NH #124: Pandora/Schmandora; We’ve Got the Uranium Film Festival!

INTERVIEW:  Norbert Suchanek is the founder and General Director of the Uranium Film Festival, which covers all aspects of the nuclear issue.   A native of Germany, Suchanek is a journalist, author, filmmaker and activist living in Rio de Janeiro.  He shares with Nuclear Hotseat listeners how the festival got started, his vision for an international nuclear…

NH #123: Nuclear Halloween Fright House!

http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/e35ece8c-cc97-1261-4652-28535e758597.mp3 SPECIAL FEATURE:  NUCLEAR FRIGHT HOUSE!  BWA-HA-HA-HA-!  What’s spookier than Nuclear?  Hear what almost two dozen activists from both caosts name as their worst nightmares about nuclear.  Then, Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org, Dr. Arjun Makhijani, Dr. Marvin Renikoff and Dr. Don Mosher share the scariest information of all about nuclear waste at San Onofre as…

Nh #122: Puncturing Pandora’s Propaganda w/Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Gunter

    LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/abec57e9-a9cb-6e76-e78f-ec9f5c756a1c.mp3   INTERVIEW:  Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Gunter, Physicians for Social Responsibility’s John W. Rachow and nuclear physicist Dr. M.V. Ramana give us the facts to counter CNN’s November airings of the pro-nuclear propaganda film “Pandora’s Promise.” Listen to learn how you can be ready to counter the lies, distortions,…

NH #121: Nuclear Nader, but Can Kan? “Fukushima Lessons Learned” Events

  LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/4df606bd-72d4-6267-1ef6-811b69b3e414.mp3   SPECIAL REPORT: On-scene reports from the two Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons Events for Indian Point NPP in New York and Pilgrim NPP in Massachusetts.  Hear from Ralph Nader, Arnie Gundersen, Jean-Michel Cousteau and more! Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy w/a man she has grown to respect: former NRC Chair…

NH #120: Nuclear Self-Deception w/ Dennis Riches & Great Lakes Nuke Dump w/Michael Leonardi

    LISTEN HERE:   DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/2b3c0142-0034-8c6a-7541-4e43e88505d5.mp3   INTERVIEWS: Dennis Riches, Tokyo resident and blogger at Nuclear Free by 2045 (nf2045.blogspot.com), on the psychology of nuclear self-deception, post-Fukushima life in Japan, and why he didn’t return to Canada with his wife and kids after the disaster began. Michael Leonardi of Toledo Coalition for Safe…

NH #118: The WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance and its Lies about Int’l Nuclear Health Stats

How the World Health Organization came under the domination of the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency – the first of two exclusive Nuclear Hotseat reports on the unholy alliance that underlies our global misunderstandings of the dangers of nuclear radiation.  INTERVIEW:  Special full-length interview with Alison Katz of Independent WHO on the history, politics and…

NH #117: Olympic Insanity + If Gundersen were in Charge at Fukushima

 INTERVIEW:  Former nuclear industry insider Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (www.Fairewinds.com) paints a clear picture of the current state of problems at Fukushima Daiichi… and then explains what he would do if he were in charge of the disaster site.  His first five minutes on the job would be awesome – and that’s a…

NH #113: BREAKING! San Onofre Decomish Symposium w/Gene Stone, + Joe Mangano

INTERVIEW:  Closing down San Onofre didn’t end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted focus.  Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about how the problems of decommissioning, those pesky spent fuel rods, and some surprising news about fuel radiation levels lead to a regrouping of activists and the upcoming Symposium…

NH #112: Hiroshima Anniversary, Fukushima Survivor Chikako Nishiyama, SLOMP’s Carole Hisasue

INTERVIEWS: Carole Hisasue left a successful media career in Japan for an idyllic life in America… but landed within six miles of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.  Now active with San Luis Obispo Nothers for Peace (SLOMP), she talks about this year’s northern California Hiroshima commemoration, including a Peace Walk with Buddhist Reverend Gyosen…