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Libbe S. HaLevy

Nuclear news from a different perspective, including safeguarding from radiation, interviews w/leading activists, and how you can help stop the nuclear madness. Nuclear Hotseat is produced and hosted by 3 Mile Island survivor Libbe HaLevy.

This Week’s Featured Interview Activists from around the world gathering to demonstrate against U.S. nuclear weapons housed at the Buchel Air Force Base in Germany (Susan Crane far right, Nukewatch’s John LaForge behind Nukewatch banner in red hat) Libbe’s Play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE Coming to Wilmington Peace Resource Center in Ohio! Numnutz...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) A trifecta! From the Onion… and then unfortunately, NOT the Onion: New Orleans has a National Nucleaer Security Administration helicopter scanning the city for nuclear weapons (say what? In Mardi Gras beads?); and NRC’s updated mission statement turns the already captured regulator into...

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Anti-nuke icon Harvey Wasserman is a veteran of five decades of activism against nuclear reactors. He has authored books, organized demonstrations that deeply impacted the movement, helped successive generations of activists to learn the issues, the talking points, and the actions they can take. In recent years, he has included a...

This Week’s Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is damaging to human health. But how do we know that? Who figures out how bad it can be? How much radiation we can be exposed to without risking our...

This Week’s SPECIAL: NUKES AND FIRE – California Wildfires and Nuclear Dangers Libbe’s Story: I live in Los Angeles in the foothills less than a mile away from what became the Eaton (Altadena/Pasadena) fire Evacuation Warning zone. There was no new Nuclear Hotseat last week because after the Eaton fire broke out on Tuesday, I...

This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Feature: Numnutz of the Year! It’s been a year, all right, with plenty of Numnutzery to go around. We look back on 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) – the nuclear stories that made no sense, defied logic, infuriated me, touched my “Despair” button,...

The late, great, Sr. Megan Rice. This Week’s Peace Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder: What You Can Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons

This Week’s Featured Interview: A new book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION, is a devastating look into the history of radiation harms and the scientists who attempted to reveal the truth by defying political and institutional pressures. It explains how those who tried to warn us were censored and discredited...

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Three Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) were in Oslo, Norway to accept the award. Link: This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: The first ever Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit drew together more than 100 reporters, editors, nuclear experts, activists...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and Activist Lynda Williams – a foe of nuclear greenwashing Lynda Williams is a Hawaii-based physicist, activist, writer and performance artist – AKA The Physics Chanteuse. She battles against nuclear greenwashing (aka lying) with public presentations, lectures, theatre, and a ferocious activist spirit. Lynda is bringing her new one woman...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Majia Nadesan’s LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Like pie? You won’t enjoy this one and it’s nothing to be thankful for. Links:

SPECIAL PROPOSAL! #Nuclear80 The 2025 Campaign to Reclaim the Nuclear Narrative 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Atomic Age and all the ensuing nuclear madness covered by the show every week. We already know that the media is going to make a “thing” out of this, because it’s an anniversary that...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): French household goods made from radioactive metal – what could go wron Links:

This Week’s Featured Interview Part 2 of a talk with Doug Brugge and Aaron Datesman, authors of a brilliant new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. Last week was Part 1. This week, we focus on new information about the health dangers of so-called “permitted” radiation releases from operating nuclear reactors in...

Map of radiation doses at Three Mile Island – new information from the book Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change: This Week’s Featured Interview: FREE download of pdf of the book: Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. Numutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness:...

Cold War Horse, sculpture by Jeff Gipe – the only acknowledgement of the radiological history of Rocky Flats nuclear factory present at the site. This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear Regulatory Commission “apologizes” for “misinformation” about – OOPS! – radioactive water from Monticello nuclear in the Mississippi river...

Lead Story: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for...

BREAKING NEWS: MARY OLSON IS OKAY! Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project (genderandradiation.org) is alive and well! She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and we hadn’t heard from her since before Hurricane Helene ripped through that town on September 27. As of October 9, Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear reports that Mary is...

This Week’s Featured Interview: TOTALLY FICTITIOUS WESTINGHOUSE ANIMATION OF A 116 WEEK BUILD SCHEDULE FOR THE AP 1000 NUCLEAR REACTOR. Taken from the Westinghouse website in 2014. Westinghouse has long since taken it down.NO WONDER! IThis is a LINK to the video.) Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Let’s applaud climate activists willing...

Three Mile Island This Week’s Featured Interviews: Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the 40th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown – March 28, 2019 Scene of the Crime: Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy in front of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge...

This Week’s Featured Interview: The next United Nations Climate Change conference, COP 29, is scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November, 2024 – an annual bone tossed to those who are striving to reverse the climate catastrophe despite not having any power to do so. Incessant pro-nuclear doubletalk has infested...

Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs and his brilliant book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha This Week’s Featured Interview: This is a. SPECIAL full-length interview with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs on his book, NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha.

This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Russia’s war in Ukraine has put another nuclear power plant in danger: their own. The ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett Monthly update on issues and actions regarding the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear War from ICAN –...

Poster for film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Downwinder Tina Cordova demonstrating outside entrance to Trinity site. From the film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO. Links from Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): The Democrats went wild for Harris and Walz… but nobody was talking about nukes!...

Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands: Tons of radioactive waste from nuclear reactor operation keeps piling up, with no resolution in sight. What to do with the waste? Canada has been making plans… but they’re bad ones. Here to explain how we got ourselves into this problem, what’s wrong with Canada’s current...

Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL (l) and Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy at symposium on West Lake Landfill issues in North St. Louis, February 19, 2016. Keystone Photo – activists Dawn Chapman and Kay Drey on-site at radioactively contaminated Coldwater Creek in N. St. Louis, MO. February 19, 2016. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear...

The remains of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb destroyed the city, 1945 ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with...

A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste. This Week’s Special Feature The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive Wastes...

The shuttered Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered for contamination with nuclear materials from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, only 3 miles away. And now the school district is trying to auction it off “AS-IS” without explaining what the “AS-IS” is?!?!??? This Week’s Featured Interview: To contact Dr. Michael Ketterer and Others Re: PORTS: Links: Fukushima...

Annual walk to commemorate Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation land – from 2019. Site of the mine and tailings pond in the background. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders Advocating for Justice – Tina Cordova: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles...

This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom on Monday, July 15...

A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill opposed...

Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda...

This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activists and concerned citizens about...

The Miller Map. The path radioactive fallout took from the 100 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Actually, it took three or more nuclear fallout clouds overhead to make it onto this map. Compiled by Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. This Week’s Featured Interview: PHONE NUMBERS TO CONTACT CONGRESS...

Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American...

Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima...

This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes. Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources: No official Numnutz of the Week this week, but...

The Elephant’s Foot – solidified melted fuel core at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Still highly radioactive, still dangerous. SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a...

WHY WE DO IT: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace shows off a picture of her 3-week old great grandson – the next generation of reason for working against nukes. KEYSTONE PHOTO: Dream Team of Activists at the UCSB Global Legacies conference: (l-r) Jane Swanson, Libbe HaLevy, Linda Seeley, Melissa Bumstead, Heidi...

Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States...

Nuclear Bailout chart compiled by Environmental Working Group. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps Links from Interview: The Monthly ICAN UPDATE on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the latest on the Treaty from ICAN headquarters in Geneva,...

Three Mile Island Alert’s Eric Epstein (l) and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, pictured at TMI’s 40th anniversary conference held in Harrisburg, PA, in late March, 2019. This week’s full-length Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL features interviews with: Our thanks to filmmaker Robert (Robbie) Leppzer, producer of the two-hour audio documentary Voices from Three Mile Island,...

SPECIAL: Navajo Nation Hosts Launch of Int’l Uranium Film Festival’s N. American Tour Sometimes a film festival is about more than just the films. The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) kicked off its 2024 North American tour in Window Rock, Navajo Nation, with not only powerful films but an informational and emotional space where Navajo...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Mary Beth Gallagher Links mentioned during the interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter A Hollywood letter calling for an end to nuclear weapons was the initiative of an organization that promotes nuclear power. No two thumbs up to that. And here’s a LINK to Linda Pentz Gunter’s article on this...

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN this year considers earthquake dangers to Japan’s nuclear reactors. In addition to an update on Fukushima, it focuses on the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula quake which shook the two Shika nuclear reactors, one of them beyond what it was built to be able to sustain....

This Week’s Featured Interview: A networking session, with trade booths, at the 2024 Nuclear Deterrence Summit in DC. Each of those tables costs $6,000 – $7,500 for 90 minutes of branding. Logo keychains, anyone? Links referenced in this interview: NEW FEATURE: The ICAN Update – From the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The ICAN...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): GREENWASHING ALERT: Boeing is aiming at school kids with their 12-week naturalist training at the Santa Susana Field Lab in Simi Valley – one of California’s most toxic sites that’s never been cleaned up. Of course,...

Hand-out prepared by Navajo Nation and given to members of Congress during meetings on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). KEYSTONE PHOTO: The team that educated Congress for passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. (l-r) Christen Commuso, Reyaun Francisco, Karen Nickel, Dawn Chapman, Rep. Tricia Byrnes, Rep Chantelle Nickson-Clark This Week’s Featured Interview: Dawn...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Vina Colley – Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security Melissa Biumstead – Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab Burn pit at Santa Susana Filed Labs Area 1, which was supposed to begin on Monday, Feb. 5 but was delayed by the massive rainstorm and flooding. Historical photo from Parents Against...

Int’l Uranium Film Festival Coming to US, Canada! – Norbert Suchanek + Holtec Illegally Evaporating Pilgrim Radwater in MA – Diane Turco This Week’s Featured Interviews: (l-r) International Uranium Film Festival Co-founders and Directors Marcîa Gomes de Oliviera and Norbert Suchanek, and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the 2023 IUFF in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Atomic Bamboozle film director Jan Haaken Takes on SMNRs, Pacific NW Nuclear Nightmares + Doomsday Clock Stuck, Bill Nye Sucks This Week’s Featured Interview: Links for This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The Doomsday Clock was unveiled on Tuesday, January 23, still set at 90 seconds to midnight. But...

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) new Executive Director, Melissa Parke (L) interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): So many numnutz to choose from! The Congressional “comprehensive” 160-page review of nuclear arms build-up that doesn’t mention “waste” even once, or Atoms4Food <!>?...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: A round-up of short featured interviews by outstanding anti-nuclear campaigners. Dr. Ivana Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge will appear once a month on Nuclear Hotseat. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter The nukesters head-hunt Linda Pentz...

Dr. Chris Busby, DU weapons expert Depleted Uranium Plume from Ukraine Hit UK – Dr. Chris Busby + DU Dangers – Damacio Lopez This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Leave the World Behind sends a metaphorical warning about the perils of ignoring existential threats — a good admonition about...

The ultimate in nuclear numnutzery – the atomic/nuclear/hydrogen bomb – brought to you by the winner(s) of the annual Nuclear Hotseat Numnutz of the Year for 2023! SPECIAL – Annual NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR Award, 2023! As regular listeners to the show will know, Nuclear Hotseat’s Numnutz of the Week is a regular feature that...

Peace Hero Sr. Megan Rice on Her Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox” Protest Break-In This Week’s Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder: What You Can Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons

TPNW SPECIAL, Pt. 2: US Congressman, Int’l Gov’t Reps Support Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty at UN (l-r) State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, MA; US Congressional Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts; Bill Kidd, member of Scottish Parliament; Frank Cownie, Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa. After a press conference on the steps of the United Nations building. Keystone...

NH #650: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Int’l Activists Gather in NYC for A Week of UN Meetings on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW) This Week’s EXCLUSIVE REPORT on the UN Meetings of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Interviewees:

What’s been going on… Hi All. I’m still in NYC for the United Nations 2nd Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The trip and what I’ve been able to learn and cover has been extraordinary, but tech has been a disaster. This Week’s Featured Interview: Independent W.H.O.’s...

NH #648: TPNW SPECIAL: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Hotseat Looks Back – Alice Slater, Heidi Hutner, Alicia Sayres-Zakre, Susi Snyder This Week’s TPNW SPECIAL: Nuclear Hotseat producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be in New York next week for the United Nations’ 2nd Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the...

Nuclear Ohio: A Radioactive Waste Hub? Mangano on Death Rates, Colley & Marida on Government Nuke Shills Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interviews: Cancer rates in the counties surrounding the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, are the highest in that state and among the highest...

WRONG! IAEA BLIND SPOTS in “Safety” Tests of Fukushima Radioactive Water Release – What’s Missing? Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones LOL! – IAEA working hard to make their monitoring of the radioactive Tritium-contaminated water being released from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean is actually accurate. (Screen shot from IAEA self-promotion video) This Week’s Featured Interview: Wilmington...

Halloween SPECIAL: BOO! “What Scares Me Most About Nuclear…” – 35 Activists Share Their Nightmares Special feature: Halloween is supposed to be a scary holiday, and I can think of nothing scarier than nuclear. So I talked with some people who know a thing or two about nuclear to find out what about it scares...

Nat’l Monument Loophole Still Allows Grand Canyon Uranium Mining! Leona Morgan of Haul No This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness: Why do people continue to think that being a tourist on a radioactive nuclear explosion site is a good idea? Selfies at the Trinity site Links:

International Activism! 2022 Nuclear Free Future Awards Laureates Honored + 2023 Winners Announced! 2022 Nuclear Free Future Award Laureates (top, L-R) – Anthony Lyamunda, Libbe HaLevy, Makle Gottsch (Keystone photo on landing page taken from screenshot of awards event) This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Nuclear Free Future Foundation educates people about the dangers of using...

RADIATION! Piketon, OH Demolition Releases, Trinity Fallout in E. California, RECA Implications – Dr. Michael Ketterer Radiation researcher Dr. Michael Ketterer Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): The nukesters are choosing glamour-pusses to hawk their wares and recite their talking points. Don’t they realize that someone who, in part, names herself “Dope” is...

Downwinders Lobby in DC for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) + Dangers of DU Weapons in Ukraine This Week’s Featured Interviews Depleted Uranium Weapons in Ukraine – Damacio Lopez: Map of sites in the U.S. where depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been manufactured and/or tested. (March, 1993) – supplied by Damacio Lopez from his upcoming...

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.entertainmentoxygen.com/festivals/9beea1c1-f790-4205-98e4-27f3407bf341/feed/e42963ea-7477-4952-a073-31b60e4e280d This Week’s Featured Interview: Some weeks, it’s personal. A film about a nuclear nightmare only 70 miles from my house....

Activist Insiders Get Real: Harvey Wasserman talks Diablo Canyon w/Linda Seeley, Palisades Nuclear w/Kevin Kamps The Esteemed veteran anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman. This Week’s Featured Interview: I just returned from a week off-grid and offline, only to discover that the interview I wanted to set up was already being conducted by esteemed veteran activist Harvey...

SPECIAL – Nuclear Good News!!! RECA Expanded, Illinois Moratorium Retained, Texas Radioactive Waste Non-Storage, Indian Point Radwater Dump Dumped! This Week’s Special Features: It’s not often that those who oppose nuclear get good news, but in recent weeks there’s been a deluge of positive legal decisions and legislation that are enough to make a hardened...

Plutonium Pits, New Bombs, Los Alamos Never Learns – Chris Mello of Los Alamos Study Group As if Los Alamos isn’t already contaminated enough with radioactive materials, now they want to build a new plutonium pit factory. What’s wrong with that addition to this picture? This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (For Outstanding...

Japan Puts World in Radioactive Hot Water: Boycotts, Protests, Fukushima’s Tritium Dangers – Fairlie, Deere-Jones, Busby In Seoul, South Korea, more than 50,000 gathered to condemn Japan’s release of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean and urged the Korean government to file a lawsuit to stop the discharge in the International Justice...

NH #635: Post-Oppenheimer Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health crises, or any...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (in hat) and Gen. Leslie Groves at ground zero of the Trinity a-bomb test in New Mexico, six weeks after Trinity test and one month after Hiroshima. NH #634: Post-Oppenheimer Media Fallout + Superb Radiation Class – Greg Mitchell, Mary Olson Everything Oppenheimer Inspired in the Media: Author/Filmmaker Greg Mitchell New Radiation...

NH #633 – Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Global Hibakusha: “Now We Are All Downwinders” – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs, Pt. 2 Map of radiation contamination in the United States from Trinity test, 100 atmospheric blasts, and 921 underground from 1945 to 1992. Check article: Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Radiation Aftermath – We Are All Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivors) – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs New study reveals that radioactive fallout from the Trinity atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945, deposited in 46 states, Canada and Mexico. This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute with his book, NUCLEAR...

Problematic Oppenheimer film OMITS Radiation, Japanese Faces, Hiroshima Devastation: Greg Mitchell Albert Einstein (l) and J. Robert Oppenheimer, both at the top of the nuclear bomb-creating food chain. With all the hooplah surrounding the release of Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer film, we weigh in with two experts on nuclear films: Greg Mitchell Links: Nuclear Hotseat Hot...

Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster In 1979 Navajo Nation suffered the worst radioactive materials spill in US history – 90-million gallons of uranium mining waste into the Puerco River that permanently contaminated land and water, devastating the health of the Diné people. These interviews are from the 40th anniversary of...

SPECIAL: Japan’s Radioactive Fukushima Water Release – Media Propaganda, Report from Vanuatu in S Pacific This Week’s SPECIAL Report: With Japan’s pending release of 1.3 million tons of Tritium-contaminated radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approval of that plan, it is time for an examination of...

IAEA OKs Japan’s Fukushima Radioactive Water Release + Ukraine Nuclear Disaster Imminent? Google map photo of Fukushima water tank storage, showing open, unused land surrounding it which could be used to expand the radioactdive water storage area. Japan and TEPCO are acting like they have run out of space for storage, which they most definitely...

More Nuclear Reactors for Illinois? + Whistleblower: IAEA Pre-Approval of Fukushima Radioactive Water Release – the Fix is In 1.3 million tons of radioactive water at Fukushima that IAEA and Japan have already agreed to release into the Pacific Ocean BREAKING: Internal IAEA Document Shows Collusion with Japan to Eliminate Public Fears of RadWater Release...

Zoomathon interview (more more than you heard!) with the brilliant Prof. Steven Starr (l) Just One Nuclear Explosion in Space = Massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) = Buh-bye Grid! – Prof. Steven Starr This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr LINKS: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): So exactly what could the U.S. buy instead...

12th Anniversary! + Depleted Uranium Expert Damacio Lopez to Ukraine’s Zelensky: DON’T! Damacio Lopez (l) and Norbert Suchanek during a break from the 2023 International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Special 12th Anniversary Look Back over the Past Year of Nuclear Hotseat A tongue-in-cheek look at some of the “highlights” from Nuclear...

A Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Uranium Film Festval, 2023. Wow, was I ever surprised – and chuffed! SPECIAL – International Uranium Film Festival in Rio – Pt. 2, The Awards! In this second of two reports from the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with interviews with Festival Founders and...

NOTE: Return travel from the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio has delayed my ability to produce the second show on that amazing, important event. Pt. 2 will post next week as Episode #624. Feel free to check out last week’s #622 for Pt. 1. This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC Episode: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz...

International Uranium Film Festival Founders/Directors Marcia Gomes de Oliviera and Norbert Suchanek with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the opening of the 2023 Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil SPECIAL! International Uranium Film Festival – Report from Rio Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to cover the 12 th annual...

NOTE: Keystone photo is of a baby born after the mother’s exposure to depleted uranium from DU weapons. Published in the free PDF, DEPLETED URANIUM: A Scientific Approach to the Hazards of Military Use of Depleted Uranium by Prof. Dr. Massimo Zucchetti. Yes, it’s upsetting – and that’s the point in responding to something as...

French Polynesian A-Bomb Tests + Rainbow Warrior Bombing – Dennis Riches, Kevin Hester + BREAKING – NRC Approves NM Waste Dumps – Kevin Kamps Atomic bomb test in French Polynesia – with one A-bomb, there goes paradise… BREAKING: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has today approved the New Mexico nuclear waste “interim” storage facility. Could a...

The Antidote to Oliver Stone is Philippe Carillo’s Film “Fukushima Disaster: The Hidden Side of the Story” This Week’s Featured Interview: Watch the one-minute trailer here: Purchase/Rent Film Here: IMDB COMMENT LINK: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26734180/reviews/?ref_=tt_ov_rtNote that you will need to sign up for a free IMDB account to be able to post. Raw Footage of Interviews –...

SPECIAL: Chernobyl 37th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat classic episode to paint the picture of what happened and what it did to the people...

MORE INCONVENIENT NUCLEAR TRUTHS: World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Pt. 2 This Week’s Featured Interview: The conclusion to last week’s interview by Libbe HaLevy, joined by Linda Pentz Gunter, with three of the lead researchers/writers/creators of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report: This is Part 2 of the interview. Part 1 is in last week’s...

NUCLEAR TRUTH! World Nuclear Industry Status Report – Mycle Schneider, M.V. Ramana, Michael Sailer (Keystone photo: Mycle Schneider) This Week’s Featured Interview: Libbe HaLevy is joined by Linda Pentz Gunter to interview three of the lead researchers/writers/creators of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report: This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. The conclusion will...

Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness Panel features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United...

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island – Interview w/Director Heidi Hutner This Week’s Feature Interview: Today is the 44th anniversary of the start of the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was there, one mile away when it happened, and the experience completely changed the trajectory of my life. For...

TRITIUM: Japan’s Radioactive Water Dump Lies, Tritium Truth w/Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones This Week’s Featured Interview: Right now in the news there’s a lot of talk about tritium – Japan’s planned dump of more than 1.3 million tons of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. And in the U.S., decommissioning company Holtec...

“Acceptable” Radiation Exposure Standards & Gender Bias: Mary Olson + In Memorium: Mary Oscko, N. St. Louis Activist – NH #612 This Week’s Featured Interviews Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: There’s an ominous shift toward silencing those deemed not qualified to speak out. But you don’t need an engineering degree to understand...

Fukushima 12th Anniversary: Voices from Japan, On the Ground w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko This Week’s Special Featured Interview: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” report on the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Beverly lived in Yokohama, Japan, for 20 years until March 2011, after the...

Holtec Threatens Radioactive Water Dump from Pilgrim Nuclear into Cape Cod Bay & from Indian Point into Hudson River – Diane Turco, Manna Jo Green This Week’s Featured Interviews: Big nuclear decommissioning companies are planning to release radioactive tritium-contaminated water into major bodies of water. We usually think of this in connection with Japan, where...

Cover photo: Toxic cloud from “controlled burn” of toxic materials at train derailment Advice from Parallel Disasters: East Palestine Toxic Train wreck, Meet Nuclear Toxic “Train wreck” – Kevin Kamps This Week’s Featured Interview: Link from interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter It’s a year since Russia invaded Ukraine and new developments...

Soaring Child Thyroid Cancer Rates from Fukushima – Joseph Mangano LINKS from Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant escaped disaster during last week’s major earthquake, but continuing the project is reckless. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): UK funnels billions into building new “improved” nukes that...

Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Trickery – San Onofre, Three Mile Island UPDATE This Week’s Featured Interviews: LINKS for San Onofre Information mentioned in interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Building small modular reactors; nuclear powered rockets to Mars; nuclear power plants on the Moon — They’re all Really Bad Ideas. So why do governments insist on...

Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group takes on Nuclear Deterrence Summit Warmongers! This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter A year into the war in Ukraine, a nuclear power plant disaster has only been averted due to luck. So why is Ukraine ordering more nuclear reactors? Numnutz of the...

NH #605: Nuclear Energy = Nuclear Weapons – Change the Arguments! Alfred Meyer Links from Interview: Doomsday Clock – 90 Seconds to Midnight Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): If you’re a nuclear weapons producer/promoter and have all the money in the world – the world that you are positioning yourself to take...

John Wayne: Downwinder? New Documentary DOWNWIND on U.S. Nuke Radiation Poisoning of St. George, Utah – Director Mark Shapiro Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Bad bad bad bad vibrations! Vogtle 3 in Georgia, one of only 2 new reactors under construction in the US, has been delayed yet again, this time for...

NRC Cops Out on Planned In-Person Comanche Peak License Meetings – Citizens Call for Congressional Hearings to Investigate – SEED Coalition’s Karen Hadden LINKS from the interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story – Linda Pentz Gunter What could be more numnutz than substituting coal plants for nuclear ones? But this new scheme, Coal to Nuclear, is...

German Prison for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Protester – Nukewatch’s John LaForge This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Featured Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter: After repeated invitations to contribute her “expertise in the space” to a conference promoting small modular reactors, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter decided to tell them what she would say, given...

NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder w/Don’t Bank on the Bomb This Week’s Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder and Don’t Bank on the Bomb

CELEBRATION! 600th Episode + Libbe HaLevy wins Int’l Nuclear Free Future Award! Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy receives Nuclear Free Future Award for Education! As we celebrate 600 episodes with this week’s retrospective, Libbe HaLevy has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Nuclear Free Future Foundation Award for Education. According to the German...

Nuclear Corruption Panel, POWER STRUGGLE Film This Week’s Special Feature: Panel discussion was followed by a Q&A with viewers. Thanks to the producing efforts of the Museum of Political Corruption, spearheaded by Veronica Medina-Matzner and Bruce Broter. If you’re reading this before December 18, 2022, and would like to watch POWER STRUGGLE at no charge, go...

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island – New Film by Heidi Hutner Premieres This Week’s Special Feature: Libbe HaLevy Moderating Panel from Disrupt and Museum of Political Corruption on Power Struggle Film On International Anti-Corruption Day, the Museum of Political Corruption honors the fight of all of those who stand up against corruption, with...

BIG NEWS! Nuclear Hotseat is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit! Your donations are now tax-deductible. More info coming – stay tuned! More Radioactive Contamination Found in Ohio Homes Near PORTS Plant – Prof. Michael Ketterer Links from the Interview: Numnutz of the Week (For Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl interviews Rafael Grossi of the...

Nuclear Reactor Radiation Health Impact on Kids – New Baby Tooth Study – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher who has served Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) since 1989. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of...

Nuclear Arctic Ice Melt from Radiation Dangers: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones This Week’s Featured Interview: Given the pro-nuclear doubletalk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of...

Never Ending Three Mile Island Decommissioning UPDATE: Eric Epstein Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy. At TMI 40th anniversary commemoration, 2019. This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors...

“If You Love This Planet” – Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Oscar-Winner on Medical Impact of Nuclear War This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other...

Nuclear’s Ticking Doomsday Clock – Rachel Bronson of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock. She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the...

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview we...

Uranium Mine to become Int’l Radioactive Waste Dump? Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Fights White Mesa Mill This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sarah Fields is Program Director of Uranium Watch, and has worked on uranium and other nuclear issues for over 20 years. We discuss how the White Mesa Uranium Mill is being allowed to process radioactive...

Nuclear History Education for Kids This Week’s Featured Interview: Illinois has become the first state in the nation to mandate the teaching of Asian American History for grades K-12. The intent is to combat hate crimes and racial discrimination against Asian Americans, which grew exponentially during the Covid 19 pandemic. As nuclear plays a major...

Increased Child Leukemia Rates Near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie This Week’s Featured Interview: Child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors have been shown to increase in 2014 report by Dr. Ian Fairlie. He is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment living in London UK and has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in...

NH #587: U.S. “Nuclear Survival” Propaganda & the Real Nuclear Nightmare – Karl Grossman This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman is a veteran, award-winning environmental investigative reporter, author of six books, and a journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. Karl hosts the syndicated television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl...

NH #586: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – Catholic Anti-Nuclear Activists Martha Hennessey, Patrick O’Neill This Week’s Featured Interview: The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia on April 4th, 2018, and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear...

Diablo Canyon Nuclear: CA Legislators Blow it – but It’s Not Over This Week’s Feature: When the California legislature voted on August 31, 2022 to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility open for a minimum of another 5 years – which will probably end up being 20 – this setback wasn’t for lack of evidence...

NH #584: Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine Heats Up: Gundersen + Youth Climate Activists March in Wales against Nukes This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education joins us again to explain the latest rounds of nuclear Russian roulette – what dangers got ramped up at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine over the past week....

NH #583: New Ukraine Nuclear Risks – Arnie Gundersen + Newsom’s $1.4 BILLION Diablo Canyon Trickery Meets Ratepayer Rage This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen reveals all the different ways that the Ukraine Nuclear reactors in Zaporizhzhia can be compromised to release more radioactivity than 60 Chernobyls. Gundersen is a licensed nuclear reactor operator with...

NH #582: New Radiation Training on How Risks are Worse for Little Girls, Women – Mary Olson, Cindy Folkers This Week’s Featured Interview: One of the most misunderstood aspects of nuclear danger is the impact of radiation on our health. Today’s two interviewees not only are in the forefront of exposing the radiation lies that...

NH #581: Hiroshima, Nagasaki Second Generation: Prof. Yuki Miyamoto, Daughter of Atomic Survivor This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima-born Yuki Miyamoto is a second generation Hibakusha – daughter of an atomic bomb survivor. Her mother was in Hiroshima one mile from the epicenter of the bombing, yet survived it with what seemed like little physical damage…...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a done deal? Inevitable once the U.S. produced the bomb? Or were there pressures to avoid unleashing a nuclear holocaust on Japan, and if so, how did they play out behind the scenes in 1945? Author and award-winning filmmaker Greg Mitchell recounts his...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Ukraine Nuclear dangers – how many and how bad? This week, we learn how bad it could get from Edwin Lyman. He is a physicist and the Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists. He specializes in nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and nuclear power safety. Lyman has...

This Week’s Featured Story: The NYC Emergency Management Office released a bombshell last week – a video PSA on how to survive a nuclear attack! …and it has generated a firestorm of its own. It’s the 1950’s laughable Duck and Cover drill, repackaged in all seriousness for hip Millennials: Featured Interview: To counter the disinformation...

This Week’s Featured Interview: “RADIOPHOBIA???” – Prof. Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including...

This Week’s Featured Interview – A Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Chernoby Truth, World Health Org. Lies Revealed – Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima. The...

This Week’s Featured Interview: It’s a common talking point among those who oppose nuclear that the impact of uranium mining in particular has come down disproportionately on indigenous people around the world. But in reality, what does that look like? And what does it do to those who have traditionally lived close to the land...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tritium Radiation Lies and planned radioactive water releases at Fukushima in Japan and Pilgrim nuclear reactor at Cape Cod in Massachusetts: Dr. Ian Fairlie is a London-based radiation biologist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. After receiving a degree in radiation biology from Bart’s Hospital in London and doctoral...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Madness! Ohio House Bill 434 passed the Ohio House on March 23, 2022. This bill authorizes the creation of a new Ohio body, called the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority, which would be given the go ahead to do research and development on new nuclear reactors, defining them as “advanced.” This...

This Week’s Special Feature: In 2015, Dr. Helen Caldicott brought together world experts for two day Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction. Meeting at the New York Academy of Science, experts in nuclear policy, politics, the impact of radiation on life, nuclear winter, weaponry joined forces to speak on the exact nature of the nuclear dangers...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging: Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero. She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons and has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including: ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen; promoting human...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with Robert Jay Lifton) and “Atomic Cover-up.” He has...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use...

Nuclear War on Film: Screen shot of the moment the nuclear fireball hit the people of Lawrence, Kansas. Taken from ABC-TV movie THE DAY AFTER, which is the subject of the documentary TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels. This Week’s Featured Interview: The 1983 TV movie THE DAY AFTER depicted the start of a nuclear war...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist, as well as its media and development director. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Norbert Suchanek, Founder and General Director of the International Uranium Film Festival – now in its 11th year – previews this year’s slate of films. He also announces a unique highlight of this year’s proceedings: a live Zoom meeting that brings together indigenous people from two hemispheres, from Navajo Nation in...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education and a licensed nuclear reactor operator, provides a more nuanced view of the consequences of Russian troop actions at Chernobyl. He also gets into how the dangers created by the loss of power to the New Containment Building have much to teach us...

Nuclear Ukraine, Month 2: Chernobyl evacuated by Radioactive Russian troops who are sickening, perhaps dying, from radiation exposure. FULL CHERNOBYL UPDATE on contamination risks. BREAKING: DRONE FOOTAGE OF RUSSIAN TRENCHES AT CHERNOBYL AND PROXMITY TO THE CONTAINMENT BUILDING OVER THE HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE RUINS: Go to: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100002022159635/videos/742329896935558 Working to get a viewable link here. Stay...

