223: Anti-Nuke Films!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 30, 2015 00:22 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, on current films showing at the Berlin festival and plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles. Christian Bruun, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," how how this film about the Russian soldier who re...
Nuclear Hotseat #222: Kristen Iversen, Rocky Flats
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 23, 2015 05:45 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge . NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The New York Times goes in for hard core hormesis (no - Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that...
Nuclear Hotseat #221: Mary Beth Brangan of EON3
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 16, 2015 05:08 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of EON3 on the recent event she helped to product, FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with Timothy Mousseau and Ken Buessler. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: What to do with former plutonium contaminated nuke sites? Why, if you're Rocky Flats in Colorad...
Nuclear Hotseat #220: Journalism Special!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 08, 2015 21:49 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, DC about distortions in news coverage of Fukushima for the first two years after the disaster began (from Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2, 2015); award-winning investigative journalist Susannah Frame of KING 5 in Seattle on how sh...
Nuclear Hotseat #219: WCS Texas Nuke Waste Madness w/Paul DeRienzo
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - September 02, 2015 04:59 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo reveals the political manipulations, intimidation tactics and loose-and-fast burying of nuclear waste at WCS in West Texas, along with personal recollections of growing up the son of the man who designed both Hanford in Washington state and Three...
Nuclear Hotseat #218: Radiation Special - Uranium in US Aquifers
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 26, 2015 06:40 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: With the revelation of high levels of uranium in the drinking water of six million Americans, Nuclear Hotseat digs into the story w/Karen Hadden of SEED Coalition in Texas, who points to a number of nuclear sites that may be implicated in the aquifer contamination. Then Mimi German ...
Nuclear Hotseat #217: Radiation Deniers (Hormesis) & the NRC
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 19, 2015 05:05 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: More on the NRC petition to allow radiation-denying hormesis theory set the standards for radiation exposure with Dr. Ian Fairlie, a British scientist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #5: Pretty Pictures, w/Dave Parrish of Opera...
Nuclear Hotseat #216: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 12, 2015 03:46 - 1 hourFACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to ...
Nuclear Hotseat #216: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 12, 2015 03:46 - 1 hourFACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to ...
Nuclear Hotseat #215: Anti-Nuclear Millenials w/SPSR's Michelle Gin
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - August 05, 2015 20:34 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Michelle Gin, Program Coordinator for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility (SPSR) who holds an MA in Public Health, on student anti-nuke organizing around the world and what it will take to attract Millenials to the anti-nuclear movement. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #3 w/Dave Pa...
Nuclear Hotseat #214: Radioactive Southwest w/Leona Morgan
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 29, 2015 23:20 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Leona Morgan of Dine No Nukes explains the massive Church Rock radioactive waste spill of 1979 that released more radiation than Three Mile Island, then covers current issues on Native lands and actions being taken internationally by indigenous people re: nuclear issues. Diane D'Arri...
Nuclear Hotseat #213: South Africa's "Radioactive Gold" w/Mariette Liefferink
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 22, 2015 05:50 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: South African environmental activist Mariette Liefferink, CEO of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment, on the uranium/gold connection in South Africa and the radiation dangers from irresponsible mining practices. NEW FEATURE: Dave Parish of Operation: Save the Earth kicks off a...
Nuclear Hotseat #212: United Nations Chernobyl Lies Exposed
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 14, 2015 21:46 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Alison Katz is a sociologist and psychologist who worked inside the World Health Organization (WHO) for 18 years. Now a leader within Independent WHO, an organization dedicated to revealing the lies and coverups perpetrated by WHO, Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulati...
Nuclear Hotseat #211: UN Fukushima Radiation Lies Exposed - IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 07, 2015 20:32 - 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 #210: Dry Cask Lies and Looney Tunes
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - July 01, 2015 17:50 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org gives lie to dry cask manufacturerer Holtec's presentation to Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel regarding long term storage of the plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: I guess accordin...
Nuclear Hotseat #209 - IPPNW's Swiss rep Ure Ruegg
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 24, 2015 17:30 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Urs Ruegg of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Switzerland on that country's nuclear problems and IPPNW's upcoming Nuclearization of Africa Symposium in South Africa. And Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment gives us...
Nuclear Hotseat #208: 4th Anniversary!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 17, 2015 05:57 - 1 hourNuclear Hotseat celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a look back at where how it started and where it goes from here, with the amazing revelation that the show was heard in 58 countries in May! INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray fills us in on the proposed high burn-up fuel storage tests proposed for North A...
Nuclear Hotseat #207: Fukushima Kids, Moms Escaping Radiation
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 10, 2015 05:42 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Vicki Nelson, founder of the Hawaii-based nonprofit, Fukushima Friends, Inc., a program that puts Fukushima radiation refugees in people's homes for a stay of up to 3 months or longer, if the visas can be managed. She is joined by Tokiko Noguchi, a participant in the program, who c...
Nuclear Hotseat #206: Don Hancock WIPP Update
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - June 03, 2015 06:47 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides an update on the latest on the radiologic contamination at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM. VOICES FROM JAPAN: Former Mayor of Futuba Idogawa, who is suing the Japanese government for damages following...
Nuclear Hotseat #205: SPECIAL - Sister Megan Rice/Transform Now Plowshares
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - May 27, 2015 04:34 - 1 hourSPECIAL: Newly freed 85-year old nun, Sister Megan Rice, speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action against the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. N...
Nuclear Hotseat #204: Sister Megan Rice, Co-Defendents Freed!
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - May 20, 2015 06:41 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Alice Slater of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation brings us up to date on the UN's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; Dave Kraft of NEIS in Chicago eviscerates Entergy's attempts to strongarm a bankrupt Illinois into a $1.2 Billion bailout; and Jules Cook of UCY.TV unveils a comp...
Nuclear Hotseat #203
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - May 13, 2015 07:07 - 1 hourINTERVIEW: Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University on her not-yet-published analysis of American media's post-Fukushima coverage. Activist perspective proven through data analysis of over 2000 articles from print and online, plus fascinating observations on how the subject of "risk" got ...
Nuclear Hotseat #202: PSR's Nukebusters Film Competition
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - May 06, 2015 05:56 - 1 hourINTERVIEWS: Nuclear Hotseat exclusive interviews on the current water seepage and sinkhole at Boone Dam in Tennessee, which is upriver from seven different nuclear reactors. Does this portend the possibility of a Fukushima-style accident or is it a false alarm? Interviews w/Blue Ridge Environm...
Nuclear Hotseat #201: CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 28, 2015 20:01 - 1 hourThis week, we commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine with a Nuclear Hotseat Special. We'll hear from Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, a teenager in Bulgaria when the accident began, on the impact to her and her not-yet-born children; from Dr. Janette Sher...
Nuclear Hotseat #200! - QUEBEC SPECIAL
Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy - April 22, 2015 07:05 - 1 hourWORLD URANIUM SYMPOSIUM, Where April 14 - 25, the world perception of nuclear issues shifted and began to make the difference that will lead to our ultimate victories. More than 300 participants from five continents, 20 countries - including South Africa, Mongolia, Australia, India, Mali, Camer...