115 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from August 2011 to September 2026. Most recent: “NH #796: Utah Nuclear Madness: Out-of-State RadWaste + New Small Reactors + AI Data Centers?!? – Carmen Valdez of HEAL Utah”.
HEAL Utah is fighting against a federal nuclear "hub" near Great Salt Lake & within its watershed, & against proposed sites for untried SMNRs & AI data centers.
Nuclear Humor: isn't that a contradiction in terms? Not for William/Bill Hartung, who mixes nuclear jokes with his foreign policy day job. PLUS: Tina Cordova.
Dr. Michael Ketterer expands mobile radiation testing for RECA eligibility in CO, NM; Gundersen gives NRC what-for in testimony on Palisades restart.
Nuclear Russian Roulette: Dangers of nuclear reactors in Ukrainian war zone, how close we've already come to a nuclear disaster, what can be done to stop it. Joseph DeMare
New report from Radiation and Public Health Project reveals soaring infant mortality rates near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in CA. Joe Mangano, Christie Brinkley featured.
HEADS UP MICHIGAN, CHICAGO - Proposed Palisades reactor restart risks nuclear catastrophe on Lake Michigan; even the owners admit it won't run 18 months! -Gundersen
47 years after Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown, Bill Gates wants to restart Unit 1 to power Microsoft AI data center. Eric Epstein on why not.
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.
Foreign policy expert by day, stand-up comedian by night, Bill Hartung helps relieve existential nuclear stress w/jokes, observations, and guts.
Navajo Nation abandoned uranium mine "clean-up" really resource extraction scheme for corporate profit - Anna Rondon. Kevin Kamps on restart dangers of Palisades reactor.
Just 1 nuclear explosion in space could create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would fry the US electricity grid back to the stone age - Prof. Steven Starr + Joseph Mangano on
Shocking results! Dr. Ian Fairlie compiledm 60 international studies on leukemia rates for children living within 5 kilometers/3 miles of a nuclear reactor.
Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano reveals how nuclear industry hides health impacts of low level radiation emissions & why there MUST be health studies BEFORE new reactors get built.
Michigan's Palisades nuclear restart moves ahead despite dangers - Gundersen. Japan busted on lies about Fukushima radioactive tritium water release into Pacific - Deere-Jones
At Three Mile Island, 46 years after meltdown, will Unit 1 restart so its electricity will exclusively power Bill Gates' Microsoft data center? 1974-era technology that's spent 5+
Physicist M.V. Ramana spells out all the ways that nuclear cannot help mitigate climate change in his new book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of
THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION: new book on how those who tried to warn about radiation risks were discredited & censored by nuclear interests.
Pt 2 - interview w/authors of new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. New info on health dangers from “permitted” reactor radiation releases.
Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change - meticulously detailed new book on the science that exposes nuclear lies. Interview w/authors Datesman, Brugge.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese A-bomb survivors group. Small modular nuclear reactors/nuke weapons connection - Pt. 2, Physicist MV Ramana from his book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE
Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibiity on nuclear energy/nuclear weapons connection + Dr. Gordon Edwards on SMNR lies.
After a delay of more than one year, Oppenheimer opens in Japan, the only country nuked during war. Protests? Or Silence? Prof. Robert Bo Jacobs
$14+ billion taxpayer dollars for nuclear bailouts? Outrageous! Veteran nuclear waste watchdog Kevin Kamps exposes the absurdity of the nuclear money pit.
SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary - Timeline, Met Ed lies, mutated plants, cancers, decommissioning mess - what now?
International Uranium Film Festival coming to US/Canada for two months, 12 cities! Holtec illegally boiling off radioactive water from Pilgrim in MA.
Harvey Wasserman hosts hot discussion on CA's Diablo Canyon embrittlement w/Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace, & Palisades in Michigan’s planned restart w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuc
Whistleblower leaks IAEA/Japan collusion on release of Fukushima radioactive water. PLUS: Illinois set to allow new nukes after 37 year moratorium.
France's A-bomb Tests in French Polynesia, sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, refusal of reparations to indigenous people - 2 experts report.
World Nuclear Industry Status Report: Conclusion to last week's show - Zaporizhzhia Safety Zone lie, media blind spots, decommissioning fails.
Japan plans to dump radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific. How bad could it be? Marine biologist explains the risks.
Nuclear decommissioning Holtec plans radioactive water dump THIS YEAR into Cape Cod Bay, Hudson River. Concerned citizens fighting back!
Nuclear reactor decommissioning tricks at San Onofre in California, Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania delay solutions, put population at radiation risk
Strontium 90 in baby teeth led to 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Now, a new study will focus on health of kids living near nuclear reactors.
Increase in child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors shown in peer-reviewed study by UK's Dr. Ian Fairlie. Radiation risks confirmed.
Nuclear Ukraine - 15 nuclear reactors at risk of becoming dirty bombs if Russia explodes them. Edwin Lyman of Union of Concerned Scientists.