Nuclear reactors = dirty bombs in your backyard. Dr. Paul Dorfman on international issues, climate change, why renewables have “already won,” and taking back power through social media. THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Dr. Paul Dorfman is the Founder of the Nuclear Consulting Group; a Member of the Irish Govt. Environment Protection Agency Radiation Protection Member...

Chernobyl radiation risks continue in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine - radiation lab blown up, forest fires in radioactive exclusion zone. PLUS new 7.3 quake at Fukushima, damage to radwaste storage tanks, fuel pools on this week’s Nuclear Hotseat with host Libbe HaLevy (lee-BEE ha-LAY-vee) - [DAY] at [TIME] on [STATION]

Russia continues assaults on Ukraine nuclear sites, controls Chernobyl & Zaporizhzhia. All radiation monitors down. What are the risks? How much worse will it get? Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear PLUS Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

Ukrainian nuclear reactors’ real vulnerability is cooling pump houses & grid lines, not containment according to nuclear engineer and licensed nuclear reactor operator Arnie Gundersen. And SPECIAL: Fukushima 11th Anniversary Voices from Japan puts a spotlight on TEPCO & Japanese government's “recovery” propaganda at Fukushima museum. NH #559

SPECIAL: Nuclear Ukraine in a Russian War Zone - cutting edge information on the catastrophe potential for nuclear Armageddon in Ukraine. It's more than bombs! 15 reactors risk direct hits, loss of diesel for cooling systems, loss of personnel, more! Then there's Chernobyl... Arnie Gundersen, Karl Grossman, Dave Kraft!

I’m again having problems with Facebook and cannot get in to post Nuclear Hotseat. I have the team to post to their usual sites, but need someone to cover mine ASAP. Might you be available? I only need you to cover: Libbe HaLevy, Nuclear Hotseat (the one w/my logo), C.A.N., and Rainbow Warriors.

Fukushima thyroid cancer in kids: 5 of Japan's former prime ministers state the truth to the EU; current PM, minions, nuke industry push back. Radiation & Public Health's epidemiologist Joe Mangano has the facts and footnotes.

Idaho National Lab is a repository for #radioactive waste from #RockyFlats, nuclear navy, 52 on-site reactors, new builds of small “modular” nuclear reactors, more; Snake River Alliance fights back. https://bit.ly/3LqOvOe

Nuclear Ukraine? With 15 reactors on the ground, 6 of them 120 miles from border + Chernobyl + US/Russia saber rattling, now US troops being sent in -- is this a set-up for nuclear WWIII? Journalist Karl Grossman, Global Network's Bruce Gagnon provide a "different perspective" on what's building up in Ukraine... and why.

Tonga underwater volcanic eruption sends tsunami racing around the Pacific Rim. What was the threat to Fukushima? San Onofre? Two interviews - Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo, Charles Langley & Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs - put the dangers and ongoing risks into perspective.

Rogue nuclear regulator/former NRC chair Gregory Jaczko's book spills the nuclear beans on Fukushima, reactor "safety," nuclear politics, more!

Nuclear decommissioning firm Holtec is "planning" to dump radioactive water from Pilgrim nuclear into Cape Cod Bay. Citizens say NOPE! The battle for the planet is on!

Nuclear Numnutz are everywhere and we celebrate the craziest in this year's compilation of weekly numnutzery, leading to Numnutz of the Year 2021!

Atomic bomb blasts filmed by secret US government film studio Lookout Mountain have been used extensively for pro-nuke propaganda. New book LOOKOUT AMERICAm reveals all.

Kids at risk of cancer from nuclear reactor radiation - no, it's not safe, "green," or the cure for global warming. Epidemiologist/Radiation researcher Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project explains.

TEPCO is pushing for dump of 1,260,000 gallons of radioactive water from Fukushima into Pacific Ocean, as nations and Fukushima moms push back! Now Holtec wants to dump the radioactive water from the Pilgrim nuke in Massachusetts into the Atlantic Ocean. They're all nuts!

Plutonium Pit lawsuit - why has no Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement been conducted? What are EPA, NNSA hiding? Watchdogs challenge Savannah River Site in SC, LANL in NM. Tom Clements, attorney Leslie Lenhardt. Nuclear Hotseat #545

Is it possible to create a nuclear-free Earth, with no weapons or reactors? And if it's possible, will we? Award-winning enviro-journalist Karl Grossman paints the picture of what's needed, why and by when. PLUS: China asks: If Fukushima's stored tritium water is safe, why doesn't Japan dump it in its own lakes instead of the Pacific ocean?

New York Times lies of omission about radiation dangers from A-bomb at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, S Pacific are the subject of NEWS ZERO, a book by Vietnam war correspondent Beverly Deepe-Keever. ESSENTIAL READING! This is why/how people still resist any information about radioactivity and its consequences to health and safety.

Report on how the media, government officials, and local citizens reacted to the per-reviewed scientific report that found radioactive microparticles dispersed into LA neighborhoods by the2018 Woolsey Fire only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. PSR-LA's Denise Duffield and Melissa Bumstead of Parents vs. Santa Susana Field Lab report on fallout from information in the two weeks since the study's information hit.

Anti-nuclear nun Sr. Megan Rice, known who broke in to the U.S. Y-12 "Fort Knox of Uranium" in a protest against nuclear weapons, passed away on Oct. 10 at age 91. A commemoration of her life and work with a 2015 Nuclear Hotseat interview, recorded just after she was released from spending 2-1/2 years in prison for her peaceful "sabotage" of the U.S. nuclear war machine.

SPECIAL: The 2018 Woolsey fire, which started at the radioactively contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab in LA , has been shown in peer-reviewed scientific study to have released radioactive microparticles at 19x background radiation that traveled up to 9 miles away. Authors of the report, based on 360 samples, are the principle researchers Dr. Marco Kaltofen, and Arnie Gundersen and Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education.

Radioactivity from A-bomb tests that were found in 1950/60's baby teeth led to Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty in 1963. Now baby teeth are being studied in Illinois and Michigan near nuke reactors to explore data on cancer cases and deaths. Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project explains.

Baby Teeth Hold Key to Illinois, Michigan Nuclear Reactor Radiation Exposure – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano – NH #538

Oconee Nuclear, a 3-reactor site in South Carolina, is 25 miles downstream of the Jocassee Dam, capable of unleashing 6-Mississipi Rivers worth of water in a 19 foot wall if it is breached, creating a Fukushima-style inland tsunami Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explains. \

The NRC-approved new "interim" nuclear waste dump in West Texas threatens to negatively impact the entire country/planet. Take a deep dive into the issues and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. PLUS: Caitlin Stronell of bi-monthly Nuke Info Tokyo on 35 years of providing verifiable data about Japanese nuclear issues.

Radioactive Waste Dump connection between Yucca Mountain & NRC's approval of West Texas high level radwaste site blasted by Western Shoshone's Ian Zabarte. And details about the wrongheaded Illinois & federal nuke bailouts with Dave Kraft of NEIS.

Radioactive waste from the UK's Hinkley Point nuclear reactors is being dumped in Bristol Bay off Wales coast, increasing radiation risks to locals by 215%! Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones outs the truth!

Don't Bank on the Bomb! Divest your banks, financial institutions from nuclear weapons-producing companies. Learn how with Don't Bank on the Bomb's Susi Snyder. PLUS: Post-Ida damage and problems at Waterford Nuclear, and Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up UPDATE with Melissa Bumstead. Nuclear Hotseat #533 - nuclear news from a "different" perspective.

Waterford nuclear reactor 25 miles from New Orleans is shut down, off grid, on emergency power, no road access, other problems. Mainstream Media remains silent; Nuclear Hotseat has the crucial info w/Arnie Gundersen and Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, and Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org.

Where we were and where we are: More lies from Holtec on their decommissioning "safety" plans for the shut down Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, MA. Diane Turco of Cape Cod Downwinders on history + new problems.

New Mexico Anti-Nuclear & Peace Activists brainstorm on how to fight increased Los Alamos plutonium pit production, WIPP extension & expansion PLUS how to build the movement, boost citizen activism involvement.

Nuclear Contamination in Ohio as Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant demolition spreads radioactive particles to air & water in adjacent neighborhoods, Sioto River. DOE busted on its own data! Dr. Michael Ketterer explains.

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA): time is running out for radiation victims of uranium mining, A-bomb tests in Nevada, and Trinity blast. Downwinders lose all compensation in 2022 unless Congress renews, expands RECA. Listen, then contact your congressional reps!

Radiation and Radioactivity - the dangers, the threat, no matter what you call it: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Joseph Mangano explain the ins and outs of what we call nuclear's most deadly problem + Saskatchewan wildfire still threatens indigenous Diné people w/uranium mine radioactive smoke.

SPECIAL: Expanded US #Plutonium pit production - #Nuclear bomb explosive cores - challenged by activist lawsuit. Jay Coughlin of Nuclear Watch #NewMexico, Tom Clements of SRS Watch, Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CARES/#Livermore on problems, issues, actions.

Starting in 1946, the United States hit the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific with 67 A-bomb explosions, leaving behind a deadly radioactive legacy and no reparations for the people. Native Marshall Islander Desmond Doulatram of REACH-MI explains the issues and the impact on his people, including his immediate family.

It's Nuclear Hotseat's 10th Anniversary! San Onofre lawsuit may be the Last Line of Radiation Defense for Southern California - Cathy Iwane fills us in. New developments in the Exelon/IL proposed Bailout - UPDATE w/Dave Kraft + China reactor radiation leak.

Reference Man, the standard for gauging all radiation exposure dangers, shown to be inadequate to protect girls, women. Mary Olson of Gender & Radiation Project, and Dave Lochbaum, former Director of the Nuclear Safety Project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, explain the problems and the solution of changing the model to that of Reference Girl.

Exelon nuclear bailout bilks government out of billions in "clean energy" subsidies to keep bad reactors running. Illinois is next in line, with a vote in the legislature slated to take place within 2 weeks. CAN IT BE STOPPED? Dave Kraft of NEIS on history, necessary actions we need to be taking NOW.

Chernobyl lies made by the World Health Organization are revealed and busted by Alison Katz of Independent WHO, the Geneva-based NGO. Learn how the international agency we trust to protect us hid the nuclear disaster & its devastating health impact in plain sight. A Nuclear Hotseat Classic!

The International Uranium Film Festival continues to May 30, offering 34 films, all free, including this on Pacifist Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr by German filmmaker/activist Claus Biegert. LINK on NH website, https://bit.ly/3hNuTqR

US Dept of Energy illegally targets New Mexico WIPP site as dump for 50 TONS of “excess” plutonium. They are holding piecemeal hearings on small issues to disguise DOE’s true WIPP expansion intent. Hearings start May 17, run for one full week. Public input crucial! Learn how: https://bit.ly/3ocNaiP

Now that the last Indian Point nuclear reactor - situated only 25 miles from Manhattan and 20 million people - has been shut down for good, the activist battle shifts to the decommissioning process. Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, explains from her 20 years of working to get the dangerous reactor shut down. Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, gives a brilliant, clear and brief tutorial on what decommissioning consists of and why it is such a fraught process.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster anniversary #35 deserves more than one program. This one covers the personal perspective with Bonnie Kouneva, who as a teenager lived in Bulgaria and was "encouraged" by Soviet Russia to stand in the rain at a parade to cheer on soldiers... at the exact time the plume from Chernobyl was raining out overhead. The late Dr. Janette Sherman talks about editing the English translation of the seminal book CHERNOBYL: Consequences of the Catastrophe on People and the Environment. And filmmaker Nick Lyell on his new film, FALSE ALARM! about the 2018 Hawaiian mis-message texted out that a nuclear missile was incoming... "and this is not a drill."

The 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion and nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Updated information with author Kate Brown ("Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future"), on-the-ground researcher and evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau, and Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians.

LA's Deadly Nuclear Nightmare: Melissa Bumstead & her daughter Grace are the focus of "In the Dark of the Valley," a new documentary on the battle to clean up radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab, 30 miles from downtown LA.

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary SPECIAL: a full-length report on America's worst nuclear reactor accident. Presented by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy, who was one mile away from the meltdown when it happened and on advice of the "experts," did not evacuate for three days. Audio and interviews with Walter Cronkite, activists, doctors, more.

Nukes in space is more than Star Wars and Space Force and Elon Musk: it's deadly radioactive contamination from crashed satellites and the long-planned fulfillment of Nazi intentions. Environmental Journalist Karl Grossman provides the facts and the footnotes.

Nuclear Biden: Disarmament strategy suggestions for the new administration, from International Peace/Conflict Resolution expert Alyn Ware, who serves as Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament. https://bit.ly/3k08CW3

Exclusive interviews on-the-ground in Fukushima Prefecture. Reports of high radiation readings, soil contamination, lack of protection for workers, government lies. Fresh info on stories the mainstream media is NOT covering.

South Texas Nuclear's epic fail during arctic freeze hidden by NRC timing trickery: Sierra Club’s Erica Gray. Defund #Nuclear weapons producers; here's how! Susi Snyder, Don’t Bank on the Bomb. Join the int'l campaign & stop funding weapons of mass destruction! And the secret anti-nuclear roots of the Peace Symbol.

Nuclear suicide by reactor embrittlement - that's what we're facing if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a new 20-year extension to create 100-year operating licenses. Veteran environmental investigative journalist Karl Grossman, interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy, tells all.

Nuclear Hotseat Episode 500! celebrates with a look back on 9-1/2 years of weekly updates on nuclear issues around the world. One of them: the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons enters into International Force of Law as of this Friday, January 22, 2021! Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Church Rock all reviewed in interview excerpts w/Caldicott, Gundersen, Hutner, Zabarte, Paul, more! Producer/host Libbe HaLevy shares the tale of how it all came to be.

Report on the Radioactive 2020/2021 Olympics Torch Relay thru Fukushima Prefecture, specifically the nuclear reactor's host city, Futaba. Different year, same old wrongheaded plans. Interview with Nuclear Hotseat's Voices from Japan producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, based upon on-the-ground sources.

Radioactive Tokyo 2021 Olympics are being used to cover up Fukushima's ongoing dangers to evacuees, residents. German pediatrician Dr. Alex Rosen of IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War provides an update to the problems and the pushback campaign.

A look back at so much that's wrong about the #Nuclear industry, seen through our most popular feature.

Would we recognize peace if it bit us on the posterior? Hiroshima Peace Culture Village shows the way, digitally! Learn how Peace and Peace Culture are possible with this HOPEFUL HOLIDAY SPECIAL from Nuclear Hotseat. Exec. Director Steve Leeper on how global Conflict Resolution based on corporate models would work.

Nuclear Pacifists Sentenced to Prison: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 to serve sentences up to 3 years for peaceful protest of Trident submarine nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia. Special ENCORE interview w/activists Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey. PLUS Tokyo 2021 Olympics - 1st dates announced.

Nuclear #Downwinder - Journalist Playwright Mary Dickson puts a human face on the high cost of Nevada atmospheric nuclear testing with her play EXPOSED - & shows how in truth, we are ALL Downwinders. https://bit.ly/3lYc8zH

Nuclear Lame Duck Legislation being pushed through by exiting administration is mostly bad news for activists, environmentalists, people and the environment. Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS takes us through some of the 18+ nuclear-related bills facing a lame duck Congress right now, most pro-nuke, some being pushed through before Jan 20. Attention must be paid!

Chris Shuey of Southwest Resource and Information Center provides the institutional memory on the Church Rock uranium dam tailing spill disaster of 1979, ongoing problems with over 500 uranium mines that have not been remediated, and the Navajo Birth Cohort Study.

Social Media for Activists: Colleen Moore of Beyond the Bomb offers easy steps to expand our digital messaging reach & why we must. All of us. Yes, that means you. Plus corrections & opportunity to dialog w/Susan Hito Shapiro on Nukes & Climate Change.

Children of Atomic Veterans suffer DNA damage, cancers, told not to have children under top-secret, need-to-know only basis. But restrictions lifted in late 90's, allowing Victoria Moore to learn about her dad's radiation exposure to 20-40 A-bomb tests. To cope with her own genetic legacy, illnesses & isolation, she helped found Children of Atomic Veterans.

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: who/how/why did it happen? Ray Acheson of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom was in the rooms where it happened and tells the tale! PLUS: Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter rebuts “Science” Friday’s Ira Flatow and his most recent pro-nuclear shill job on NPR.

Radium Girls, a new film, tells the true story of young women poisoned by painting glow-in-the-dark watch faces with radioactive paint. nterview w/writer and director. PLUS a Covid/Nuclear UPDATE on report prepared by anti-nuke coalition for Congress and the news media. Dave Kraft of NEIS tells the tale.

New Mexico Nuclear & West Texas Nuclear proposed "interim" radioactive waste storage dumps - UPDATE with Leona Morgan & Eileen O'Shaugnessy of the Albuquerque-based Nuclear Issues Study Group.

BREAKING: #Nuclear Football = Nuclear #Armageddon in a briefcase, but #Trump's Covid + medical steroids raise mental issues. If he orders nuke attack, could he be stopped? Maybe! Raven Rock’s #GarrettGraff offers alarming information and a tiny bit of hope. PLUS: South African Award-Winning Climate Change Activist Makoma Lekalakala #NuclearHotseat 485

Chernobyl Truth, World Health Organization lies revealed by Alison Katz of Geneva, Switzerland-baed Independent WHO. She covers in great detail the health impact of radiation release, the Chernobyl cover-up by WHO, IAEA, UNSCEAR. Classic interview by Libbe HaLevy for Nuclear Hotseat.

Seabrook Nuclear station, in New Hampshire only 40 miles from Boston, has been licensed to operate until 2050 despite signs of degrading concrete in the containment vessel. Natalie Hildt Treat of watchdog group C-10 reports. Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Shoshone Band of Indians, presents a powerful "Message from the Most Bombed Nation on Earth." HINT: it's not Japan.

VoteClimate2020.org website vets US candidates on Climate voting record. Interview w/visionary activist Robert Manning & Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. + Dave Kraft nails Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis with socko op-ed in Chicago Tribune.

A tour of the toxic, radioactive lands around Los Alamos, New Mexico, site of the WWII Manhattan Project site where the first atomic bombs were built. The area is still radioactive, with homes being built on hot spots - and now the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) is gearing up to build more plutonium pits - bomb triggers for ever bigger, more deadly nuclear bombs. Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety explains it all.

Oregon Nuclear legislation: a full court press of 3 bills meant to demolish 40 years of voter constraints on reactor builds, plus a proposal for taxpayer-funded pro-nuke propaganda. Opposition growing. Interview with Podcaster/activist Lonnie Clark.

Saskatchewan First Nations communities have been targeted for the building of at least one small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). Why in an area that does not need the power? For mining and drilling interests to power tar sands exploration. Candyce Paul of English River First Nation on history of uranium industry lies, manipulations, propaganda - and the latest moves to use and contaminate the aboriginal people of Northern Saskatchewan. Intrerviewed by Libbe HaLevy.

Edison & San Onofre At It Again! Dismissed Edison Nuke Exec Palmisano tries to slip a public meeting under the radar: Public Watchdogs Charles Langley, Nina Babiarz put his feet to the fire yet again - interviewed by Libbe HaLevy.

The San Onofre former nuclear reactor site, now turning into a beachfront nuclear waste dump, is painting itself into a corner, tearing up the floor boards, and dismantling the substructure in compliance with SCEdison desires. Learn about the deadly rule change re: San Onofre hidden by CA Coastal Commission , allowing Edison to dismantle spent fuel pools. Lawsuits ensue. Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs on Nuclear Hotseat with host Libbe HaLevy.

US nuclear reactor technology, which produces near-weapons-grade plutonium as part of its radioactive waste stream, is governed by national laws and NRC rules. Now, while we're distracted by Covid, the election, etc., these rules and laws are undergoing sleight-of-hand changes in order to legalize the selling of nuclear technology info to the Saudis, who make no bones about wanting it to make the bomb. Any questions? Attny Terry Lodge on Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Hell began 75 years ago when the US dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Since then, the military-industrial complex has owned our future. Two warriors against Nuclear horror speak out to end the madness, SetsukoThurlow of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and attorney Alice Slater, who has worked with anti-nuclear and peace groups for over 50 years.

Nukegate - Ohio State House Speaker faces Racketeering Charges in Nuclear Bailout bill. First Energy stock tumbles, Governor wants bailout repealed. Attny Terry Lodge explains how it happened, what can happen now.

SPECIAL: Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Spill Commemoration, July 16, 2019: Uranium mining marks the start of the nuclear fuel chain, the deadly journey uranium takes to become atomic weapons, nuclear reactors, and tons of highly radioactive waste. NOTE: This is a special ENCORE PRESENTATION of the 2019 40th anniversary of the disaster.

Church Rock SPECIAL Encore presentation on the 1979 40th anniversary of the radioactive uranium tailings pond spill in Navajo Nation. It spread radiation thru 80 miles of the Puerco River, contaminating a major water source, & still hasn't been cleaned up. Interviews by Libbe HaLevy w/elders, activists, politicians.

Pilgrim nuclear post-decommissioning security lapses, Radiation risks from spent fuel pool, Holtec lies about what will happen to the dangerously radioactive waste and mythical New Mexico site, & pending trial against Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders for bringing reporters on-site to prove lack of security.

All things nuclear are dangerous & we need to understand the forever impact to communicate concerns or people won't understand what we're concerned about. Canada's Dr. Gordon Edwards and Joseph Mangano of Radiation & Public Health provide understanding of what we're up against and why it's so dangerous. (ps - The blanking out of this information was intentional since before Hiroshima/Nagasaki!)

HiroshimaNagasaki75.org is planning 2 days of Livestream programming Aug 6 & 9 to commemorate the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and provide an anti-nuclear perspective. Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy interviews coalition members Martin Fleck of Physicians for Social Responsibility & Lilly Adams of Union of Concerned Scientists.

Bob Alvarez on Trump, Nukes & the Election + Covid/Nuclear refueling outage dangers addressed to VP Mike Pence in 2 letters by nat'l coalition of 80+ anti-nuclear groups: Tim Judson of NIRS.

Space Force: an expensive PR ploy w/dangerous nuclear implications re: nukes in space explained by Beyond Nuclear's Linda Pentz Gunter. Elizabeth McAlister of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released w/time served! 9th Anniversary Episode, complete with testimonials and attagirls!!

Radiophobia? Schmadiophobia! Nuke industry's "radiophobia" disinformation propaganda lie demolished by Prof. Majia Nadesen. PLUS: Weekly Covid/Nuclear UPDATE - Nuclear Hotseat #467 with host Libbe HaLevy.

The Covid/Nuclear connection takes on nightmare proportions on Navajo Nation, where decades of exposure to uranium mining waste puts its population disproportionately at risk. Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy interviews Janine Yazzie.

Vogtle Nuclear in Georgia dangerously sinking under its own weight: Arnie Gundersen explains problems, how it happened, how bad it is... and it's bad. Nancy Burton of Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone reports on 11 Covid positive diagnoses, some of them predating the start of the current refueling process, and how it is disproportionately impacting control room personnel.

Hanford Nuclear & Covid nightmares in Washington State explored and exposed by Tom Carpenter, Executive Director, #Hanford Challenge. PLUS: International Nuclear/Covid UPDATE.

Nuclear Baloney means 75 years of nuclear industry lies, cover-ups & now Covid19 manipulations. Eminent journalist Karl Grossman explains history, context, how we got here, how to fight back. PLUS Covid19/Nuclear UPDATE. Nuclear Hotseat 463

New Mexico’s proposed Holtec "interim" storage site f/nuclear waste given go-ahead by Nuclear Regulatory Commission over legal objections by state, indigenous activists, environmentalists. Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps busts 'em with history, dangers, next legal steps.

Chernobyl fire in third week as anniversary of 1986 disaster approaches on April 26. Exclusion Zone wildfire chokes Kiev with radioactive smoke into Kiev's on disaster's 34th Anniversary. Covid19/Nuclear UPDATE - First Hanford positive, Vogtle has 38 - cuts 2000 workers, more.

Covid19/Nuclear UPDATE: Pushback against Grand Canyon uranium mines throwing pity-party to convince Feds to give 'em stimulus monies. Sierra Club's Alicyn Gitlin nails the greed & hypocrisy, along with the GC's uranium contamination history. Covid/Nuke reactor refueling Trojan Horse as over 1,000 worker travel between sites w/no CV19 testing, quarantine. NH 460

Arnie Gundersen & Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education call out COVID19/Nuclear dangers as nuke industry asks for tax credits, fee waivers, continued fuel transfers... but hides personnel impact of the disease.

CoVid19/Nuclear nightmare begins: workers test positive, self-quarantine, no plans for strategic shutdowns. NRC conference call reveals inadequate US planning + Olympic torch run now planned to still take place with no torch, no runners and no Prime Minister Abe. Nuclear Hotseat #457.

CoVid19 & Radiation are both existential threats on different time lines - and the virus has been impacting nuclear issues around the world. Mary Olson on Gender & Age-based Radiation Dangers - women and children, especially little girls, are more at risk than the adult male model used to measure radiation damage + OLYMPIC TORCH RUN CANCELED IN GREECE, STILL ON FOR FUKUSHIMA MARCH 26-28!

Nuclear Hotseat's annual Voices from Japan - Fukushima 9th Anniversary SPECIAL. Interview with Takeshi Yamakawa from the Tokyo Shimbun #Nuclear Power Reporting Team; first-hand impressions of the Exclusion Zone from Voices from Japan investigative reporter Yuji Kaneko; and commentary by co-producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko. Produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy.

Could San Onofre's thin-walled storage containers erupt into a Radioactive Geyser? Veteran nuclear engineer Paul Blanch, consultant to Public Watchdogs, explains the risk. Susi Snyder of Don’t Bank on the Bomb explains how anyone with a bank account or a pension can pressure your financial institutions to divest all funds from nuclear weapons manufacturers. Don't bank on the bomb!

The long-proposed Ontario Radioactive Waste Dump on the shores of Lake Huron has been dumped, once and for all, by Saugeen Ojibway Nation vote. How did they get that power? And what happens now to Canada's radioactive waste? Details from Dr. Gordon Edwards on how First Nations people killed OPG's Lake Huron madness + Radioactive/CoVid19 Olympics Update.

Catholic peace activists facing prison for anti-nuclear weapons, anti-war action against Trident submarines and the nuclear triad. INTERVIEW with 2 of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey.

Chernobyl: Nuclear warning to the world, and we still have not been told the whole truth of its devastating, ongoing impact by World Health Organization. Alison Katz of Independent WHO reveals World Health Org's lies and omissions about its deadly aftermath. A Nuclear Hotseat classic.

Radioactive 2020 Olympics UPDATE: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko again joins us with on-the-ground information about the Olympics torch relay, including blog post interviews with former residents of Futaba, the town that hosted the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, translated from the Japanese exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat.

Can hemp remediate radioactive plutonium contamination? Superfund site Rocky Flats in Colorado is ground zero for first-ever test. Tiffany Hansen of Rocky Flats Downwinders reports on recent testing program. And Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety on the latest lies and omissions by Southern California Edison. Nuclear Hotseat w/host Libbe HaLevy.

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Veteran journalist Karl Grossman on why Earth has to be protected from not only nuclear weapons but nuclear reactors as well, and points the way towards the future. 2020 Olympics torch relay set for Fukushima's Futaba, other radioactive hot zones - and Nuclear Hotseat's "Voices from Japan" co-producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides the details.

Toronto residents got a terrifying wake-up call on Sunday, January 12 when an emergency text went out about an "incident" at the 8-nuclear-reactor Pickering facility. Interview with Angela Bischoff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance on what did/didn't happen + shocking news of eDoug Ford's just-announced extension of nuclear operations at Pickering beyond license!

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are being used as a propaganda tool to "normalize" the Fukushima nuclear disaster and force residents back into living in radioactive zones. This interview w/Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician with International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, provides scientific background, analysis, and actions being put together by an international community opposed to Japan's cover-up of Fukushima dangers. Interviewed by host Libbe HaLevy.

Excerpts from a year of Numnutz of the Week for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness. Lost radiation shipments, nuclear "hot spot" tourism, languaging games and much more, all leading to 2020 Olympics in Tokyo! What could be more numnutzish than that???

Sister Megan Rice, anti-nuclear peace nun from Plowshares, broke into the so-called "secure" nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 2013 in a non-violent protest. Here is the interview with Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy upon her 2015 release from prison. An encore presentation for the holidays.

Smug stupid Los Alamos National Lab & town revealed during a Toxic Tour of WWII Manhattan Project & current contaminated radioactive sites, aided and abetted by Atomic/Nuclear propaganda museums. Interview with Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety on where the LANL "bodies" are buried.

Nuclear waste warriors from around the US gathered in Albuquerque last November to brainstorm, strategize & join forces in ongoing battle against nuclear waste nightmares around the country. 20 interviews by Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy.

Nuclear billion-dollar bailout bill in Ohio passes, but attempt sto put referendum on 2020 ballot to rescind it meets with nuke industry brutality, dirty tricks, "fascism." Harvey Wasserman, Sierra Club’s Pat Marida, interviewed by Libbe HaLevy https://bit.ly/2RyVStt

Fukushima Journey Pt 2 completes the reporting of Nuclear Hotseat Voices from Japan producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, who recently spent 4 days on the ground in #Fukushima Prefecture. Her trip revealed unreported radiation dangers, Olympics lies, a propaganda museum, and the truth about thyroid cancer rates.

Is Fukushima Disappearing? Japan would like it to by the Olympics & is trying. 4-day on-the-ground journey through radioactive Fukushima Prefecture with Beverly Findlay-Kaneko reveals Japanese government lies, cover-ups, human suffering. Interviewed by Libbe HaLevy for Nuclear Hotseat 439. Pt. 1 of 2 - NH #439

Radiation: The Invisible Threat - Mary Olson on Gender and Radiation, speaks on the disproportional dangers to little girls... why and how that haplpened. And Joseph Mangano of Radiation & Public Health Project speaks on evidence of increased thyroid cancer risks. Interviewed by Libbe HaLevy.

Uranium has been found in the bodies of Navajo mothers and their infants, a part of early findings from the Navajo Birth Cohort Study. Nuclear Hotseat provides deep dive interviews with Navajo Nation's Anna Rondon & Toxicologist/Principal Investigator Dr. Johnnye Lewis. Produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy

Radioactive nuclear waste lies re: southern California San Onofre's thin, already damaged canisters, located in a tsunami zone next to an earthquake fault - hey, what could go wrong? Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety explains. + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Unanticipated Radioactive Repercussions - what radioactivity does to your health.

Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan by the Minna-no Data Site reveals the deadly impact of the radioactivity released by the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear meltdown of March, 2011. 4,000 citizens took soil samples to capture the data that created the full 200-page book, written in Japanese, which won a major mainstream journalism award and is a “hot” seller in Japan.

Now the English-language digest has been published, and non-Japanese speakers can see for ourselves the radiation contamination that resulted from that disaster.

Mari Inoue of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World is part of the team who worked on the English translation. Here, she explains how the data was collected, what it shows, and provides instruction for any community to duplicate this process to compile accurate radiation data in communities where contamination is suspected.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info interprets TEPCO announcement of alarms going off at radioactive remains of Fukushima triple meltdown site. Citizen activist Randy Stafford's 26-page rebuke to builders of planned Rocky Flats-adjacent toll road successfully stalls its progress for another year! Nuclear Hotseat 434 with host Libbe HaLevy.

Childhood leukemia rates soar for kids living near nuclear reactors - 2014 paper by UK radiation expert Dr. Ian Fairlie compares 60 international studies, all of which support as fact the dangers from radiation spikes during refueling.

The nuclear launch codes follow the president around 24/7, even during the current impeachment inquiry. If he goes off the rails and reaches for the button, can anything or anyone stop Armageddon? RAVEN ROCK Author Garrett Graff on the "nuclear football" & secret government plans to save itself at the expense of all the rest of us. NH 432 with host Libbe HaLevy.

Activists on the front lines of fighting against a variety of nuclear menaces report on their portion of the nuclear fuel chain insanity: Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert; Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of Public Watchdogs re: San Onofre; Carly Brook of Washington state Physicians for Social Responsibility; Candyce Paul on Saskatchewan uranium mining.

