Fukushima

NH #772: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster at 40 – New Safe Confinement UN-SAFE; Bulgarian Survivor Kouneva; Gundersen on Fukushima Comparison

NH #772: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster at 40 - New Safe Confinement UN-SAFE; Bulgarian Survivor Kouneva; Gundersen on Fukushima Comparison

40 years after Chernobyl nuclear disaster, radiation dangers from drone damage to New Safe Confinement. History of the accident, aftermath for people in path of radiation.

NH #767: Fukushima at 15 – Danger from Nuclear Triple Meltdown is Far From Over – Nancy Foust of Simply Info

NH #767: Fukushima at 15 - Danger from Nuclear Triple Meltdown is Far From Over - Nancy Foust of Simply Info

15 years after the Fukushima triple nuclear meltdown, clean-up problems persist even as Japan pushes a pro-nuke agenda. Simply Info's annual report, with Nancy Foust.

NH #755: Japan's 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies

Japan's 7.6 earthquake stirred up radionuclides from Fukushima silt into Pacific currents & fish - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones. Activist media strategies from Emmy-winning jo

NH #735: Lies of Fukushima Radioactive Tritium Water Release Report w/Tim Deere-Jones + Palisades Restart Dangers - Arnie Gundersen

Michigan's Palisades nuclear restart moves ahead despite dangers - Gundersen. Japan busted on lies about Fukushima radioactive tritium water release into Pacific - Deere-Jones

NH #727: Life in Japan's Ongoing Radiation Disaster Zone - Good Idea? (NO!) "Return to Fukushima" Author Thomas Bass

Japan claims Fukushima is AOK for people to move back. But is it? In new book, Return to Fukushima, author Thomas Bass refutes Japan's nuclear propaganda.

NH #715: VOICES FROM JAPAN - FUKUSHIMA at 14 - Clean-up or Cover-up?" True State of Disaster Site from Citizens' Nuclear Information Center

Fukushima disaster site, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. This Week’s Featured Interview: We get all kinds of overly optimistic reports about the clean-up of radioactive water and debris from Fukushima, with

NH #663: SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN, Fukushima at 13, Quakes + Nukes = Nuclear UNsafety - Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

Nuclear Hotseat's annual Fukushima anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN SPECIAL focuses on earthquake dangers to Japan's nuclear reactors.

NH #646: WRONG! IAEA BLIND SPOTS in "Safety" Tests of Fukushima Radioactive Water Release - What's Missing? Tim Deere-Jones

"Safety" tests of radioactive Fukushima water releases into the Pacific are inadequate, IAEA approval just wrong: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones.

NH #636: Japan Puts World in Radioactive Hot Water: Boycotts, Protests, Fukushima's Tritium Dangers - Fairlie, Deere-Jones, Busby

Protests, demonstrations, boycotts as Japan begins dumping 1.3 million tons of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific.

NH #635: Post-Oppenheimer Nat'l Nuclear Activism & Messaging - ReThink Media's Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund's Bonnie Fisk + Fukushima Radioactive Water Dump

Post-Oppenheimer nuclear group messaging is being coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund, plus Japan really is dumping radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific.

NH #629: SPECIAL: Japan's Radioactive Fukushima Water Dump - Media Propaganda, Report from South Pacific

With Japan's planned release of 1.3 million tons of radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific, 4 SPECIAL reports on S Pacific, media propaganda.

NH #628: IAEA OKs Japan's Fukushima Radioactive Water Release + Ukraine Nuclear Disaster Imminent?

IAEA OKs Japan's dump of 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive tritium-contaminated water into Pacific Ocean despite international protests.

NH #627: More Nuclear Reactors for Illinois? + Whistleblower: IAEA Pre-Approval of Fukushima Radioactive Water Release - the Fix is In

Whistleblower leaks IAEA/Japan collusion on release of Fukushima radioactive water. PLUS: Illinois set to allow new nukes after 37 year moratorium.

NH #619: The Antidote to Oliver Stone - "Fukushima Disaster," Excellent New Film Exposes Core Nuclear Lies

The Antidote to Oliver Stone is "FUKUSHIMA DISASTER: The Hidden Side of the Story," a new film by French filmmaker Philippe Carillo.