Nuclear Hotseat's 11th Anniversary! Dr. Ian Fairlie on tritium radiation lies behind planned radioactive water releases at Fukushima, Pilgrim in MA.
Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott, with 6 decades of activism opposing nukes, reveals how she met w/Pres. Reagan & almost saved the world. Pt. 1
This week we preview Nuclear Films for the Int'l Uranium Film Festival, including a first-ever panel of Indigenous uranium activists in N & S America.
Ukraine shows that all nuclear reactors are targets of war, not only Zaporizhzhia & Chernobyl. Your neighborhood nuke is a dirty bomb on the ground. Dr. Paul Dorfman, nuclear consu
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
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
Idaho National Laboratory in the southeastern portion of the state has, in the past, disposed of radioactive waste in 55 gallon drums by dumping them and covering them with dirt – pictured above. Are you feeling safe? Thi
Nuclear Ukraine – 15 nuclear reactors, Russian troops massing on the border only 120 miles from a six-reactor complex, and the possible weaponization of nuclear energy facilities. Oh – and then there’s Chernobyl in t
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
Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump is coming up against serious community pushback. They’re hearing from Cape Downwinders (logo above), Pilgrim Watch , and government reps. (Poster above is by graphic designer and educator La
Nuclear Numnutz – for your year-end delectation! You don’t have to swallow it whole, just be aware… This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Treat: Nuclear Numnutz of the Year! The annual Nuclear Hotseat chance to
Nuclear Hollywood Revealed! Lookout Mountain Laboratories was the secret film studio dedicated to filming raw footage of nuclear weapons tests and editing them into propaganda films. New book (cover picture above) reveals the fu
Nuclear reactor radiation releases are known to impact health, especially in kids, who are particularly vulnerable to radiation exposure that can lead to cancer. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear reactor radiation and its impact
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
Nuclear-Free Earth: Is such a thing even possible? Listen to veteran, award-winning environmental journalist Karl Grossman explain not only why it is possible and necessary, but how we can get there. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nu
Nuclear Disarmament – The Priests, The Nuns and the Bombs , a film by Helen Young. It focuses on the Plowshares movement and two key protests – the break-in at the Y-12 highly enriched uranium stockpile site at Oak Ridge,
Baby teeth collected both in the 1950’s and 60’s, compared to baby teeth collected now from area around Dresden nuclear reactors in Illinois and Fermi reactor in Michigan may reveal radiation exposure from nuclear reactor emissi
Radioactive Waste Dump Connection between Yucca Mt. (pictured above) and its the NRC-approved West Texas so-called “interim” waste site exposed and lambasted by Western Shoshone Principal Man Ian Zabarte. This Week’s Featu
Pilgrim Nuclear, Holtec Safety Lies: Dry cask storage is not secure when anyone can walk up to them, this close, without any restrictions. So much for Holtec’s claims about “safety.” This Week’s Featured
Indian Points Shutdown! But the battle for safety has just shifted to another gear. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Indian Point Shutdown ! The closure of Indian Point’s last operating nuclear reactor –
Turkish Nuclear Reactors – Photo from a protest of the Turkish Antinuclear Platform by multiple anti-nuclear groups, where Pinar Demircan is representing her group, nukleersiz.org . This Week’s Featured Interview: Pınar Demircan
Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown: Never Forget! March 28, 1979 in Middletown, Pennsylvania Nuclear Hotseat producer/Host Libbe HaLevy was one mile from the nuclear accident when it happened. In this picture, taken 10 days after the
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
Activists Getting Active – Vermont Yankee SHUT IT DOWN Affinity Group protesting at the gates of the now-shuttered nuclear reactor. Frances Crowe , third from left, Hettie Nessle to her left. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Act
Nuclear Suicide by Embrittled Reactors: Veteran environmental investigative journalist Karl Grossman This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Ol
New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump: Two proposed radioactive nuclear waste dump sites in NM and West Texas, and all the routes that existing waste would have to take to get there. Map courtesy Nuclear Issues Study Group LISTEN HERE: [powe
Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis called out by Dave Kraft of NEIS , seen here at his command control console for slaying nuclear dragons. NOTE: Letters are still needed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing plans for Holtec to bu
Saskatchewan First Nations activists Candyce Paul (r) and a lurking Marius Paul (lower l) Interview by Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Saskatchewan First Nations activist Candyce Paul has lived in northern Saskatchewan fo
San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canisters to High Tide on the beach. Can you spot the problems? HINT: There
Pilgrim nuclear insecurity – Princeton university projection of what would happen to the radioactivity released should Pilgrim have a fire in its spent fuel pool. THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Diane Turco is Director of
New Mexico radioactive nuclear garbage dump approved by NRC behind Covid smokescreen – Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (above) gives history, context, dangers, legal objections, and next steps. This Week’s Featured Int
Covid/Nuclear Dangers – More industry lies, problems revealed: Arnie Gundersen and Maggie Gundersen, interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Covid/Nuclear Dangers and Lies: As th
Canada Nuclear false alarm – Text of the warning sent via cell phones to residents in Toronto regarding the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station – talk about your wake-up call! This Week’s Featured Interview: Canada nuclea
Radioactive Nuclear Waste in Southern California : Google Maps image of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ‘s radioactive fuel rod storage canisters. Each one contains as much radiation as was released during the Chernobyl acci
Childhood leukemia rates proven to soar in kids living near nuclear reactors, such as has been shown through epidemiological study at this one at Douneray, Scotland. This Week’s Featured Interview: Childhood leukemia rates near nuclear reac