Nuclear Hollywood Exposed! Secret US Govt Film Studio shot nuke bomb blasts, Marshall Islanders, radioactive propaganda. LOOKOUT AMERICA! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War - new book by authors Hamilton & O’Gorman, interviewed on #NuclearHotseat by host #LibbeHaLevy. https://bit.ly/2moPvv6

Nuclear Numnutz deja vu because, let’s face it, with nukes, everything old is new again, and again, and again… So we take a look back at 2018 through the lens of Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature, Numnutz of the Week. Listen to the “wacky” antics of the world’s most dangerous technology as it sails through:

Japan’s hard work to “normalize” Fukushima and its radiation so the tourists dumb enough to show up for the 2020 Radioactive Tokyo Olympics will think that everything is AOK! US nuclear crews who opt for “high” crimes and misdemeanors – not once but twice! Ancient, decrepit or just irrelevent so-called “experts” opining to a transfixed mainstream media in support of nukes… when they have nothing to do with them The ongoing Fukushima Food Fight – whether it’s propaganda on the ground selling Fuku sake to New York hipsters or Japan taking South Korea and now Taiwan to the World Trade Organization to try to ram Fukushima fish down the throats of safety-conscious residents of other countries. Department of Energy playing word games to make us believe that high level waste is really low level waste – and when the citizens arise against you, with good cause, just invest your money in a good PR firm. Nuclear Regulatory Commission incompetence in letting reactors operate at full power during “snow cyclones” and hurricanes, forgetting that there’s no way to evacuate or get emergency crews on site because, hey, “snow cyclone” and/or hurricane. …and much much more!

All of it leading to that Numnutz of all Numnutz for 2018, which is… Well, you’ll have to listen to find out!

Nuclear weapons build-up insanity, Los Alamos EPA "clean up" and radiation lies exposed with veteran activist Jay Coghlin of Nukewatch NM. He explains how fast-and-cheap "clean up" of radioactive sites is funding the new nuclear arms race. Interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy

Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on short sighted Canadian nuclear waste schemes, Holtec's nuke decommissioning partner SNC Lavalin's political scandals, untangling nuclear industry radiation languaging and lies. + Frances Crowe memorial – Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist passes at 100. Nuclear Hotseat #427 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Nuclear UPDATE USA checks on national nuke hotspots: Piketon, OH, where radiation closed a middle school - whistleblower Vina Colley reports. Ohio nuke bailout robs state of renewables, keeps aging reactors running - w/Attny Terry Lodge; and MA's Pilgrim running into bullying, unsafe guff from Holtec over decommissioning - Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch and Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders weigh in. Nuclear Hotseat 426 w/Libbe HaLevy.

Updates on Russian missile explosion, which may have been fueled by a small nuclear reactor - double payload for a weapon! + Peace Activism + Anti-Nuke = maybe we wil have a future? Peace activist organizer Tsukuru Fors Lauritsen and Setsuko Thurlow of International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Nuclear Hotseat 424 with Libbe HaLevy.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 74th commemoration + Kansas City Site: Interview with journalist Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, who examined the Kansas City Site, which made parts for 85% of all atom bombs, but was supposedly a "non-nuclear" site, meaning no radioactive materials. WRONG! Workers got sick from unreported radioactivity & government delays, denials. #NuclearHotseat w/#LibbeHaLevy

Activists getting active! Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace reveal lies, omissions in New Yorker nuclear shill piece. And featured interview with filmmaker Robbie Leppzer on his 40-years of making anti-nuclear films. His latest, POWER STRUGGLE, is on the successful Vt. Yankee shutdown. The film will be used as a Nuclear Hotseat fundraiser with tckets available now at: https://bit.ly/2PxKAqg

Uranium mining marks the start of the nuclear fuel chain and the deadly journey that element takes to become atomic weapons, nuclear reactors, and tons of highly radioactive waste that we do not know how to store safely for tens of thousands of years.

On July 13 and 14, Nuclear Hotseat attended commemorative events for the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach and spill, which dumped more than 94 million gallons of highly acidic radioactive water into the adjacent Puerco River. The contamination reached Sanders, Arizona, and was recorded at least 80 miles away. The spill has never been cleaned up, and even now, while it has been declared a Superfund site, it will take at least two years before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finishes its review of the EPA’s clean-up plan – and clean-up can’t even begin until and unless the plan is approved.. And even that plan has come in for criticism by activists and community members.

This very special Nuclear Hotseat is an audio montage of interviews with community leaders from Navajo Nation – most specifically the Red Water Pond Road Community, located adjacent to the spill site; commemoration event attendees; government officials; and activists from as far away as Japan. We spoke with:

Former uranium miner Larry J. King, who was on-site at the United Nuclear Corporation mine the day of the tailings pond spill

Redwater Pond Road Community members Jackie Bell, Edith Hood, Terracita Keyanna, Anna Benally, who live next to the spill site. Navajo Nation president Jonathan Nez New Mexico state senator George Muñoz Southwest Research and Information Center Research Director Paul Robinson and Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program, Chris Shuey Environmental Protection Agency District 9 (San Francisco) rep Sean Hogan Journalist and Nuclear Nation Film Festival producer Mervyn Tilden

A Nuclear Hotseat classic episode: Chernobyl health cover-up by United Nations, World Health Organization & IAEA exposed by Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Independent WHO. If you saw the HBO Chernobyl series, you must listen to this!

Note that the Church Rock Pt 2 episode will post next week - tech problems have delayed it.)

Full-length interview with Chris Shuey, Director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program for Southwest Research and Information Service (SRIC.org). He has worked with Navajo Nation communities on uranium mining issues for 38 years. Chris has helped document the persistent impact of the 1979 uranium tailings pond disaster, which dumped 94 million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into the Puerco River and traveled beyond Sanders, Arizona. In this special extended interview, he goes over the resulting degradation of the water, land, and health on Navajo Nation, as well as cultural issues that make the People unwilling to leave their ancestral lands, no matter how contaminated.

Nuclear earthquake? "If 7.1 Ridgecrest quake had been closer to Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors in San Luis Obispo, the resulting disaster would have wiped out LA, the Central Valley, and maybe humanity." - Veteran activist/journalist/broadcaster Harvey Wasserman. PLUS Holtec CEO’s son buys $4 MIL car. Is that where the purloined decommissioning funds have gone? Nuclear Hotseat #420

Radioactive waste generated by U.S. nuclear reactors stands at over 80,000 TONS of the stuff – with nowhere safe to store it long-term. The nuclear industry is pushing hard for an ill-advised so-called “interim” storage site in either New Mexico or West Texas – or both. Recent hearings held by the House and Senate barely allowed the public to be heard, and more hearings are on their way. But what does it all mean to the people most immediately effected?

Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy talks with four genuine experts on various aspects of the radioactive waste problem:

Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, gives the horrifying overview. Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director for Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), goes into the legal issues and current manipulations being attempted by the nuclear industry. Leona Morgan, Nuclear Issues Study Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reveals what it’s like on-the-ground, protesting and working to raise public awareness. Karen Hadden, SEED (Sustainable Energy and Economic Development) Coalition, reports on the West Texas proposed site and how the state government is responding to industry pressure… and public outrage.

Radioactive Nuclear Reactors & their impact on cancer rates at Three Mile Island & beyond revealed by Joseph Mangano of Radiation & Public Health. Olympics torch relay for 2020 Tokyo Radioactive Olympics to spend THREE FULL DAYS in Fukushima Prefecture! Radioactive goat milk from Millstone in Connecticut? State govt. refuses to test but labels it "hazardous waste."

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) goes after Nuclear Engineer/Whistleblower Arnie Gundersen - AGAIN! Petty Wikipedia attack revealed + Woolsey Fire Update – Testing continues for radiation in dust and dirt samples collected in the wake of the November, 2018 fire. Nuclear Hotseat #417.

RADIOPHOBIA? Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics. She recently provided a chapter on "Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion" for the book, Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations – and that’s what we’re focusing on today: Radiophobia.

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts - the exact same design as the reactors that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi - permanently shut down as of June 1, 2019 after a long struggle by local activists. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with two women who have each been involved for more than 30 years in the Pilgrim nuclear battle. Diane Turco is co-founder and Executive Director of Cape Downwinders and Mary Lampert is Founder of Pilgrim Watch.

EMPs - the Electromagnetic Pulse - caused by one nuclear bomb detonation in space over Ohio would take out nuke reactor safety controls from E Coast to Chicago, causing 60 Fukushima type meltdowns. Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy and Robert Manning of Nuclear Terror Today share the bad news, necessary steps we need to be taking.

Radioactive contamination at Ohio Zahn's County Middle School from DOE Enriched Uranium-producing Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Whistleblower Vina Colley explains DOE lies, health dangers. BREAKING: Energy Secretary Rick Perry releasing 4 years of radiation monitoring data that DOE previously refused to release. PLUS: Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps - testimony at Congressional briefing on high level radioactive waste issues. Nuclear Hotseat 413 https://bit.ly/2HyVW76

Nuclear divestment means institutional nuke investments are going down — and Susi Snyder explains how any one of us can join the movement. She is project lead for the PAX No Nukes Project and coordinator for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign. She’s an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades of experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights.

Eric Epstein is the Executive Director of Three Mile Island Alert, and has been active in the movement for over 40 years. He explains the failed bailout and what’s next in dealing with the highly radioactive waste.

Featuring: International Indigenous Activists Candyce Paul of English River First Nations in Northern Saskatchewan; Leona Morgan of the Dineh people, what the western world thinks of as the Navajo people of Arizona and New Mexico; and Ashish Birulee of the traditional Adavasi people from Jarkhand in India.

Chernobyl Nuclear disaster explored in Midnight in Chernobyl - extensively researched play-by-play recreation of design failures, human error, radiation devastation, political cover-ups, destroyed lives in flawed new book by Adam Higginbotham.

Chernobyl #Radiation cover-up exploded by Kate Brown in Manual for Survival. Research from 27 Eastern European medical archives reveals devastating, ongoing health impact & nails #Nuclear industry playbook of how they covered their tracks.

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 Chernobyl survivor; the man behind the keystone book on the disaster and the doctor who edited it; the world’s premiere on-the-ground evolutionary biologist investigating mutations, and a photojournalist who makes the Chernobyl/Fukushima connection. It bring Ukraine’s devastating 1986 nuclear accident — and its ongoing consequences — into sharp, terrifying, and very personal focus. This Week’s Special Interviews:

Bonnie Kouneva was a 16-year-old living in Bulgaria when the Chernobyl accident started on April 26, 1986. She was outdoors in the rain all day at a rally and got hit with the radiation plume. Bonnie talks about Chernobyl’s impact on her life and the health of her children. This former mountaineer and Bulgarian Greenpeace member currently lives in the United States. Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting the Chernobyl region of Ukraine and Belarus. Dr. Janette Sherman is well known for her work with epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on analyses of data after Fukushima. Their work indicates that the Japanese nuclear disaster led to a spike in US infant mortality and hypothyroidism. Dr. Sherman edited the English translation of Alexei Yablokov’s groundbreaking book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. Dr. Alexei Yablokov was environmental advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Gorbachev administration, as well as a co-founder of Greenpeace, Russia. His book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, compiled and translated into English more than 5,000 separate scientific reports on Chernobyl that completely contradict the World Health Organization’s report, which denied, undermined and tried to obscure the serious health risks in the wake of the accident. Dr. Yablakov died in January, 2017. Ryuichi Hirokawa was the first non-Soviet photojournalist to document the Chernobyl disaster. The website on his humanitarian aid work with the children of Fukushima, based upon his experiences at Chernobyl, is at: kuminosato.net.

Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown 40th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Libbe HaLevy’s intimate look back at what being stranded one mile from the malfunctioning nuclear reactor meant to her, w/coverage of all 40th anniversary events - conferences, symposia, press conference, community gatherings, survivor stories, more. A powerful NH #407

San Onofre nuclear madness: Southern California Edison pushes to restart loading Holtec radioactive waste storage canisters despite inferior quality, gouges & scratches to 5/8" thin stainless steel, only 108 feet from the ocean - Apocalypse Now or just Soon? Public Watchdogs' Nina Babiarz + testimony from SCE Community Enragement Panel - Langley, Aguirre, Gilmore - NH 406 https://bit.ly/2WDuKbM

Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear meltdown, hits its 40th anniversary amid shutdown plans vs. nuke industry push to keep it open. TMI survivor Libbe HaLevy recreates that time in historic audio along w/terrifying personal account. A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL featuring:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education. Watch a video of Arnie Gundersen speaking about the accident at the 40th Anniversary of the founding of Three Mile Island Alert. Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident. Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert at TMIA.org. Three Mile Island Alert’s Radiation monitoring at EFMR.org Mary Stamos (Osborn), long time Middletown resident, TMI survivor, and TMIA member, whose collection of mutated plants and flowers has just been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution. Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America. (NOTE: Cronkite’s CBS network reports on TMI have been SCRUBBED FROM YOUTUBE!) Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more. PLUS: Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s recently published nuclear memoir, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat. Available on Amazon.

Nebraska flooding continues to prove potentially dangerous to Cooper Nuclear near Omaha, with a history of underground leaks. In Illinois, fast-moving legislative trickery set to create an alternate energy market that will keep Entergy's nukes running another 10 years.

California's two remaining operating nuclear reactors at Diablo Canyon have some serious problems - operating in earthquake zone, overstuffed spent fuel pools, nowhere to safely store radioactive waste. What to do and what's being done? Listen in as three veteran activists explain the problems - and what activists are doing about it.

In this second Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL to mark the 8th anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, host Libbe HaLevy talks with: Japanese Activist Misao Redwolf, who organized the Friday night Diet (Parliament) demonstrations; Tokyo Media Personality and Journalist Carole Hisasue; Simply Info’s Nancy Foust; Nuclear Lecturer Dr. Caitlin Stronell; and Filmmaker Tsukuru Fors Lauritzen

Fukushima UPDATE SPECIAL: Pre-publication interview w/Nancy Foust on Simply Info's researched, vetted, and absolutely accurate Annual Report on Fukushima: microparticle hazards, radiation dangers, technical issues, medical data manipulations, Japanese scandals, more! Hot hot hot information! A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL full-length report. NH #401 https://bit.ly/2tHZaxc

Fukushima UPDATE SPECIAL: Pre-publication interview w/Nancy Foust on Simply Info's researched, vetted, and absolutely accurate Annual Report on Fukushima: microparticle hazards, radiation dangers, technical issues, medical data manipulations, Japanese scandals, more! Hot hot hot information! A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL full-length report. NH #401 https://bit.ly/2tHZaxc

Nuclear Brexit marks Nuclear Hotseat's 400th episode! UK #Nuke nightmares - Hinkley C proposed new build and ongoing Sellafield Radioactive waste insanity explored with UK veteran activist Nikki Clark of Southwest Against Nuclear.

Green New Deal languaging analyzed for hidden pro-nuclear landmines by Gail Snyder, Board Chair of Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS).

Are nukes “carbon-free” and can they actually help turn around global warming? Arnie Gundersen is Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, as well as a former licensed nuclear reactor operator and whistleblower — and he rips that nuclear industry propaganda campaign to shreds.

New Mexico #Nuclear waste dump: illegal, dangerous & opposed by local community, indigenous people, national groups. Radioactive waste transport thru 46 states, over 200 million people? No thanks! Last week's #NRC hearings, manipulations explored w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. Nuclear Hotseat 397. https://bit.ly/2sTOSJX

New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque. The group focuses on the goings-on at WIPP, this country’s only deep geological repository for low level nuclear waste. He gives us an update on conditions at WIPP since its 2014 accidents closed it down, along with the intense political wrangling going on right now about changing regulations to allow WIPP to take high level waste it’s not designed to handle. We also go into the battle raging right now over the threat of the world’s largest radioactive waste dump being situated in New Mexico and/or New Mexico-adjacent in West Texas.

Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.” He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming. In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.

UChicago’s India Weston, a remarkable student anti-nuclear activist, on her 2 actions at UChicago Henry Moore Nuclear Energy statue, new-media methods to attract/educate next generation anti-nuke leaders, and why nuclear is a crucial issue for young people to understand and get involved in. Nuclear Hotseat 394 https://bit.ly/2VGuJEo

A look back at 2018 through the lens of Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature, Numnutz of the Week. Listen to the wacky antics of the world’s most dangerous technology as it sails through:

Japan’s hard work to “normalize” Fukushima and its radiation so the tourists dumb enough to show up for the 2020 Radioactive Tokyo Olympics will think that everything is AOK! US nuclear crews who opt for “high” crimes and misdemeanors – not once but twice! Ancient, decrepit or just irrelevent so-called “experts” opining to a transfixed mainstream media in support of nukes… when they have nothing to do with them. The ongoing Fukushima Food Fight – whether it’s propaganda on the ground selling Fuku sake to New York hipsters or Japan taking South Korea and now Taiwan to the World Trade Organization to try to ram Fukushima fish down the throats of safety-conscious residents of other countries. Department of Energy playing word games to make us believe that high level waste is really low level waste – and when the citizens arise against them, with good cause, just invest money in a good PR firm. Nuclear Regulatory Commission incompetence in letting reactors operate at full power during “snow cyclones” and hurricanes, forgetting that there’s no way to evacuate or get emergency crews on site because, hey, “snow cyclone” and/or hurricane.

The Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice. She speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action. She and two other activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Recorded when she was newly out of prison pending a re-sentencing hearing. All further charges were later dropped. The break in was an antiwar protest referred to as “the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex.” Co-defendant Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, who along with co-defendant Michael Walli, 68, was sentenced to over five years in prison for their non-violent protest.

Nuclear Fox Hervé Courtois - France's D'un Renard - on Fukushima, TEPCO & Japanese media lies, plus his commitments to Rainbow Warriors, Fukushima 311 Watchdogs, and what keeps him going as an activist. Interviewed by Libbe HaLevy for Nuclear Hotseat 391. PLUS - update on citizen radiation testing of dust and debris following the Woolsey Fire, which started within 1,000 yards of a major 1959 nuclear meltdown.

International Uranium Film Festival kicks off its Southwest, America tour with 22 films in 3 days at Window Rock, AZ, the capitol of the Navajo Nation. Filmmakers and activists from France, Denmark, Greenland, UK, Germany, India, Navajo nation -- and Ames, Iowa?!? All that and more.

Alison Katz, the head of Independent WHO (World Health Organization), continues to expose the lies and manipulations of perception regarding radiation impacts on health at Fukushima and Chernobyl. A powerful calling out of the nuclear powers-that-be. A special Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat #331, October 24, 2017.

Santa Susana Field Lab/Woolsey Fire Analysis: Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist – a medical statistician – who has headed Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989. He is author or co-author of 37 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998); Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008), and 2013’s Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment. He managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.

The shuttered SanOnofre nuclear site flunks Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection after Aug. 3 near-miss of a disaster while loading hot "spent" fuel rods for storage on the beach. We barely dodged the bullet! Dr. Tom English reviews the bad news for So CA residents. Plus: UPDATE on Woolsey fire/Santa Susana Field Lab - nuke accident site - was there radiation in the smoke? Nuclear Hotseat 387 w/producer/host Libbe HaLevy

Norbert Suchanek is the Executive Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, which will be held in the American southwest beginning the end of this month. Norbert is based in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and we spoke on Thursday, November 1, 2018.

Rebecca Cammisa is director of the award-winning, “Atomic Homefront” which was aired on HBO and is widely credited with helping to turn around the federal response to the problems of highly radioactive WWII Nuclear weapons waste illegally buried in the West Lake Landfill in N. St. Louis.

Taylor Dunn and Eric Stewart are the filmmakers behind the work-in-progress OFF COUNTRY, an excerpt of which will be shown at this year’s IUFF.

Nuclear Weapons - scarier than Halloween! What does Trump's announced withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia mean? Physicians for Social Responsibility's Dr. Robert Dodge explains, from climate impact from a "small" nuclear war to hopeful actions we can take to stop the madness. Nuclear Hotseat 384, hosted by Libbe HaLevy

Radiation exposure is not an equal opportunity danger. Little girls are harmed 10x more than the adult "Reference Man" used as the basis for laws & safety regs! Mary Olson of NIRS & new Gender & #Radiation website explains.

San Onofre nuclear nightmares continue: San Onofre Safety’s Donna Gilmore w/latest bombshell on dangerous spent fuel incompetence & NRC/Edison lies.

Excerpts from speakers at the October 8 music/rally Songs for SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – get it?) at San Clemente’s famous Belly Up music club:

Report on a videotaped Welcome by Gregory Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ian Cairns is a former champion surfer who was influential in establishing the world professional surfing circuit and particularly the World Championship Tour. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Ian has lived in California for 27 years and has family in Laguna Beach. Cathy Iwane was living in Japan with her husband and two children when the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdown happened. She shares how that event play out in her personal life and led to her leaving that country with her two children. Leona Morgan is a member of the Nuclear Issues Study Group, Haul No, and Diné No Nukes, and she traveled from her home in New Mexico to address the crowd on nuclear colonialism and the range of nuclear problems in her state. Filmmaker Adam Salkin gave a powerful presentation, based not only on what he has learned about nuclear in the process of shooting his latest film, but because it’s an important part of his personal history growing up in the shadow of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, just north of Los Angeles. A report on the speech by Admiral Len Hering on the need for risk management and why San Onofre scares him. (I was asked not to use the audio of his speech on Nuclear Hotseat, but a video has been posted and is available in its entirety HERE.)

Holtec proposed so-called "interim" radioactive waste dump in New Mexico meets stiff fight-back from environmental activists, NM legislators, anti-nuclear groups. Attny. Terry Lodge reports from the front lines: where we are and what's at stake. #NuclearHotseat 381 https://bit.ly/2pNdrGI

Ocean radioactivity and the way it transfers to land is the area of expertise of Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant who is a specialist in the behavior and fate of pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He has been a consultant for many of the major environmental campaign groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund.

UK’s Dr. Chris Busby, a successful science-based foe of the nuclear industry and the government’s lack of support for nuclear workers, speaks out on aspects of his attempted arrest on trumped-up suspicions of bomb making — all because, as a scientist, he has a laboratory in his home.

And Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from Republic Services’ two landfills that had contaminated the neighborhood, back yards, even inside the houses where they and others live. She provides background and context for this week’s report issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services regarding the health effects of the Bridgeton landfill stench. There’s good news – and bad news.

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all! LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.

Space Force, the proposed new military branch, has roots in Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists brought to USA after WWII. Bruce Gagnon of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space reveals its dark heart. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat 377.

Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War takes down official UNSCEAR report w/footnotes, peer-review studies, truth. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat. PLUS: "sexiest" Numnutz of the Week yet! Those nuclear bombs really turn the military industrial complex creeps on!

This week's show covers Vermont Yankee's risky decommissioning - owner Entergy wants to sell radioactive dead nuke reactor to inexperienced demolition company! San Onofre near-accident update - the NRC is coming to town. Dr. Gordon Edwards on what radioactivity is and does. Plus the week's nuclear news and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding nuclear boneheadedness.) Nuclear Hotseat 375 w/Libbe HaLevy

San Onofre Safety‘s Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9 Community EnRagement, uh, Engagement Panel when the “experts” shouted her down. More scary information on how the nuclear industry is playing loose and fast with highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste, as well as Southern California’s future. Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explains a new project, Beyond Nuclear International – a source for in-depth news stories that get beyond the nuclear headlines to provide history, context and details. Sign up for this weekly email delivery.

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 picture of how Southern California Edison, Holtec, and the NRC continue to mishandle the forever-deadly radioactive legacy of San Onofre. The shocking statement by the San Onofre OSHA worker, whistleblower and HERO who blew everyone away (fortunately just figuratively… for now). It involves more than 30,000 lbs. of highly radioactive used fuel rods, equal to One Chernobyl of radiation that almost fell 18 feet! Doubletalking points from Southern California Edison’s Tom “Twitchy” Palmisano, showing that SCE was ready to “manage” awareness of the accident if necessary, BUT NOT TO REVEAL IT TO THE PUBLIC! Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org , trying to call out Palmisano’s statements as a lie, which got her shouted down by the Edison cabal.

Commmoration of the 73rd anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hear from Pentagon Papers' Daniel Ellsberg, #Hiroshima survivor and #Nuclear weapons ban activist for ICAN, Setsuko Thurlow, and Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES, which produced the annual protest and die-in at the gates of the Lawrence Livermor Labs, where new nuclear technology is developed. #NuclearHotseat 372, hosted by Libbe HaLevy. https://bit.ly/2MvB1le

SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.

INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know. Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers. Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.

Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about a breakthrough in creating a real-time, inexpensive, publicly accessible radiation monitoring system for the “spent” fuel canisters at San Onofre… and everywhere else. Alecya Casse of Candelas Glows, a group dealing with Rocky Flats in Arvada, Colorado, explains how local developers and the government are trying to “sell” the public on the plutonium-contaminated site re-imagined as a wildlife refuge. Don’t buy a home in Arvada without listening to this report!

It's more than just Chernobyl! Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy interviews Fred Pearce, London-based environmental journalist and author of the new book FALLOUT: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age. Author

John Buchser is the two-term Chair of the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter, part of a coalition of groups fighting against a so-called “interim” storage dump site for high level nuclear waste — “interim” being defined as 60-120 years! Their website is: www.riograndesierraclub.org/holtec

Your tax dollars at work! How the government's secret plans for survival do not include "normal" Americans; as far as they're concerned as long as they survive, the rest of us can fry.

On the 7th anniversary of the start of Nuclear Hotseat, Producer/Host LibbeHaLevy interviews Dr. Heidi Hutner on her two new projects: ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: VOICES OF WOMEN FROM NUCLEAR DISASTERS, and the film: ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: VOICES OF WOMEN FROM THREE MILE ISLAND.

San Onofre update at the 5th anniversary of permanent shutdown of two Pacific oceanfront nuclear reactors. Big problems remain. Charles Langley, Executive director of Public Watchdogs, & board member Nina Babiarz interviewed by Libbe HaLevy. PLUS: Bangladesh getting a nuke? Fordham nuclear physics Prof. Quamrul Haider on why that's a bad, bad idea in his home country. Nuclear Hotseat 364. https://bit.ly/2t71Wey

TEPCO Nuclear Error = Fukushima Terror: Nancy Foust on newly discovered 2011 Fukushima Radiation releases that have been revealed in a new NHK documentary + Diane Turco on Boston Globe sell-out of planned closure of Cape Cod's Pilgrim nuclear. Produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy.

NUCLEAR HOTSEAT SPECIAL - Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on nuclear mutations, Chernobyl dogs, Radiation Genetics. SPECIAL full-program interview based on Mousseau's groundbreaking research into plant, insect, bird & mammal mutations at Chernobyl AND Fukushima. Interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy.

Dr. Ian Fairlie takes on the junk "science" and lies of "hormesis." He has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986; received his doctorate from Princeton on the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel reprocessing; and from 2000 to 2004, was head of the Secretariat of the UK Government’s CERRIE Committee on internal radiation risks. He has been a consultant on radiation matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, and private individuals.Dr. Fairlie’s article on Linear No Threshold (LNT) vs. Hormesis. Leona Morgan of Nuclear Issues Study Group, Diné No Nukes and Haul No! reports directly from NRC Scoping Meeting with the public in New Mexico to find out how opposed they are to a high level radioactive waste dump in their state. (Easy answer: a lot!)

Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY, which examines lives impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons production and Superfund site that’s now home to spiffy new subdivisions and a wildlife reserve.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

British Parliament toffs still considering placing the UK’s nuclear waste dump underneath national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty… so the radiation can muck it all up. But hey — animals, plants and scenery don’t vote and can’t afford to hire a lobbyist! So there you go…

Canada plans to build PERMANENT 6-story nuclear waste dump at Chalk River, upstream of Montreal next to Ottowa River, source of drinking water f/millions. Dr. Gordon Edwards tears it apart w/facts, footnotes, history. First Nations leaders join in.

Pilgrim Nuclear power reactor, NRC's worst-run nuclear reactor in the country, poses danger & multiple risks for the millions of people who live within 50 miles. Libbe HaLevy interviews Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders, who shares the frightening facts.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster at 32. Nuclear Hotseat examines the devastating impact of that nuclear disaster through interview highlights with Timothy Mousseau, Alexei Yablakov, Dr. Janette Sherman, Bulgarian Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Japan photojournalist Ryuichi Hirakawa.

Nuclear sacrifice zone for high level radioactive reactor waste proposed by nuke industry for New Mexico meets with powerful, organized pushback from Diné activist Leona Morgan and Prof. Eileen Shaughnessy. Learn how you can join the fight with comments to the NRC! PLUS: more Fukushima Food Fight. Olympics, anyone?

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy, who was at the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, returns to cover TMI at 39, an event featuring a panel discussion with journalists who covered the accident as it happened and researchers reporting on the long-hidden medical impact of TMI.

Excerpts from the panel discussion feature:

Heidi Hutner, PhD, Director of Sustainability Studies & Associate Dean at the School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University Cindy Folkers, Radiation Health Specialist Beyond Nuclear Dr. Renu Joshi, PinnacleHealth Endocrinology Association Michele LeFever Quinn, former anchor and reporter with WKBO Radio Frank Goldstein, former 1979 photo journalist with WCAU-TV

Joseph Mangano is a health researcher, an epidemiologist who has serves as Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health. He is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998) and Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008). Mangano managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, just because the San Onofre Nuclear Power station is permanently closed, there is no need for cybersecurity protection! So it has allowed Southern California Edison to remove it — even thought there is still “spent” fuel rods containing weapons-grade plutonium on site!

SPECIAL - Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 39 Words or audio featured include: Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education. Peter Bradford, who was a Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the TMI accident. Eric Epstein, Chair of Three Mile Island Alert Mary Stamos, long time Middletown resident and TMIA member Walter Cronkite, anchor for the CBS Evening News at the time of TMI and known as “the most trusted newsman in America. Interviews with residents, doctors, activists, audio from inside TMI as the accident was happening, media reports, and more. PLUS Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy’s personal story of having been one mile away from TMI while the accident was happening. This is the subject of Libbe’s soon-to-be-published book, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.

Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists: John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast of Pt. Reyes done in conjunction with the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Our Radioactive Ocean. Molly P. Johnson explains the increased readings in the Pacific Ocean down the coast at San Luis Obispo, done for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace. Donate to support their testing here.

PLUS: interview w/Hitomi Kamanaka, filmmaker of "Little Voices from Fukushima," about the battle Japanese mothers face in dealing with radiation contamination in thir children.

How #Nuclear (along with Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence) got us to 2 minutes to the midnight of annihilation on the Doomsday Clock - interview with Rachel Bronson of Bulletin of the #Atomic Scientists on #NuclearHotseat 351 with host #LibbeHaLevy.

Exclusively on #Nuclear Hotseat 350: Interviews w/Japanese doctor, attorney, representative of support group for families of children with thyroid cancer – all fighting for safety, transparency, health. Is anybody listening? Fukushima 7th Anniversary Special

Citizen monitoring of radiation has created the world's largest database of international radiation readings. Safecast teaches how to build your own monitors and then plug into their digital/wifi/bluetooth/fully automated system so your reading become part of the database without you needing to do anything. Sean Bonner, co-founder of Safecast, explains. PLUS: Indian anti-nuke activist Kumar Sundaram explains the volatile situation in India, where six new nuclear reactors are proposed and massive protests are planned against Westinghouse and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge on the latest escalation of radiation contamination at the Hanford site and now into the surrounding communities. Numnutz of the Week - Nothing like a little snack of green laver seaweed – now in new, hot hot hot Fukushima flavor! – NH #348

Word directly from two who are leading the legal battle against NY state's billion dollar bailout of four failing, unprofitable nuclear reactors. Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Tim Judson has been Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, since 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK - Hanford site in southeastern Washington state is leaking plutonium and americium, internal contamination confirmed in 31 workers and counting -- so is this any time for a federal budget that CUTS BACK on clean-up funds?

Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel are two North St. Louis mothers who discovered the fact of WWII radioactive atomic weapons waste illegally buried in a neighborhood landfill. They founded the group Just Moms StL and shepherded the protests by friends and neighbors to radioactive waste in the neighborhoods, the back yards, even inside the houses where others in their community live. With this week’s monumental EPA announcement, nobody better to comment on what it all means… and where the battle for the clean-up turns next. You didn’t think it was over, did you???

Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.” He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the long-discredited “Duck and Cover” method for “surviving” a nuclear attack and analyzes the psychology behind this misleading bit of pro-nuclear propaganda.