NH #611: SPECIAL - Fukushima at 12: Voices from Japan - On the Ground w/Beverly Findlay Kaneko

Fukushima at 12: On-the-ground report of nuclear disaster's true impact on ordinary citizens' lives near the triple meltdowns. Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

NH 608: Fukushima Child Thyroid Cancer Rates Soar - Joseph Mangano

Fukushima child cancer rates soar, Japan Prime Minister ignores them, but epidemiologist Mangano of Radiation & Public Health provides truth.

NH #574: 11th ANNIVERSARY! Tritium Radiation Lies - Dr. Ian Fairlie on Fukushima, Pilgrim

Nuclear Hotseat's 11th Anniversary! Dr. Ian Fairlie on tritium radiation lies behind planned radioactive water releases at Fukushima, Pilgrim in MA.

NH #561: Chernobyl Radiation Lab Destroyed, Radioactive Forest Fires, History with Kate Brown + Fukushima 7.3 Earthquake Damage

Chernobyl Radiation Lab Destroyed, Radioactive Forest Fires, History with Kate Brown + Fukushima 7.3 Earthquake Damage Kate Brown , author of the award-winning Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future , is a historian of environ

NH #559: Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE – Gundersen + SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN – Fukushima 11 th Anniversary

Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates . Nuclear Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors first shelled, t

NH #556: Fukushima Thyroid Cancer in Kids - Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Fukiushima thyroid cancer in kids – 5 former Japanese Prime Ministers cite the known facts while current Prime Minister lashes out to protect nuclear industry image. Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, Exec. Director of Radiation and

NH #552: Tonga Tsunami Nuclear Dangers to Fukushima, San Onofre - Nancy Foust, Charles Langley & Nina Babiarz

Tonga Tsunami nuclear dangers erupted from underwater volcanic explosion, seen here from space . This week’s episode explores this massive natural disaster’s real and potential impact on nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Ja

NH #546: Fukushima Radioactive Water Dump, Citizens Radiation Data Map of Japan + Pilgrim Radwater Release

Fukushima radioactive water dump: TEPCO plans to release 1,280,000 metric tons of tritium-contaminated radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean despite country-wide and international pushback. This Week’s SPECIAL Featur

NH #532: Nuclear New Orleans: Another Fukushima? Post-Ida Dangers at Waterford Nuclear - Arnie Gundersen, Maggie Gundersen, Nancy Foust

Nuclear New Orleans: Another Fukushima? Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education spells out the dangers. This Week’s SPECIAL Interviews: Following the devastation to New Orleans by Hurricane Ida, mainstream media has failed to c

NH #507: Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan: THIS IS NOT "RECOVERY"

Fukushima 10: In Okuma Town, in the Difficult to Return Zone, foreign TV crew members wear protective gear while the lone decontamination worker sweeping the street is wearing regular work clothes . Photo courtesy of Shinshuu Hida. F

NH: #499: Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay - Again! - thru Fukushima & Futaba - Beverly Findlay Kaneko

Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay – Again! – will Run through Futaba. It was host town to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and ground zero for radiation releases from the 2011 triple meltdown. This Week’s Featured Interview: R

NH #455: Fukushima Anniversary SPECIAL: Voices From Japan 2020 - Tokyo Shimbun Reporter Takeshi Yamakawa

SPECIAL: Fukushima Anniversary Voices from Japan - Tokyo Shimbun reporter Takeshi Yamakawa on radiation doses in air, food.

NH #440: Fukushima Journey, Pt. 2: Olympics Propaganda, Thyroid Cancers, Japanese Govt. Lies - 4 days in Fukushima Prefecture w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

Fukushima Journey – 4 days on-the-ground in Fukushima Prefecture w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (l) and Setsuko Kida-san, here pictured in front of memorial for those who died in the 3/11/11 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. Note t

NH #439: Fukushima Disappearing?: 4- Day Journey through Japan's Radioactive Olympics Prefecture w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (Pt. 1)

Fukushima Disappearing? Tomioka 2019 – the dead end at the “difficult to return” zone. One side of the street is in the repatriation zone; the other, behind the red and white barriacade, is in the exclusion zone. Can you s

