NH #193: SPECIAL – Caldicott Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction

 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 Caldicott.  Video archive of the complete two-day event is available HERE.  This Nuclear Hotseat Special Report includes interviews, excerpts…

NH #192: Zombie Mines, Uranium Dangers at Grand Canyon w/Sierra Club’s Alicyn Gitlin

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” at the world’s greatest hole in the ground. Sierra Club letter to President Obama asking him to designate a Grand Canyon Watershed National…

NH #191: NIRS’ Mary Olson on “Atomic Eggs,” Increased Female Vulnerability to Radiation

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 phenomenon she labels “Atomic Eggs.“ http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radhealth/radhealthhome.htm NIRS‘ Mary Olson speaks on impact of radiation on girls and women at…

NH #190: WIPP Radiation Accident Anniversary Update w/Don Hancock

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: Sure, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the U.S. without nuclear would be “unthinkable” — but think about your state’s Boone Dam, with…

NH #189:  Dr. Helen Caldicott,  Symposium Update,  “On the Beach”

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 the Beach.” NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: British Commonwealth ambassadors chow down on Fukushima food and saki to…

NH #188: DIABLO CANYON SHUT-IT-DOWN SPECIAL! Gundersen! Wasserman! Moglen! More!

THIS WEEK:  Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo, California, 12 miles from the nuclear reactors. Event speakers heard in this episode: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother’s for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo…

NH #187: Rocky Flats and Atomic Worker Compensation – Kristen Iversen, Terrie Barrie

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 weapons, in jail for 32 months. INTERVIEWS: Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,…

NH #186: Kimberly Roberson on Radiation Awareness and Protection

INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson and Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy discuss their new audio program, RAPT, which stands for Radiation Awareness Protection Talk.  It’s intended to introduce those who don’t know about radiation’s negative impact on health to the problem and some actions they can take to best protect their health.  To learn more about the…

NHt #185: ACTIVIST SPECIAL! VT Yankee Shutdown Celebration, Lawrence Livermore Vigil, Tweet the Pope!

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 from Leslie Sullivan Sachs, Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, plus locals who’ve been in the…