BREAKING: Fallout in Hawaii of a political nature in the ongoing aftermath of the January 13 false incoming missile alert.

Hanford Downwinders - New book preserves stories of radiation devastation from WWII era Manhattan Project plutonium manufacturing site in Washington state plus decades-long cover-up of health problems it has caused. Author Trisha Pritikin, journalist Karen Dorn Steele.

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, focuses on the human toll inflicted by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. Recorded December 2, 2017, at DePaul University, at an event sponsored by Chicago’s Nuclear Energy Information Service - NEIS.

More on the incompetent Numnutz at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency who were responsible for 38-minutes of HELL when they sent a false "incoming nuclear missile" alert to the entire state and then couldn't recall the message.

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, brings us up to date on the latest at Fukushima and the TEPCO/Japanese government attempts to clean up the site. Shaun McGee of Nuclear-News.net gets down to the nitty gritty on 2017 mystery radiation releases from Eastern Europe and some of the UK’s most difficult, ongoing radiation contamination issues. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): “Neutralize” nuclear radiation with arsenic? What are those boneheads at the UK’s University of Sheffield drinking/smoking?

NOTE: ORIGINALLY AIRED MARCH 16, 2016:

The PSR/IPPNW report released projecting at least 10,000 excess cancer cases in Japan because of the radioactivity releases from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. We’ll hear from: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Tim Mousseau, PhD, a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina and on-the-ground researcher into insect and animal mutations at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Link to Nuclear Hotseat #243 featuring extended interview w/Tim Mousseau Bob Alvarez, who specializes in nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies for the Institute for Policy Studies.

Included will be insights into mainstream media response to this report.

Chernobyl Mutations, Fukushima Implications: Dr. Tim Mousseau + Don Safer on TVA and Small Modular Reactor dangers, interviews by #LibbeHaLevy. #NuclearHotseat 341 http://ow.ly/sTz830hxQLF

A look back at 2017 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week. Revisit the gaffs, goofs, cover-ups, misdirections and madness of the nuclear industry and those who support it through our most popular feature. All this will lead to the announcement of Nuclear Numnutz of the Year, 2017!

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 US weapons manufacturing site at the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to protest nuclear weapons Sister Megan Rice, the 85-year old nun, speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Recorded when she was newly out of prison pending a re-sentencing hearing. All further charges were later dropped. Co-defendant Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, who along with co-defendant Michael Walli, 68, was sentenced to over five years in prison for their non-violent protest.

Originally presented on May 26, 2015, for Nuclear Hotseat #205.

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education , former nuclear industry Senior Vice President and whistleblower, explains global warming in terms of an apple , then takes apart the nuclear industry’s claims that we “need” 1,000 new nuclear reactors to combat climate change. Brilliant, concise, filled with talking points we all need to know and use.

The University of Chicago produced a month-long orgy of pro-nuclear self-congratulations to celebrate the first atomic pile, the chain reaction which started our collective nuclear nightmare. The events culminated in a Symposium, “Nuclear Reaction,” held on December 1, 2017, featuring relentless pro-nuclear propaganda.

Nuclear Hotseat was there to cover the events through the eyes of those who know enough to oppose nuclear, along with NEIS-sponsored events presented as a counterbalance. Hear feedback and perspective on the human toll of the Atomic Age from:

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Energy Education Dave Kraft, Executive Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) Norma Field, PhD, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago NEIS Board Members and Activists, including Gail Snyder, Jan Boudart, Steven Sondheim (NEIS member, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign).

Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans. An Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat, #295, February 14, 2017.

After two months of lies, Russia finally admits that cloud of Ruthenium 106 at radiation nearly 1000x background originated from its Mayak nuclear waste reprocessing center. With a half-life of just over one year, and ten half-life cycles necessary to become non-radioactive, we're looking at 10 years of radiation contamination... so far.

Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high tide in canisters that are known to crack and leak. Each one contains a Chernobyl’s worth of radiation on the Pacific Ocean less than 70 miles from Los Angeles!

Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bob Corker, which confronted the president’s – any president’s – authority to use nuclear weapons. Congressman Ted Lieu’s presentation on the legalities surrounding use of nuclear weapons, taken from the October 26, 2017 Ploughshares conference, “Nuclear Weapons Policy in a Time of Crisis."

The surprising connection between high power lines and atmospheric radiation. Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation. He often appears in UK court as an expert witness in radiation-related cases. His website is: GreenAudit.com.

Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can’t be put out and is advancing on the radioactive waste. Interviews with director and two of the subjects, both Just Moms.

Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can’t be put out and is advancing on the radioactive waste.

How the United Nations World Health Organization has systematically suppressed and misrepresented Alexei Yablakov's collection of over 500 Eastern European studies on the devastating impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He specializes in information on nuclear winter. www.NuclearDarkness.org

Former White House Energy advisor Bob Alvarez provides history, context & a sober perspective on our current situation with North Korea and how we got there. And Big Honking Win for those who oppose nuclear weapons as the Int'l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is awarded Nobel Peace Prize! HUZZAH!

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Nuclear issues in the Lake District in the north of the UK, where activists in Cumbria are fighting government plans for a geological nuclear waste dump in their World Heritage Site. We’ll talk with Marianne Birkby, who founded Radiation Free Lakeland, and who is leading the fight against a range of nuclear issues in her region that have the potential to impact us all.

Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste that impacted the health of everyone in the area — including Patty. A trained investigator with Naval Investigative Service (NIS) and former U.S. Federal Criminal Investigator, Patty took on NUMEC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Babcock & Wilcox and Atlantic Richfield… and won.

Floods, winds, storm surge... and four nuclear power plants allowed to run at full power??? Examination of insane nuclear industry risks during Hurricanes Irma and Harvey - A #NuclearHotseat SPECIAL w/Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nucleaer, and Nancy Foust of Simply Info. Nuclear Hotseat #325.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info with the latest on flooding on-site at South Texas Project nuclear reactors as Hurricane Irma takes aim at Turkey Point, Ste. Lucie nuclear reactors in Florida. NRC lets reactor operators decide when/if/how to shut down reactors in the face of possible 185 MPH winds.

Fukushima in Texas? 2 South TX #Nuclear reactors ran at 100% during #Hurricane #Harvey, now face storm surge from Gulf, up to 15' more rain, Colorado river cresting at record highs! Will design basis hold? Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust, Susan Dancer.

Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado.

Tiffany Hansen, M.A., is co-founder of Rocky Flats Downwinders, a community activist group that focuses on dangers faced by local residents. Dani Ball is a nurse who grew up near Rocky Flats and has epilepsy, just recently connected with Rocky Flats Downwinders and brought a body of knowledge to their attention that is exploding out the possibility of a link between epilepsy and exposure to ionizing radiation. She can be contacted directly via email or on Facebook.

Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He fills us in on how people in Japan are REALLY responding to threats of a possible missile strike on their country by North Korea. (SPOILER ALERT: Not very.)

Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means. For SC ratepayers, the news is not good! Terrie Barrie of the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups (ANWAG) explains how recent whistleblower accusations about intentional Department of Labor obstruction to delay payment to radiation-exposed workers workers have led to action. Hiroshima, Nagasaki Remembrance.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading! Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel. Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

On-the-ground interviews by veteran UK anti-nuke activist Nikki Clark at the Coulport Disarmament Camp in Scotland, just after a successful blockade of a Trident nuclear submarine base.

More Canadian Nuclear Waste Nightmare - Threats to Great Lakes, Savannah River Site – Libbe HaLevy interviews Dr. Gordon Edwards,

Dr. Gordon Edwards on Chalk River Nuke Waste Madness, dangers to Ottawa, Quebec drinking water. Historic audio from inside United Nations as Heidi Hutner calls Nuclear Hotseat from #UN just minutes after Nuclear Weapons Ban passes.

Exelon saying it will close the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, site of the infamous 1979 partial core meltdown... IF it doesn't get a whole buncha money from Pennsylvania to keep the money-losing, leaking, dangerous technology running. Scott Portzline of TMI Alert sorts the wheat from the lies.

On September 1, 2016, Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors and as a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic levels of radiation. At stake in this hearing: the right for the already ill sailors to have their case heard in U.S. court, not Japan.* (NOTE: The ruling handed own just this week will allow the case to proceed in the United States court system. This program lets you glimpse what it took to get here.)

MarshallIslands #Nuclear test Atrocities fuel #UN activism on Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. Featured interview w/Desmond Doulatram, co-founder of the NGO #REACH-MI (#Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity - Marshall Islands).

Nuclear Hotseat's 6th Anniversary, same old nuclear story: HANFORD AGAIN! Plus Anti-Nuke Peace Boat Golden Rule in California, with Veterans for Peace Gerry Condon, and latest Grand Canyon UPDATE w/Alicyn Gitlin. http://ow.ly/fY5M30cB5ez Sign up for free weekly Nuclear Hotseat email with link to the latest show at NuclearHotseat.com.

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Hanford, WIPP, Yucca Mt., San Onofre, transport issues - when you're dealing w/radioactive waste with a half-life of 24,000 years, there are no quick fixes. Kevin Kamps gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste storage issues faced by not just the United States, but the world.

Mari Inoue of Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World talks about the issues surrounding the US-Japan Nuclear Energy Cooperation Treaty – and why we really don’t want it. Alicyn Gitlin coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. (Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #273, September 13, 2016.) And Hanford.

ANOTHER #Hanford accident! #Radiation leak f/underground storage tank. OLDER Hanford accident - tunnel collapse covered w/plastic tarp. WTF? + #YuccaMountain illegally on Western Shoshone Nation land & activist office occupation forces MO politicians to file legislation giving #WestLakeLandfill clean-up jurisdiction to Army Corps.

This week's interviews: Laura Welch of Nuclear Care Partners, a company that provides in-home health care to approved government atomic industry workers. Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL, on the sad fate of SB 22, the home buyout bill for families living in closest proximity to the West Lake Landfill and its 70,000 tons of illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste.

Alternative, Activist Perspective on 5/917 Tunnel Collapse: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert, researcher and member, Radiation Watch, on radiation spike recorded at Hanford on Monday, May 8. Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Power Task Force Director for the Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Mimi German, No Nukes NW and Radcast.org, the citizen radiation monitoring network. Kimberly Roberson, certified nutrition educator and founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) Radiation Awareness Protection Talk – for more information on how to protect your health and the health of your loved ones from nuclear radiation.

Dawn Chapman, one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill, on the "Nuclear Boogeyman" of radiation and the struggle to gain a buyout of contaminated homes. Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never understanding that it was one mile away from a nuclear time bomb that had been going off for years.

Radiation, mutations, health damage, deaths - learn how the United Nations World Health Organization cooked the books and scammed the number to make you think that Chernobyl was no big health deal. Libbe HaLevy interviews Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland based watchdog group, Independent WHO. A Chernobyl Anniversary SPECIAL.

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 of Citizens Oversight Project and Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green.

SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA REPORT: Kerry Anne O’Connor provides an intimate report on bullying of children from Fukushima, their unresolved trauma, and the breakdown of Japan’s usual social order. Exclusive to Nuclear Hotseat.

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. She offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group in The Netherlands, and with Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a brilliant strategy for forcing banks and pension funds to remove their funds from nuclear bomb manufacturing companies.

Activist Alex Cohen on a successful series of non-violent civil disobedient actions to push awareness of the illegally buried World War II nuclear weapons waste and the underground, unstoppable fire barreling towards it from the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill.

And Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) hones in on the impact of Fukushima on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the dangers posed to athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network; Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Specialist at Beyond Nuclear; and Nancy Foust, Communications Manager & Research Team Member at SimplyInfo.org

Radiation plume, cancer spike, animal deaths/mutation, kids w/PTSD, parental fears: Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL: Three Mile Island at 38. Residents, media reports, interviews w/NRC Commissioner, plus Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy's harrowing story of having been caught one mile away when the accident was happening. Nuclear Hotseat #301 http://ow.ly/lkpH30am2UK

Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, explains the dangers of nuclear deterrence, how the Pentagon plans to rob entitlements to pay for Star Wars, and the US drive to nuclearize space — all a run-up to exciting info on “Pivot towards War: US Missile Defense and the Weaponization of Space” Global Network’s 25th anniversary conference, April 7-9 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Radiation spikes in Europe: Cause? Source? Coverup? Missing Data? Shaun McGee digs up the story. + SimplyInfo's Fukushima 6th Anniversary Report – Fukushima Facts w/Nancy Foust

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster. Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida. Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida. “Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama. Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone to rescue 760 animals abandoned after the March 11, 2011 nuclear triple-meltdown.

Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea.

Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Ithe hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, a nuke industry trade group that helps the industry outwit regulators; the Indian Point Closure agreement; and strategies and tactics for activists that have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels. Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe. Step away from the hysteria…

Interview w/Tom Carpenter, who heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers. Mission statement; to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy. Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is.

Tom Carpenter heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy. Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is.

Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species. A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental Council and the Nuclear Matters Committee for the Sierra Club on the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Oak Ridge, and a possible reason behind the push for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). A must-listen for anyone living in the American southeast.

Cyber-Security risks to nuclear reactors, near-misses with Three Mile Island Alert's Scott Portzline. And a memorial on the passing of Chernobyl's fearless science-warrior, Dr. Alexei Yablakov. His book, CHERNOBYL: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environement, scientifically proved and broke the silence surrounding the devastation created by that nuclear disaster. Nuclear Hotseat 291, produced and hosted by Libbe HaLevy.

Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty major nuclear reactor parts produced there which are reported to be in use by 19 US nuclear reactors on 11 sites.

Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness): When is a new nuclear bomb NOT a “new” nuclear bomb? When the government says so, silly! Not even when it comes with – I kid you not – “Dial-a-Yield” technology!

Dr. Christopher Busby, a British nuclear scientist who has been representing UK nuclear test veterans in a major court case, shares some remarkable new information about the impact of low dose radiation on fertility and genetic health. European Report with Shaun McGee in Ireland. Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness): Mmmmm mmmmm! Japan’s newly discovered Hot Rad Potato Chips, straight from Fukushima-adjacent prefectures to your internal organs. Bet you can’t eat just one… Bequerel!

Nuclear Numnutz Year in Review, featuring 2016’s biggest #nuclear idiocy leading to (drumroll...) NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR! Is it… Fukushima? 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Pilgrim Reactor? Rocky Flats? Radioactive waste shipments? Nuclear industry propaganda, spin and lies? Or maybe something orange and bananas…? Nuclear Hotseat #288.

Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), uses that group’s footnoted, documented, peer-reviewed and fully vetted report to contradict the lies in the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that seeks to minimize Fukushima radiation dangers. Then epidemiologist Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project provides another damning response to the UNSCEAR report on Fukushima and the negative impact it is likely to have on the case of the USS Reagan sailors, who were hit with high levels of radiation while on an humanitarian aid mission to Fukushima immediately after the nuclear disaster began.

Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders on what it was like to be the recipient of a wayward NRC email that spilled the beans on how bad the Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station at the base of Cape Cod really is. And Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado.

Illinois' "corporate welfare" bailout of #Exelon's two nukes hits while activists hold Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit in Chicago. Whatt're the odds?And if you’re anywhere in the EU – DON’T EAT THE UKRAINE “ORGANIC” BERRIES! #Nuclear Hotseat http://bit.ly/2gANd4o

Lucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the workers. We spoke initially while he was in Ukraine, but waited until he was back in the US to talk about issues stemming from the placement of the New “Safe” Confinement structure; questions about the long term soundness of the new structure that require close monitoring in the coming years, and implications for the Fukushima clean-up from what has been learned at Chernobyl.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Ahhh, Gina “Never-Met-A-Nuke-I-Didn’t-Like-and-Cover-For” McCarthy, head of the Environmental Protection Agency – did you really thing we’d swallow those “Protective” Action Guides (PAGs) that allow for 1,000, 10,000, up to 100,000 times the Safe Drinking Water Act without you becoming Numnutz, yet again???

Robbin Ellison Dailey and her husband Mike own the home in North St. Louis less than half a mile from the radioactive nuclear waste burial site at Republic Service’s West Lake Landfill. They recently had the house tested for radiation… and discovered Thorium 230-contaminated dust at 1000x above background radiation levels. We spoke with Robbin on Monday, November 21 about the situation with her home and what it’s like to be hit with that kind of news.

Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE, about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Audio excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclear engineer and Fairewinds Energy’s Arnie Gundersen.

A tribute to Dr. Steven Wing of the University of North Carolina’s Dept of Epidemiology, a brilliant scientist who passed away on November 9.

Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan's nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an "International Day for Global Ethics" in the wake of their resolution to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. The interview is an Encore Presentation of our conversation on Japan needing to declare an "honorable retreat" from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #234, December 15, 2016.

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 Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), along with the author of numerous scientific papers. Since 2010 he has been a co-researcher for the Global Hibakusha Project.

Numnutz of the Week: Fukushima Prefecture plans to burn “lightly irradiated” wood to shrink the volume of waste by 99.5% – BUT NOT THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVITY! Thus they’ll be concentrating the contamination and releasing it as smoke, ash and soot. But hey, it LOOKS like it’s less! And they have the GALL to call what they’ll be creating “green power!” Numnutz fer shure!

The Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor is OVER AND OUT, FOR GOOD! (...except for the radioactive waste, which will be with us forever...) Libbe HaLevy interviews LaVerne Thraen, a veteran energy activist who has been opposing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station since the 1980’s. They spoke less than an hour after it was shut down for good, on Monday, October 24, 2016.

Diane Turco of Cape (Cod) Downwinders fills us in on last week’s #ShutPilgrimNow Citizen Speak-out at the Massachusetts State House. Call is out for everyone to call Governor Charlie Baker’s office and tell him the reactor needs to be shut down NOW: (617) 725-4005

Numnutz of the Week: James Hanson follows Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbles' playbook to accuse the anti-nuclear movement of everything that nukes are guilty of doing.

Dr. Ian Fairlie has studied radiation and radioactivity since the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and has been a consultant on radiation matters to the European Parliament, local and regional governments, environmental NGOs, and private individuals.

Second interview: Eiji Ogama made the film “Tell the Prime Minister” on the Japanese anti-nuclear movement using Youtube videos (with permission) and interviews done specifically for the film. He catches the movement at its peak, culminating in the 2012 demonstration in front of the Prime Minister's residence which consisted of over 200,000 demonstrators.

US nukes dodge Hurricane Matthew’s bullet - barely - w/three NRC “Unusual Events” at east coast reactors. India/Japan #nuclear agreement subverts post-Bhopal international liability laws, dumps costs on Indian people - of course! That's what the nuclear industry does! India's Kumar Sundaram (at left in photo) on the ground in Japan in advance of next month's "seal the deal" summit between India's PM Modi and Japan's PM Abe. #NuclearHotseat 277. http://bit.ly/2e4ASZQ

Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy interviews Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space's Bruce Gagnon on the nuclear agenda of the US space program, the pieces already in place, and international attempts to stop it during this, the week of #KeepSpaceForPeace actions around the world. Special extended interview. #NuclearHotseat 276: http://bit.ly/2dQ0fOt

Byron DeLear brings us up to date on the latest dithering by EPA and Congressional turf wars while the people who live near the West Lake Landfill in N. St. Louis continue to suffer and get sick. Don Hancock is Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. He provides details on New Mexico's sale of 1,000 acres of land near Carlsbad for possible use by nuclear dry cask manufacturer Holtec as an "interim" storage site for high level nuclear waste. Plus News, Views and Attitude!

Prof. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, D.C. is a sociologist who did a study of mainstream media coverage in the first two years after Fukushima – and not only are her observations stunning, she’s got the data to back them up. Originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2, 2015. Nuclear Hotseat European correspondent Shaun McGee reports on growing response to the BBC Panorama documentary on nuclear safety problems at the UK’s Sellafield facility. Numnutz of the Week: Just thinking about why Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) thinks that nuclear energy is “pollution free” (?!?!?????) is enough to give a girl the (radioactive) vapors! Has he never heard of plutonium? Or does he think that’s just the name of one of Walt Disney’s characters?

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 delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker. Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing. Alicyn Gitlin, Conservation Coordinator for Restore & Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Campaign of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining issues threatening our great national monument. Matt Pacenza, Executive Director of the environmental group HEAL Utah, brings us up to speed on that state’s downwinder, radioactive waste and new nuclear build issues… as well as an unusual activist decision regarding two proposed new nuclear reactors.

Numnutz of the Week: Plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats in Colorado – winner of a White House “Keeping it Clean” award? The only thing sustainable there is the radiation!

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple reactor meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors. As a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic levels of radiation. Seven have died and the rest continue to suffer the consequences to their health and genetic future.

Radiation monitoring in USA by citizens, based on successful Japanese model, is now in development. RachelClark - professional interpreter and member of the Minna no Data Site -- provides the vision and the need. Sign up for email updates at: RadiationMonitoringUSA@gmail.com. PLUS: Florida's radioactive flooding risk, Canada tries secret int'l radioactive waste dump. https://bit.ly/31VIHXu

Tim Deere-Jones is an independent marine pollution consultant who has worked on some of Europe's major marine pollution incidents as a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. Tim has worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF, among many others, and is a member of a number of anti-nuclear advisory bodies, including the Vienna based International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group. This is an encore presentation originally on Nuclear Hotseat #225 from October 13, 2015.

And petition from Fukushima Fallout Awareness network (FFAN) to stop the 2020 Tokyo NOlympics and Paralympics from taking place in Fukushima Prefecture.

Niagara Falls! It's got more than its share of nuclear problems. Lou Ricciuti has been a nuclear researcher, writer and speaker for nearly 20 years on the radioactive waste-stream generated by Niagara Falls' vast involvement in the earliest days of the Atomic Age. Veteran anti-nuclear activist Myla Reson reminds us of the leaked report from Nuclear Regulator Commission's Dr. Michael Peck saying that Diablo Canyon should be shut down until Pacific Gas and Electric can prove that the reactors' design can withstand the shaking from one of the 13 adjacent earthquake faults.

Numnutz of the Week: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission head Michael Binder pooh-poohs letter claiming withholding of important safety information written anonymously by agency insiders, jokes about whistleblowers, then muzzles a Greenpeace environmentalist and ignores a 26-page safety review, yet encourages concerned employees to "speak up!" Yeah, right! What's that olde joke about a scorpion's nature...?

Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the world’s nuclear waste in the land down under. It includes LATE BREAKING NEWS of the international manipulations and decades of planning that has gone into convincing Australians to accept the nuclear industry’s plans to turn their country into the world’s nuclear ash tray. Of course, Rupert Murdoch is involved. Context for understanding UK and European nuclear issues with Shaun McGee reporting from Ireland. West Lake Landfill/EPA community meeting hit by activist “die-in” to make the point of the nuclear dangers. Interview w/die-in organizer Alex Cohen of Soul Much Water.

Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past.

Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feeling lucky, punk?

Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He works as a national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation and holds a vision of a nuclear free Australia that is positive about its future and honest about its past.

Numnutz of the Week is Good news/Bad news: Surfs up, dudes and dudettes... only it's in Fukushima! Feeling lucky, punk?

Filmmaker, subject and activists converged at the Los Angeles run of the documentary, INDIAN POINT, an exploration of nuclear issues seen through the lens of the two aging nuclear reactors located only 25 miles from New York City.

We talk with director Ivy Meeropol about what led her to devote four years of her life to making the film. Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Dr. Gregory Jaczko, who was forced out of the agency, attended the screening and took part in the audience Q&A afterwards. INDIAN POINT recasts Dr. Jaczko as hero… and he was. Interviews with activists who attended the screening from Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Japan.

Numnutz of the Week:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo loses his mind and approves $965 million bailout for unprofitable upstate nuclear reactors under the rubic, “Clean Energy Standard.”

Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in the military and suing to receive compensation from the government. Important information for anyone who is dealing legally or legislatively with the nuclear industry claim that “low level radiation can’t harm you.” Pokemon No-Go Zone at TEPCO’s nuclear reactors – does somebody actually have to say this so people don’t look for invisible non-existent creatures in radioactive danger zones?

When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…

When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?” Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all. NUMNUTZ: Doesn’t take much to buy depleted uranium from the NRC…

Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, which is cited in our interview. He is best known in the US for uncovering Katherine Harris' purge of black voters from Florida's voter rolls in 2000. He is currently finishing the final frames of his new film on the upcoming theft of the 2016 election: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits." Numnutz of the Week: It's a trifecta of Numnutzery - nuclear reactor "safety" practices ignored at three separate nuclear reactors.

Oh, Canada! Part 2 of Libbe HaLevy's epic talk w/Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility on the need for an international uranium mining ban, why OPG keeps pushing for that Lake Huron-adjacent radwaste dump, more!

CA Lands Commission bails on EIR; cautious optimism dashed yet again. Pre-crash interviews w/Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, who has been fighting against Diablo Canyo since before it was built; and Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia.org, who talks deep background politics. Both interviews were recorded before the CA Lands Commission bailed on EIR.

BREAKING: DIABLO CANYON SHUTDOWN ANNOUNCED; Delayed Gratification Requested. NZ's Kevin Hester - is No-nukes country going Yes-nukes? Mimi German eyewitness account of ramming of Peace Boat by WA state police boat. Byron DeLear on EPA's cover-up of West Lake Landfill report. And how dangerous is tea? Ask the NRC!

Nuclear Hotseat 5th Anniversary SPECIAL! Updates on stories old and new: Kevin Kamps on Fed radwaste storage lawsuit, Mary Olsen on EPA radiation in water, Don Hancock on the latest from WIPP, Erica Gray on US nuclear's newest nightmare, Watts Bar 2, Linda Seeley on Diablo Canyon shutdown strategies + archival audio f/Dr. Caldicott, Kevin Hester, Ian Fairlie AND our annual outtakes reel. DRUMROLL: Nuclear Hotseat is now downloaded in 112 countries! Yowzah!

Oh (nuclear) Canada! Dr. Gordon Edwards traces Canuck involvement in Nagasaki bomb, uranium mining, First Nations betrayals, radioactive contamination of land, sea and air, more. Part 1 of a 3-part interview

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 reality of the administration’s nuclear policy; the Marshall Islands lawsuits against the nine nuclear bomb-nations, then discusses some easy steps we can all take to pressure our government to change paths and work towards disarmament. Don’t Bank on the Bomb – report on banks which have invested in nuclear technologies so you can remove your funds and raise their consciousnesses. Marshall Islands lawsuit – learn what they’re doing, why, and how you can help. Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about her February speech to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in the most poignant terms possible.

Tracking the source of WA's radiation spikes - Hanford or CGS reactor? Radcast's Mimi German breaks it down. Former Japanese PM Koizumi meets w/USS Reagan irradiated sailors, cries. Obama goes to Hiroshima while TEPCO stops work at Fukushima "out of a sense of caution" for G-7 leaders. No such luck for their own people. http://ow.ly/1XLw300yvpi

The true extent of Washington state's Hanford nuke nightmare w/Gerry Pollet; on-site interviews from N. St. Louis's West Lake Radwaste/EPA protest; France probes Japan's 2020 Olympics bid f/corruption, money laundering - London waiting in the wings! Nuclear Hotseat #256.

Just Moms StL meet w/UN Human Rights Commission - Is West Lake Landfill in violation of human rights? You Are There w/Dawn Chapman.

Nukes go Hollywood! International Uranium Film Fest/LA was a blast! Lou Gossett Jr, Esai Morales, Kat Kramer, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy, "The Man Who Saved the World," activists, more! And a special shout-out to Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel as they travel to the United Nations to make their/your case before the world. Nuclear Hotseat #254.

Chernobyl 30th Anniversary Special: Bulgarian Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva on impact upon health and her children; Dr. Timothy Mousseau on Chernobyl mutations of plants, insects, birds, mammals; RPHP's Dr. Janette Sherman on genetic damage and its implications; Russian nuclear expert and Greenpeace/Russia founder Alexey Yablokov; and Voices from Japan – photojournalist Ryuichi Hirakawa on the Chernobyl/Fukushima connection.

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, which holds and manages the largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster in the world, on how that group finds and vets its info. Includes up to the minute report on Sendai nuclear reactors after Kumamoto quakes in Japan. Christian Brunn, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," on the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian soldier who was in charge of Russia's nuclear launch facility in 1983 when a computer malfunction showed that the United States had launched five warheads at his country. Protocol, nationalism, pressure from those in the control room and the expectations of his position all pressured Stanislav to order them to push the button that would start World War III – but he did not. The film explores the tremendous price he paid for having done the right thing and will be featured in next week's International Uranium Film Festival in Los Angeles. For free tickets to the April 27 International Uranium Film Festival, Email: AlexRadlovic@gmail.com. PETITION: Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) calling for No 2020 Tokyo Olympics Events in Fukushima (yes, they're really planning to have events and housing in the radiation zone!) - http://chn.ge/22j0Xko

EPA Scared Just Moms StL will yell at them! But Chapman, Nickel finally meet w/EPA's Gina McCarthy + EPA's White House bosses re: radioactive West Lake Landfill! Japanese kids 130 miles from Fukushima show huge spike in thyroid nodules, pre-cancers. WIPP being whipped to illegally take in foreign plutonium when it isn't even in operation. Nuclear Hotseat #251 http://ow.ly/10Bq1q

Chernobyl in a Can - Dry cask nuke storage problems w/Donna Gilmore; Belgian nuke dangers; West Lake Moms at White House, EPA w/Gina McCarthy; S. Koreans protest Fukushima saki. http://ow.ly/10lbK6

Nuclear Hotseat #249 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident Anniversary SPECIAL – the inside story on 1st US commercial nuke reactor meltdown 37 years ago and its ongoing aftermath. Featuring: Eric Epstein of TMI Alert, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds, former NCR commissioner Peter Bradford, Middletown resident Mary Stamos, clips of media coverage from Walter Cronkite and the not-yet-coopted mainstream media.

Great Lakes radionuclides need "chemical of mutual concern" designation f/Canada, US + Diablo Canyon propaganda legislation. http://ow.ly/ZPL3o

Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War release new report - 10,000-66,000 excess cancers expected in Japan as a result of Fukushima's radioactivity. With medical/research All Stars - Thomasson, Rosen, Mousseau, Alvarez - project http://ow.ly/ZwqsJ

Chernobyl/Fukushima animal mutations w/Dr Timothy Mousseau; more thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids; Indian Point radiation up 650% only 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan. http://ow.ly/YpEXt

Full-length special report on the Atoms Next Door Sympsium, held in N. St. Louis on the radioactive nuclear weapons manufacturing waste illegally buried at the West Lake Landfill and its ongoing, increasing danger to local residents if not the entire region.

UN/UNSCEAR lies minimizing Fukushima's health impacts exposed by IPPNW's Dr. Alex Rosen - ENCORE

Fukushima 5th Anniversary - How Japanese people are coping w/ongoing Fukushima aftermath w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko. Radioactive decontamination waste incineration issues w/Kimberly Roberson.

The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, known by the acronym FUSRAP. The bipartisan bill was proposed by Missouri's U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill.

To capture this moment of success, we interviewed two activists directly involved in the battle to move the West Lake clean-up from EPA to the Army Corps - and familiar to regular listeners of Nuclear Hotseat:

Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been involved in clean energy issues for many years. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative. Dawn Chapman is a Mom who lives only two miles from the radioactive landfill and serves as an admin for the West Lake Landfill Facebook page and a genuine grass roots leader of this campaign for environmental justice.

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The explosion, radioactive plutonium and americium release, and closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) took place on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014. Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center brings us up to date as WIPP hits its second anniversary.

Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) research group. He and Dr. Janette Sherman recently published an article, An Invisible Epidemic, about thyroid cancer rates in proximity to nuclear reactors, including Fukushima Daiichi.

Health strategies to best safeguard from Porter Ranch toxins & radioactive radon, or Fukushima radiation in food. With Dr. Diane Sandler and Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and a Certified Nutrition Educator.

ow one Parks Township, PA woman's anti-nuke-waste campaign took on NUMEC legacy waste, NRC, Babcock/Wilcox... and won! Patty Ameno's amazing battle to get a FUSRAP clean-up. Nuclear Hotseat #239. Includes a massive shout-out to all in North St. Louis battling West Lake Landfill.

