103 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from August 2011 to November 2026. Most recent: “NH #801: Wyoming Newbie Activist Mom Takes On State’s Nuke Expansion Plans – Samantha Fowler + Protests of NY Gov. Hochul’s Nuclear Master Plan Growing – Tim Judson of NIRS”.
This Week’s Featured Interview – Wyoming’s Samantha “Sam” Fowler: Wyoming mom and newbie activist Samantha “Sam” Fowler takes on the nuke industry’s big-monied push to build a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus in that rock-solid red state. Fowler discovered this issue virtually in her backyard onl
The Iran war and nuclear weapons - 29-year veteran, retired Col. Ann Wright - now a Peace activist - on what's at risk w/this sudden escalation of hostilities.
Greg Mello, Exec Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, reports from "belly of the beast" - DC's annual Nuclear "Deterrence" Summit.
Yes, fighting nuclear is an uphill battle - but sometimes we win! Here, for a year-end boost of optimism, hope & community is Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister.
At 82, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.
Japan's 7.6 earthquake stirred up radionuclides from Fukushima silt into Pacific currents & fish - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones. Activist media strategies from Emmy-winning jo
35th Westheimer Peace Symposium brings together academics, activists, artists to create awareness about need achieve local, national & global justice & peace.
Wilmington College Peace Resource Center presented Libbe HaLevy’s new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, to audience raves. PRC uses art to communicate nuclear truths.
Radioactive nuclear waste at UK's Sellafield leaks into Irish Sea, while mine waste dyes it bright orange, w/no sane storage solution in sight. + ICAN's Children's Peace Memorial
Lakenheath Peace Camp opposes US nukes at UK RAF base, sets 10 days of action mid-April to keep US nuclear weapons out of England.
Plowshares peace activist Susan Crane, arrested for protesting US nukes at Germany’s Buchel AFB, released from prison. PLUS Peace Resource Center to produce Libbe's play ATOMIC BIL
Parents pushing Boeing to clean up radioactive/toxic waste at LA’S Santa Susana Field Lab win a major victory. And Doomsday Clock? How about a Peace Clock? Veteran peace activist A
The annual Nuclear Hotseat Numnutz of the Year award - a look back at 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week at the most boneheaded moves by the nuclear industry & its enable
At 83, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.
Nobel Peace Prize went to Japanese A- & H-bomb survivors + Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit gathered 100+ media pros to DC for a 2-day braintrust - & Nuclear Hotseat was there!
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese A-bomb survivors group. Small modular nuclear reactors/nuke weapons connection - Pt. 2, Physicist MV Ramana from his book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in his book NUCLEAR B
Depleted uranium (DU) weapons - what they are, what they do, who's got them, who's using them? Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister focuses on Ukraine, Russia, Israel.
79 yrs since Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing. Atomic Cover-Up film of bomb aftermath, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nuclear group messaging coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund; eps from both groups explain. PLUS: ICAN Update.
Patti Ameno almost single-handedly forced clean-up of the radioactive NUMEC nuclear fuel processing site in Apollo, PA. She passed on May 10.
Time to catch up: Uranium Film Fest N. American tour ends in Las Vegas, RECA lobbying in DC as deadline looms, activist Patti Ameno passes.
After a delay of more than one year, Oppenheimer opens in Japan, the only country nuked during war. Protests? Or Silence? Prof. Robert Bo Jacobs
Melissa Parke, head of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on strategies to ally the nuclear & climate crisis movements to abolish nukes.
At 82, Peace hero nun Sister Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the highly guarded "Fort Knox" of the US uranium stockpile to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of p
More than 250 int'l activists meet at UN f/5 days on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons - Libbe HaLevy's exclusive report for Nuclear Hotseat.
Halloween is supposed to be a scary holiday - and what's scarier than nukes? 35 activists weigh in on "What scares me most about nuclear." BOO!
Highlights from 2022 Nuclear Free Future Awards online event for Laureates Anthony Lyamunda (Tanzania), Malte Gottsche (Germany), Libbe HaLevy (USA), plus announcement of 2023 win
Harvey Wasserman hosts hot discussion on CA's Diablo Canyon embrittlement w/Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace, & Palisades in Michigan’s planned restart w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuc
Protests, demonstrations, boycotts as Japan begins dumping 1.3 million tons of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific.
Post-Oppenheimer nuclear group messaging is being coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund, plus Japan really is dumping radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific.
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in NUCLEAR BODIES: Th
Gender bias behind radiation exposure levels revealed by Mary Olson. St. Louis Coldwater Creek, Bridgeton clean-up activists mourn Mary Oscko.
U.S. nuclear campaigner John LaForge, about to be sent to German prison for 2020 peaceful protest of nuclear weapons at Buchel Air Force Base.
NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Meagan Rice on 2012 break-in/protest at Y12 Uranium "Ft. Knox" & Susi Snyder w/Don't Bank on the Bomb.
