NH #551: Nuclear Regulator Confesses! Former NRC Chair Jaczko’s Tell-All Book!

NH #551: Nuclear Regulator Confesses! Former NRC Chair Jaczko’s Tell-All Book!

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator.  (NOTE:  Link is to Amazon, but we recommend you order it through your local independent book store.) In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers…

NH #550: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump into Cape Cod Bay? NOPE! Diane Turco, Cape Downwinders

NH #550: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump into Cape Cod Bay? NOPE! Diane Turco, Cape Downwinders

This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump – is an action that the decommissioning company has planned for the radioactive water from the reactor spent fuel pool.  But Holtec has been receiving ever-growing pushback from Massachusetts representatives and the public.  Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group…

NH #536: Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Dangers – Kevin Kamps + Nuke Info Tokyo – Caitlin Stronell

NH #536: Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Dangers – Kevin Kamps + Nuke Info Tokyo – Caitlin Stronell

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive nuclear waste dump dangers are the primary wheelhouse of Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog (bullldog?) for Beyond Nuclear.  Kevin specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; environmental and public health risks associated with government and industry efforts to dump commercial irradiated fuel rods on Native…

NH #507: Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan: THIS IS NOT “RECOVERY”

NH #507: Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan: THIS IS NOT “RECOVERY”

  Fukushima 10: Voices from Japan – The 9th edition of Nuclear Hotseat’s Voices from Japan features on-the-ground interviews with people working in or involved with Fukushima.  For the first time, we are posting the original interviews in Japanese (scroll down). The interviews on this episode of Nuclear Hotseat: Voices from Japan were based on…

NH #506: Activists Getting Active! Vt. Yankee POWER STRUGGLE film – Robbie Leppzer + Mothers for Peace Rebuts Shameful New Yorker Article – Jane Swanson

NH #506: Activists Getting Active! Vt. Yankee POWER STRUGGLE film – Robbie Leppzer + Mothers for Peace Rebuts Shameful New Yorker Article – Jane Swanson

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Activists getting active on multple fronts! Linda Seeley is a veteran member of the group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.  Here, she fills us in on how the New York article, The Activists who Embrace Nuclear (GAK!) was not researched with anyone connected with the group – meaning due diligence…

NH #503: Nuclear Suicide by Embrittled Reactors: Karl Grossman

NH #503: Nuclear Suicide by Embrittled Reactors: Karl Grossman

This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. He hosts the television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman, is the author of six books, and writer of numerous magazine, newspaper and Internet articles. That doesn’t even come close to describing his…

NH #478: San Onofre Beachfront Nuke Waste Dump: Edison Sneaks Deadly Rule Change thru Coastal Commission – Public Watchdogs’ Charles Langley & Nina Babiarz

San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canisters to High Tide on the beach.  Can you spot the problems?  HINT:  There are even more!  Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – what could go wrong? …

NH #462: New Mexico Nuclear Garbage Dump Approved by NRC Behind Covid Smokescreen – Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear

New Mexico radioactive nuclear garbage dump approved by NRC behind Covid smokescreen –Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (above) gives history, context, dangers, legal objections, and next steps.   This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico – so-called “interim” storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste given go-ahead by Nuclear Regulatory Commission – and the fight against it…