Nuclear Hotseat #238 - SPECIAL: Porter Ranch/Radon Radiation Risk w/ Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps and Cindy Folkers, local politician Richard Mathews, environmental attorney Terry Lodge. http://ow.ly/WZbzp

New Zealand climate change activist Kevin Hester on anti-nuclear activism in a nuclear-free country, Fukushima impact on the Pacific, and his having been an eyewitness to the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.

A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ENCORE PRESENTATION: 85-year-old Sister Megan Rice and her two Peace Co-Activists Freed from prison for Oak Ridge nuke weapons protest in 2012. Originally posted on May 25, 2015.

The All-Numnutz Special: Nuclear 2015 in Review, seen through the lens of Numnutz of the Week. Laughs! Thrills! Radioactive spills! Leading to the first ever... Numnutz of the Year!

Fire! Rain! Floods! Nuclear Politics! In North St. Louis? Yes! West Lake Landfill Manhattan Project radioactive waste update w/Byron DeLear. http://ow.ly/WGEnk

Ambassador Murata's Honorable Retreat Olympics strategy; Twitter assault on West Lake Moms by paid Republic Services trolls. NY's aged, creaking Indian Point Reactor 3 now being driven without a license and not even a ticket and Peach Bottom in PA springs steam leak, but NRC sees no problem. Oy.

INTERVIEWS: Ed Smith, who is with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, explains the proposed legislation to put Federal supervision of the West Lake Landfill under the Army Corps of Engineers and the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, or FUSRAP. And Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives two miles from West Lake and Admins the West Lake Landfill Facebook site, on latest developments in the PR “divide and conquer” pushback from Republic Services.

INTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram is a true firebrand of an international activist in India's fight against nuclear technology. Kumar is a Research Consultant with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP). Right now, he's in the middle of a two-week trip to Japan, where he has been speaking to groups and rallys as large as 10,000 as he gatherers support against the planned India/Japan Nuclear Agreement. He joined us via Skype from Hiroshima on Sunday, November 22, during a break from the World Nuclear Victims Forum.

ENCORE INTERVIEW: Vicki Nelson lives in Hawaii and in 2012, after a trip to Fukushima, started the nonprofit Fukushima Friends, Inc. This program invites those living in the radiation to come to Hawaii to, as Vicki put it, "breathe fresh air, swim in the ocean and eat good food." Fukushima radiation refugees stay in people's homes for up to 3 months, or longer if the visas can be managed. She joined us via Skype from the Big Island of Hawaii, along with one of her homestay guests, Tokiko Noguchi, visiting from Fukushima with her 10-year-old son. The interpreter pressed into service for this interview, Kea Uehara, is a volunteer from a local school, and he did a terrific job on short notice despite not being trained as an interpreter or being familiar with nuclear issues. This interview originally aired on Nuclear Hotseat #207 on June 9, 2015.

Appendix Cancer? St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare – Coldwater Creek, Cancer Clusters w/Karen Nickle. COVER-UP – LA kid’s camp contaminated w/strontium 90, tritium, 1997 report denied... by Judge Wapner? And a National Park f/the wild roentgen? The wooly rad? How about just WWII Manhattan Project propaganda? Now THAT'S wild! #Nuclear Hotseat 230: http://ow.ly/UMRbR

INTERVIEW: "Atomic Eggs" - Mary Olson of NIRS.org on gender differences in the impact of radiation on the human body and how women and girls are more vulnerable to its negative consequences. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Heeere, radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory... Heeeeeere, radioactive materials...! NRC DUCK AND COVER REPORT - Watts Bar, Davis-Besse, Millstone on hot standby, Sen Markey (D-Mass) wants to know how well reactors can stand up to extreme weather events. And all the news that fits.

FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill. He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative. We talked about the legal situation that makes West Lake ineligible for the federal FUSRAP clean-up program of Superfund sites — and how that might be turned around.

Mimi German is the founder of RadCast, (Radcast.org) which helps citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, then compiles their data to figure out what’s going on – radiologically speaking – wherever the EPA has fallen down on the job… which is just about everywhere. She can be contacted directly at: Info@Radcast.org.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Wanna know how to get around having verifiable radiation readings at a nuclear site? Don’t hire anyone to do the job when your current staff leaves! The workers aren’t in Kansas any more, but the Wolf Creek nuclear reactor still is!

RAPT (Radiation Awareness Protection Talk) Tip to Safeguard Your Health from Radiation: Selective uptake and radiation-blocking supplements.

Entergy announces upoming closure of Fitzpatrick nuclear reactor in upstate New York when its tank hits empty, er, when it’s time to refuel, they won’t; Nevada nuke waste dump explosion and fire only 120 miles from Las Vegas and 21 from Nevada test site; EPA admits to shutting off 99 of its only 135 radiation monitors around the country - If ya don’t have the data, it can’t be contested. Planned deniability? Explosion and fire at Doel nuclear reactors in Belgium near Antwerp. Fukushima radiation at record highs; exposure to deadly radioactivity could kill a person within one hour.

A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.

INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edison, everything they want, hang the expense (to ratepayers) or long term danger. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mobile Chernobyl in miniature as a drilling company searches over 18 counties in two states to find a missing radioactive piece of equipment -- you think we can trust them with high level nuclear waste on our highways? PLUS THE WEEK'S NEWS: St. Louis West Lake landfill fire draws mainstream media attention as residents struggle to cope with the implications for their lives; Japan recognizes its first case of cancer in a Fukushima worker - they've ignore all the other cases; EPA's Radnet radiation monitors continue to be down and unable to measure radiation exposures; and bill filed to protect Grand Canyon watershed. Here's hoping...

INTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK and a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation from the UK's Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as safe, even as one of its ministries finds cesium contamination in 46 of 50 dried persimmons grown in Fukushima prefecture. WEEK'S NEWS INCLUDES: Entergy announces Pilgrim nuke to close!... in 2019 (why can't they just put it out of its misery now?); thyroid cancer rates in Fukushima children and adolescents up to 50% higher than the rest of Japan, while international researchers pin down the risks of low level radiation; Nearly 2,000 people protest restart of Sendai nuclear reactor; and seaweed forces scram shutdown of Russia's Leningrad nuke.

INTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's PM Shinzo Abe claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know? PLUS: Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed; cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities; drums of radwaste "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN; and the largest NRC DUCK! and Cover report ever! Mercury sure is retrograde!

INTERVIEWS: Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, on current films showing at the Berlin festival and plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles. Christian Bruun, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," how how this film about the Russian soldier who refused to launch nukes at the United States in 1983 in retaliation for what looked like an attack (it was a computer glitch) impacted his life even as it allowed all of us to have ours. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's minister for the 2020 Tokyo (Radioactive) Olympics wants five sports to be located in Fukushima, including the surfing competition! PLUS: Japaneses researchers now believe that Fukushima Unit 2 may have melted down completely and Unit 5 had serious problems that the IAEA tried to bury in their recent report. Radioactive fallout still falling on Tokyo. Radioactive milk, mushrooms in Japan. US accidents at Hope Creek reactor in NJ and Honeywell uranium processing in Illinois. Oy!

INTERVIEW: Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge . NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The New York Times goes in for hard core hormesis (no - Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as the "Great Gray Lady" of U.S. journalism and turns it into a shill for radiation deniers everywhere. PLUS: San Onofre secret meetings over waste and failed clean-up at the Los Angeles area Santa Susana Field Lab both subjects of major investigative reports by southern California mainstream media; five US nuclear reactors have NRC-level "unusual" events - isn't that the definition of "usual?" US Senator petitions Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene with our deadly international neighbor to the north - Canada - to prevent to construction of the nuclear waste storage facility within one mile of the shores of Lake Huron; and no, the enormous wolf fish caught in Japan is not the result of radioactivity and mutation - it's just a big ol' ugly fish.

INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Brangan of EON3 on the recent event she helped to product, FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with Timothy Mousseau and Ken Buessler. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: What to do with former plutonium contaminated nuke sites? Why, if you're Rocky Flats in Colorado, just turn it into a nature preserve! And don't be ironic about it! PLUS: Typhoon Etau floods Fukushima and sends radioactive water into the Pacific as it washes away 395 bags of decontaminated dirt and plant material; NRC drops study of cancer rates near nuclear reactors as "too expensive" at a mere $8 million; and a South Korean town wants a referendum to stop construction of new nukes because the government had shut them out of the decision-making process. Sounds like us.

INTERVIEWS: Celine-Marie Pascale of American University in Washington, DC about distortions in news coverage of Fukushima for the first two years after the disaster began (from Nuclear Hotseat #203, May 2, 2015); award-winning investigative journalist Susannah Frame of KING 5 in Seattle on how she came to cover the Hanford site for the NBC affiliate (From Nuclear Hotseat #109, July 16, 2013). SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #8 - Dave Parrish completes our summer social media series w/a vision of how to pull all the pieces together to create a unified social media platform.

INTERVIEW: Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo reveals the political manipulations, intimidation tactics and loose-and-fast burying of nuclear waste at WCS in West Texas, along with personal recollections of growing up the son of the man who designed both Hanford in Washington state and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Dave Parrish offers SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTIPS #7 on Google Plus. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The NRC rejected its own task force's recommendations and has decided to allow the nuclear industry to privately self-police its voluntary plans for coping with a cor-melt accident. Fox in charge of the Nuclear Henhouse yet again! PLUS: Fukushima waste detected along the Southern California coast...again; baby seals in Pacific Ocean dying of leukemia-linked disorder; and a nuke-powered airplane - what could go wrong?

INTERVIEWS: With the revelation of high levels of uranium in the drinking water of six million Americans, Nuclear Hotseat digs into the story w/Karen Hadden of SEED Coalition in Texas, who points to a number of nuclear sites that may be implicated in the aquifer contamination. Then Mimi German of No Nukes NW and Radcast reveals problems at the Columbia Generating Station, a Fukushima-style nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in Washington State. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A vaccine for radiation?!? Do you think you're Edward Jenner's cow? PLUS: Restarted Sendai nuke in Japan found to be leaking in five pipes as a major typhoon barrels down on it a mere 31 miles from a volcano threatening major eruption. Ya'd think they'd get the message…

INTERVIEW: More on the NRC petition to allow radiation-denying hormesis theory set the standards for radiation exposure with Dr. Ian Fairlie, a British scientist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #5: Pretty Pictures, w/Dave Parrish of Operation Save the Earth. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Beer is no way to commemorate the violent death of almost a quarter of a million people. PLUS: Japan restarts nuke in Sendai just in time for nearby volcano to threaten to blow its top; update on species mutations in Fukushima; billions of dead fish washing up on shore in Alaska "because of warm water" and no one says a word about Fukushima's leaks into the ocean and how radiation creates heat; Feds must build new storage for Hanford's radwaste in Washington State; and Sen. Bernie Sanders becomes the only candidate for the presidential nomination to make his nuclear policy known.

FACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to cover for" McCarthy! PLUS: Chernobyl forest fires release more radiation; Japan restarts Sendai nuclear reactor despite protests and a nearby active volcano; and Pacific Ocean in even worse condition than we feared - w/a Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent Report.

FACEBOOK: Nuclear "Organizational Psychosis" w/Dr. Lloyd C. Williams - and what to do about it. Social Media Supertricks: Twitter! NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The White House approves the EPA's "new, improved radiation limits in water!" Way to go, EPA's Gina "never met a nuke I didn't love enough to cover for" McCarthy! PLUS: Chernobyl forest fires release more radiation; Japan restarts Sendai nuclear reactor despite protests and a nearby active volcano; and Pacific Ocean in even worse condition than we feared - w/a Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent Report.

INTERVIEW: Michelle Gin, Program Coordinator for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility (SPSR) who holds an MA in Public Health, on student anti-nuke organizing around the world and what it will take to attract Millenials to the anti-nuclear movement. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTRICKS #3 w/Dave Parrish focuses on Facebook as more than a distraction. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: A floating nuclear reactor based on the technology used for oil drilling platforms - what could go wrong? PLUS: NRC trying to convince everyone that radiation is "GOOD" for you (NOT!); President Obamas Clean Power Plan drops support for existing nuclear plants; 1", 2-ft. deep, 35-year-old hole found in NJ nuclear reactor secondary containment vessel; WIPP site "planned" re-opening in March, 2016 "indefinitely delayed" - quel surprise! (We called this date a non-starter in Nuclear Hotseat #164, August 12, 2014.) 3 top TEPCO execs to stand trial for Fukushima Daiichi disaster; and both Taiwan and Russia keep up the Food Fight over suspect safety of Japanese food imports.

INTERVIEW: Leona Morgan of Dine No Nukes explains the massive Church Rock radioactive waste spill of 1979 that released more radiation than Three Mile Island, then covers current issues on Native lands and actions being taken internationally by indigenous people re: nuclear issues. Diane D'Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) interprets the petitions before the NRC to change standards for radiation exposure from Linear No Threshold (all radiation exposure is dangerous) to the false science of hormesis (radiation is GOOD for you!) - a dangerous reversal in safety standards. Learn what you can do to respond to the NRC. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERTIPS FOR ACTIVISTS with Dave Parrish covers SEO and how you can get some! PLUS: Lots more.

INTERVIEW: South African environmental activist Mariette Liefferink, CEO of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment, on the uranium/gold connection in South Africa and the radiation dangers from irresponsible mining practices. NEW FEATURE: Dave Parish of Operation: Save the Earth kicks off a new series on Social Media Supertricks for Activists. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Fukushima buckwheat near-beer brewed within shouting distance of the radioactive disaster site. You'd think they'd at least include alcohol... PLUS: A whole lot more!

INTERVIEW: Alison Katz is a sociologist and psychologist who worked inside the World Health Organization (WHO) for 18 years. Now a leader within Independent WHO, an organization dedicated to revealing the lies and coverups perpetrated by WHO, Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations agency we’re supposed to be able to trust to safeguard the world’s health – especially in nuclear matters. Special focus on Chernobyl and how the WHO worked to diminish our awareness of this nuclear disaster’s true impact on the world’s health. This is a Nuclear Hotseat exclusive and an Encore Presentation. (Originally broadcast on September 17, 2013.)

Special encore presentations of interviews with Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations' UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO's interpretation of radiation data is wrong as it tries to undermine the legitimate claims of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, who were hit with catastrophic radiation while on an humanitarian aid issue.

INTERVIEW: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org gives lie to dry cask manufacturerer Holtec's presentation to Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel regarding long term storage of the plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: I guess according to the Pentagon, I'm a Belligerent Journalist of Unprivileged Persuasion -- who knew? PLUS: New forest fires near Chernobyl, Illinois nuke reactor almost hit by tornado; South Korea/Japan food fight continues as South Korea tells World Trade Organization it has a right to protect its citizens from the radiation dangers of Fukushima food; Pope's encyclical on climate change gives heart and voice to anti-nuke religious denominations around the world; and poll finds that when it comes to storage of nuclear waste, even Tea Party members go full NIMBY - are you surprised? Can you blame them?

INTERVIEWS: Urs Ruegg of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Switzerland on that country's nuclear problems and IPPNW's upcoming Nuclearization of Africa Symposium in South Africa. And Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment gives us an update on the Senate's approval of Fast Track for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) - not a good thing. NUMNUTZ: Head of France's nuclear watchdog group tells the truth about problems with EDF's new nuke in Normandy - the nerve!

Nuclear Hotseat celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a look back at where how it started and where it goes from here, with the amazing revelation that the show was heard in 58 countries in May! INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray fills us in on the proposed high burn-up fuel storage tests proposed for North Anna in Virginia... only 11 miles from the epicenter of the 2011 5.8 east coast earthquake. And Diane Turco of Cape Cod Downwinders reports directly from the four-day protest March for the Children from Cape Cod to the State House in Boston to raise awareness of the safety failings at Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station. NUMNUTZ: Ain't no way nuclear reactors will ever be considered "aesthetically pleasing." PLUS: High alpha radiation in Los Angeles, US government calls Fukushima so fragile that at any moment it could "turn globally catastrophic"; and Canada delays its approval of $1B nuke waste dump on shores of Lake Huron until after its elections - wouldn't want to upset the results, now would we?

INTERVIEWS: Vicki Nelson, founder of the Hawaii-based nonprofit, Fukushima Friends, Inc., a program that puts Fukushima radiation refugees in people's homes for a stay of up to 3 months or longer, if the visas can be managed. She is joined by Tokiko Noguchi, a participant in the program, who came from Fukushima three months ago with her 10-year-old son, Michael. She speaks through volunteer interpreter Kea Uehara. And Laura and Gichi Inoue run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat in southwest Japan for Fukushima mothers and small children needing relief from the radiation in their homes and communities. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Fukushima artisanal saki earns 22 Grand Prizes at annual competition. Made with loving care and locally grown rice from fields near the blazingly radioactive nuclear reactor ruins. Best drunk in great quantities by those who made it to help them forget the radiologic nightmare that surrounds them. PLUS: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admits record radiation spike in port water from Fukushima Daiichi leak. Japanese government gets pushback for plan to end rent subsidies for some Fukushima evacuees/refugees. Japan plans nuke restarts despite severe volcanic activity less than 50 miles from reactor site. The pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) releases report that Japan's overconfidence regarding the safety of its nuclear power plants was a major reason behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. AND – with all that going on, Japan still plans for nukes to supply 20-22% of all electricity in the country by 2030. What's wrong with this picture?

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides an update on the latest on the radiologic contamination at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM. VOICES FROM JAPAN: Former Mayor of Futuba Idogawa, who is suing the Japanese government for damages following his exposure to radiation in the early days of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; and activist Ruiko Muto heads a coalition of over 20,000 people petitioning the government for an apology and compensation for the damage done to their lives by Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Does TEPCO really think a new recreation facility and hot meals will lift the spirits of Fukushima Daiichi workers who will soon be able to be legally exposed to 250 milliSiev

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 being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Now out of prison pending a resentencing hearing, she and co-defendants Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, and Michael Walli, 68, speak at length with Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy on what they did, why they did it, what they faced as a result, and what's next. It's not over yet. Three separate interviews - a full-length Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive!

INTERVIEWS: Alice Slater of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation brings us up to date on the UN's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; Dave Kraft of NEIS in Chicago eviscerates Entergy's attempts to strongarm a bankrupt Illinois into a $1.2 Billion bailout; and Jules Cook of UCY.TV unveils a complete database of mainstream media's TV coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster since March 11, 2011. NUMNUTZ: Two for the price of one: IAEA thinks it's perfectly swell for TEPCO to solve their water storage problems by dumping radioactive water directly into the Pacific ; and TEPCO thinks it's perfectly swell to take the dust cover off Fukushima Unit 1 at the exact same time that rice INTENDED FOR SALE is being planted in the evacuation zone; and RICE INTENDED FOR SALE IS BEING GROWN IN THE EVACUATION ZONE! It's raining numnutz out there in nuke-land... PLUS: 85-year-old Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed released from prison! 18 more thyroid cancer cases found in Fukushima young people; and the UK takes steps to guard nuke facilities against invasion by the terrorist hordes... of jellyfish.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale of American University on her not-yet-published analysis of American media's post-Fukushima coverage. Activist perspective proven through data analysis of over 2000 articles from print and online, plus fascinating observations on how the subject of "risk" got twisted to mean corporate interests and not people. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Could anything be numnutzier than Canada approving creation of a nuclear waste dump less than 3/4 of a mile from the shores of Lake Huron? PLUS: 85-year-old Sister Megan Rice's sabotage conviction overturned by court! Transformer explosion and fire at Indian Point nuclear reactor in New York, only 40 miles from Manhattan! Radon releases from uranium mine near native lands in southwest Utah! "Significant" amounts of Fukushima radiation detected in Pacific ocean off the coast of north America! Radiation from Chernobyl forest fire found in plume on US west coast! Too many exclamation marks in this write-up!

INTERVIEWS: Nuclear Hotseat exclusive interviews on the current water seepage and sinkhole at Boone Dam in Tennessee, which is upriver from seven different nuclear reactors. Does this portend the possibility of a Fukushima-style accident or is it a false alarm? Interviews w/Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Executive Director Lou Zeller and a PR rep for the Tennessee Valley Authority, Jim Hopson. AND: Physicians for Social Responsibility is running a short film competition with real cash prizes. PSR's Christine Herrmann and Martin Fleck fill us in. NUMNUTZ: WIPP keeps whipsawing from bad to worse, with punative fines leveled by New Mexico on the EPA is turning into infrastructure development to support proposed nuke reactor waste storage in the area - oy!

This week, we commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine with a Nuclear Hotseat Special. We'll hear from Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, a teenager in Bulgaria when the accident began, on the impact to her and her not-yet-born children; from Dr. Janette Sherman, who edited the English edition of Dr. Alexey Yablokov's groundbreaking book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment; a brief interview w/Dr. Yablokov himself from Dr. Helen Caldicott's 2013 Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster; and Voices from Japan makes the Chernobyl/Fukushima connection personal with a message from Ryuichi Hirokawa, a Japanese journalist who was the first non-Soviet photo journalist allowed at Chernobyl and began working at Fukushima the day after the disaster began.

Nuclear New Mexico! Trinity A-bomb test still impacts Downwinders: Tina Cordova. Church Rock uranium tailings spill + U-mines in Navajo Nation never cleaned up: Edith Hood, Terracita Keyanna. https://bit.ly/3j0ck1D

WORLD URANIUM SYMPOSIUM, Where April 14 - 25, the world perception of nuclear issues shifted and began to make the difference that will lead to our ultimate victories. More than 300 participants from five continents, 20 countries - including South Africa, Mongolia, Australia, India, Mali, Cameroon, Greenland, Germany, and Japan - and more than 50 films from around the world came together to focus international attention on uranium issues. Why uranium? Because all things nuclear start with a shovel! The World Uranium Symposium made international news by issuing a jointly created Declaration of the World Uranium Symposium 2015. Interviews with more than 20 activists, world experts, filmmakers and actors Focus on Indigenous People's rights and the need to protect their lands and health from uranium mining.Former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan (r) and indigenous activist in Australia URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL- More than 50 films from around the world on every aspect of the nuclear/uranium issue. Gala Red Carpet Opening including performances by Cirque du Soleil. Special appearance by Hollywood favorite Ed Begley, Jr. Reviews of films and interviews with filmmakers and cast.

WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE 200 EPISODES, EH?

INTERVIEWS: Rebuttal to Federal Court go-ahead for uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter; Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for the Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club; and Anne Mariah Tapp, Energy Program Director of the Grand Canyon Trust. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: More Food News from Fukushima! (a new feature?) - this time... gold metal tap water from Fukushima?!? PLUS: Derelict boat from Fukushima found off Oregan coast... but it's not the first; US NRC okays High Burn-Up Fuel for Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio. SEE: Donna Gilmore's assessment of HBF's dangers at: www.SanOnofreSafety.org to learn what's wrong with THAT picture; Last week's Numnutz gets even numnutzier as Milan Expo 2015 subject to corruption, scandal, police investigation, arrests and jailings; TEPCO robot in Fukushima Unit 1 burns out after moving only 10 meters - no word on what data, if any, it was able to collect; and education has just become more dangerous as Japan opens new high school in evacuation zone.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie on his study on the impact of nuclear radiation on children living within 5 km/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. An encore interview from Nuclear Hotseat #162. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Milan Expo 2015 will be another site of Japan's attempt to convince the world that Fukushima food is really safe to eat so that by 2020, Tokyo Olympics tourists will have no qualms about chowing down and exposing themselves to internal radiation. Mmm mmm bad! PLUS: more TEPCO admissions that they haven't a clue about how to clean up the hot mess at Fukushima, but that doesn't stop PM Abe-baby's political party from pushing to restart Japan's 43 remaining nuclear reactors; Evacuees now allowed to stay overnight in Naraha Town in Fukushima Prefecture, but residents of Minami-Soma are suing the government for lifting evacuation advisories in their town, citing high radiation levels; Woods Hole announces Fukushima radiation in ocean off British Columbia; NRC calls Alert (second of four levels of warning) at Limerick Nuclear Generating Station near Philadelphia after fire impacts emergency cooling system; UK changes law so nuke waste sites can be forced on local communities; anomalies leading to "lower than expected mechanical toughness values" found in French reactor in Flamanville.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Janette Sherman of Radiation and Public Health Project on the recent study showing an increase in congenital birth defects in west coast infants in the eight months after Fukushima. PLUS: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network on Bequerel Awareness Day and why anti-nuclear activists need to help stop the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). And a special APRIL FOOLS BLOOPER REEL. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe-baby has his own "Define what 'is' is" moment regarding his decision to lie to the International Olympic Committee about the situation at Fukushima so he could land the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. PLUS: Update on Fukushima, Japan, and nuclear numnutzery all over the world...

The 36th Anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, PA, is remembered in this reconstruction of the first three days in human terms – how people first learned of it, the early lies and attempts at a cover-up, how the media dug into the story instead of whitewashing it, and what even hearing the word "evacuation" did to that part of the world. Featured: nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education; Middletown resident Mary Stamos; TMI Alert technical expert Scott Portzline; former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Peter Bradford; with media clips of Walter Cronkite and interviews done by reporters at the time of the accident, all interwoven with Libbe HaLevy's story of being somewhere she didn't want to be - one mile from a nuclear meltdown. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Radioactive feminine hygiene products found in shipment from Dubai to Beirut, Lebanon… but the U.S. isn't equipped to make a similar catch because we don't test imported products for radiation!

INTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer of the 2015 Uranium Film Festival in Quebec; and Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility in Oregon and Washington State, on the problems at the Hanford site and with the Columbia Generating Station. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has come up with $4 billion in aid to disaster victims... of any and every disaster but the one on the northeast coast of Japan. PLUS: Fukushima at 4 - triple the number of people impacted by radiation in Japan as compared to Chernobyl; thyroid cancer rates 50x higher than normal in Fukushima children; TEPCO admits rainwater radiation levels at Fukushima surge yet again; WIPP site going for "bananas" faux comparison; Utah radwaste company tries to convince South Carolina to re-open tritium-leaking atomic garbage dump w/a media blitz; and Korean hacker demands money or he'll leak country's nuke info to other countries - and no, Sony is not involved.

Special Voices from Japan to mark the fourth Anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Interviews and direct address from actress/star Midori Kiuchi; No-Nukes Occupy tent stalwart Taro Fuchigami, who has been sued by the government for over $260,000 dollars for his activism; Professor Hiroake Koide; head of the Tarachine Citizen's Radiation Monitoring Center Kaori Suzuki; businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House Seiichi izuno; and actor and member of the Diet Upper House, Taro Yamamoto. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Wanted: Japanese blogger with a deathwish. PLUS: Fukushima at four - radiation rundown; Breaking scandal at Diablo Canyon NPP on California coast over 30 years of seismic lies; Navajo Nation slams door on deal that would have allowed uranium mining on trust lands.

SPECIAL: Full length report on Dr. Helen Caldicott's Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, held Feb. 28 - March 1 at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan. 24 presenters on all aspects of nuclear war, nuclear winter, the psychology of nuclear weapons researchers, along with tactics and strategies to turn back the possibility of human extinction from this internationally suicidal technology.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW: Mary Olsen, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation. DNA damage, and a phenomenon she labels "Atomic Eggs." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: When is a flawed nuclear evacuation plan not a flawed nuclear evacuation plan? When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives it a "White Finding," basically saying this snafu has only a "low to moderate safety significance." Try telling that to the 46,000 people who live there and who'll have to get outta Dodge on a four lane road! Can the NRC spell "homicidal gridlock?" PLUS: NE Japan experiences 6.9 quake, one meter high tsunami. TEPCO water woes at Fukushima Daiichi so bad, even the nuclear-promoting International Atomic Energy Agency admits, "The situation remains very complex." Chernobyl re-releases 0.5 PETABequerels of radiation from smoke released during forest fires. That's half of a million-billion Bequerels. Do the math. Nukes not all they're cracked up to be: Belgian reactors show 13,047 cracks in Doel 3 and 3,149 cracks in Tihange 2. Feel safer now?

NTERVIEW: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Information and Research Center, provides an update on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) accident of Valentine's Day, 2014 and perspective on the magnitude of the problem, the contaminated workers, and the likelihood that it will ever be able to be cleaned up. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Tennessee's senior senator can't imagine a world without nuclear, even as a dam in his state is continuing to show signs of possible failure... and it's upstream from seven nuclear reactors, all of which could be flooded to create a Fukushima-style scenario. PLUS: Lots of anti-nuclear news.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons for producing her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, "On the Beach." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mmm mmm good – Fukushima rice balls fed to British Commonwealth ambassadors! Just shut your eyes and think of England, Dearies... PLUS: TEPCO's Fukushima water woes; 50% of children tested in Ibaraki Prefecture showing A2 or B thyroid nodules and cysts; former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey's home raided in investigation by state's Attorney General on his dealings in the $3.3 Billion San Onofre bailout of Southern California Edison; Pilgrim NPP shut down by blizzard; and manga artist of Oishinbo tells nosebleeding Fukushima residents: Get out. Now.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott shares compelling reasons for producing her upcoming Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction and gives us a glimpse as to the importance in her life of the film, "On the Beach." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has WHAT as its main sponsor? Are we sure the story's not sourced from The Onion? PLUS: TEPCO's Fukushima water woes; 50% of children tested in Ibaraki Prefecture showing A2 or B thyroid nodules and cysts; former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey's home raided in investigation by state's Attorney General on his dealings in the $3.3 Billion San Onofre bailout of Southern California Edison; Pilgrim NPP shut down by blizzard; and British Commonwealth ambassadors forced to show "good will" towards Fukushima by chowing down on locally produced foods... whether they wanted to or not. Just shut your eyes and think of England...

Full show dedicated to the January 24-25 Diablo Canyon Shutdown Strategy Conference, which took place in San Luis Obispo. Speakers heard in this program: Jane Swanson and Linda Seeley from San Luis Obispo Mother's for Peace, which hosted the event and has been fighting Diablo Canyon for more than 40 years; Daniel Hirsch's testimony before Sen. Barbara Boxer's Committee on Environment and Public Works; Jerry Brown of World Business Academy on Radiation and Public Health Project's epidemiological study on cancer rates in San Luis Obispo County; Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth on shutdown strategies and talking points; Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety on the false safety promises of dry cask storage; Attorney Mike Aguirre on the need to find and protect whistleblowers; veteran activist Harvey Wasserman on transition to solar; Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org on focusing our shutdown strategies; and Chumash elder Fred Collins and Japanese Buddhist monk Sawada-Shonin blessing our efforts

Interviews: Author Kristen Iversen on her book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats; and the US government program for compensating atomic industry workers whose health was damaged by their jobs - IMPORTANT PRECEDENT FOR CURRENT CASES AT WIPP, USS REAGAN, HANFORD, MORE! Plus: Tweet the Pope to come out against nukes as part of climate change encyclical and in support of Sister Megan Rice; Two worker deaths in a single day at Fukushima Daiichi; sea animals dying in Tokyo aquarium, Hawaii, Pacific west coast; and if you eat Fukushima rice, YOU are the Numnutz of the Week!

INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network joins Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy to discuss a program they created, Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT, which covers ways to best help protect from nuclear radiation. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Lettuce now consider the lunacy of Panasonic and Fukushima. PLUS: Beta radiation (cesium 134/137) spikes 57 times higher than four days earlier at Fukushima, w/TEPCO analysts unable to ID the reason (DUH!); record level of "flesh-eating bacteria" cases in Japan; 5 Japanese nukes heading for decommissioning scrap heap (YAY!); Cataclysmic bird die-off litters West Coast US beaches; Thyroid cancer rates in US increasing; Obama increases allowable levels of radiation in drinking water; Savannah River Site operators divert $3/4-million from cleanup to develop mini-reactors; and Exelon's longed-for bail-out from Illinois taxpayers ain't about to happen when agencies report, "We'll do fine without you!"

Audio montage of celebrating activists at Vermont Yankee party - includes Leslie Sullivan Sachs, along with Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear; Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley Cares on today's (1/6/15) successful vigil at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to protest their plans to vaporize plutonium ; and Dr. Sheila Parks explains why all of us need to TWEET THE POPE! For example: @pontifex Nuclear power is not clean, green or sustainable. Don't support nuke energy in your encyclical! #nonukespope #nuclearhotseat

Special encore presentations of interviews with Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations' UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO's interpretation of radiation data is wrong as it tries to undermine the legitimate claims of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, who were hit with catastrophic radiation while on an humanitarian aid issue.