NH #435: Citizens' Radiation Data Map of Japan Exposes Scientific Truth about Fukushima Contamination + Hurricane Hagibis Radiation Update: Mari Inoue

Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan – created by moms, parents, grandparents to supply the information that the Japanese government would not. See what radiation levels have been and will be for the next 100 years. This Week&#

NH #434: Fukushima Hurricane Hagibis Flooding Spreads Radiation Risks, w/Simply Info's Nancy Foust + Radioactive Rocky Flats-Adjacent Toll Road Delayed - Randy Stafford

Fukushima Hurricane Hagibis Flooding – deluge of water washes full bags of “decontaminated” soil, plants, and other radioactive matter into Furumichi river near the Japanese city of Tamura in Fukushima Prefecture (above).

NH #414: EMP "Stun Guns in Space" = No Grid, No Nuclear Reactor Controls - 60 Fukushimas in USA? Arnie Gundersen, Robert Manning on Electromagnetic Pulse Dangers

EMP – electromagnetic pulse – from nuclear blast in space over Ohio would fry electronic circuits in all nuclear reactor cooling systems from Chicago to the east coast – oh joy! This Week’s Featured Interview: A disc

NH #402: Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL #2: Activist Misao Redwolf, Journalist Carole Hisasue, Simply Info's Nancy Foust, Nuclear Lecturer Dr. Caitlin Stronell, Filmmaker Tsukuru Fors Lauritzen

Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL: Japanese anti-nuclear activist Misao Redwolf takes a stand at the Friday night Tokyo demonstrations against reactor restarts. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuc

NH #401: Fukushima Update SPECIAL: Microparticles, Medical Data Manipulation, More! Simply Info's 2019 Fukushima Report w/Nancy Foust

Fukushima Update: Photo sequence of the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, March 14, 2011, that spewed radioactive microparticles into the environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Fukushima UPDATE SPECIAL &#8211

NH #389: World Health Organization's Fukushima, Chernobyl Lies: Alison Katz of Independent WHO

Montage of protesters at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, organized by Independent WHO This Week’s Featured Interview: Alison Katz , the head of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) , co

NH #376: United Nations Lies re: Fukushima Radiation - Dr. Alex Rosen, IPPNW REDUX

United Nations UNSCEAR report maintains nothing bad happened to people’s health after Fukushima. Photos of explosion at Fukushima Daiichi, March 14, 2011. Look harmless to you? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Alex Rosen is a

NH #363: TEPCO Nuclear Error = Fukushima Terror: Nancy Foust on Newly Discovered 2011 Fukushima Radiation Releases

TEPCO’s Fukushima plant manager, the late Masao Yoshida, who battled his offsite bosses to continue pouring water onto the melting-down remains of three nuclear reactors Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews:

NH #350: SPECIAL: Fukushima 7th Anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN: Child Thyroid Cancer Rates Soar in Fukushima

Fukushima 7th Anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN Listen Here: [powerpress] Featured Interviews: Chikako Chiba is a representative of the Ajisai-no Kai Support Group for families with children who have thyroid cancer. Toshio Yanagihara is an atto

NH #344: FUKUSHIMA: Where are the People? - Arnie Gundersen on the Ongoing Human Toll of the Nuclear Disaster

Featured Image: Arnie Gundersen in Japan, with bags of radioactive material in background. Sign says “Decontamination is still in progress.” Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature: Arnie Gundersen , Chief Engineer a

NH #343: Hawaii Dress Rehearsal for Nuclear Hell + Fukushima update w/Nancy Foust, European Radiation w/Shaun McGee

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy 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.ne

NH #342: ENCORE PRESENTATION: PSR/IPPNW Report - 10,000+ Excess Cancer Cases Post-Fukushima – Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez

Because I’m down with the flu, I’m unable to produce a new program this week, so here’s a chance for you to listen to an important story from 2016, where Physicians for Social Responsibility and the International Physician

NH #341: Chernobyl Mutations, Fukushima Implications: Tim Mousseau + Don Safer on TVA Small Modular Reactors

Featured Image: Mutant Firebugs at Chernobyl. Photo permission Timothy Mousseau Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at C

