NH #260: 5th Anniversary SPECIAL! Kevin Kamps, Mary Olson, Don Hancock, More!

Nuclear Hotseat – Now Downloaded in 112 Countries* To celebrate five years of continuous, weekly production, Nuclear Hotseat revisits some activists and stories we’ve been covering. Featured Interviews: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on the recent federal court refusal to reconsider nuclear reactor on-site long term radioactive waste storage. Mary Olson of Nuclear Information and…

NH #256: WA’s Hanford Site Radiological Dangers w/Gerry Pollet, West Lake/EPA Protests

This Week’s Featured Interview: How bad is the radioactive threat of the Hanford Site in SE Washington State?  Learn the facts, worthy of a Halloween horror house, from attorney Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest, a 16,000 member citizens’ watchdog group for the cleanup of Hanford. You Are There at the Front…

NH #249: Three Mile Island 37th Anniversary SPECIAL – Eric Epstein of TMI Alert

Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident – 37 Years Later Historical Audio ŸŸ-Ÿ First-Person AccountsOfficial Errors – Mutations and Deaths – Lack of Accountability What it was like on the ground at the first major commercial nuclear power reactor accident in US history… and what has happened in the 37 years since. Featuring: Eric Epstein of Three…

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 #167: Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on NRC’s Conflict of Interest + WIPP Update

INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear goes after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s latest actions in speeding approval of all nuclear reactor license extensions and  new builds, plus highlights the votes of compromised lame duck (now former) Commissioner Magwood’s blatant, possibly illegal conflict of interest.FOR SAMPLE WORDING FROM KEVIN KAMPS TO SEND TO SEN. BARBARA BOXER…