NH #413: Radioactive Contamination in Ohio School SPECIAL: Whistleblower Vina Colley Exposes Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant History + BREAKING – 4 Years of DOE Monitoring Data to Be Released

Radioactive Contamination found in your kid’s school – the letter no parent ever wants to receive. LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Radioactive contamination found at Ohio School – where is it from and what does it mean? Interview with Vina Colley; she is, in her own words, “a Whistleblower, a sick worker from…

NH #411: Indigenous Nuclear Genocide: Uranium Mining on Native Lands w/International Activists Candyce Paul, Leona Morgan, Ashish Birulee

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 start of the nuclear fuel chain is uranium mining, the weight of which comes down disproportionately on indigenous people, the poor and/or people of color …

NH #409: Chernobyl Radiation Cover-Ups & Deadly Truth: Kate Brown, author, Manual for Survival

Chernobyl radiation impact on a father and son This Week’s Featured Interview: Chernobyl Radiation’s true health impact revealed:  A very special interview with Kate Brown, 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 the Plutopia, which won…

NH #408: Chernobyl 33 Anniversary SPECIAL #1 – Yablakov, Mousseau, Survivor Kouneva, More!

Chernobyl at 33:  The melted, still highly radioactive nuclear fuel at the bottom of Chernobyl, nicknamed the “elephant’s foot.” Listen Here: [powerpress] The Chernobyl nuclear disaster marks its 33rd anniversary on April 26, and Nuclear Hotseat marks it with two SPECIAL reports on the accident and its aftermath.  This week’s episode features interviews with a…

NH #407: Three Mile Island 40th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Libbe HaLevy’s Trip Back to TMI – Gundersen, Epstein, Folkers, Layman, More!

Three Mile Island at 40 – TMI Vigil at the gates to the reactor facility, March 28, 2019, 3:57 a.m. Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy (right) commemorates her past. Listen Here: [powerpress] A very SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat as producer/host Libbe HaLevy returns to Three Mile Island, site of the 1979 meltdown that changed her life. …

NH #406: San Onofre Madness: Edison Lies, NRC Regulators Wimping Out – Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs + Langley, Aguirre, Gilmore

San Onofre Madness: nuclear waste storage in “lemon” of a Holtec system?No thanks!  We deserve better! This Week’s Featured Interview: Nina Babiarz is a board member of Public Watchdogs, a non-profit safety watchdog group which has worked closely on San Onofre issues. Among the testimonies given in front of Southern California Edison’s tightly controlled Community…

NH #405: Three Mile Island 40th Anniversary SPECIAL, Pt. 1 – Nuclear Terror, Radiation Lies

Three Mile Island button protest designed by Jules Feiffer NOTE:  I am currently in Harrisburg, PA, for events surrounding the 40th anniversary of the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island.  Today’s program, Nuclear Hotseat’s Annual TMI Anniversary SPECIAL, will be followed in two weeks by another SPECIAL, this one on the result of my…

NH #403: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Dangers: Solartopia’s Harvey Wasserman, Mothers for Peace Linda Seeley, Molly Johnson

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 comes to Diablo Canyon’s dangers and problems – and ferocious when it comes to how to shut it down.  You can reach him at:…

NH #402: Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL #2: Activist Misao Redwolf, Journalist Carole Hisasue, Simply Info’s Nancy Foust, Nuclear Lecturer Dr. Caitlin Stronell, Filmmaker Tsukuru Fors Lauritzen

Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL: Japanese anti-nuclear activist Misao Redwolftakes a stand at the Friday night Tokyo demonstrations against reactor restarts. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuclear Hotseat continues with a series of interviews with on-the-ground activists from Japan and those who assist their work in the U.S. Misao Redwolf  is an Activist/Member…