NH #334: Sen. Corker Challenges President's Authority to First-Strike Nukes - PSR's Martin Fleck was In the Room Where it Happened, Cong. Ted Lieu on Nuke Use Legalities + FUKUSHIMA UPDATE w/Nancy Foust

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Martin 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 hearin

NH #328: LA's Nuclear Nightmare Continues - Boeing's Santa Susana Field Lab Lies w/Denise Duffield + FUKUSHIMA UPDATE w/Nancy Foust

Featured Image: Children show map of pediatric cancers surrounding Santa Susana Field Lab at Feb. 21, 2017 Department of Energy (DOE) meeting Featured Interview: Denise Duffield is associate director of Physicians for Social Responsib

NH #325: (Almost) Fukushima in Florida? Irma & Harvey, Hurricanes & Nukes w/Maggie Gundersen, Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust

Hurricanes and Nukes: A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about

NH #323: SPECIAL: Fukushima in Texas? Hurricane Harvey Nuclear Dangers Not Over - Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust, Susan Dancer

A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL: The Ongoing Nuclear Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear . Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Re

NH #315: Three Mile Island 2019 Shutdown - Exelon's Promise or Threat? Scott Portzline of TMI Alert

This Week’s Featured Interview: Scott Portzline , Cyber-Security advisor to Three Mile Island Alert , sorts through the verbiage and posturing around Exelon’s announcement that they’ll be shutting down the Three Mile Islan

NH #314: Fukushima Radiation-Hit USS Reagan Sailors Win Right to Sue TEPCO in USA

Encore Presentation of Nuclear Hotseat #272: EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan vs. TEPCO Hearing Attorneys, Sailors + John Edwards On September 1, 2016, Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan

NH #304: San Onofre Radwaste Insanity vs. Google Earth: Ray Lutz, Gary Headrick + The Trauma of Fukushima Kids

This Week’s Featured Interviews San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz

NH #299: Mystery European Radiation Spikes - Sources, Causes & Coverups + Fukushima Facts w/SimplyInfo's Nancy Foust

This Week’s Featured Interviews: SimplyInfo’s Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report explored and its sometimes shocking revelations explained by Nancy Foust, Communications manager & research team member SimplyInfo.org. Ver

NH #298: Radiation Road Signs, Nuclear Refugees, Government Cover-Ups - VOICES FROM JAPAN: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster turns Six

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature: VOICES FROM JAPAN Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents

NH #297: Saving Fukushima's Abandoned Pets - Kerry Anne O'Connor

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue , which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone and rescued 760 animals after the March 11, 2011 meltdown of the

NH #296: Dr. Caldicott on Fukushima: “Decommission or Cleaning Up? It’s Fantasy!”

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation ; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really

NH #294: NO Radiation Spike at Fukushima - Nancy Foust of Simply Info (It's still bad, but it's not suddenly worse)

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels . Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translati

NH #292: Chernobyl/Fukushima Mutations - Mousseau + Small Modular Reactors w/Don Safer

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species. A Nuclea

NH #287: UN's UNSCEAR lies re: Fukushima Radiation - Dr. Alex Rosen + Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Radiation SPECIAL – UN’s Fukushima Radiation Lies Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) , uses that group’s fo

NH #274: Journalism's Fukushima Coverage Failures w/Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale, Shaun McGee in UK on Sellafield Documentary's Hot Impact, and Excellence in Journalism Report

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Prof. 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 observa

NH #272: EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan v. TEPCO Hearing - Attorneys, Survivors + John Edwards

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Interviews: Nuclear 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 Ja

NH #252: SimplyInfo's Nancy Foust w/Fukushima, Kumamoto/Sendai Nukes FACTS + Christian Brunn on film, "The Man Who Saved the World"

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org , which holds and manages the largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster in the world , on how that group finds and vets its info. Includes up to

NH #247: PSR/IPPNW Report - 10,000+ Excess Cancer Cases Post-Fukushima – Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez

This Week’s Featured Interviews: The PSR/IPPNW report released last week 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:

NH #246: Fukushima 5th Anniversary - Voices from Japan - Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” overview of the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

NH #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed - IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen - ENCORE