Catholic Kings Bay Plowshares activists Patrick O'Neill & Martha Hennessey, on their anti-nuclear-weapons actions & subsequent prosecution.
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen explains dangers at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia site & young Welsh climate activists organize 7-day anti-nuke march.
Nuclear Ukraine - 15 nuclear reactors at risk of becoming dirty bombs if Russia explodes them. Edwin Lyman of Union of Concerned Scientists.
In this episode, learn the importance of & strategies for using social media messaging to move the nuclear activism into media prominence.
Nuclear Disarmament – The Priests, The Nuns and the Bombs , a film by Helen Young. It focuses on the Plowshares movement and two key protests – the break-in at the Y-12 highly enriched uranium stockpile site at Oak Ridge,
Baby teeth collected both in the 1950’s and 60’s, compared to baby teeth collected now from area around Dresden nuclear reactors in Illinois and Fermi reactor in Michigan may reveal radiation exposure from nuclear reactor emissi
New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on a panel on how to stop Los Alamos plutonium pit production and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expansion and extension, and promote the United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. (Picture a s
Activists Getting Active – Vermont Yankee SHUT IT DOWN Affinity Group protesting at the gates of the now-shuttered nuclear reactor. Frances Crowe , third from left, Hettie Nessle to her left. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Act
Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail – Erica Gray (above), Nuclear Issues Chair of the Sierra Club , provides the damning Nuclear Regulatory Commission “event” (accident) reports online, five days a week. This Week’s Feat
Nuclear Biden: Disarmament strategies for the new administration and Teaching Peace with Alyn Ware (l), Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament . Pictured here being interviewed by journali
Peace and Peace Culture : Are they possible? Steve Leeper, Executive Director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Village , explains how conflict resolution on a planetary level is the key to achieving peace… along with a real plan o
Nuclear Pacifists – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, 6 of whom have now been sentenced and imprisoned for their non-violent protest against the Trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia Listen Here: [powerpress] Thi
Social Media for Activists : Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above) explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:
BREAKING: Nuclear Football – Nuclear Launch Codes = Armageddon in a Briefcase It follows the President everywhere… but where was it at Walter Reed? Listen Here: [powerpress] BREAKING: Nuclear Football = Nuclear Launch Codes R
At the Church Rock 40th anniversary of the spill of 90 million gallons of uranium-contaminated water into Navajo Nation's Puerco River.
This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary of the United States dropping atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities — for the first time, activists will provide i nternational online peace and anti-nu
Anti-nuclear, anti-war protestors from the Kings Bay Plowshares action. Front row (l-r) – Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy ; Back row: Patrick O’Neill, Stephen Kelly SJ, Mark Colville. This Week&#
Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice of Plowshares with co-protestors Michael Walli (l) and Gregory Bortje-Obed (r) Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Sister Megan Rice – To celebrate
Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together
The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Inter
Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) addressing the world upon accepting the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN. RUSSIA! BREAKING & ONGOING: Explosion of a Russian nuclear react
Uranium Miner Larry J. King (center) explains the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach that dumped more than 94 million gallons of uranium contaminated waste water into the adjacent Puerco River – a nuclear disast
Indigenous Nuclear activists (clockwise from upper left) Candyce Paul, webinar producers from the UK’s Stop New Nuclear, Ashish Birulee, and Leona Morgan This Week’s Featured Speakers: Indigenous Nuclear Genocide: The star
Diablo Canyon Nuclear activists from 2015 planning event This Week’s Featured Interviews: Harvey Wasserman is a veteran activist, author, and host of Pacifica’s KPFK-FM program Solartopia . He’s a firebrand when it c
Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL: Japanese anti-nuclear activist Misao Redwolf takes a stand at the Friday night Tokyo demonstrations against reactor restarts. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuc
As Brexit looms over the UK, there'st another pending boondoggle: the Hinkley Point C proposed new nuclear power plant in Sellafield.
Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage charges for her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Int
Nuclear Fire: Helicopter view of the start of the Woolsey fire, on Santa Susana Field Lab Property Photo courtesy Safecast. NUCLEAR FIRE – WOOLSEY’S NUKE ORIGINS SPECIAL: Denise Duffield , Administrator of Physicians for Social
San Onofre rally, Songs for SONGS – Filmmaker Adam Salkin Listen Here: [powerpress] San Onofre SPECIAL: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety with the latest bombshell revelation about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadverten
Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the comp
Space Force – will it make the U.S. the Evil Empire? Global Network’s 2018 Keep Space for Peace week poster. This Week’s Featured Interview: SPACE FORCE / EVIL FORCE? Bruce Gagnon , Co-Founder and Secretary/Coordinat
Featured Image: Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast , an international, volunteer-centered organization
Featured Image: Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” – Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body. You can’t “duck and cover” from that. LINK t
Listen Here: [powerpress] To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of Sister Megan Rice, one of three brave peace activists who broke into high security nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuc
This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn , Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons . Straight
Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. This week’s featured interview: Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Penns
This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space . He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context f
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nikki Clark , a veteran UK nuclear campaigner who co-founded the group South West Against Nuclear, serves as Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent , on the ground at the Coulport Nuclear Disarmament Ca
Six years of weekly Nuclear Hotseat and still going strong! Please DONATE to support our work! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gerry Condon is a national board member of Veterans for Peace and Presiden
Listen here: [powerpress] HANFORD EMERGENCY SPECIAL – Interviews: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert , r
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation , was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons and offers some stunning ob
This Week’s Featured Interviews: A focus on Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) and the impact on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the impact on athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olym
This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University , where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The DragonR
This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after deliverin
This Week’s Featured Interviews: President Obama visited Hiroshima the same day I spoke w/ Rick Wayman, Director of Programs & Operations at the California-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation . We discuss the image vs. the re
This Week’s Featured Interview: How bad is the radioactive threat of t he Hanford Site in SE Washington State? Learn the facts, worthy of a Halloween horror house, from attorney Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of Ameri
Special Encore Presentation: To celebrate the end-of-year holidays, a reminder from May of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of three brave peace activists who staged the 2012 peaceful protest against nucle
Interviews: Mr. Masahiko Goto , representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on a ctivist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan ; Carol Jahnkow , D
LISTEN HERE: http://chayallc.com/nuclear/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NH-215-Aug.-3-2015-FINAL-NEW-Michelle-Gin-Millennial-Activists.mp3 INTERVIEW: Michelle Gin , Program Coordinator for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility, who holds
4TH ANNIVERSARY! NUCLEAR HOTSEAT NOW HEARD IN 58 COUNTRIES* ON 6 CONTINENTS! FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray , Nuclear Issues Chair for the Virginia Sierra Club, reveals details of Dominion Power’s plans to experiment with dry c
INTERVIEWS: SPECIAL : Newly freed 85-year old nun, Sister Megan Rice , speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action against the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , which resulted in her
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 fro
Jon hasn’t said it yet… but he might! (Thanks to Rainbow Warriors for their help in visualizing.) INTERVIEW: Dr. Chris Busby has been a brilliant, reliable resource on nuclear radiation dangers since long before Fuku
SPECIAL: Full coverage of last week’s trial of the Four Grandmothers , Cape Cod Downwinders who were arrested for trespass for their Mother’s Day, 2014 protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusett
Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima INTERVIEW: Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear/pro-alternative energy activist for more than 40 years. He’s author or co-author of a dozen books, writes for the Huffington Post and edit
Davis (R) and Besse (L) at home downwind of the nuclear disaster-in-the-making that bears their names. INTERVIEWS: Michael Keegan , Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes , fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact t
SPECIAL BICOASTAL REPORT: Interviews with participants in two major actions on opposite coasts. Gary Headrick , Grace Van Thillo and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (via proxy) weigh in on the Nuclear Regulatory CommissionR
LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f3b18260-038f-1942-bfd3-a757897d2180.mp3 INTERVIEW: What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for? Listen to a montage of national activist voices expressin
FEATURED: Report on Fukushima resident and activist Chieko Shiina’s heartrending presentation on current life in Japan and Fukushima, along with information on how to help her start a Children’s Clinic to address pressing health
Get the inside scoop on this September’s Coalition Against Nukes rally and actions in Washington, D.C. from Dr. Heidi Hutner and Michael Leonardi , long time anti-nuclear activists serving as coordinators for the event. Plus: Japanese
MUST LISTEN! Slammer interview w/ environmental attorney Susan Hito Shapiro on t he battle to shut down Indian Point near NYC, plus some legal strategies applicable for anti-nuke activists throughout the country. Plus: 45,000 Japanese
A special interview on the politics of nuclear energy with Irvine City Council member Larry Agran , an outspoken anti-nuke Southern California politician. He offers a picture of how local community activism can move up the political f
Here’s the latest from Arnie Gunderson and Fairewinds, done in conjunction with Greenpeace. Fairewinds was retained by Greenpeace to write a chapter of their newly released report entitled “The Echo Chamber: Regulatory Capture a
Kick-ass interview w/Hattie Nestle, 73-year-old anti-nuke activist arrested on Feb. 13 at Vermont Yankee nuclear facility; Fukushima 2 in recriticality; NRC licenses two new nuclear reactors for Georgia; Two quakes – 6.2 and 5.5 ̵
Reporters always need sources and don’t know where to find them. They’ll also take the easiest way out whenever possible. News and journalism have been so degraded since I got my BA in the field that it’s sad t
My life has changed dramatically in the past 6-1/2 months. I’ve gone from ignorant of/in denial about/blind to all issues nuclear-related into a 24/7/365 activist on the issues. I’ve spoken in public, posted videos,
Last Monday, I had the honor and priviledge of meeting up with several members of San Luis Obispo’s Mothers for Peace (MFP), a focused, brilliant, powerhouse force for a sane, nuclear-free world. Today, I receive an email with their l
