NH #400: Nuclear Brexit: UK’s Hinkley C, Sellafield Nightmares w/Veteran Activist Nikki Clark

NH #400: Nuclear Brexit: UK’s Hinkley C, Sellafield Nightmares w/Veteran Activist Nikki Clark

Nuclear Brexit marks the 400th episode of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Brexit?  This week, as Brexit looms over the United Kingdom, we learn about another pending boondoggle in that country: the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant proposed new build.  What’s so wrong with this particular new nuke and what are activists…

NH #399: Green New Deal & Climate Change: NUKES WILL NOT HELP! – Gundersen has the Science, NEIS’s Gail Snyder w/the GND Languaging Tricks.

Green New Deal may be co-opted before it ever starts if it allows nuclear energy. Image Credit:  Barnaby Chambers; used with Permission of Fairewinds Energy Education Listen Here: [powerpress] This week’s featured interviews: Green New Deal languaging analyzed for hidden pro-nuclear landmines by  Gail Snyder, Board Chair of Chiago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS). Are…

NH #398: Smithsonian Accepts Three Mile Island Plant Mutation Collection! – Mary Osborn

Smithsonian accepts!  Just one example of a radiation-mutated flower found near Three Mile Island by local resident Mary Osborn.  Her collection has been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Smithsonian accepts Mary Osborn’s Three Mile Island radiation/plant mutation collection.  Mary Osborn, a long time member of Three Mile Island Alert, has been gathering…

NH #397: New Mexico Nuclear Waste Showdown at NOT OK Corral: Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps

New Mexico nuclear waste dump?  A mock radioactive waste canister representing the 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods Holtec wants New Mexico to store until a permanent high level radioactive waste facility is built. (Don Hancock photo) Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico nuclear waste dump, its illegality, dangers and…

NH #396: New Mexico Radioactive Waste Showdown: Don Hancock on WIPP and Proposed “Interim” Storage

New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque.  The group  focuses on the goings-on at WIPP,…

NH #395: “Nuclear: Dangerous, A Failed Technology” – Former Nuke Regulatory Chief Greg Jaczko Goes Rogue

Rogue Nuclear Regulator: Former Chair of the NRC, Greg Jaczko This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator.  In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels…

NH #394: UChicago Nuclear Die-In at Atomic Pile Commemoration – New Anti-Nuke Generation’s India Weston

UChicago’s Henry Moore Statue “Nuclear Energy” was surrounded by body outlinesrepresenting the civilians who were killed by atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Photos: Brittney Dorton This Week’s Featured Interview: UChicago’s India Weston, a remarkable young anti-nuclear activist, fills us in on the new-media way she first discovered the hidden nuclear history, how she grew…

NH #393: Numnutz of the Year 2018 – SPECIAL! – A Look Back at Nuclear Insanity

Numnutz of the Year starts out with the year’s first Numnutz of the Week –U.S. Strategic Command bares all with its (yuk yuk!) New Year’s Tweet!  Feeling safe yet? This Week’s SPECIAL: A look back at 2018 through the lens of Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature, Numnutz of the Week.  Listen to the wacky antics…

NH #392: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice

Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage chargesfor her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear  Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Interviews: To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of the anti-nuclear…