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Alex Rosen , a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) . On behalf of that group, he takes on the United Nations’

NH #243: Chernobyl, Fukushima Mutations w/Dr. Timothy Mousseau (picture is of mutated fire bugs at Chernobyl)

This Week’s Featured Interview Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and since 1991, a faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his col

NH #231: India's Kumar Sundaram on India-Japan Nuclear Agreement + Fukushima Friends Hawaii

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand of an international activist in India’s fight against nuclear technology. Kumar is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Pe

NH #221: FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In Ocean, Biosphere w/Mary Beth Brangan on Mousseau, Buessler Info

INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Options Network (EON3) reports on the recent California event she helped to produce: FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with scientists Timothy Mousseau on mutations at Chern

NH #211: UN's Fukushima Radiation Lies Exposed - IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen

INTERVIEWS: 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 ; International Physi

NH #207: Fukushima Kids & Moms Escaping Radiation - Hawaii's Fukushima Friends and Japan's Komoro Homestay

INTERVIEWS: 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.&n

NH #204: NPT w/Alice Slater; Exelon's Kutzpah w/NEIS' Dave Kraft; UCY.TV's Jules Cook on New Fukushima Video Database

INTERVIEWS: 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 Exelon ‘s attempts to strongarm a bankrupt Illinois

NH #203: Post-Fukushima Media Manipulation w/Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale

INTERVIEW: Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale , Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Professor for the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She researched mainstream media coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi n

NH #197: Post-Fukushima W. Coast Birth Defects w/Dr. Janette Sherman

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project on her recent study (with epidemiologist Joseph Mangano ) showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima

NH #194: Fukushima 4th Anniversary - Voices from Japan

VOICES FROM JAPAN INTERVIEWS: TV and Film star Midori Kiuchi Midori Kiuchi (r, in red vest) with friends Tatsuya Majima (l) and Yasuko Tamanaka (c) in front of the No-Nukes Occupy tents. Note her English-language banner, which was shi

NH #184: Fukushima Radiation Lies Exposed w/IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen, RPHP's Joseph Mangano

INTERVIEWS: 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 ; International

NH #178: Fukushima Kids, Moms & Thyroids - Filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash, Voices from Japan w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

Fukushima children show their radiation dosimeters. INTERVIEW: Japan-based Filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash talks about how he came to shoot his documentary, “A-2-B-C” on radiation risks to children and damage to their thyroids followin

NH #177: Fukushima Update - Arnie Gundersen

Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gunderson w/Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host, Libbe HaLevy INTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (Fairewinds.com), Nuclear Hotseat’s favorite nuclear engineer, gives a concise

NH #176: USS Reagan Sailors' Lawsuit v. TEPCO Clears Judicial Hurdle, Expands!

INTERVIEW: Attorneys for the USS Reagan sailors hit by Fukushima radiation won big in court last week: Judge Janis Sammartino ruled that the $1 billion lawsuit against TEPCO for health damages and medical treatment CAN not only move forward

NH #166: EXCLUSIVE - USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO - The San Diego Hearing

JON STEWART TWEET-OF-THE-WEEK: Avoid rice in Singapore, Jon; it’s imported f/Fukushima! Now enriched w/99 Bq cesium per kilogram! #NuclearHotseat #newCNNshows #nonukes — Libbe HaLevy (@NuclearHotseat) August 27, 2014 EPISODE #1

NH #161: UN's UNSCEAR Fukushima Radiation Report Blasted by IPPNW's Alex Rosen

FEATURED INTERVIEW: Dr. Alex Rosen , a German pediatrician and Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Germany, cites his organization’s recently published Critical Analysis of the UNSCE

NH #159: USS Reagan's Steve Simmons & $1B Lawsuit against TEPCO

USS Reagan sailor Steve Simmons and his wife, Summer INTERVIEW: Steve Simmons , a 17-year Navy veteran who served on the USS Ronald Reagan when it was called to do humanitarian aid work in Japan following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on M

NH #148: Chernobyl Anniversary Special + Voices from Japan: The Chernobyl/Fukushima Connection

