Chernobyl Anniversary #2

NH #514: Chernobyl Anniversary #2: Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman + Hawaiian “Incoming Missile” Film

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Chernobyl Anniversary 35 deserves more than a single program examining its consequences.  Check last week’s Nuclear Hotseat #513 for further interviews.  This week: Bonnie Kouneva was a 15-year-old living in Communist Bulgaria when the Chernobyl disaster began, but no one knew about it because the Soviet Union said nothing to its…

Chernobyl Anniversary #35

NH #513: Chernobyl Anniversary #35: Kate Brown, Timothy Mousseau + Ian Zabarte on USA’s MIghty Oak Nuke Accident

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Kate Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. She is an historian of environmental and nuclear history at MIT and the author of Plutopia, which won seven major awards. Her research has been funded by the American Academy in Berlin and by Carnegie and Guggenheim…

Radiation Monitoring in USA

NH #511: Radiation Monitoring in USA? Let’s go! – Rachel Clark

This Week’s Featured interview: Radiation Monitoring in USA based on Japan’s Citizen Activist model is the focus of our interview with this week’s guest.  Originally from Japan, Rachel Clark holds a degree in International Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey.  As an independent interpreter/global coordinator, her language capacity has been utilized in various international…

Turkish Nuclear Reactors

NH #510: Turkish Nuclear Reactors = Russia’s Mediterranean Toehold: Journalist Pinar Demircan

This Week’s Featured Interview: Pınar Demircan is a Turkish antinuclear activist and a journalist who started writing about nuclear after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Turkish, and has been involved to global forums and panels where she presented on nuclear projects and the antinuclear struggle in Turkey….

Activists Getting Active

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…

Activists Getting Active

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…

Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail

NH #505: Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail + Defund Nuclear Weapons Producers – Erica Gray, Susi Snyder

This Week’s Featured Interviews: TEXAS NUCLEAR’S EPIC FAIL – Erica Gray, Nuclear Issues Chair of the Sierra Club, checks and posts the Nuclear Regulatory Commission status (power level) and event (accidents, problems) reports on social media the five days a week that they are supposed to be issued.  Last week, Nuclear Hotseat offered a rundown…

Nuclear Suicide by Embrittled Reactors

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…

Hanford Downwinders Truth

NH: #501: Hanford Downwinders Truth, Official Coverup Revealed: Trisha Pritikin, Karen Dorn Steele

This Week’s Featured Interview: Hanford Downwinders stories preserved – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, written by Trisha Pritikin, was published in 2020. She is an attorney and a Hanford downwinder who felt compelled to preserve the stories of Hanford downwinders who tried to take part in the law suit. Joining…