NH #169: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko on Journalist Iwaji’s Death + Karl Grossman on Nukes in Space

INTERVIEWS: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, Nuclear Hotseat’s “boots on the ground” in Japan, talks extensively about the recent death of Asahi TV news director Masaki Iwaji, whose passing was officially categorized as suicide but  which is believed by many to have been something else.  Beverly also discusses how Japan’s political shift to the right has impacted the…

NH #163: Hiroshima Day Perspective w/PSR’s Catherine Thomasson, Karl Grossman on Nukes in Space + Jon Stewart Twitter Campaign

HERE’S THE JON STEWART TWEET!  RETWEET (click the square arrows) AND FAVORITE (click the star), PLEASE!   Indian Point nuke reactors only 44 miles f/your studio, Jon. That’s why you need to cover nukes. #NuclearHotseat #newCNNshows #nonukes — Libbe HaLevy (@NuclearHotseat) August 6, 2014 HOW TO TWEET TO JON STEWART: Go to Twitter and sign…

NH #162: US Military Radiation Report Refuted by USS Reagan’s Simmons, Epidemiologist Mangano

 Abe Road?   INTERVIEWS: The United States military just issued a Congressionally-mandated report that says, in effect, that Fukushima’s radiation could not possibly be responsible for the catastrophic illnesses being experienced by the sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan, despite all appearances and common sense to the contrary.  So two genuine experts take on that…

NH #135: Fukushima On-the-Ground w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko

INTERVIEW:  Beverly Findlay-Kaneko of Families for Safe Energy reports on the deeply human side of Fukushima following her recent trip back home.  Learn how nuclear refugees cope with radiation and catch up with the heartbreaking story of former Fukushima resident Setsuko Kida, previously interviewed on Nuclear Hotseat #127. To contact Beverly Findlay-Kaneko: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesForSafeEnergy NUMNUTZ OF…

NH #133: SKY NOT FALLING! Debunking False Info w/Bonner of Safecast, German of RadCast

INTERVIEWS:  The holiday season saw rumors flying about Fukushima, radiation and elevated dangers in the U.S.  Wildly exaggerated claims got picked up by mainstream media and had people panicking.  Nuclear Hotseat gets to the root of the problems with Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast.  He talks about how a radiation reading can…

NH #132: WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance w/Alison Katz

INTERVIEW:  Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance (IAEA) censors WHO’s nuclear information and distorts the world’s understanding of nuclear radiation dangers.  Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the “Unholy Alliance” between the agency we’re supposed to trust to safeguard the…

NH #130: Friends of the Earth’s Australian Nuke Campaigner Dr. Jim Green

Japanese National Cancer Institutecomic book telling kids thathalf of them will get cancer…and they need to practice “prevention.”  Like what?  Smiling? This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Jim Green is Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth in Australia.  What’s that country’s culpability for Fukushima?  How does the country function as a “nuclear umbrella” for the…

NH #128: Talkin’ Nuke Trash w/Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps

INTERVIEW:  KEVIN KAMPS is Radioactive Waste Watchdog forBeyond Nuclear.  He specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; federal subsidies — in other words, all the complex issues at the top of the nuclear-industrial-governmental food chain. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  TEPCO, Fukushima Prefecture AND the Japan Football…

NH #127: Nuclear Refugee Setsuko Kida

INTERVIEW IN JAPANESE HERE: 第127回のリビーハリビーのニュークリアホットシートは福島第一原発避難民木田節子さんへのインタビューです。 このリンクは日本人の為に日本語のみに編集したものです。 木田さんには原発事故発生時の経験や日本の原子力政策に反対する声を上げることになった経緯や今回のアメリカ訪問についてお話ししていただきます。 彼女は活動家のネットワークからの要請を受け、福島第一原発事故直後に空母ロナルドレーガンの乗組員が高レベルの放射線被曝をし健康被害を受けたとして東 京電力を訴えている件で彼らを支援するためにやってきました。 http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/aa5dde9a-7fbf-4ca7-9b8e-b877a9b8b7b7.mp3 INTERVIEW:  Setsuko Kida, a “nuclear refugee” from Fukushima, lived midway between Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daiini when the nuclear disaster began in 2011.  She’s been in the U.S. to support the sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for health-destroying radiation…