Nuclear Hotseat #148: Chernobyl Anniversary Special + Voices from Japan: The Chernobyl/Fukushima Connection – DOWNLOAD HERE Interviews with: Dr. Janette Sherman on the medical consequences of Fukushima Dr. Alexey Yablokov , editor of

NH #145: WIPP & San Onofre Updates + More Voices from Japan

Fukushima Collective Evacuation Lawsuit attorney Toshio Yanagihara (left), and voluntary evacuee Katsumi Hasegawa (right), met with Noam Chomsky and a Fukushima mother and child in Tokyo recently. FEATURING: Don Hancock of Southwest Researc

NH #142: Fukushima Anniversary SPECIAL: Voices from Japan - English & Japanese Versions

日本語版を聞く場合はここをクリックして下さい。LISTEN HERE: (JAPANESE): ダウンロードをして聞く場合はここをクリックして下さい。DOWNLOAD HERE (JAPANESE): FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hiroaki Koide, Asst. Professor, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Taro Yamamoto , actor and member of

NHt #138: USS Reagan Sailors v. TEPCO Lawsuit Update w/Attny Charles Bonner

USS Reagan sailors on deck trying to clean up radiation during Operation Tomadachi, their humanitarian aid mission to Fukushima immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Note the lack of protective gear.) INTERVIEW

NH #135: Fukushima On-the-Ground w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

Kida-san was surprised to see clean dishes stacked on her kitchen sink. “The dishes were still dirty in the sink, but my husband must have brought along some water and washed them,” she said, choking back tears. 台所の食器が綺麗に洗ってあると驚く木田さん。 「汚れっぱ

NH #133: SKY NOT FALLING! Debunking False Info w/Bonner of Safecast, German of RadCast

INTERVIEWS: The holiday season saw rumors flying about Fukushima, radiation and elevated dangers in the U.S. Wildly exaggerated claims got picked up by mainstream media and had people panicking. Nuclear Hotseat gets to the

NH #129: US Sailors Vs. TEPCO w/Attorney Charles Bonner

Japanese citizens protest the newly-passed Secrecy Law INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, one of the team representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for the health damages they sustained from Fukus

NH #126: Wasserman, Gundersen on TEPCO, SFP4 & Activism NOW

Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima INTERVIEW: Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear/pro-alternative energy activist for more than 40 years. He’s author or co-author of a dozen books, writes for the Huffington Post and edit

NH #125: RadCast Radiation Reports w/Mimi German

CNN gets lousy ratings, bad reviews, bad PR from Pandora . INTERVIEW: Veteran activist Mimi German, Co-Creator of RadCast, explains this Rad-ical new service to provide daily and weekly radiation “weather” reports for use

NH #123 BONUS: EMERGENCY: Arnie Gundersen on Fukushima, TEPCO's Insane Plans for Spent Fuel Pool 4

TEPCO plans to begin removing fuel rods from Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima as of November 6, 2013 – putting at risk the equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of nuclear radiation . This could be an extermination level event for

NH #121: Nuclear Nader, but Can Kan? "Fukushima Lessons Learned" Events

The Anti-Nuclear Dream Team: (l-r) Former nuclear insider/engineer Arnie Gundersen ; conference organizer Torgen Johnson , former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan , Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay , Ralph Nader , former NRC Commissioner Pet

NH #117: Olympic Insanity + If Gundersen were in Charge at Fukushima

Two visions of housing in Japan: Proposed Olympic Village (top) vs. Fukushima refugee “temporary” housing , now over 2 years old. PM Abe’s priorities are clear. (photo juxtaposition by Cathy Iwane) INTERVIEW:&

NH #116: Japan at Fukushima + 29 Months - On-the-Ground Report w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

The Mystery of Fukushima Harbor : Boiling water, steam, fog, mist, morning marine layer… or swamp gas? INTERVIEW: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko is a former resident of Japan who spent over 20 years in that country. On March 16, 2

NH #113: BREAKING! San Onofre Decomish Symposium w/Gene Stone, + Joe Mangano

The Future of Art in a Post-Fukushima World INTERVIEW: Closing down San Onofre didn’t end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted focus. Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about

NH #112: Hiroshima Anniversary, Fukushima Survivor Chikako Nishiyama, SLOMP's Carole Hisasue