Nuclear weapons – a reminder of what they look like and what they can do. LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear weapons – their design, engineering, chances for implementation – that’
The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Inter
Nuclear UPDATE: Ohio Nuke Bailout info w/Attorney Terry Lodge Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nuclear Update USA checks in on several – far from all! – nuclear hotspots around the United States t
Nuclear Earthquake fears for Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors (above) got kicked up by the 7.1 Ridgecrest quake on July 5. According to veteran activist Harvey Wasserman , if the quake had hit closer than its less than 200 miles from Diablo C
Radioactive Waste Storage – NUCLEAR NIMBY: Activists rally against the proposed Holtec-Eddy/Lea consolidated so-called “interim” nuclear waste dump in New Mexico – January, 2019 SPECIAL REQUEST: Next week, I will be
Radioactive Nuclear Reactors – Millstone Nuclear’s strontium 90 spew into surrounding community was exposed by the late Katie the Goat’s milk. Her great-granddaughter Victoria carries on the family tradition. This WeekR
Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown! One of the many demonstrations by Cape Downwinders that helped make the closure happen. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts – the exact same design as
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
Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the comp
Vermont Yankee protest from 2012, two years prior to shut-down. This Week’s Featured Interviews: An update on problems being faced with the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vermont. Sandra Levine is senio
San Onofre Demonstration in San Clemente, CA, August 12, 2018 SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL Featuring: Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the pic
Nuclear Power Play: Credentialed journalist Sam Husseini (The Nation) holding so-called “malicious item” that got him forcibly ejected from Putin/Trump Helsinki press conference This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gene Stone
New Mexico’s other nuclear problems include the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM (pictured), where a 55 gallon drum of stored waste from Los Alamos National Laboratories exploded on Valentine’s Day, 20
Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas? No way! Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No! Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr
Pilgrim Nuclear public hearing, Diane Turco Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer This Week’s Featured Interview: Diane Turco , Executive Director of Cape Downwinders , a group dedicated to the permanent closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power r
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s RETURN TO TMI at 39 – SPECIAL: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, who was at the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, returns to cover TMI at 39, a panel discussi
Cancer researcher Joseph Mangano (r) and supporter Christie Brinkley (l) photo by: Greg Allen Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executi
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
This Week’s Feature: Arnie 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 nucle
Six years of weekly Nuclear Hotseat and still going strong! Please DONATE to support our work! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gerry Condon is a national board member of Veterans for Peace and Presiden
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
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
This Week’s Featured Interview: Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Stat
This Week’s Featured Interviews: LaVerne Thraen is a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s. We spoke less than an hour after it was shut down for good, o
This Week’s Featured Interview: Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is one of the hearts and minds behind the Keep Space for Peace! week activities, being held right now, O
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been passionately involved in its clean-up, as well as being active in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a c
This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING: 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 deliverin
This Week’s Featured Interview: Mimi German is the founder of RadCast , which focuses on collecting and interpreting radiation data . It helps helping citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, which RadCas
THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco , one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders , discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down… by the end of 2019. Donna Gi
4TH ANNIVERSARY! NUCLEAR HOTSEAT NOW HEARD IN 58 COUNTRIES* ON 6 CONTINENTS! FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray , Nuclear Issues Chair for the Virginia Sierra Club, reveals details of Dominion Power’s plans to experiment with dry c
INTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie , author of a 2014 study that correlated more than 60 studies about health risks to small children living within 5 kilometers – 3 miles – of nuclear reactors . Important information that needs to be deployed
INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear, goes into the longstanding issues against Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, a “lemon” of a nuke reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan only 70 miles from Ch
SPECIAL: Full coverage of last week’s trial of the Four Grandmothers , Cape Cod Downwinders who were arrested for trespass for their Mother’s Day, 2014 protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusett
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INTERVIEW : Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation . Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the g
Interview w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on radioactive waste storage problems, options, how we got in this mess and what if anything can be done about this ever-lasting health menace. www.BeyondNuclear.org BREAKING NEWS – NRC freeze
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 HirschR
Last Monday, I had the honor and priviledge of meeting up with several members of San Luis Obispo’s Mothers for Peace (MFP), a focused, brilliant, powerhouse force for a sane, nuclear-free world. Today, I receive an email with their l