NH #267: INDIAN POINT Film – Former NRC Chair Jaczko, Director Meeropol

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City. We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devote four…

NH #264: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Ace Journalist Greg Palast on Nuclear Racketeering & Back-Up Generator Lies

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, which is cited…

NH #217 – Ian Fairlie on Linear No Threshold Radiation Measurements vs. Radiation Deniers

  This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie is an independent consultant on radiation risks and a former scientific secretary to the UK government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters.  www.IanFairlie.org [powerpress] Numnutz of the Week UK Sellafield former engineer brews up a devil of a commemoration for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …

NH #214: Churchrock & Uranium-Contaminated Native Lands in SW USA w/Leona Morgan

INTERVIEWS: Leona Morgan  of Diné No Nukes is a Diné (“Navajo”) advocate for clean water, focused on protecting her people and the land from new uranium mining and nuclear developments in the Southwest, specifically around Navajo Nation plus lands within the Diné Four Sacred Mountains.  She explains the massive Churchrock uranium spill of 1979 and…

NH #174: MacFarlane Bails NRC, WIPP Rad-Fan Restart, Food Safety for Japanese Imports

INTERVIEWS: At Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) near Carlsbad, NM, Department of Energy restarts exhaust fan exposed to Plutonium and Americium during February 14, 2014 radiation leak; Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Center provides us with an update and insights. One From the Vault:  Nuclear Hotseat #7, July 26, 2011Jon Solomon of…

NH #172: Dr. Helen Caldicott, “Crisis Without End”

 Rudolph’s not the only reindeer glowing in Norway… INTERVIEW:Dr. Helen Caldicott – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, pediatrician, veteran anti-nuclear activist and author – discusses her latest book,“Crisis Without End” about Fukushima’s medical and ecological consequences, and her upcoming2015 Symposium on Nuclear Weapons. Dr. Helen Caldicott (r) with Nuclear Hotseat’s…

NH #171: Southwest Radiation Leak Update – Hancock on WIPP, Hadden on WCS

INTERVIEWS: Focus on the American southwest and the fallout from the Valentine’s Day  radwaste container explosion at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Information and Resource Center, corrects some misinformation about radiation levels surrounding the site, then gives his take on the “plans”…

NH #170: Climate Change March Special w/Michael Mariotte, Gail Payne, Dr. Sheila Parks

    LISTEN HERE: TO DOWNLOAD, CLICK HERE INTERVIEWS: Special report last Sunday’s massive, historic Climate Change Rally in NYC: Michael Mariotte, the President of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, provided key national organizing that helped deliver thousands of anti-nuke demonstrators to the event; Gail Payne not only marched, she designed those terrific…

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…