Sociologist and psychologist Alison Katz dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations' World Health Organization in its reporting on the health impact of Chernobyl. Katz worked inside the WHO for 18 years and now is a leader within Independent WHO, which reveals the pro-nuclear lies in the agency's reports on Chernoby. and Fukushima. A Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive. (Originally aired September 17, 2013)

Sociologist and psychologist Alison Katz dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the United Nations' World Health Organization in its reporting on the health impact of Chernobyl. Katz worked inside the WHO for 18 years and now is a leader within Independent WHO, which reveals the pro-nuclear lies in the agency's reports on Chernoby. and Fukushima. A Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive. (Originally aired September 17, 2013)

INTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider, nuclear physicist from Fordham University in New York, on his op-ed calling nuclear "The sixth horseman of the Apocalypse," the dangers of Russian-made nuclear reactors, and how Bangladesh is being duped into funding nuclear technology that is both dangerous and unnecessary; and Dr. Helen Caldicott on her upcoming Symposium on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction - cheerful stuff for the holidays! NUMNUTZ: How about using a prescribed burn at a plutonium-polluted former nuclear manufacturing site in order to control invasive weeds? That'll show 'em!

INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on longstanding safety and embrittlement issues at Entergy's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shores of Lake Michigan and the coalition of environmental groups that has intervened against the nuke operator's attempt to get the NRC to roll back safety requirements. Then Leslie Sullivan Sachs of Vermont's Safe and Green Campaign helps us celebrate the year-end closing of Entergy's Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant -- the exact same GE Mark I reactor design as the destroyed nukes of Fukushima Daiichi. 22 days and counting!

INTERVIEW: Dr. Chris Busby on internal/external radiation doses, similarities between UK nuke veteran cases and USS Reagan lawsuit, strategies and languaging for activists. NUMNUTZ OF TH WEEK: Nuke and Frack dance the Fuel Cycle Tango and show how closely they're aligned. PLUS: Former WHO director blasts United Nations' UNSCEAR report as "unscientific;" Exelon on verge of shutting down three nuke sites in Illinois; Soaring tachyarrhythmia rates (abnormally rapid heartbeat) rates at Sendai hospital in Fukushima Prefecture now highest in Japan.

BREAKING: Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case. Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner, attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Research and Information Center, again updates us on the most recent radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site, in Carlsbad, NM. Gail Snyder, Board President of Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, provides the most recent information and analysis of the uranium hexafluoride leak at Honeywell's Metropolis, IL facility. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: US House of Representatives, by voice vote led by Georgia's Rep. Paul Broun, passes bill to authorize Dept. of Energy (DOE) to do research on "WHETHER" low-dose ionizing radiation poses a risk. How is this even a question?!?!? Even worse, it appears to be a set-up to gut BEIR VII (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation), the proof of the risk, as creating an "unnecessary economic burdens" that are "detrimental to the health of Americans." Through the looking glass, Alice!

INTERVIEWS: Filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash on his film, "A-2, B, C" about Fukushima radiation's devastating impact upon children, seen through the eyes of their mothers. VOICES FROM JAPAN: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko voices her husband, fine artist and photographer Yugi Kaneko, on his recent revisit to Fukushima and the problems of radioactive waste incineration. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: You call THAT an evacuation drill?!?!?????

INTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen interprets the latest developments at Fukushima Daiichi and provides a stunningly simple way to deny the nuclear industry its profits on peak energy, which has the power to effectively sink the whole technology in the US. PLUS: UK correspondent Shaun McGee reports from Ireland on manipulations by the government regarding the British Nuclear Test Veterans Case, as well as actions taken against Prof. Christopher Busby and Dr. Ian Fairleigh.

INTERVIEW: Arnie Gundersen interprets the latest developments at Fukushima Daiichi and provides a stunningly simple way to deny the nuclear industry its profits on peak energy, which has the power to effectively sink the whole technology in the US. PLUS: UK correspondent Shaun McGee reports from Ireland on manipulations by the government regarding the British Nuclear Test Veterans Case, as well as actions taken against Prof. Christopher Busby and Dr. Ian Fairleigh.

INTERVIEW: Attorneys for the USS Reagan sailors, who are suing TEPCO to create a $1 Billion fund to help cover their medical costs, win big in preliminary hearing as judge decides they can not only proceed against TEPCO, but allows the addition of four corporations that designed and built Fukushima Daiichi. Hear from Charles Bonner and Paul Garner on the background of the case, the series of hearings, how they got the news -- and what this will mean to the sailors.

SPECIAL: Full coverage of the trial of the Four Grandmothers, whose Mother's Day protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station got them arrested for attempting to plant flowers on the Entergy property. Interviews with Cape Cod Downwinders co-founder Diane Turco; a first-time activist, 71-year-old Mary Conathan; and attorney Bruce Taub. PLUS: Halloween is scary - and what's scarier than nuclear? A whole bunch of activists weigh in on their worst nuclear fears - BWAAAAHAHAHA...

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides another sterling update on the fan restart at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad, NM; and One from the Vault, Nuclear Hotseat #7 from July 26, 2011 - interview w/Jon Solomon, VP of Purchasing for Eden Foods, on the food safety protocol the company put in place in the days immediately after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Nuclear tourism to New Mexico - take the kids! PLUS: Stunner! NRC's MacFarlane announces retirement from Commission 4 years early; Gundersen says Fukushima surrounded by gamma radiation haze as cesium and strontium 90 levels in the water continue to skyrocket - Japan radiation release now seen to be almost four times worse than Chernobyl; Dr. Caldicott now will be allowed to testify in trial of The Four Grandmothers for trespass while planting protest flowers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant on Mother's Day; Special report from Frieze Art Show as "Ambivalent?" soup sourced from Fukushima offered free to attendees; and Canada to offer Potassium Iodide tablets to all who live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor in case of an emergency... but still want to convince us that a nuke waste repository within one mile of Lake Huron is safe? Does no one see the disconnect?

INTERVIEWS: Two looks across the Pacific at the fate of the USS Ronald Reagan after being hit with the heaviest of Fukushima's radiation: Mr. Masahiko Gotu on legal actions to prevent the US and Japanese government's plans to home port the Reagan in Yokusuka; and southern California veteran activist Carol Jahnkow with the background on the history of nuclear ships in San Diego, where the Reagan is currently docked, and the dangers posed by our atomic fleet. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Did the Japanese government actually think the cities currently storing contaminated waste would be willing to extend their commitment past the originally promised three years??? PLUS: Typhoon Vongfong threatens Fukushima Daiichi with record rain, storm surges and possible tornadoes as last week's Typhoon Phanfone caused radiation surges of up to 10 times previous records; California's "top energy cop" Michael Peevey resigns from Public Utilities Commission... but not before he still gets a chance to swing San Onofre decision in favor of a Southern California Edison bailout; new languaging "spin speak" from the nuke industry outed by Beyond Nuclear; and Ralph Nader taps Michael Mariotte of NIRS for a Lifetime Achievement Award. Mazel tov, Michael!

INTERVIEW: Dr. Helen Caldicott - Nobel Peace Prize nominee, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, pediatrician, veteran anti-nuclear activist and author, discusses her latest book, "Crisis Without End." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: When your nuclear reactor has cracks in its core, just say you expected them and now expect some more and everyone steps away from their panic - oy! PLUS: Did the explosion near the Parchin military facility near Tehran in Iran have anything to do with their nuclear program? Typhoon Phanfone triggers alarms at Fukushima Units 1 & 3 with new water leaks; Congress wakes up and joins Native American tribe in opposing Ontario's proposed nuclear waste dump less than a mile from the shores of Lake Huron; Judge upholds 20-year ban on new uranium mines near Grand Canyon; DOE misses deadline to start pumping nuke waste from leaking Hanford storage tank, so Washington state gives 'em another 18 months! And given the radiation rates among reindeer in Norway, Rudolph won't be the only one that's glowing.

INTERVIEWS: Southwest Radiation Leak Update: What's really happening at WIPP and WCS? Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Center corrects some misinformation and brings us up to date on the real info regarding the problems at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, while Karen Hadden of SEED Coalition in Texas enumerates the problems with the waste that couldn't go to WIPP that ended up at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews, Texas. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Radioactive soup as conceptual art? Mmm, mmm good (or not)! PLUS: fuel rods losing uranium pellets at North Anna, hot spots found on ocean floor within 25 kilometers/15 miles of Fukushima, Exelon asks Illinois for a mere $580 million to keep its nuclear reactors running and Pakistan wants a larger place at the nuclear table - what could go wrong?

INTERVIEWS: Special report on last Sunday's massive Climate Change March in New York City with Michael Mariotte, President of NIRS; graphic designer Gail Payne; and long time Boston activist Dr. Sheila Parks. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: the nuke industry itself decodes what bankers hear when the industry speaks. It's a guidebook for our presentations to anyone in the financial world that undermines the nukers! PLUS: new leak suspected at WIPP; more Fukushima water woes; and Japanese Prime MInister Abe-baby says Japan's closed nuclear reactors will not be reopened "unless safety is restored 100%!" And considering that's not possible, if he keeps his word they will never be started again. (Japanese escape clause: define "safety")

The 2021 International Uranium Film Festival presents documentaries on A-bombs, nuclear weapons, Fukushima, environmental racism of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage, history, horror, & hope. Includes never-before-seen footage shot on the ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as soon as 24 hours after the A-bombs were dropped, film that was suppressed by the US government for more than 50 years. Online May 20-30 and FREE. On this episode of Nuclear Hotseat, hear from filmmakers Robert E. Frye (IN MY LIFETIME: THE NUCLEAR WORLD PROJECT) and Greg Mitchell (ATOMIC COVER-UP). Next week: learn of a film about a Pacifist Physicist.

INTERVIEW SHOW: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, Nuclear Hotseat's "boots on the ground" in Japan, on the recent death of Japanese broadcaster Masaki Iwaji - suicide or something more sinister? Beverly weighs in with exclusive information on that story, plus reports on the impact of Japan's right-wing militarization push on the anti-nuclear movement and her time spent on retreat in the mountains with mothers and children from Fukushima. Then award-winning journalist Karl Grossman fills us in on Nukes in Space and the recent breakthroughs in solar-powered interplanetary flight.

INTERVIEW: Nancy Burton, founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, on the horrifying history of Connecticut's aging Millstone nuclear power station, on the ongoing dangers posed by owner/operator Dominion Resources' bottom line approach to safety, and the unreported radiation release that happened during the double-reactor shutdown on May 25, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The international nuclear industry is so screwed up, it qualifies. I wouldn't buy a used car from these idiots. PLUS: New Mexico's Environment Department Secretary accuses the US Department of Energy of blocking the state's probe of the Feb. 14 accident and radiation leak at the WIPP site in Carlsbad; radiation found in US west coast meat, fish, milk, vegetation... in 2011 and 2012 and they're just getting around to telling us now; Greenpeace activists on trial in France for proving their security's a joke by breaking in and getting 20 activists atop one of the containment buildings; India doesn't get its nuke deal w/Japan, though it does get its uranium deal with Australia; and Chernobyl radiation still showing up in Germany's wild boar.

INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear explains the recent outrageous decisions by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to lift all delays in reactor license extensions and proposed new builds, along with now-former-Commissioner Magwood's blatant conflict of interest; and Don Hancock of Southwest Information and Research Center updates us on the WIPP Valentine's Day radiation leak, including EPA findings on deficiencies and errors in radiation monitoring data. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Do we really have to import nuclear waste from other countries? Indeed, we do... PLUS: TEPCO OOPS - 800+ pound console falls into Fukushima Unit 3 spent fuel pool during an operation to remove debris from Unit 3 spent fuel pool; 104 children now diagnosed with thyroid Cancer in Fukushima; harrowing testimony by former Fukushima Chief, the late Masao Yoshida, released to the public in Japanese and English; Millstone May 25 dual emergency shutdowns DID release radiation despite Dominion's claims to the contrary; and German activists chain themselves to railroad tracks to stop uranium ore shipment. Rock 'n roll!

SPECIAL REPORT: San Diego Federal Court hearing in the $1 billion lawsuit by the sailors of the USS Reagan vs. Tokyo Electric Power Company based on their exposure to lethal levels of radiation following the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Interviews with attorneys Charles Bonner and Paul Garner, USS Reagan sailor Steve Simmons, and his wife, Summer Simmons. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Does the nuclear industry actually pay its trolls to remove Dr. Ian Fairlie's article from academic databases? It seems that it does... PLUS: 6 months after WIPP Valentine's Day accident, EPA, admits to mistakes in air monitoring for radiation; NRC admits hackers succeeded in breaking into security at US nuclear power plants -- twice; Japan admits that multiple fuel cores ejected from Fukushima reactors, releasing inhalable radioactive dust particles; TEPCO official wept in Prime Minister Kan's officen about Fukushima being "beyond our control"... but no one told the US Navy so it could keep USS Reagan sailors safe.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Ian Fairlie on his correlation of more than 60 studies on the impact of nuclear reactors on children who live within 3 miles of a nuclear reactor -- and which shows a 37% increase in leukemia rates in kids 5 and under. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Grand Hyatt Fukuoka's "Fukushima Supporter Chef" feeds fresh, local, irradiated produce to the hotel's guests. PLUS: Japanese government accused of "crimes against humanity" in its refusal to evacuate children from Fukushima; French nuclear safety group calls Fukushima "comparable to the most contaminated areas around the Chernobyl accident;" safety violations found at Waterford, Connecticut's Millstone NPP; South Korea and Australia both desperate to find storage for nuclear waste; and nuke industry targets bank boards of directors to skew support for their future funding - oy!

INTERVIEW: Kumar Sundaram, India's "Nuclear Gandhi," on his recent trip to Japan to raise awareness of the pending deal for Japan to sell nuclear technology to India. MINI-INTERVIEW: Beverly Kerr, Associate Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, comments on last week's Numnutz of the Week about the scuttled Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab plans to offer Southern accent reduction classes at $805/person. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: the NRC wants to join the fun on Facebook! "Friends?" PLUS: Water, radioactive water everywhere and TEPCO hasn't a plan or a clue; Thyroid cancer rates way up in Fukushima children despite government officials trying to squelch the info; Chernobyl nesting sarcophagi; Top PR companies refuse to work with climate deniers - now when will they take that stance on nukes?

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Hiroshima Day interview on the current state of nuclear weapons and the dangers they still represent; and award-winning journalist Karl Grossman on recent developments in solar space propulsion technology that gives lie to the nuclear industry's claims that only nukes can power inter-planetary exploration. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: C'mon down to Oak Ridge, y'all! PLUS: Government confirms 1,750 USS Reagan sailors to date have unusual health developments; WIPP plant gets new monitors in anticipation of possible additional radiation leaks; too much radiation to comprehend in Japan; and a new report by Joe Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman confirms that radiation illnesses spiked after Fukushima. We all knew it; they just had to prove it, and they did.

INTERVIEWS: USS Reagan veteran Steve Simmons, an interviewee on Nuclear Hotseat #159, offers a well reasoned and deeply felt response to the US military's recent report that denied Fukushima radiation could have anything to do with Steve's and 111 other sailors' catastrophic illnesses. Joseph Mangano, Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project, offers an epidemiological analysis of that report, pointing out its historic similarity to other times the US government downplayed nuclear dangers. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: If the officers in charge of arming and firing US nuclear missiles can't pass their tests, the Air Force has the answer: change the way they're graded! PLUS: More animal species in collapse; shots fired at Braidwood NPP in Illinois; and the Great (Ice) Wall Of Japan? No ice, no dice!

INTERVIEW: Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Germany and a former Vice chair of the International IPPNW Board of Directors. He uses that organization's recently published Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR radiation report on Fukushima to decode its flawed methodology and demolish its credibility. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK - kids "education" program from Fukushima City government, "Let's Build a Radiation Resistant Body!" contains nothing but measures guaranteed to expose the kids to more radiation. Why does Japan so hate its children? PLUS: WIPP management gets a monetary bonus for "excellence" five days before radleak shuts it down, possibly forever; PM Abe-baby vows to reopen nukes in Japan "by some means or another;" and three separate US nuclear facilities inspire another "DUCK! and Cover" report.

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again updates us on the latest problems at the WIPP nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad, NM; Scott Portzline of Three Mile Island Alert helps us understand the flawed nature of the NRC's computer progra to analyze potential nuclear accident consequences; and our Voices from Japan series presents filmmaker Yumiko Hayakawa talking about TEPCO censorship against her film, "A Woman from Fukushima."

Interview: Steve Simmons, who was aboard the USS Ronald Reagan when it went through the radiation plume from Fukushima Daiichi, gives a candid interview about what it was like aboard the ship as life-changing decisions got made, his declining health and frustrations with a governmental health system that refused to consider radiation as the cause of his illnesses and denied an accurate diagnosis. Powerful information in advance of the next hearing in the lawsuit against TEPCO for medical damages to our military personnel. PLUS: Anti-nuclear news, Numnutz of the Week and the new Ma Nature report.

INTERVIEWS: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety breaks down the dangers of inferior dry casks for storage of San Onofre's waste for high burn-up fuel. Breaking News report from Three Mile Island Alert's Scott Portzline on a new cyber-threat to US energy companies, including nukes. When is an NRC "Unusual Event" not an Unusual Event? When it's Numnutz of the Week! PLUS: Rad levels up at WIPP; Fukushima radiation release into ocean now dwarfs Chernobyl's releases on land and at sea; Japan accidentally nuke-free for the summer; and if you're flying, watch out that those sweet treats they serve weren't manufactured in Fukushima!

INTERVIEW: Nuclear engineer Ernie Goitein offers clear explanations of engineering problems w/aging nuclear plants and provides a new insight as to how nukes directly impact global warming. Then Tim Judson, Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). PLUS: Fort Calhoun NPP faces flooding from the Missouri River... again; call for NRC Commissioner Magwood to resign in conflict of interest case; cow showing possible radiation-created "dots" brought to Tokyo in protest by Fukushima Prefecture farmers; Aboriginal people in Australia force proposed Muckaty nuke dump out of business; Russia cracks down on anti-nuke activists; and Prime Minister "Numnutz" Abe-baby now wants foreign experts to help with Fukushima "decommissioning," just not OUR experts.

Nuclear Hotseat celebrates three years of weekly production with a brief look back at where it all began. Plus a featured interview w/Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center on the continuing situation at the WIPP site in Carlsbad, NM, site of the February 14 plutonium leak. AND: Fukushima children's thyroid cancer cases increasing, ice wall around reactors refuses to freeze, Pacific Ocean continues ecological catastrophe as more species collapse, Greenpeace say French renewables cheaper than nukes by 2019, and what makes Pakistan smarter than the US? HINT: it's not the cheese...

INTERVIEW: Laura and Giichi Inoue, who run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat from radiation for Fukushima mothers and small children. BREAKING: First death recorded from USS Reagan sailors. PLUS: NRC needs to "duck and cover" as Sen. Boxer demands accountability and Sen. Markey blows the lid off NRC reprisals against employees who stand up for safety; Vermont Yankee critics use laugh track on NRC and Entergy spokesmodels; radioactive groundwater spikes under Indian Point NPP; TEPCO admits it hasn't a clue what's happening with the melted core or the water leaks at Fukushima; Japan forgets to report on its hidden stash of 80-bombs-worth of weapons grade plutonium; and Canada has the gall to produce report saying that while the rest of the world's radioactive materials may produce cancer, their s**t don't stink and their radiation won't hurt you... unless... well sometimes... but not often... really (said Pinnochio as his nose grew longer...).

Special encore presentation: Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (radiation.org) shreds the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) stranglehold on the World Health Organization's (WHO) ability to present honest information on radiation dangers to public health. A point-by-point analysis of IAEA's flawed epidemiological mandate to WHO, based on the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell's analysis. Core information on how the entire world has been tricked into believing radiation is no big deal.

Special encore presentation of a full-length interview w/Alison Katz of Independent WHO on why we cannot trust any nuclear information that comes from the World Health Organization.

Voices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. PLUS: Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA; radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week; thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids jumps 51.5% over February numbers; Los Alamas is the definite source of WIPP underground explosion and radiation leak - more containers at risk; CPUC President Michael R. Peevey gets peeved and shouts down honest question at SCE pork barrel evidentiary hearing; and a Kennedy and a Beatle get to be Numnutz when they could join together and save the world. Imagine!

Voices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. PLUS: Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA; radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week; thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids jumps 51.5% over February numbers; Los Alamas is the definite source of WIPP underground explosion and radiation leak - more containers at risk; CPUC President Michael R. Peevey gets peeved and shouts down honest question at SCE pork barrel evidentiary hearing; and a Kennedy and a Beatle get to be Numnutz when they could join together and save the world. Imagine!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again gives us the straight facts about the WIPP problems, including his interpretation of why the "Kitty Litter" solution may not be so; Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight Project (COP) tears the CPUC's "untouchable!" corporate bailout of SCE over San Onofre to shreds. PLUS: NRC takes its sweet time about setting earthquake hazard analyses in 21 nuke facilities; Fukushima Prefecture goes nuts over Manga comic that tells the truth about nosebleeds, fatigue through its characters; Worker sues TEPCO for radiation exposure, cites USS Reagan sailors; N America's Fukushima fallout exposure estimate at 400 TRILLION Bequerels of Cesium-137; and TEPCO frozen sea wall - NOT!

Interview w/award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman on how the nuclear industry has gamed the media since before Hiroshima, why mainstream media continues to resist coverage of nuclear news, and thoughts on how to start breaking that logjam. PLUS: WIPP damage found to bags of magnesium oxide placed atop waste containers to stop radiation leaks - LOL!; Hanford explosion at the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition hidden for two weeks; Tokyo quakes register 6.6 and 6.1; TEPCO registers record net profits while wanting to cut Fukushima workers' face masks; and if we could talk to the animals/fish/sea lions/whales/owls/otters/ etc., they'd be really pissed off about radiation from Fukushima and what it's doing to them!

Spotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees: Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center; Karen Hadden, executive director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, and Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS. PLUS: Chernobyl - collateral damage in Putin/Ukraine clash? Nuclear refugees being forced to return to Fukushima despite radiation levels and deadly health problems. And Obama eats sushi in Tokyo - what's wrong with THIS picture?

Interviews with: • Dr. Janette Sherman on the medical consequences of Fukushima • Dr. Alexey Yablokov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment • Bonnie Kouneva, Chernobyl downwinder living in Bulgaria, on the personal impact of the disaster on her life and the lives of her family

“Voices from Japan” features Japanese photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa, the first non-Soviet journalist to document the Chernobyl disaster and one of the first journalists on the scene at Fukushima.

Interviews w/ Italy's anti-nuclear firebrand Massimo Greco on facing legal charges for his support of a Sardinian anti-nuke protest; and Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition on the WCS site in Andrews, Texas, where the WIPP waste is being sent -- and there are problems. Beverly Findlay-Kaneko on a different approach to informing people about nuclear problems and Fukushina without scaring them; and a Final Thought on the passing of Michael Ruppert.

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides the latest news on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project site in Carlsbad, New Mexico; Kimberly Roberson, founder of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, explains about Bequerels are BAD Day on April 10 and info on how to call in to elected representative to demand a lowering of the allowable limit of radiation in our food. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Evil Numnutz to UNSCEAR for having the NERVE to release a lying piece of shit "report" on how the radiation from Fukushima will not impact health or cancer rates in Japan or elsewhere.

The latest information on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Project Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico from Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Service; Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, shows us what the post-reactor decommissioning and clean-up process looks like, with lots of suggestions for local activists in the US; and Voices of Japan focuses on a father's reflection on his voluntary evacuation and the attorney who filed the Collective Evacuation Lawsuit on behalf of the children of Fukushima shares his frustrations and fears. Powerful stuff.

Three Mile Island at 35: A Nuclear Hotseat Special. Featuring Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, long time Middletown resident Mary Stamos, TMI Alert tech expert Scott Portzline on possible sabotage, excerpts from news reports, including the CBS Special with Walter Cronkite, and Libbe HaLevy's personal story of what it was like to be one mile away from a nuclear reactor accident as it was happening.

INTERVIEW: We revisit Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center to learn the latest developments on the radiation leak at the Carlsbad WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Project) site. PLUS: We introduce a new regular feature on food safety with Certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator Kimberly Roberson, who also founded the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network. NEWS: Fukushima news round-up; radwaste leak in Nova Scotia and fire in Scotland; Fairbanks, AK passes Fukushima radiation monitoring resolution; NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK is (almost) explosive; and of course, RadCast w/Mimi German.

Nuclear Hotseat marks the third anniversary of the start of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster with a special program. Interviews with Japanese anti-nuclear scientists, politicians, activists and more - what it is like in Japan since the accident began, what information is not getting out and what they want the world to know. Featuring Prof. Hiroaki Koide, Diet member/actor Taro Yamamoto, and actress Midori Kiuchi. Posting simultaneously in Japanese.

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown of Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy blows the lid off the presumed safety of "permissible" radiation releases from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant w/a newly commissioned report on cancer statistics in nearby counties by esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano. We revisit the WIPP radiological accident and radiation release in Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. PLUS: Hanford site threatened by cracked dam 40 miles upstream; Hawaiian state senators call for radiation tracking in their local Pacific waters; Babcock and Wilcox can't find buyers for their small modular nuclear reactors, while Exelon threatens to shut down 3 reactor sites in Illinois; "mind boggling" levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs as rockfish caught off the coast found even more radioactive than Japan's permissive permissible levels; and hundreds rally in Tokyo to protest prosecutors letting TEPCO off the hook without a single indictment. It's ALL numnutz!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. And Chizo Hamada shares international Fukushima 3 Anniversary events. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors reeive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

BREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice, 84, gets 2 years 11 months in prison for her peaceful protest at the Y-12 National Security complex, a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Details next week. For this week's program, focus on the recent fire and radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. Then the featured interview w/Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar, on tour in the US with his award-winning film, "High Power." PLUS: "Experts" miss possible Hanford implications in Washington state rare birth defect cluster; Massive cracks found at Fukushima near radioactive water storage tanks; Fukushima dental assn. to study radiation in local baby teeth; UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding; later this year the Irish will be able to sue the UK for Sellafield radiation damages; and then there's Numnutz of the Week, the NRC DUCK! and Cover Report, and Radcast w/Mimi German.

INTERVIEW: Charles Bonner, attorney for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, on their lawsuit against TEPCO for radiation exposure after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. PLUS: Eight more children diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Fukushima; TEPCO admits their radiation data is "wildly wrong" as new sources of radiation leaks keep showing up; Tokyo gets Abe-baby's hand-picked pro-nuke misogynist Masuzoe as anti-nuke vote gets split; Hawaii getting hit with radiation; kayakers reporting Fukushima radiation on their boat bottoms; and the pending influx of radioactive Pacific water from Fukushima will leave radwaste residue on west coast beaches.

Interview w/Susan Corbett, Chair of the National Sierra Club Nuclear Issues Activist Team that watchdogs nuclear issues. Learn what's going on to ensure nuclear-industry-intensive South Carolina does NOT turn into the "nuclear waste paid toilet of the South." PLUS: Sen. Boxer KO's NRC over missing San Onofre documents; Congress calls for investigation into radiation contamination of sailors after Fukushima on USS Reagan; Sen. Sanders tries for repeal of Price-Anderson; NHK forbids its broadcasters from mentioning nuclear issues pre-Tokyo mayoral election; Ukrainian protestors threaten nuclear reactors; Hollywood weighs in on nuclear; and a seminar for Fukushima kids on cancer treatment? It's Numnutz!

Interviews with two participants in the recent DC meetings with the NRC, EPA and reps for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: Dr. Marvin Resnikoff on NRC "duh!" over the dangers of high burn-up fuel and Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS on how the EPA squandered every opportunity to record radiation levels on the west coast after Fukushima. PLUS: Sr. Megan Rice sentencing called on account of snow; Alaska cites the Twinkie, uh, banana defense to radiation charges as seals die of "white goo" throughout body that even crows refuse to eat; gloves come off as Tokyo gubernatorial election becomes a referendum on nukes and a TV/radio commentator is asked by stations to "steer clear of nuclear power issues;" Canada wants to ship highly enriched uranium by truck to US Savannah River Site; NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: US only starting to study health impact of Trinity blast 70 years after it happened! AND: Blinky the three-eyed fish strikes again!

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko of Families for Safe Energy reports on the deeply human side of Fukushima following her recent trip back home. Catch up with Setsuko Kida, interviewed for Nuclear Hotseat #127, and learn how these nuclear refugees cope with radiation and how you can help. PLUS: nuclear pork barrel in Congressional budget, military meltdowns suspend 34 nuke site officers, NRC Alert for fire at Harris nuke in North Carolina, Alaska salmon showing signs of Fukushima radiation but US government buys cans of it for food pantries. Talk about yer Numnutz of the Week! And RadCast!

Featured Interview with Tim Judson, the new Executive Director of NIRS. He shares strategies for propelling our movement forward as well as exposing the soft, vulnerable underbelly of nuclear slumlord Entergy. Also, India's anti-nuclear firebrand Kumar Sundaram explains the significance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming trip to India and how anyone can join in the protests with a selfie. RadCast w/Mimi German, of course! PLUS: Special Ocean report, with Woods Hole's Ken Buessler organizing a crowdsourced Pan-Pacific water sampling project; Race for governor of Tokyo heats up w/former Prime Minister and now anti-nuclear candidate Hosokawa joining the fight; new Japanese study confirms what we've known all along: there's no way to evacuate from a nuclear disaster before the radiation plume hits; and between Fort Calhoun and St. Lucie, nukes can't seem to keep operating if it rains or snows. What a wimpy, flawed technology!

Contrary to Internet rumors and hysteria over the holidays, the sky is not falling, Fukushima #3 has not had and is not in danger of an explosion, the US has not been nuked with excruciatingly high levels of radiation and the beaches of California do not glow in the dark. Solid information on radiation from Sean Bonner of Safecast and Mimi German of RadCast. Plus a post by Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on what that steam from Unit 3 really means. PLUS: Japanese government and Fukushima Medical University signed secret pact w/IAEA to keep info secret; TEPCO restructuring so it can keep making profits while blowing it at Fukushima; more species collapse, including bald eagles and nonexistent sardines; plutonium dump in ocean 50 miles from San Francisco; and Russia does a better job protecting its citizens from Fukushima radiation than the US does.

Special Encore presentation of Alison Katz of Independent WHO (World Health Organization) on how the International Atomic Energy Alliance censors WHO's nuclear information. Alison dissects the history, politics and manipulations of the "Unholy Alliance" between the agency we're supposed to trust to safeguard the world's health – especially in nuclear matters -- and the pro-nuclear IAEA. This is an Encore Presentation (NH #118) and a Nuclear Hotseat exclusive.

A trio of Christmas gifts: three of the top, most respected voices within the anti-nuclear community, taken from the past year of Nuclear Hotseat. Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about how she became an activist and her then-upcoming Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (NH #83 - 1/15/13). In our most popular program ever, with 489,195 downloads in the first five days (and still getting play), Arnie Gundersen explains what he would do with Fukushima if he were in charge. (NH #117 - 9/10/13). And Ralph Nader spoke at the east coast conference, Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons. Excerpts here, with a link to the full speech on our website, NuclearHotseat.com/blog under program #131. Merry Chana-Christa-Kwanza-Solsti-Rama-Mas!

Interview w/Dr. Jim Green, Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner for Australia on that country's culpability for Fukushima and whether it's really safer from radiation down under than in the Northern Hemisphere. RadCast with Mimi German gives the "nuclear weather report" for the US, showing increased radiation across the country. PLUS: TEPCO admits what they knew and when they know it re: meltdowns in Fukushima Units 1,2,3 and Dr. Caldicott labels their actions criminal irresponsibility" and "corporate terrorism" as she calls for an international tribunal on nuclear power and weapons. Highest ever radiation recorded in water at Fukushima within 16 feet of the Pacific Ocean. Hot particle found 250 miles from Fukushima. Call for Catholics to champion 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice to Pope Francis before she's sentenced for civil disobedience at Oak Ridge nuke site. And three, count them, three Numnutz of the Week - so much stupidity, I couldn't choose.

INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, who is representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors nuked by Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi in their lawsuit against TEPCO. PLUS: RadCast w/Mimi German, Japanese citizens rebelling against state secrets act, how Japan ignored Chernobyl in setting safety standards, explosion and fire in Arkansas nuke facility, more demands for radiation testing for food and the ocean, AARP going after Florida "advance fee" law, and who knew Mexico had a National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards?