Hiroshima Peace Park’s one remaining building from ground zero, August 6, 1945. INTERVIEWS: Carole Hisasue left a successful media career in Japan for an idyllic life in America… but landed within six miles of the Diablo Canyon

NH #111: "Fukushima is Here" Human Billboard; Daniel Hirsch SSFL Encore

“ Fukushima is Here ” mock-up – help make the real thing happen on October 19! FEATURED INTERVIEW: John Bertucci, one of the organizers of the “Fukushima is Here” campaign, on what it takes to set up a 2,

NH #110: Disaster Prep Pro Chuck McCune on FEMA, Global Warming & Nukes

FEATURED INTERVIEW: Chuck McCune, veteran disaster preparedness pro, talks about the nuclear aspects to natural disaster, including some projections FEMA never intended to get out to the public. Chuck includes his vision of what

NH #107: Food/Radiation Update w/FFAN's Kim Roberson, Sean Witzling

Fukushima native Godzilla decides to get even with TEPCO. INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson — nutritionist, author and founder of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) on the latest in food/radiation safety, plus the n

NH #106: Keegan: Ohio's Davis-Besse follows SanO Lead; MamaBears, Native Elders Protest Grand Canyon Uranium Mining

Davis (R) and Besse (L) at home downwind of the nuclear disaster-in-the-making that bears their names. INTERVIEWS: Michael Keegan , Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes , fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact t

NH #105: EXCLUSIVE Naoto Kan Interview

The Boys and Girls on the Nuclear Bus, June 4, 2013: (l-r) Gregory Jaczko, Kendra Ulrich, Cathy Iwane, PM Naoto Kan, Arnie Gundersen, Shaun Burnie, Peter Bradford, Eric Pica http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat105-EXCLUSI

NH #103: HISTORIC ANTI-NUKE SUMMIT: Hon. Naoto Kan, Jaczko, Bradford, Gundersen

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan FEATURING: “The Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Lessons for California from Former Japanese Prime Minister Kan” was a public meeting of historic consequence for the anti-nuclear movem

NH #101: Hanford Spotlight w/PSR's Daniel Noonan, Food Safety w/organic farmer Paul Frey

Friends of the Earth’s mobile billboard, roving the 50-mile evacuation radius from San Onofre in So. California . FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Daniel Noonan of Washington state Physicians for Social Responsibili

NH #99: San Onofre Heats Up: Friends of the Earth's Kendra Ulrich

INTERVIEWS: Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth , who explains what it’s like to stand up solo and face down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on their home turf — and what the macro conversation is

NH #98: LaSalle SCRAMS x4; Will Chicagoans Have to Scram? NEIS' Gail Snyder, Andrew Kishner

Nuclear Engineering at San Onofre (Photo: 10 News San Diego) INTERVIEW: When the LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant 125 miles from Chicago got hit with lightning on April 17, it set up a series of emergency shut-downs, unvented gas releases,

NH #96: Naval Personnel Nuked w/Fukushima Radiation - FULL STORY

FEATURED: You 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

NH #95: Radiation & Food Safety: FFAN Actions w/Cindy Folkers, Mary Beth Brangan

INTERVIEW: Radiation from Fukushima, nuclear reactors and leftover atmospheric testing continue to compromise the safety of our food. Learn the dangers of radiation contamination — and how to take action — from two m

NH #93: THREE MILE ISLAND SPECIAL: America's Forgotten Nuclear Terror

Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy as a young, stupid woman standing in front of the still-leaking nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, approximately April 10, 1979 FEATURING : Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy

NH #92: FUKUSHIMA BLACKOUT! Radiation Health Tips from FFAN's Kimberly Roberson

LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/73d1767f-132a-386d-6799-a727b2bb1f01.mp3 INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson is a certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator and has served on the board of the Nation

NH #91 - Dr. Caldicott's Global Symposium on Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima

SPECIAL: Direct from Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Global Symposium on the Medical and Ecoogical Consequences of Fukushima, the voices of activists from around the world share what they saw, heard, felt — and decided they’d have t

NH #90: Organizational Psychosis and the Nuclear Connection w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams

