44 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from October 2011 to August 2026. Most recent: “NH #791: SPECIAL: San Onofre Symposium – Is Full Decommissioning An Impossible Dream?”.
San Onofre Symposium featured scientists, politicians, energy analysts & activists - what will it take to fully decommission & remediate the nuclear site - and is it even possible?
It is with a heavy heart that Nuclear Hotseat memorializes Jim Heddle, director of SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome, and a dedicated anti-nuclear activist for more than 40 years.
Walmart Radioactive Shrimp Recall - How did contamination happen? Kimberly Roberson of FFAN spells it out + San Onofre battle for safe radwaste storage
SOS – San Onofre Syndrome – Knockout Film on So Cal Nuclear Reactor – Directors Mary Beth Brangan, Jim Heddle Directors Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, interviewed by Libbe HaLevy To buy tickets: https://app.entertainmen
Nuclear reactor decommissioning tricks at San Onofre in California, Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania delay solutions, put population at radiation risk
Tonga Tsunami nuclear dangers erupted from underwater volcanic explosion, seen here from space . This week’s episode explores this massive natural disaster’s real and potential impact on nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Ja
Nuclear Hotseat 10th Anniversary , and there’s more nuclear news than ever: San Onofre lawsuit, China radiation leak info contradictions, Exelon Illinois bailout may be scuttled by French EDF’s concerns. This Week’s
Edison & San Onofre At It Again! “Dismissed” Nuke Exec Palmisano Tries to Slip Public Meeting Past Public re: Radioactive Waste at the San Onofre Lemon (graphic courtesy SanOnofreSafety.org) Listen Here: [powerpress] This We
San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canisters to High Tide on the beach. Can you spot the problems? HINT: There
San Onofre waste storage canisters, each holding a Chernobyl's worth of radioactivity, may be in danger of becoming a radioactive geyser.
Radioactive Nuclear Waste in Southern California : Google Maps image of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ‘s radioactive fuel rod storage canisters. Each one contains as much radiation as was released during the Chernobyl acci
NUCLEAR UPDATE: Three Mile Island Alert billboard states the plain and ugly truth about the radioactive waste left behind – that closing the reactors is only the first step in an endless process. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week
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
San Onofre canister comparison chart courtesy SanOnofreSafety.org Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: San Onofre gets failing marks from NRC on August 3 near-miss disaster while loading “spent” fuel t
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
Vermont Yankee protest from 2012, two years prior to shut-down. This Week’s Featured Interviews: An update on problems being faced with the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vermont. Sandra Levine is senio
San Onofre from the air shows how close storage silos are to the Pacific Ocean. This Week’s Featured Interviews: San Onofre Safety ‘s Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9
San Onofre Demonstration in San Clemente, CA, August 12, 2018 SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL Featuring: Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the pic
Nuclear Trainwreck? – San Onofre high level radioactive waste lurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark – and proposed rail transport is a “mobile Chernobyl” disaster just waiting to happen. This Week&
Nuclear Power Play: Credentialed journalist Sam Husseini (The Nation) holding so-called “malicious item” that got him forcibly ejected from Putin/Trump Helsinki press conference This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gene Stone
San Onofre’s 5th anniversary of shutdown celebration on the beach in front of the reactors featured aerial art of the indigenous Acjachemen Nation’s ancestral STARMAN and the word SAFETY?! Listen Here: [powerpress] This WeekR
Southern California Edison plans to bury San Onofre radioactive waste 108 ft. from Pacific in cracking canisters 70 miles from LA! Madness!
This Week’s Featured Interviews San Onofre Update with two activists working on legal and public protest against storage of highly radioactive waste in 5/8″ steel canisters only 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean: Engineer Ray Lutz
THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco , one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders , discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down… by the end of 2019. Donna Gi
Image by 281_Antinuke BREAKING NEWS: Scott Portzline of TMI Alert, the Three Mile Island group based in Harrisburg, PA, on a new level of cyber-vulnerability in nuclear reactors and other energy generators , with a current attack that origi
FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock , Director of Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM, brings us up to date on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site , including his take on the “green kitty litter” no
Fukushima Collective Evacuation Lawsuit attorney Toshio Yanagihara (left), and voluntary evacuee Katsumi Hasegawa (right), met with Noam Chomsky and a Fukushima mother and child in Tokyo recently. FEATURING: Don Hancock of Southwest Researc
The Future of Art in a Post-Fukushima World 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
FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Listen as veteran activists of the battle to shut down San Onofre celebrate the win by recalling where they were, how they received the news, what it means to them and where our movement goes from here (you didn’t
Nuclear Hotseat Takes the Cake! 100 episodes and counting… INTERVIEWS: Rudolph Herzog , author of A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY: MAD SCIENTISTS, DITHERING NAZIS, LOST NUKES AND CATASTROPHIC COVER-UPS. Kendra Ulrich , Nuclear Campai
INTERVIEWS: Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth , who explains what it’s like to stand up solo and face down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on their home turf — and what the macro conversation is
INTERVIEW: Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green walks us through recent manipulations and slickery by Southern California Edison and explains why SCE’s request for a licensing hearing by the NRC is not the same as an adjudicated
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
SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditatin
FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Hear from four activists involved with the battle to stop the San Onofre restart as we head into this Friday’s public meeting between the NRC, Southern California Edison and (hopefully squeezing in there, eventual
Featured Interview: Engineer and activist Ray Lutz “nukes” the NRC’s cover-up of SCE’s responsibility for San Onofre’s steam generator problems. PLUS: Four nuke plants trigger NRC “Unusual Events
Here’s the lastest ad regarding San Onofre’s dangers, courtesy our friends at Friends of the Earth. Check it out, feel free to link to it:
An exclusive Nuclear Hotseat interview with Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com on San Onofre, how and when the problems happened with the steam generators, and the dangers of even thinking about a restart this summer (as SCE has announced th
Interview with Gene Stone of ROSE on visit by NRC Chairman Jaczko and Sen. Feinstein to San Onofre last week in the wake of burst pipes and pipe degradation in the new steam generators. ACTIVIST ALERT: Requests for letters to the NRC
Here’s the player: Here’s the download link: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat-40_3-20-12-CA-Update.mp3 On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat Podcast… Donna Gilmore and Ace Hoffman interviewed for a CA
On the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Special audio report from the March 11 San Onofre anti-nuke demo; Interviews with two survivors of Tohoku quake, tsunami and
Report on anti-nuke activists meeting w/CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aide; this weekend’s demonstrations at San Onofre features two Japanese survivors of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster at Fukushim
A summary of the current status of San Onofre nuclear reactors in San Diego after last week’s leaks, the discovery of over 800 damaged pipes, and an employee falling into the radioactive refueling pool. Featuring an interview wi
Here’s the video of last Tuesday’s hearing on San Onofre with the San Clemente City Council. Our side’s turn; great presentation by Arnie Gunderson via teleconferencing, Dr. Helen Caldicott via Skype, and an especially pow