NH #759: Hawaii Report Nixes Nuclear Energy – Lynda Williams; Setback on Boeing Superfund Clean-up at CA’s SSFL – Melissa Bumstead
This Week’s Featured Interviews:
Lynda Williams
- Lynda Williams is a physicist, educator, and lifelong anti-nuclear activist who writes and performs songs as the “Physics Chanteuse,” a “science entertainer.” She battles against nuclear greenwashing (aka lying) with public presentations, lectures, theatre, and a ferocious activist spirit, as well as serving on official panels and committees considering nuclear issues in her home state of Hawaii. Here, she discusses the latest developments in Hawaii’s consideration of nuclear power.
- Melissa Bumstead is Founder and Co-Director of Parents Against the Santa Susana Field Lab. Here, she provides us with a brief rundown on the history – and the recent shocking development – in the fight to get a full clean-up of the toxic, radioactive Superfund site.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter
- Are Trump’s “yes men” poised to license a dangerous new reactor?
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
Sambal goreng udang (Indonesian sambal shrimp) – radioactive???
More radioactive food warnings from the FDA. You really don’t want to have any Indonesian shrimp dishes!
Activist Shoutout:
- Come join us as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces the 2026 setting for thesDoomsday Clock, the symbolic masure of how close the world is to nuclear annihilation. It will be announced on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, during a live news conference at 10 am Eastern Time/1500 Greenwich Mean Time. You can access the Bulletin’s livestream HERE.
- John Barnard, the inventive pianist heard on the Nuclear Hotseat theme, has passed away after a long illness. We’ll think of him every time we hear that jaunty memory.