INTERVIEW: Dr. Lloyd C. Williams, international Fortune 100-level coach/consultant/organizational psychologist, on Organizational Psychosis as it relates to Japan, TEPCO, the NRC and the rest of the nuclear industry, with tips to acti

NH #89: World Premiere of Filmmaker Christopher Noland's "3.11: Surviving Japan"

PLUS: Hanford leaking up to two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of plutonium-laden waste, endangering Columbia River ; Germany facing nuke waste dangers and admits they haven’t a clue how to handle it; Nuke workers dyin

NH #74: First Nations Battle Nuclear Genocide in Canada

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 politi

NH #73: Japanese Seniors Thwarted in Fukushima Clean-Up Effort

INTERVIEW: Remember 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 Skilled Veterans Corps for Fu

NH #69 - Japan's Tragic Update (kids, food, Fukushima clean-up); Author Kristen Iversen

PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing

NH #68: US Commands Japan's Noda: Keep the Nukes!

INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his

NH #66: Sean Bonner of Safecast; Japan Govt. Says "No!" to Nukes (Sort Of...)

Listen here: Download here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/fbc331c3-4c4f-bf9a-0fae-8e74a74b5bbb.mp3 Interview: Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsew

NH #65 - Dr. Janette Sherman & Joseph Mangano on Post-Fukushima Deaths in US

Plus: Police kill anti-nuke protesters, including a small girl, as thousands continue to protest at Koodankulam NPP in India; The fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away

NH #64: Fukushima Diary's Iori Mochizuki; NRC Denies License (!) to Calvert Cliff

PLUS: For only the second time in history, the NRC denies a request for a license! NIRS Exec. Director Michael Mariotte labels this action, “A blow to the so-called ‘nuclear renaissance.'” San Onofre to get cost/bene

NH #61: Mary Olson of NIRS.org on Nuclear Waste; "Terrorist" 82-Year Old Nun Assaults Nuke Facility w/a Bible!

Interview : Mary Olson, Director of Southeast 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). This woman is a c

NH #56: Fukushima Activist Chieko Shiina, Czechs Help "Radiation Refugees"

FEATURED: Report 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 a Children’s Clinic to address pressing health

NH #53 - Radiation Monitoring Devices and Crowd-Sourced Readings

Dr. Bill Cardozo of CreativeElectron.com and Darin McClure of SanOnofre.com 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 rea

NH #42 - Foodchain Safety Issues w/Kimberly Roberson & Mary Beth Brangan

Terrific food safety interview w/Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Awareness Network. Learn about the increasing dangers posed to our food supply by the radiation from Fukushi

NH #39 for March 13, 2012 - 1st Anniversary of Fukushima, San Onofre Demonstration

On the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Special audio report from the March 11 San Onofre anti-nuke demo; Interviews with two survivors of Tohoku quake, tsunami and

NH #30: How Nuclear Activists Can Get on the Radar of Reporters BEFORE March 11

Reporters always need sources and don’t know where to find them. They’ll also take the easiest way out whenever possible. News and journalism have been so degraded since I got my BA in the field that it’s sad t

NH #25: Fukushima update with Arnie Gunderson - October 20, 2011

Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds.com can always be counted on for sober, clear, unbiased information. He’s one of the sources upon which I base much of my understanding of the issues of nuclear power. In this update, he talks about the t

NH #18: September 6, 2011

Today’s Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: North Anna’s operators caught in a lie about quake-readiness of that plant, even as they break ground for reactor #3; Fukushima radiation levels for workers more than 10 times too high; Interview

NH #13: Evacuate Fukushima - Video and Petition

Rarely have I seen anything as profoundly moving as this video, which makes the indellible case for international support in forcing the Japanese government to evacuate the children of Fukushima from the danger zone. The picture paint

NH #12: Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown in 1959

The great cover-up of the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear accident in 1959 – the worst on U.S. soil because there was no containment building. Information only came out 20 years later when some of Dan Hirsch&#82

NH #9: Arnie Gunderson Interview - Fukushima Update

A new podcast interview w/Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds Associates, one of my personal heroes for his clarity, calm and vision. Very specific update information on Fukushima and radiation “rain out” projections for the com