INTERVIEW: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog/Bulldog for Beyond Nuclear, talks through our possible eternal futures as regards radioactive waste. PLUS: Japan in uproar as PM Abe-Baby pushes Secrecy Act through the Diet; Strontium 90 predicted to start hitting the Pacific this week; World Bank sniffs, "We don't do nuclear energy" while Norwegian investment fund dumps TEPCO stock; Chernobyl getting new containment mega-building; NRC DUCK! and Cover report; plus RadCast radiation "weather" report; and Japan wants to train its 2020 Olympic athletes where?!?!?

INTERVIEW: Former Fukushima resident Setsuko Kida on the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, her emergence into activism and her recent trip to the US to meet with attorneys for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors who are suing TEPCO. PLUS: Japan Diet's lower house passes State Secrets Protection Bill amid fears of growing fascism and censorship; world's engineers express concern over TEPCO's attempts to remove fuel rods from Unit 4 spent fuel pool; unofficial reports (which will probably be banned under the Secrecy Act) show Fukushima worker deaths already over 4,000; TEPCO president warns the world that nuclear energy is "not fully safe;" Sen. Boxer boxes NRC's MacFarlane over her agency's refusal to release documents to senate committee investigation; and sea animals massing in California's Monterrey Bay - trying to escape the Pacific Ocean and Fukushima's radiation?

INTERVIEW: Anti-nuclear/Pro-alternatives veteran activist Harvey Wasserman blasts through TEPCO lies, how and where and why to get active NOW! Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.org explains specifics about Spent Fuel Pool 4 and the dangerous operation TEPCO has just launched. Mimi German delivers the RadCast - radiation readings around the US (the international report starts next week). PLUS: TEPCO pulls first fuel rods out of Fukushima... but they're "blanks;" first pics of the leaks (two) at the bottom of Unit 1; PM Abe-Baby pushes Secrecy Law but his wife Akie hasn't shut up yet about her opposition to his nuclear policy; more thyroid cancer cases found in Fukushima children; Hypothyroidism found in US west coast infants born first nine months after Fukushima; Alaska wildlife in heartbreaking collapse and Fukushima radiation found in 15 separate ocean species. All this and a tornado hits a Kentucky nuclear fuel factory. Oy!

Mimi German, founder of RadCast Radiation Reports - a new online and mainstream media "radiation weather report" - explains how the service started and how quickly it has grown to broadcast and online outlets, including Thom Hartmann on RT.com. Then listen to the first RadCast report as we inaugurate the service on Nuclear Hotseat. PLUS: T-minus ten days to TEPCO's yakuza-recruited workers' attempt to remove spent fuel rods from SFP4 without triggering Armageddon; world scientists, engineers, leaders and now media calling for TEPCO to be removed from any position of authority over Fukushima; Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority working to ban interviews w/Fukushima residents on radiation-related health problems; Pandora flops as CNN audience drops by over 40%; and why in the world would Belarus want to sign contracts to build two nuke plants in that Chernobyl-hammered country?

Interview with Norbert Suchanek, founder of the Rio de Janeiro-based Uranium Film Festival, on this international ingathering of anti-nuclear voices, the growing archive of our nuclear history, and the Festival's first showing in America this month. PLUS: TEPCO delays Armageddon for tests of whether or not they can do anything right; US Energy Secretary Moniz offers American help at Fukushima... with rope-like strings attached; world's voices raised in warning to help pull Japan from the brink of disaster; and CNN flogs Pandora's Propaganda for all it's worth as we get them to give Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps airtime to hit back. We're betting on Kevin.

What's scarier than Nuclear? Join the spooky terror as activists from both coasts share their worst nuclear fears. Then hear from experts from the October 19 Community Symposium on Decommissioning San Onofre to hear the most frightening information about nuclear waste as part of the Nuclear Hotseat Halloween Fright House! PLUS: 7.3 Quake damage at Fukushima suspected; TEPCO resorts to slave labor to get workers into the danger zone; Caldicott/Gundersen/Yablokov letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon delivered, results not yet noticed; Japanese PM Abe-baby pushing Secrecy Act through Parliament; Pacific ocean rad-plume predicted to hit west coast of North America in 2014; and for those who can't wrap their heads around the ongoing damage to human health from Fukushima radiation, how about them dead horses?

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." Learn the facts, prepare for action! Activists can be ready with op-eds, letters to the editor and more by using the information they provide. PLUS: Japan radiation, the world's voices rise to make Fukushima subject to an international coalition of experts instead of just TEPCO, Koodankulam starts up despite protests, yellow salmon found in British Columbia, "The Ocean is Dead," and... lead-lined jockstraps - for real!

SPECIAL REPORT: On-the-scene reporting on two top level east coast anti-nuclear events held last week featuring Ralph Nader, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, former NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen, and via tape, Jean-Michel Cousteau. The topic : Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons. The New York event focused on the Indian Point NPP and the one in Boston on Pilgrim NPP. Inspiring, infuriating, motivating -- the perfect reason to take action NOW! PLUS: A new feature, The Abe-Baby Report! covering the ongoing wacky actions of current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he tries to cover up the existence and impact of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to the International Olympic Committee even as he actually breaks down to ask the world's scientific and technological community for help. Mission Accomplished, anyone?

Tokyo resident, blogger and neighborhood activist Dennis Riches, living 120 miles from Fukushima, gives us a first-hand glimpse at the mental twists and turns that let TEPCO executives and PM Abe live with themselves. BONUS INTERVIEW: Michael Leonardi of Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy and the Coalition Against Nukes gives a first-hand account of police shenanigans around Canadian hearings on nuclear waste dump proposed for less than a mile from Lake Huron. PLUS: FDA "decision" to test or even ban foods from Japan is non-binding and essentially meaningless (SMOKE AND MIRRORS ALERT!); Duke Energy given North Carolina Utilities Commission to continue to gouge ratepayers for its nuclear debacles; more cracks found in Davis-Besse containment vessel but the NRC thinks that's just safe as safe can be!; nosebleed epidemic in Japan w/over 5,000 tweets in two days; 70% of kids in Kanto have cesium in their urine; 2011 increase in Japanese birth defects documented; Kaku says TEPCO the equivalent of the Three Stooges - Wo wo wo wo wo...!

Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (radiation.org) shreds the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) stranglehold on the World Health Organization's (WHO) ability to present honest information on radiation dangers to public health. A point-by-point analysis of IAEA's flawed epidemiological mandate to WHO, based on the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell's analysis. Core information on how the entire world has been tricked into believing radiation is no big deal. PLUS: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe-Baby has ongoing "Mission Accomplished" complications from his "The situation is under control!" claims to the International Olympic Committee; activists on the rise against NRC waste "confidence," proposed nuke waste dump on the shores of Lake Huron, EPA's new "McCarthyism" that raises "acceptable" limits on radiation exposure to life-threatening levels; and isn't it odd the Russia, China and Korea are doing a better job of protecting their citizens than the US is?

Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (radiation.org) shreds the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) stranglehold on the World Health Organization's (WHO) ability to present honest information on radiation dangers to public health. A point-by-point analysis of IAEA's flawed epidemiological mandate to WHO, based on the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell's analysis. Core information on how the entire world has been tricked into believing radiation is no big deal. PLUS: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe-Baby has ongoing "Mission Accomplished" complications from his "The situation is under control!" claims to the International Olympic Committee; activists on the rise against NRC waste "confidence," proposed nuke waste dump on the shores of Lake Huron, EPA's new "McCarthyism" that raises "acceptable" limits on radiation exposure to life-threatening levels; and isn't it odd the Russia, China and Korea are doing a better job of protecting their citizens than the US is?

It's one thing to say that the World Health Organization is completely subservient to the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency -- but what exactly does that mean? In this Nuclear Hotseat exclusive, Alison Katz of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Independent WHO - Health and Nuclear Power, explains the history, politics and scientific manipulations of the one agency the world is supposed to be able to trust with its health. Whether you're an activist, a member of the media or just a curious individual, you must listen to this full-length interview if you hope to understand how deeply the world has been tricked when it comes to understanding the health implications of nuclear radiation.

Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education provides a vision of how he would proceed with Fukushima, including missed opportunities, TEPCO incompetence and the all-important moves he would make to minimize the negative impact of the world's worst nuclear/industrial disaster. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Could anyone top the International Olympic Committee this week? Two strong contenders, but still, the IOC wins, hands down. PLUS: Spin-speak attaining dizzying speeds as Japan seeks to quash any suspicions about the negative impact of Fukushima radionuclides on Olympic athletes and fans; Japanese professor equates TEPCO w/Homer Simpson ; Fukushima crane suffers cracks, starts to fall over; fish of public concern to China, Korea, some Canadians... and Guam?!?; and British embassy supports Fukushima by playing cricket in the evacuation zone. There's a reason why they lost the empire...

Former Japanese resident Beverly Findlay-Kaneko reports on her recent trip to Japan, where she met with committed activists, two symposia, demonstrations and followed through on her humanitarian work helping Fukushima's children spend time in a camp far from the nuclear disaster, where they can again experience sunshine and air they can breathe without fear. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for offering "prompt" solutions to Fukushima almost 30 months after the disaster began. Too late, Abe Baby! PLUS: More leaks, higher radiation found on-site at Fukushima Daiichi; salt water corroding containment tanks, TEPCO finally being acknowledged as incompetent, radioactive seawater plume predicted to hit west coast of the US in 20 years... or four years... or one... But at least Japan is about to be nuclear-free again, if only for a few months... Three Mile Island decommissioning cost set at $918 million but will undoubtedly be more by the time it's scheduled to begin - in 2034!

Entergy announces closure of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant at the end of 2014 - so what does it mean? Get perspective from two Vermonters: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, a former nuclear industry insider who explains nuclear problems and dilemmas a la Mr. Wizard; and Hattie Nestle, veteran protester who lives within 20 miles of Vermont Yankee and who's been arrested 35 times protesting the facility. PLUS: Japan finally accepts foreign assistance, PM Shinzo Abe says his government will stop the outflow of tainted water... but neglects to say how they'll do it; six more Fukushima prefecture children diagnosed w/thyroid cancer; NRC to rule to Ft. Calhoun re-opening; calls from nations in both hemispheres for testing of ocean fish for radiation contamination; and Russia offers technical assistance to Japan in dealing w/Fukushima. Good luck!

Organizational psychologist Dr. Lloyd C. Williams gives a clinical explanation of why nukes are nuts -- the industry, that is -- along with strategies we might use in dealing with pro-nukers. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Fukushima -- the tourist destination? PLUS: No States Rights for Vermont state when it comes to Vermont Yankee; Fukushima governor labels situation a "national emergency;" TEPCO goes to Hanford to learn about radioactive waste control ; salmon disappearing from Canada, Alaska, Russia, while herring found bleeding all over -- and Arnie Gundersen predicted it!

Closing down San Onofre didn't end the southern California nuclear battle, it just shifted to the radwaste front. 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 on Decommissioning San Onofre and the Ongoing Dangers of Nuclear Waste. Then Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health in an encore of his presentation on the impact of Fukushima on American health. This is an encore taken from his speech at Dr. Helen Caldicott's Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. PLUS: TEPCO Radwater releasing BILLIONS of bq of cesium per liter; US Federal court commands Yucca Mountain be opened , and FOUR, count them, FOUR Numnutz of the Week! Numnutzes of the Week? FOUR!

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Anniversary. Interviews wth Fukushima survivor Chikako Nishiyama and San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace organizer Carole Hisasue on the northern California commemorative events. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: UC Berkeley professor claims Fukushima radiation "no problem" for USA while EPA spokesidiot claims "Any kind of release i Japan would be non-detectable here!" Flat Earth Society, anyone? PLUS: TEPCO admits radiation at Fukushima up 47 TIMES since just last week and they haven't a clue why; company admits the situation is "bleak." Yet Japanese government allows residents to "come home" to Fukushima (for what, to get more radiation exposure?); TEPCO games leukemia compensation program for workers so only four of almost 10,000 qualify; Palisades NPP in Michigan leaks radioactive water into Lake Michigan - again; Farley in Alabama at ALERT when former award-winning thermal seals prove defective; St. Louis landfill fire breaches fire line on way to nuclear waste dump; Duke cancels Levy in Florida but ratepayers sucked dry to the tune of $300 million; and the nuclear fight in Taiwan gets physical.

Psssst! Wanna be part of a 2,000-person human billboard to stop nuclear? Listen in as John Bertucci, a San Francisco-area anti-nuclear activist, explains the planned October 19 action and how you can participate, either in SF or your own nuclear-riddled home turf. Then hear a special encore presentation of Daniel Hirsch, nuclear policy lecturer from UC Santa Cruz talk about how his students discovered a hidden US nuclear disaster -- the 1959 reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory only 30 miles from Los Angeles. PLUS: TEPCO fakes its apologies with help from its cronies, WHO refuses to acknowledge depleted uranium as a possible cause of Iraqi mutations, Idle No More! First Nation activists instrumental in blocking Great Lakes transport of radioactive steam generators to Sweden, and San Onofre fuel removed from reactor in record time, effectively terminating SCE's license - WOO HOO!

What would a natural disaster do to nuclear power facilities? How vulnerable are our nuclear reactors to global warming? Veteran disaster preparedness pro Chuck McCune shares information FEMA doesn't make public about exactly what we face, along with a vision of activism that gives real muscle to our movement. PLUS: Former San Onofre partners SCE, SDG&E and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries battling it out over who owes who what for those faulty steam generators that got the site SHUT DOWN FOREVER; Fukushima #3 blowing off steam; Pilgrim in hot water, shut down; Ft. Calhoun may force Omaha Public Power District to take a Moody's Investors Service rating cut; Japan elects no-nuke actor to Upper House but supports pro-nuke LDP despite 80% believing nuclear disaster "probable;" and Washington state health blind spot is the tragic Numnutz of the Week.

Award-winning investigative reporter Susannah Frame from KING 5 News in Seattle has not only covered the problems at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington, she has broken several of the most important recent stories. Listen to what a real reporter goes through to get the hottest nuclear news and put it out into mainstream media. PLUS: Greenpeace invades French nuclear power plant; Kudankulam activists "drop dead" as facility fires up to criticality; Switzerland outraged after radioactive cesium found in lake near nuke plant that is used for drinking water; Dr. Emoto blesses San Onofre waters; NRC DUCK! Report on the usual "unusual occurrences," and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK - Japan opens the beaches of Fukushima by claiming no radiation in the ocean - HUH?

Two years ago, the Ft. Calhoun nuclear reactors near Omaha were surrounded by an inflatable berm that was surrounded by flood-level water - a veritable island of nukes. What's happened since? Nebraska energy activist LaVerne Traen fills in the picture, and like all things nukes, it's not a pretty one. PLUS: Fukushima radiation levels soaring for unexplained reasons; TEPCO failings revealed by Japanese comedienne; Japan's Labor Democratic Party pushes for nuke restarts and nuke-adjacent mayors agree; rats attack Fukushima Daiini; Japan selling nuke technology to Vietnam (what could possibly go wrong?!?); scandal brewing as North Anna operator covered up existence of fault lines to NRC; and SanO operator SCE bemoans nuke shutdown as it dumps chemicals into ocean and buys a solar company. Mixed metaphor, anyone?

Do you know where your green tea came from? Might it be northeast Japan? Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network brings us up to date on the latest foods and supplement ingredients to avoid, and with Citizens for Health's Sean Witzling, tells us about the FDA petition that can make a big difference in our food safety. PLUS: Scientists and medical experts take on the UN over Fukushima radiation report; Energy Dept. considers dumping $3.7 billion boondoggle Savannah River Site; Davis-Besse shuts down - again; millions of shrimp-like krill dead on beaches of northern California, Oregon; India/Russia nuclear liability head-butting may permanently sink proposed Koodankulam 3,4,5 & 6, even as #1 may be commissioned "at any time;" TEPCO shareholders demanding the utility dump nukes; scandal brewing in Japan over funds for recovery from the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster diverted to cover utility companies ; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The US "alternative energy" loan guarantee program guaranteed to give billions... to nukes - oy!

Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will be the model for shutting down Davis-Besse. Then MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native medicine man Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways. PLUS: Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;" MacFarlane re-nominated as NRC Chair; Lochbaum provides the NRC "DUCK!" Report on Non-Detecting Examinations; elevated levels of tritium, strontium found in harbor at Fukushima Daiichi; Yablokov takes on the UNSCEAR; first of the Fukushima 50 dies of lung cancer; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK goes to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.

Nuclear Hotseat's producer/host Libbe HaLevy's exclusive interview with former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan after the June 4 "Fukushima Daiichi Disaster: Lessons for California" panel discussion in San Diego. PLUS: more from PM Kan's presentation and more celebratory interviews with So Cal activists following the San Onofre closure; Hanford leaks getting worse; Canada planning to bury nuke waste less than a kilometer from Lake Huron; current Japanese Prime Minister's wife is anti-nuke; two "Numnutz of the Week" for last week and this; the NRC "DUCK!" Report; and it's official: "Pandora's Box" is a box office dud.

Jubilant activists celebrate SCE's announcement that the San Onofre Nuclear Power Facility WILL NEVER BE GOING BACK ONLINE! Hear those on the front lines of the battle share how they heard the news, how they felt, how they celebrated -- and what's still ahead to get SanO decommissioned without ratepayers shouldering the payments. PLUS: Oak Ridge Y-12 facility broached again; Japanese parents take thyroid testing of their children into their own hands as 27 Fukushima children now confirmed or suspected for thyroid cancer; explosion at France's Cattenom NPP threatens Luxembourg's capital; and Swedish utility Vattenfall shopping for land for new nuke. Sweden, don't touch it! It's evil!

San Diego summit: speak-out on Fukushima Daiichi Disaster: Lessons for California from the men who had to take responsibility in a nuclear crisis: Former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan, former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregor Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, former nuclear industry vice president Arnie Gundersen. Plus interview with Torgen Johnson, the "I'm not an activist; I'm a concerned father" man behind the vision and actions that created this event. Listen to history being made.

Kumar Sundaram, Research Consultant with the Indian Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) on Japan's push to sell nuclear technology to India and his country's massive, growing anti-nuclear movement. PLUS: Sen. Boxer demands Justice Dept. investigates SCE execs after 2004 letter surfaces showing company doubts over steam generator design; Kentucky nuke faces disaster when TVA turns off the lights; seaweed shuts down 2 Scottish nuke plants while Greenpeace lands a warning on Sweden's Ringhals reactor...and gets no reaction; what would George Takai think of the new Numnutz of the Week?; and TEPCO has problems keeping employees -- can you imagine?

Daniel Noonan of Washington State Physicians for Social Responsibility on the complex history of the Hanford nuclear site, repository of 60% of America's high level nuclear waste and this week's public meeting at the University of Washington. Plus organic grape grower and winemaker Paul Frey on reactor accident impact on America's agriculture. BONUS: How to make a radiation impact map for your local neighborhood nuclear reactor! PLUS: Belgium's 2 nukes cracked "but safe!"; Hamburg ship fire threatened radioactive materials AND explosives in same cargo hold ; massive anti-nuke protests in Taiwan; Fukushima growing rice for sale in "former" hot zone ; and all you need to march Hanford waste across town is a parade permit! No, really!

Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner Kendra Ulrich explains the importance of the ASLB's determination calling for the NRC to hold an adjudicated evidentiary hearing - a TRIAL - on Southern California Edison's proposed restart of the damaged leaking Unit 2. Featured interview w/Rudolph Herzog, author of "A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY: MAD SCIENTISTS, DITHERING NAZIS, LOST NUKES AND CATASTROPHIC COVER-UPS." PLUS: 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice and two associates found guilty of conscience-driven break-in at Y-12 nuclear processing plant in Tennessee, could get 30 years ; Palisades NPP crack caused leaks into Lake Michigan and Michigan Congressman w/clout demands full accountability; Hanford may be "too dangerous to clean up" - huh?; NRC Commissioner Ostendorff owned stock in NRC licensee Honeywell during labor lockout; horses dying and stroke rate spiking in Fukushima; and SCE still trying to get someoe to take that senior management position as Nuclear Communications Project Manager - any takers?

From the Macro to the Micro on San Onofre: Friends of the Earth's Nuclear Campaigner Kendra Ulrich on facing down the NRC "in the belly of the beast," and nuclear videographer Myla Reson gets Rep. Henry Waxman all righteous on our behalf. PLUS: Palisades leaks "very slightly/mildly/diluted' radioactive water into Lake Michigan but "there's no impact on health and safety!"; Duke dumps plans for 2 new nukes; DU implicted in GI suicides?; 83-year-old nun + 2 on trial for breaking into Oak Ridge and praying; Indian high court okays Koodankulam start-up; KEWAUNEE IS HISTORY - 103 AND COUNTING DOWN!... and all right, who put the goldfish in Perry?

LaSalle NPP near Chicago goes SCRAM four times w/an uncontrolled radiation leak in less than two weeks; is the country's most nuclear state about to go critical? Nuclear Energy and Information Service's Gail Payne and Andrew Kishner of NuclearCrimes.org explain the complex issues while admitting that no one knows exactly how much radiation was vented. Oy. PLUS: NYTimes says TEPCO "just hanging on," hasn't a clue; Japan refuses its responsibility to evacuate kids from Fukushima radiation zone; More peaceful Koodankulam protesters arrested in India; radiation rises in Tokyo and no one knows -- or will admit to -- why; Entergy told to pay Red Cross over $700K for evacuation plan; and Leverett, Massachusetts, votes to abolish the NRC! (Would that it were so easy...)

In commemoration of the 27th anniversary of Chernobyl on April 26, three interviews: Dr. Alexei Yablokov, author of the groundbreaking book, CHERNOBYL: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment; Dr. Janette Sherman, who edited the English translation of Dr. Yablokov's book and speaks to her own expertise about the impact of radiation on fetuses, children and adults; and Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, who as a teenager lived 800 miles away in Bulgaria... but it wasn't far enough. PLUS: Los Angeles tells NRC: Hold SCE's feet to the fire at an Adjudicated Evidentiary Hearing (a legally-binding trial) on San Onofre; Florida tells Progress Energy: No more taxpayer money for non-existent nuclear reactors! (Duh!); and then there's always Koodankulam, Fukushima, TEPCO - it's all numnutz!

You may have heard about the sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan suing TEPCO for their radiation exposure, but you haven't heard the whole story. "The devil's in the details," as they say, and the details in this story will change you. Presentation by and uncensored press interview with former quartermasters Jaime Plym and Maurice Enis, taken from the Dr. Caldicott/PSR Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima. PLUS: EPA thinks it's just dandy for 1 in 23 of us to get cancer and they much prefer that to the silly old standard of no more than 1 in 10,000!; NRC ignores Sen. Boxer/Rep. Markey to rev up for what looks like The Battle of San Onofre; LA radiation shows spike of 419%; all 7 Fukushima underground pools leaking radioactive water into the Pacific; US committed secret Nazi-style radiation tests on helpless US citizens; Might they still be doing that today?

Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN), represented by Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network), on their new citizen-action petitions. Want clean food? Sign and send to your list! PLUS: Former NRC Chair Jaczko says nuke reactors not safe and need to be shut down; So Cal Edison trying to dictate restart plans to a compliant (somnambulant?) NRC; TEPCO rat-chasers knock fuel pool #3 offline - again!; Fukushima leaking highly radioactive water and the pool they're pumping it into leaks just as badly as the first one; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: White House planning to suspend radiation clean-up standards to allow 1 in 23 of us to get cancer, and citizens told by EPA official to "put their big boy pants on and suck it up" .

Quick: Southern California Edison asks NRC for licensing hearing - good or bad? Gary Headrick reveals recent SCE feints, manipulations and slickery, as well as sudden NRC personnel changes (investigation lead Elmo Collins "retires," engineer Art Howell takes over!) that may directly impact the results of the restart hearings. PLUS: Arkansas nuke plant accident kills 1, injures 8; new study indicates nuke plant shutdowns reduce local cancer rates; Quebec puts a moratorium on uranium exploration and development; cops turn Indian anti-nuke protest into mass jailing; no new nukes in Fukushima (can you believe they were thinking seriously about it?!?); and Nuclear Reactors: When Animals Attack!

Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the 34th Anniversary of the Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Live through the first three days of the nuclear meltdown from an inside/outside perspective that will have you feeling like you've gone through the looking glass! Featuring nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com; longtime Middletown resident Mary Stamos; Walter Cronkite, "The Most Trusted Newsman in America;" the long-suppressed Dictaphone recording made inside the control room less than four hours after the accident began; and a surprise kicker at the end that will have you shaking your head at that wacky nuclear industry! Lies! Spin-speak! An unfettered media getting angry and upset! Hair loss! Mutated flowers! Activist response! And a nuclear industry stopped dead in its tracks for over 40 years! PLUS: Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy's personal story, previewed from her book, "Yes, I Glow in the Dark!"

Fukushima power outage timeline and potential consequences; Interview on maintaining health in the face of radiation with Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and author of Silence Deafening: Fukushima Fallout... A Mother's Response; SCE wants to restart San Onofre at full power despite likelihood of breakdown ; NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs ; Caldicott Symposium smashing success w/online viewers in 650 cities worldwide; France wins Numnutz of the Week for hiding results of a worst-case-scenario study for six years, then redacting the text and gaming the numbers in full view of the world; and Dr. Catherine Euler of the LANL 6 gets the best community service "punishment" ever!

Activists from around the world report on their experiences at the Global Symposium on the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, produced by Dr. Helen Caldicott. Get a ringside seat and hear what they heard, learn what they learned!

Interview w/international Fortune 100-level coach/consultant/organizational psychologist Dr. Lloyd Williams on organizational psychosis as it relates to Japan, TEPCO, the NRC and the rest of the nuclear industry, with tips to activists on how to break the nuclear cycle of abuse. BREAKING NEWS: Canadian company recycling radwaste into consumer goods forced out of business (now comes the clean-up). PLUS: World Health Organization issues shameful, lying report claiming no health damage in Japan from Fukushima radiation ; 67 tanks found to be leaking radwaste at Hanford in Washington state into the Columbia River; US legislators souring on nuclear because it costs too much; and activists around the world gear up for Fukushima's second anniversary.

Interview w/Christopher Noland, whose documentary, "3.11: Surviving Japan," captures the raw pain, confusion and anger of the Japanese people in the first six months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. Film debuts on 3/11/13 around the country. PLUS: Hanford leaking up to two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of plutonium-laden waste, endangering Columbia River; Germany facing nuke waste dangers and admit they haven't a clue how to handle it; Rep. Markey suspects Southern California Edison, operators of San Onofre, guilty of violating federal securities laws; Entergy spanked by Beyond Nuclear; Gundersen reports on mutations and miscarriages in Japan.

Special report on two major actions this week: the NRC's public meeting on San Onofre in southern California and the Climate Change Rally in DC. Interviews w/San Clemente Green leader Gary Headrick, member Grace Van Thillo, plus Priscilla Star of Coalition Against Nukes (CAN). PLUS: Hanford radwaste leak threatens Columbia river; Russian meteor barely missed 7 nuke facilities; two more confirmed cases of thyroid cancer in children near Fukushima; snow collapses roof at Chernobyl; It's official: with Crystal River closing, the number of nuke reactors in the US is down to 103. Progress, not perfection.

Sen. Boxer and Rep. Markey blister the NRC over report showing SCE knew about steam generator design flaws and STILL went ahead with installation; Interview w/Zach "No Cameco" Ruiter on the recent Idle No More demonstration in Toronto that stopped a train outside of GE-Hitachi's uranium processing facility; NRC to meet with community on San Onofre; Navy seamen exposed to Fukushima suffering laukemia, brain lesions, testicular cancer; Fukushima boy found w/6,000 bq/kg cesium in his body.

Nuke protest is in the air w/Vermont Yankee activists arrested and the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory 6 convicted and awaiting sentencing. During our interview with one of the LANL 6, Dr. Catherine Euler, she describes getting arrested by cops but detained by Bechtel, along with info on the underestimated dangers of uranium mining and low level radiation. PLUS: Duke Energy to close Crystal River for good; US dumps medical registry for military personnel and families exposed to Fukushima radiation; staggering cancer and birth defect cluster found in St. Louis; Osaka burning Fukushima waste and spreading radionuclides; VA activist opposition defeats attempted repeal of state ban on uranium mining; and why the proper response to the NRC's usual "unusual occurrence" is: DUCK!

Veteran journalist Karl Grossman traces nuclear media manipulation back to before Hiroshima and up to the present day. A special encore presentation of one of our most popular interviews. PLUS: Republicans on House Energy and Commerce Committee refuse to learn any lessons from the NRC's technical staff and the Japan Lessons Learned from Fukushima Task Force, reject safety recommendations. NRC pushes back San Onofre never-start decision to late April or early May. Vogtle and Summer new nuke construction pushed back again because contractor Southern Company can't even get the concrete and rebar right. TEPCO may be forced to permanently shut down largest nuclear facility in the world because "inactive" quake faults may not be so inactive. Bulgaria nixes nukes by voter no-show at referendum. European Union finds nuclear decontamination a growth industry, but Fukushima can barely fill 10% of its decontamination jobs. Gee, I wonder why...

Beyond Nuclear's Cindy Folkers (the brain behind those great weekly action bulletins) provides insights into nuke industry collusion and manipulation, as well asher specialty: ionizing radiation and its impact on health and the environment. PLUS: IAEA declares 47 Japanese reactors in "Long Term Shutdown;" allegations of fraud in Japan's general election that brought in a pro-nuke government; Nuke industry pre-3/11 talking points pushing the disinformation that "radiophobia" - fear of radiation - is more harmful to health than radiation ; Fuku fish caught w/2,500 times more radiation than Japan's bloated safety limit - it would even be illegal to import to and sell in the US!; and NRC asleep at the wheel literally as committee chair (NOT Allison MacFarlane) nods off and #2 chair (the stool?) gets upset that Arnie had more info on San Onofre's problems -- the nerve!

BEST NUCLEAR HOTSEAT INTERVIEW EVER: Dr. Helen Caldicott. She talks about her March 11-12 Symposium: "The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima" - a watershed event for our movement - as well as how she became an activist while still a teenager, major breakthroughs along her journey, and specific tips to make our activism even more effective. PLUS; Vogtle reactor ready for the nuclear "ding and dent" center (but the NRC says the shrinkwrap wasn't damaged!); Fukushima Governor hospitalized with symptoms consistent with exposure to radiation; Miyagi rice contaminated with too much radiation for Japan... but it's still legal to sell it in the US; new song debuts, "What Part of Fukushima Do You Not Understand?; NRC's Chair Macfarlane meets with SanO activists, but will it make any difference in their decision on restart? Stay tuned...

San Onofre steam generators may hold the key to global push-back against nuclear. Learn facts and strategies from DAB Safety Team principles Ace Hoffman and Don Liechtling, representing their network of whistleblowers from around the country. PLUS: Did Iran's Bushehr nuke plant have city evacuation-level accident? Thousands protest against 6 proposed nuke facilities in Jaitapur, India; Japan unlawfully detaining nuke protesters. Turkey tests all Japanese food for radiation while US does NOTHING; Lupus spike linked to Cincinnati former uraniume or processing facility; and Fukushima workers admit to only decontaminating areas around measurement sites. Oy!

HOT INTERVIEW w/Coalition Against Nukes founder Priscilla Star sharing her New Year's Resolutions, which include a run at the White House in 2013! Plus: US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO for lies that subjected them to radiation levels that have already destroyed their health; NRC gets tough w/Southern California Edison over their restart plans, demands answers; Japan's Prime Minister Abe wins NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK for his plans to BUILD MORE NUCLEAR REACTORS ; Quebec's Chantilly 2 NPP offline for good; and "Three Mile Island," the musical (yes, a musical!) wins international award; can Broadway be far behind?

Activists ask Santa for their favorite nuclear-free future. PLUS: US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; French electricity giant EDF's Flamanville reactor's construction delays and cost overruns loses Italy as their partner -- a win for our side; death toll from Chernobyl now believed to be 1.5 million; and Fukushima kids are getting fatter because they can't exercise outside any more. Ho ho ho?

