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SPECIAL FEATURE: Nuclear Hotseat at 800! A look back on just a few excerpts from the first 800 <!> episodes of Nuclear Hotseat.
Hurricane Rachel's storm surges severely damaged southern California's coast. So what did it do to San Onofre & its 73 canisters of radioactive waste? Kim McCoy
This Week’s Featured Interview: As a civilian, Paul Griego worked on Runit Dome, the attempted cleanup of radioactive materials left behind after US nuclear bomb tests on the Marshall Islands. Now, 50 years later, the Dome is at risk from global warming, ocean level rise, and decaying containment ma
Idaho courted to become site of massive nuclear waste dump, aka "Nuclear Lifestyle Innovation Campus." Idaho NGO leaders explain expose disinformation, dangers.
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.
New science-driven educational resource explores how radiation harms female bodies more than male bodies, children more than adults, and pregnancy most of all.
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.
Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project reveals how NRC’s proposed radiation safety level changes use languaging to hide nuclear health impact, especially to women and girls.
First Nations filmmaker Michelle Derosier & Zoe Gordon on their award-winning short film THE MOTH - a Native woman struggles to survive a nuclear disaster.
San Onofre Symposium featured scientists, politicians, energy analysts & activists - what will it take to fully decommission & remediate the nuclear site - and is it even possible?
Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace exposes why a Diablo Canyon operating extension to 2045 is a bad idea, from earthquake faults to health dangers.
This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and author M. V. Ramana Physicist M.V. Ramana has been featured numerous times on Nuclear Hotseat and his input is highly prized here not only for his understanding of nuclear power’s failures, shortcomings, and dangers, but the clarity with which he can exp
What did the A-bomb do to humans who survived it & their decendents? Second generation hibakusha Prof. Yuki Miyamoto on living with the legacy & how media portrayals minimized the
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant radiation contamination pending inclusion under Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, calls needed! Vina Colley
Trinity atomic bomb blast – .025 seconds into the Atomic Age – July 16, 1945 This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Tommy Rock is a member of the Navajo Nation from Monument Valley, Utah. He got his Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in Environmental Geography and Recreational Management
Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group reveals problems at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab from demands to manufacture up to 80 new plutonium pits (bomb triggers) per year.
Between 1966 & 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, leukemia survivor & Member of Parliament, explains ongoing health cha
Dr. Michael Ketterer expands mobile radiation testing for RECA eligibility in CO, NM; Gundersen gives NRC what-for in testimony on Palisades restart.
Turnabout! Physics Chanteusse Lynda Williams interviews Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy: what drives the show, its 16 years of accomplishments, future plans.
Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! A look back at a decade-and-a-half of hghlights from nuclear stories, activists, actions & awards.
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
Groundbreaking United Nations report shows women & girls at greatest risk from nuclear radiation, written by Mary Olson & Amanda M. Nichols, PhD
New book by award-winning journalist Karl Grossman based on interviews from his show Enviro Close-Up: EnviroVideo Book 1: A Handbook for Action & Change
Marine biologist Tim Deere-Jones provides a SPECIAL report on the radioactive dangers exposed by the melting polar ice cap.