803 episodes and counting.
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE This week, we commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine with a Nuclear Hotseat Special. You’ll hear from: Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva , a teenager in Bulgaria when t
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE SPECIAL REPORT NUCLEAR HOTSEAT EXCLUSIVE! QUEBEC CITY — The world’s perception of nuclear issues shifted in mid-April in Quebec at the World Uranium Symposium and the Uranium Film Festival. More
INTERVIEWS: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. She is joined by: Sandy Bahr , who is Chapter Director for the Grand Ca
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: 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
SPECIAL REPORT: THREE MILE ISLAND AT 36 The 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learn
Caution! Podcaster at work… FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque , organizer for this year’s Uranium Film Festival in Quebec , explains how he coordinated the timing of this year’s event with an international scientific
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
Guess where I was…! (said the future Nuclear Pundit of The Daily Show)! SPECIAL REPORT: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy traveled to New York to cover the February 28/March 1 symposium put together by Dr. Helen C
This Week’s Featured Interview: Alicyn Gitlin , who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter , on uranium mining and “zombie mines” a
INTERVIEW: Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS , on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation, including trans-generational DNA damage and a p
The 55 gallon drum of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Lab that “popped its lid” and released Plutonium and Americium into the environment on Valentine’s Day, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:
INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons why she decided to produce her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, “On
Activists in San Luis Obispo for the Jan. 24-25 Strategy Conference to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Banner concept and photo by Myla Reson, banner executed by Laura Lynch. Can you spot Nuclear Hotseat’s Lib
SISTER MEAGAN RICE’S MAILING ADDRESS: Megan Rice 88101-020 MDC Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center P.O. Box 329002 Brooklyn, NY 11232 TWEET THE POPE: @Pontifex – Free Sister Megan Rice, 84-year-old who protested nuclear weapo
“What could have been done without nuclear?” “Live” INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson and Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy discuss their new audio program, RAPT , which stands for Radiation Awareness Protection
Jon Stewart hasn’t said this on-air yet… but maybe he will in 2015! VERMONT YANKEE ORAL HISTORY MONTAGE Join activists from throughout New England as they celebrate the closure of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Hear fro
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
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, Al
INTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider of Fordham University, a nuclear physicist, authored the op-ed explaining nuclear reactor dangers and calling nukes “ The Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse .” He blasts nuclear reactors buil
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
Jon hasn’t said it yet… but he might! (Thanks to Rainbow Warriors for their help in visualizing.) INTERVIEW: Dr. Chris Busby has been a brilliant, reliable resource on nuclear radiation dangers since long before Fuku
BREAKING: Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case. Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner , attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. INTERVIEWS: Don
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