Two Japanese evacuees in Southern California are returning to Japan with their families for Christmas. Hear what Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are up against, how they're preparing, what they face. PLUS: LA City Council gamed out of having a voice in NRC's actions as SCE continues to forge towards a San Onofre restart; Japan's election manipulations bad news for nuclear sanity; TEPCO proves once again it doesn't know its ass from its elbow when it comes to the condition of Fukushima; and Japan mandates use of Fukushima rice in all school lunches. This is insanity.

Interview with Harvard-educated urban planner Torgen Johnson on the true impact in human and financial terms if/when San Onofre has an accident; Passionate final word from producer/host Libbe HaLevy; Japan 7.4 double-quake raises new concerns about the SFP at Unit 4; UN tries to straightjacket international nuclear conversation, while WHO actually has the gall to say there's no health danger from radiation at Fukushima ; tens of thousands join P-MANE at Koodankulam to again blockade the sea in ongoing protests against the NPP going online; and researchers are going to study the impact of uranium mines on Navajo children... 30 years after the mines were closed. Timing is everything...

SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT: Sabotage, Buddhist monks, a pre-planned restart on Feb. 2 and SCE expects a softball from NRC; will they get it? Things heated up at San Onofre last week! Plus Greenpeace weather balloon models radiation dispersal pattern show Toronto will get nuked if/when Darlington NPP goofs up, Oyster Creek leaking and still offline after Sandy, and whistleblowers charge NRC with favoring secrecy over safety - can you imagine?!?

SAN ONOFRE SPECIAL: Interviews with four So Ca activists on this week's events surrounding Friday's NRC public meeting with Southern California Edison on their numnutz plan to restart San Onofre. Hear from video activist Myla Reson, Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green, Gene Stone from Residents Organized for a Safe Community, and engineer Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight on the politics, the positioning, untwisting pro-nuke spin and how in the world Buddhist monks came to be meditating and praying at the foot of the twin reactors themselves. PLUS: UN chastises Japan for post-Fukushima incompetence and cruelty to its own citizens, UK activists blockade Hinkley NPP, Illinois provides free potassium iodide to residents within ten miles of only one of its reactors (why not the other five locations?) and South Korea wonders if cracks in their nuke plant control rod tunnels will impact their efforts to export nuclear technology to other countries (ya think?!?).

What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for? Listen as a dozen activists from all over the country express their gratitude for wins, shared battles, unexpected camaraderie and the miracle that is our growing community. If you need a reminder of why we do it, listen with your heart, because it's all about love. PLUS THESE WINS: Whales and dolphins safe from PG&E! Exelon to shut down Oyster Creek? Switzerland to have a national initiative to shut down its nuclear reactors! And this NUMNUTZ ALERT: The newly formed Japan Nuclear Safety Institute (JANSI) has been formed "to strive to achieve the world's highest level of nuclear safety" by "enhancing safety culture, disseminating information about nuclear safety, and conducting peer reviews." How about CLEANING UP FUKUSHIMA, YOU NIMRODS?!?

Interview w/Marius Paul and Candyce Paul of Committee for Future Generations in Saskatchewan discuss their ancestral warnings against touching "black stone" (uranium), the impact of 12 uranium mines on the health of their people, the politics of poverty in guaranteeing the nuke interests always win, and the genocidal dangers of building Canada's proposed nuclear waste repository on their ancestral homelands. Plus: NRC, SCE duck the public and their responsibility for safety re: San Onofre while preparing to restart one reactor w/o any safety tests ; Fukushima clean-up now estimated to cost 10 TRILLION yen ($125.6 billion US$); Japan ships radioactive apples to Thailand; and Russia (RUSSIA?!?) tests imports for radioactivity and sent 316 shipments back to Japan - but the US doesn't even bother to check. AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

Remember the senior citizens who volunteered to help clean up Fukushima to spare younger workers from radiation exposure? Nuclear Hotseat interviews Yastel Yamada, the man who helped start the group, as he talks about graft, censorship and the politics of the Fukushima clean-up. Plus the Japanese prince who's no prince, the nuclear amusement park, and radioactive tobacco so hazardous to your health, even Japanese cigarette makers won't touch it!

It seems we ducked the nuclear bullet from Superstorm Sandy... but what happens the next time there's an attack like this from Mother Nature? Learn about what the real nuclear dangers were that we faced from Sandy, how the NRC "responded," what Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com and Michael Mariotte of NIRS.org say about the unfolding events, and what we in the nuclear-free movement can do to reinforce the need to shut down these disasters-in-waiting.

San Onofre leaks again and it's not even on line! Wisconsin nuke plant Kewaunee goin' down because no one wanted to buy it! Interview w/Alice Slater of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on the reactors/bombs connection and how all our current political struggles are just outposts in the same battle; Lithuanian democracy's nonbinding referendum's 62% against nukes bums out GE-Hitachi (awwwww!); butterfly mutations showing up in genomic progression in Japan; and a "nuclear preparedness" boilerplate press kit suitable for any level of disaster! Our tax dollars at work, indeed...

Journalist Karl Grossman distills 45 years of covering this country's nuclear insanity into a compelling interview with Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy. The gamesmanship started BEFORE Hiroshima and continues to this day; learn how it happened and what we can do about it. PLUS: Greenpeace camps out atop a Swedish nuclear reactor... and nobody notices ; Japan set to again export Kobe beef to US but doesn't mention the "R" word (radiation); Lithuania nixes new nuke plant; citizens set to sue Entergy over destruction of environment; and Indian nuclear industry publishes a glossy coffeetable book showing butterflies in nuclear exclusion zones... but forgot to include the mutations showing up at Fukushima or the fasciation mutations of plants, flowers, fruit, vegetables, animals... and people? Who are these people and what makes us trust that they're sane?

Interview with Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, on secrets both nuclear and familial. A stunningly well-researched, well-written book. PLUS: An update on Japan's ongoing nuclear tragedy, including governmental genocide towards Fukushima's children, cattle deaths, deadly condition of Units 1 and 4. Even the NRC's premiere pro-nuker, Commissioner Magwood, weighs in as not having much hope for Japan.

Interview w/Nuclear-Free Illinois founder Dr. Lora Chamberlain on setting up a Rapid Response Network that pulls small local groups into a statewide unit; US strongarms Japan's Noda away from no nukes by 2030 policy; Exxon to drill near massive Soviet radiation dump in Arctic ocean; Koodankulam protestors blockade sea lanes, thousands bury them selves in sand so they can't be moved, but India continues to fuel-up the nuclear reactors; five quakes of 6.3 to 4.4 in Northeast Japan, three at Fukushima, all in a single day; Nazi-style radiation testing center to be set up in Fukushima within the month; and Australia's capitol province to be nuke-free by 2020... and it won't cost anything! Listen and learn how!

Interview w/Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsewhere in the world to map radiation levels. The group uses open source designs and encourages anyone who likes to use or adapt their designs. Humanitarianism at its best. Plus: Japan declares they're phasing out nuclear by the 2030's, but there are some holes in their announcement; two nukes in Belgium shut down because of cracks; Quebec will shut down its one reactor; and Spain closing down another; NRC accused of covering up flood threats from upstream dams; Indian Point loses to "terrorists" in safety drill; and Dianukes announces the first-ever (but definitely not the last) Nuke Liar Awards! Nominate your favorite numnutz! Give them the recognition they so richly deserve.

Re-engineered interview of January 10 w/Dr. Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on their analysis of EPA and CDC death statistics post-Fukushima that point to 14,000 additional US deaths in the weeks after the nuclear disaster. A classic of information on radiation effects of Fukushima as well as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. PLUS: Police kill anti-nuke protesters at Koodankulam in India, including a small girl; the fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away atop its earthquake faults; TEPCO's Unit 4 lies countered by nuclear physicist Nils Bohmer and Arnie Gundersen; TEPCO alters unit 4 photo w/bad photoshop, then pulls it, then crops it, then admits to it... but won't say why; Japan feeding school children radioactive milk, oranges, apples - why? Because they're the government and they say so and anyone who doesn't believe them and eat the food is "chicken!" (the Mayor of Kawasaki City really said that!).

Fukushima Diary blogger Iori Mochizuki on how he accidentally founded one of the world's most read anti-nuclear blogs; NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs - only the second time in its history these rubberstampers have turned down a nuclear request!; San Onofre to get cost/benefit analysis to see if it makes sense to attempt to reopen it (CLUE: The answer is NO!); Dr. Michael Nobel of the Nobel Prize family focuses attention on radioactive contamination of US milk and water in Hawaii and west coast; and double the Nuclear Numnutz this week: Fukushima trying to attract Tokyo's high school students as tourists AND three cities in Saitama prefecture to recycle radioactive rubble from Fukushima as... cement . So much insanity, so little time...

Interview with Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Executive Director Lou Zeller on how to grow grassroots activism, southeastern U.S. nuke issues, plus his organizaation's support for the CAN Rally for a Nuclear Free Future. PLUS: Picketing Whales, India's $9 numnutz protection of nukers (say it isn't so!), tsunami debris already hitting Alaska hard, and Katie, the radioactive goat, has died. In a related story, Dominion Resources denies that its Millstone nuclear power plant, only five miles away from Katie's pasture, was the source of the strontium in her milk. By that logic, they would also like to interest you in land speculation in northeast Japan.

Mary Olson on nuclear reactors in hot water and what it really means; How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN); Hanford leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for those who live near nuclear reactors; SCE letting 730 San Onofre workers go "beause Unit 3 is unlikely to produce power any time soon" (Let's retrain them to work in solar!); Kucinich demands NRC investigate its own handling of Davis Besse restart; mutated worms and eggplant in Japan; radioactive fish 258 times higher than Japanese government deems safe found 12.5 miles off Fukushima; and Pennsylvania gives free potassium iodide tablets to anyone living near Limerick NPP - the question being: WHY???

Interview w/Mary Olson, Director of the SE office of NIRS.org, on what the June 8 DC court ruling means to the battle against nuclear waste production (meaning reactors and their radioactive legacy). PLUS: 82 year old "terrorist" nun breaks into Oak Ridge nuclear facility armed w/a Bible, candles and spray paint - embarrassing the National Nuclear Security Administration for their ridiculous lack of security for 100 tons of highly enriched uranium (Jellyfish, meet Numnutz); on a scale of 1-7 for nuclear disasters, Fukushima now ranks at an 8; mutated butterflies in Japan; "suspicion of cracks" in Belgian reactor; Republican VP nominee's wife lobbied for Vermont Yankee; and new NRC Chair Macfarlane wonders how quake-proof all those nuclear reactors really are (heck the latest "quake-proof" rankings at www.NuclearHotseat.com/blog). Jellyfish - Nuclear heroes - that's the nun ** Nuclear Numnutz - Just what it sounds like.

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear on radioactive waste storage problems, options, how we got in this mess and what if anything can be done about it. BREAKING NEWS - NRC freezes all nuclear reactor construction and operating licenses! PLUS: San Diego's COPS (Citizens Oversight Projects) challenges San Onofre's failure to review steam generator failure (Go, Ray Lutz!); California Democratic party calls for independent design review before restart can be considered; Prime Minister "The Pendulum" Noda agrees to meet with protestors, then cancels, says Japan's nuke future will be decided by end of month, then says maybe not; TEPCO games radiation monitors in Fukushima, while radiation showing up 300x normal in mushrooms 80 miles from the damaged reactors; and Mochizuki Iori from Fukushima Diary does the math: the radiation released from Fukushima equals 168 Hiroshima-type a-bombs... and they did it to themselves.

Anatomy of a consciousness raising meeting with an aide to the Mayor of West Hollywood - a basic how-to for activists. PLUS: Japanese anti-nuke demonstrators get pushy at their Parliament building; Extreme increase in mortality from heart attacks in Japan since Fukushima disaster began; Southern California Edison laying plans to restart San Onofre by November while activists launch their "Hell, no!"; US nuclear power production at 9-year low because of heat and drought; and the Numnutz of the Week Award returns because the TVA and Brown's Ferry deserve it.

Engineer and activist Ray Lutz "nukes" the NRC's cover-up of SCE's responsibility for San Onofre's steam generator problems; 4 nuke plants trigger NRC "Unusual Events" in a single day... but no blackouts; Illinois reactor in "hot water" - at 102 degrees, cooling water can't cool; Japanese prime minister admits that nuclear energy is dividing the nation; TEPCO gets a rate hike as well as a bailout, while temperature gauge cables on verge of breaking at Fukushima and subcontractor forces clean-up workers to cover their dosimeters w/lead shields; and in all this, Russia is doing a better job at protecting its citizens from radiation than the US.!

Interview w/filmmaker Chris Noland (NOT Christopher Nolan from "Batman"), who recorded the first months after Fukushima as a relief worker in the field. His film, "311 Surviving Japan" is in post-production and already garnering overwhelming response in preview screenings. PLUS: 170,000 march against nukes in Japan; KEPCO cooked the energy books, turning off 8 functioning thermal plants to "justify" restarting the nukes; Cesium 134 and 137 found in 2011 crop CA almonds and prunes; internal radiation 100 times worse than a chest x-ray; and SCE scolds San Onofre employees for leaking documents to Arnie Gundersen at Fairewinds.com... which we learned because somebody leaked THAT document to Fairewinds!

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 the Fukushima Children's Clinic to address pressing health problems. Plus: Fukushima determined by Japanese committee to be "a man-made disaster" (incompetence can do that!); TEPCO top execs resign... only to get their golden parachutes ; San Onofre whistleblowers not covered by state protective laws (blame it on the Marines!); ; more evil doings by Dr. Shunich Yamashita, Japan's equivalent of Dr. Mengele; health problems rampant in Fukushima but the governnment isn't listening; international nukes take a business hit across the board; Japanese TB outbreak believed linked to radiation; Czech Republic to give sanctuary and healing protocols for 30 "radiation refugees" -- Fukushima children ages 12-14; and 150,000 protest restart of Oi reactors, but it's the direct attack by swarms of jellyfish that slowed it down. Let's hear it for Ma Nature's spineless warriors!

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 scientists share earthquake data and dire predictions as KEPCO restarts the Oi reactors; Fukushima Unit 4 a mere gasket failure away from catastrophe, while Unit 1 radiation is so high its dismantling (a 40 year process at best) will require robot technology that has not yet been invented; Federal appellate court sinks Vermont's recent strategy to deny Entergy's Vermont Yankee re-license; Colorado's Rocky Flats $926 million judgment struck down; South Korea bans 35 Japanese seafood products, bringing their total to 64; Contact info from last week's interviewee, environment attorney Susan Hito Shapiro, for anti-nuke lawyers who want to support each other; and evacuation advice from Fukushima to Oi -- also works for the 1/3 of all Americans who live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor.

MUST LISTEN! Slammer interview w/environmental attorney Susan Hito Shapiro on the battle to shut down Indian Point near NYC, plus some legal strategies applicable for anti-nuke activists throughout the country. Plus: 45,000 Japanese protest at PM Noda's front door against Oi nuke restart, which has already been plagued by 27 ALARMS GOING OFF!; bulge in Fukushima Unit 4 now 40% larger than in May; the swallows did NOT come back to Fukushima, in a big way (Silent Spring, Summer, Fall...); LA Times editorial to keep San Onofre shut down marks the most important major media anti-nuke stance in decades; and both TEPCO and Japanese government tell skeptical consumers that fish caught near Fukushima is safe to eat... even though they won't let independent experts test within 12 miles of the still-leaking facility. Sushi, anyone? (Hell, no!) SAKAIDO HANSAI!

Dr. Bill Cardozo and Darin McClure on radiation monitors, what they'll do and won't do, crowd-source radiation monitoring and how to hook up some monitors directly to the Internet for real-time result posting. Plus: Japan's PM Noda approves restart of Oi reactors over thousands of protestors; 10 Fukushima mothers confront elected officials with their painful truths before staging a die-in (video link on NuclearHotseat.com/blog); Friends of the Earth file lawsuit to force NRC relicensing hearings of faulty San Onofre reactors; tsunami debris docks in Oregon; and northeast Japan bracing for monster typhoon that's taking aim at Fukushima. Plus some cautions about taking zeolite, pro-nuke as mental illness, and a chance to join a die-in demonstration of your own!

Special extended interview with Irvine City Councilmember Larry Agran on the politics of nuclear power, San Onofre, and what we can do to keep the pressure up against nukes in all our communities. Grass roots encouragement at its best!

Nuclear Hotseat Exclusive: Special panel discussion on The Roy Process for Neutralization and Elimination of Nuclear Waste. Is this the missing technology for ultimately getting rid of the radioactive byproducts of the nuclear industry? Can it work? What will it take to find out? Learn about the process, the doubts, the tantalizing possibilities, and what stands in the way of this potentially game-changing nuclear technology from Dennis Nester, agent for The Roy Process; engineer and physicist Ernest Goitein; veteran anti-nuclear activist Ace Hoffman; and a surprise "deus ex machina" appearance by environmental attorney Susan Shapiro. Be sure to listen through to the end, then visit www.NuclearHotseat.com/blog for June 5, 2012, to access the information referenced in the call. HOT STUFF!

Michael Mariotte of NIRS.org on NRC evacuation zone radius and emergency exercises; Bluefin tuna caught off CA all found contaminated with Fukushima Cesium 134 & 137; Jaczko stands for safety as NRC rubberstamps Massachusetts' Pilgrim reactor for 20 more years; Canada reports 3 radioactive nuke leaks in just one month!; former Prime Minister Naoto Kan comes out strongly against nukes; Japan radiation still circling the globe, prevents TEPCO from even starting decommissioning work, mutating cedar seeds... but that doesn't stop the International Olympic Committee from implying that if Japan would only restart its nuke plants to guarantee electricity, it still might be chosen to host the 2020 Olympics. NUMNUTZ!

Interpreter/anti-nuke activist Umi Hagitani talks about the real concerns of the Japanese people and her experiences translating for Fukushima survivors who addressed U.S. anti-nuke demos and the media. Plus: NRC's Jaczko resigns his Chairmanship; Sen. Barbara Boxer goes after Southern California Electric over sidestepped licensing amendment for steam generator design changes; Alaska Senator Mark Begich says tsunami debris will be worse than Exxon Valdez - but Washington still can't tell him a plan for dealing with it; Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds says Unit 3 may be just as bad as Unit 4; meanwhile Unit 1 has only 15" of water and no one's sure where the corium is; Koodankulam protestors get UK MP support, while Indian government numnutz will be sending shrinks to Koodankulam to create "don't worry, be happy" mental exercises to calm down those wascally nuclear protesters!

Long time activist Elise Longhi shared how to get radiation out of the soil using mushrooms and hemp, out of water using nano technology that already exists, along with information on long-suppressed research by physicist Dr. Roy that actually neutralized radioactive cesium and strontium! Why is no one grabbing onto these technologies to solve the radiation threat? Plus Koodankulam protests in India being taken to National Human Rights Commission, French election may sink British nukes, Iowa legislature too smart to fall for nuclear Ponzi scheme, radioactive black dust all over Tokyo, cesium spike in Tokyo Bay "no IMMEDIATE health risk" (note that adjective!), and radioactive mice found just outside Fukushima evacuation zone.

Interview with Daniel Hirsch on the 1959 Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear meltdown - more radiation released than Three Mile Island! - and the current status of clean-up attempts. PLUS: The battle over San Onofre heats up with four times the number of damaged pipes in the steam generators as SCE assumes restart in June and NRC Chairman Jaczko smacks 'em down; Japan celebrates the shut-down of its last nuclear reactor; Physicians for Social Responsibility press conference in NYC presents Japanese physicians and nuclear experts telling the truth about Fukushima's current impact (scary health risks and Unit 4 dangers); 70 Japanese civil organizations petition UN to organize a Nuclear Security Summit re: Unit 4; Washington State finally testing seafood, clams for radioactivity; and Greenpeace activist bombs French nuclear reactor! (Smoke bomb, but still, it makes the point.)

Interview w/Shaun Burnie, nuclear consultant to Friends of the Earth, U.S. and Greenpeace, Germany; new Chernobyl structure started to replace sarcophagus, but radiation released by digging at 100 to 1000 times normal; in India, Koodankulam activists resume hunger strike against nuclear power; California nuke-free after jellyfish-like salps jam water intake pipes and shut down Diablo Canyon; 90% of Japanese urine samples contaminated w/cesium within 200 kilometers of Fukushima; Vermont Yankee protesters breach security before arrest... and release; NIRS protests NRC's Svnicki's attempt to re-up for another 5 years as Commissioner while Beyond Nuclear spearheads protest of Washington Post pro-nuke editorial that labels Fukushima "non-catastrophic;' and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com tells us exactly how to shut down the entire U.S. nuclear industry (hint: it's a "capital" idea)!

Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com on San Onofre, how and when the problems happened, and the dangers of even thinking about a restart this summer (as SCE has announced they are planning to do). Battle heats up over NRC's Svnicki going for second term as Commissioner; EPA's Radnet "potentially impaired" for Fukushima and not in great shape if anything happens in the US; TEPCO to dump groundwater into the ocean at a rate of 1,000 gallons a day; Fukushima Women organize to share reliable information about radiation; Rumors spread of dead fetuses in utero; big demos coming at GE shareholders meeting and at San Onofre this Sunday, April 29; Poetry helps Japanese people heal via iPhone/iPad app; and when 92-year old Frances Crowe, arrested for protesting Vermont Yankee, was asked what her plea was to the charge, she answered, "I plead for the future of life and all living things in New England." Amen, Sister!

Interview w/Cecile Pineda, author of "Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step By Step," an eminently readable mosaic of information on the nuclear situation -- terrific for the person in your life who hasn't a clue but is willing to risk getting one! PLUS:

• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) publicly acknowledges the risks of Fukushima Unit 4 and pushes for international support in eliminating the risk; • TEPCO starts covering Unit 4; • Exelon's Limerick nuke plant leaks several thousand gallons of radioactive water into Philadelphia's drinking water source; • Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuke plant fined for "forgetting" to report a 7-month power outage in its emergency preparedness center; • Japan to be nuke-free on May 5, but nursery school children fed radioactive mushrooms; • European pro-nukers try to get subsidies from the EU budget paid for by anti-nuke countries; • California Nuclear Initiative on hold until 2012;

Activist Alert! -- NRC Commissioner Kristine L. Svinicki's term ends June 30 unless she gets Senate approval for another 5 years. She voted against the implementation of safety concerns spotlighted in the NRC's Near Term Report on Fukushima Safety. Send letters to your US senators and let's get someone in there who cares about "protecting people and the environment," shall we? Learn how to contact your US Senator here:

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. Includes requests for letters to the NRC and live bodies to show up for San Onofre demo on April 28. Plus Fukushima shown to be 85 times worse than Chernobyl; newly leaked Japanese faxes show TEPCO knew it was the quake, not the tsunami, that caused the reactor damage; UK nukes at risk over possible downgrade of credit rating of two energy behemoths; NRC finds last years Ft. Calhoun fire of "high safety significance" [it took them a year to figure that out?]; UC Berkeley tests SF area milk and discovers almost double EPA's maxiumum contaminant level for Cesium 137; and Japan paying Chinese tourists to come to Fukushima, see the sights, take pictures and post them online. A continuation of the hostilities between these two countries?

Terrific food safety interview w/Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Awareness Network. Learn what you can do to boost your health and resist the effects of our increasingly radioactive food chain. Plus radiation in Fukushima #2 too hot for even the robots; Japanese politicians furious that Sapporo mayor refuses radioactive waste from Miyagi and Iwate; Former Prime Minister Kan now an anti-nuke activist!; San Onofre slammed into shutdown by NRC; NRC licenses 2 new nukes in South Carolina; radioactive kelp in southern California; Japan to provide canned radioactive fish to Cambodia for school lunches w/United Nations approval. INSANE!; and Friends of Earth produce a TV ad to keep San Onofre shut -- Jon Stewart, when will it be on The Daily Show?

Special report on Three Mile Island on the eve of the 33rd anniversary, including host Libbe HaLevy's personal story of having been one mile away when it happened; Exclusive interview w/Dr. Helen Caldicott; 15 Koodankulam activists now 9 days into a fast to the death to stop two nuclear reactors from going online; ongoing radiation woes in Japan; North Anna hits NRC's "Unusual Occurrence" list yet again (it's not so unusual...); and according to Japanese psychiatric workers, if you're afraid of radiation, you're nuts!

With thanks to sources for the Three Mile Island Special: Voices from TMI on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmmdh8Xlbvg, compiled and uploaded by Mark Catlin; and "A is for Atom" – a film by Adam Curtis – Dictaphone audio from inside TMI. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html#

Donna Gilmore and Ace Hoffman interviewed for a CA update on San Onofre testing, the state's TRUE energy needs, and the CA Ballot Initiative. Plus: Jon Stewart/Daily Show to carry nuke industry ads - NIRS.org starts the protest, Nuclear Hotseat joins in; since March 15, TEPCO no longer provides stats on the reactors; Japanese radiation hits new high in Iitate and farmers face a deadly harvest; Arnie predicts 20% cancer rate in Fukushima girls; US finally admits post-war nuke workers got cancer from exposure; in India, Koodankoolam anti-nuke protesters arrested; and a 68-year old Japanese man urges other seniors to buy and eat Fukushima rice so it doesn't otherwise get eaten by children. One of the most vulnerable populations urging suicidal action on behalf of another vulnerable population, commit slow hiri-kiri, death by TEPCO. Where is government? Where is protection? Where are the cranes...?

Special audio report from the March 11 San Onofre anti-nuke demo; interviews with two survivors of Tohoku quake, tsunami and ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture in Japan, who were speaking at the demo in So Cal; SHOCKING! radiation levels found in parking lot adjacent to San Onofre; spent fuel pool at Fukushima #4 continues to be a serious risk; some of the "Fukushima 50" speak out on TEPCO lies and manipulation, safety and risk at the devastated nuclear reactors; radioactive debris to be shipped to one of the cleanest areas of Japan for disposal (aka, contamination); Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com on Fukushima vs. Chernobyl, future cancer epidemics, and Tokyo soil samples equal to radioactive waste in the US; the ongoing cancer epidemic in Chernobyl; plus how anti-nuclear activists need to protect themselves before and after demonstrating near an aging, leaking nuclear reactor like San Onofre.

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 Fukushima; transcript of NRC audio quashing US National Labs monitoring of radiation the day after the earthquake; LA area cesium levels found to be 1,000 times higher than standard 53 years after SSFL meltdown; Sen. Barbara Boxer asks NRC to review San Onofre safety (they're "thinking about it!"); First Energy tries to blame 1979 blizzard for 2012 cracks in David Besse; legal loophole means Vermont Yankee may still be forced to shut down on March 21; iodine 131 found in Japanese drinking water, while radiation has been detected in Sri Lanka fish and 100,000 square miles in the Pacific. And with all this, DOE head announces, "We are committed to restarting the nation's nuclear industry." WHY?

Japanese government shown to have been in chaos after Fukushima, w/possible Tokyo evacuation; only 2 nuke reactors left online in Japan... and no rolling blackouts; stillborn calves at Fukushima-area farm; NRC cites Palisades Power Plant for safety violations, plus Perry near Cleveland and Susquhanna near Harrisburg, PA; North Anna tritium double federal standard, but plant operators claim no knowledge of where it's coming from or how it happened. Homer Simpson territory!; Iowa taxpayers to shell out for nuke construction costs whether the plant gets built or not; Indian Prime Minister blames US for local Kudankulam anti-nuke protests; Germany NOT restarting nukes, but using alternatives to send electricity to France; and both Czech Republic and Kuwait decide to go nuclear-free.

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 - at Fukushima within the past 24 hours; 1/3 of kids from Fukushima who were tested have "lumps" on their thyroids only 10 months after the accident; thousands march in Tokyo against nuclear energy; US Dept. of Energy laying the groundwork for "Life After 60" - the licensing extensions of antique nuclear reactors beyond the current 40 + 20 years; the healing power of green foods; and a special anti-nuclear valentine from Vermont.

Interview w/Mary Olson, Director of the SE office of NIRS, on increased radiation risks to women and children as well as national perspectives on the anti-nuclear movement; San Onofre problems continue (SEE: Nuclear Hotseat Special Report); Fukushima 2 reactor increasing heat while TEPCO injects borax; radiation cloud over New Zealand; fire at a nuclear research center in Moscow; nuke accidents in France, North Anna, radioactive fish in Vermont and dying birds at Fukushima.

Update on current status of San Onofre nuclear reactors in San Diego after last week's leak and discovery of over 800 damaged pipes. Featuring an interview with James Chambers, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and whistleblower from San Onofre, who offers his unique perspective on what these alarming developments might mean. Recorded Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Nuclear Hotseat presents a realistic picture of a nuclear disaster 's impact on California agriculture, economy and image in an interview w/organic farmer Paul Frey of Frey Winery in Mendocino; peaceful women anti-nuke protestors in India attacked by hired thugs and government reps; NRC calls Level One accident at Illinois nuke reactor; German nuke waste to be shipped and burned in Tennessee; and Progress Energy in Florida continues to collect advance fees from consumers for a nuke plant they no longer plan to build -- another nuclear scam on par with "The Producers!"

Interview with Donna Gilmore, Regional Coordinator for the California Nuclear Initiative, on San Onofre "safety" and an update on the Initiative; Fed Court blocks Vermont from forcing closure of Vermont Yankee (appeal to follow); 2 new quakes hit Fukushima in 24 hours; radiation camera good up to 1,000 sieverts goes dead when inserted into Fukushima #2; Japanese government re: nuclear disaster meeting notes: "The dog ate them!" (no records exits!); Gunderson on cesium in Japanese cedar pollen; 30-country Global Conference for a Nuclear-Free World in Japan; and think cigarettes can't be any worse for your health? In Japan, they're radioactive!

Interview w/activist Louise Dunlap on the planned Peacewalk to San Onofre; Japan comes clean: a second nuclear facility at Fukushima Daini was also damaged on March 11, 2012; reactor 4 spent fuel pond showing radiation spike; ongoing, growing dangers at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state; children living near nuclear reactors in France have double the leukemia rate; radioactivity in SF milk, Japanese fish sold to Canada, crickets and locusts in Japan, reindeer meat in Finland, and car parts in Russia; how to remove radioactivity from water; and Japanese numnutz sending school children to ski in Fukushima.

Knockout interview w/Dr. Janette Sherman and Joseph Magnano, co-authors of the medically peer-reviewed report on 14,000 additional US deaths in the weeks following Fukushima. Plus a cluster of quakes hit Japan; radiation spikes blamed by TEPCO on "the wind;" dying whales washing up on Japanese shores and near radioactive ash landfill; and the EU now recommending that its member nations test tuna, marlin and swordfish for radiation (while trying to deny that there's any risk to health).

MUST LISTEN! Explosive interview with San Onofre whistleblower James Chambers, a 25-year veteran nuclear operator forced out after he voiced repeated concerns about safety issues. Plus: Reactor 4 at Fukushima continues to lean; radioactive "yellow cake" material pulled out from underneath the reactor; the TEPCO/Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) connection (HINT: there's more honor in the Yakuza); mutated animals (baby seals, walruses, sea turtles, dogs) and plants in the US, Canada, Chernobyl and Fukushima; and local Japanese official who spoke out against nuclear after Fukushima happened found dead in his car of a shotgun blast.

Japan down to only 6 of 54 nuke reactors on line... and still no blackouts! Japanese Nuclear Accident Minister admits nuclear fuel may have leaked out of Fukushima and that exposure to radioactive materials increases the risk of cancer; gift certificates and pandas for Sendai City? In the US, safety violations and accidents at 3 nuclear reactors doesn't stop NRC from licensing four new ones; Arthur D. Little study of German nukes shows power costs waaaaay more expensive than first believed; baking soda for radiation detox (as used at Los Alamos!), anti-nuke year-end donation sites and of course, a reminder to help get petitions signed to get the California anti-nuke Initiative on the November, 2012 ballot.

Technical difficulties postponed planned interview w/Mary Olson of NIRS. Japan announces "cold-shutdown" of Fukushima to world-wide derision as the lie it is; peer-reviewed medical journal article links 14,000 USA deaths to Fukushima radiation - infants hardest hit; further compromise of Building 4 at Fukushima endangering the spent fuel rods it contains; atomic radiation proven more harmful to women than men, according to NIRS.org briefing paper; French power giant EDF dropping out of building new Maryland nukes; Japanese hospitals refusing to see patients who are sick from radiation; mutant vegetables in Japanese harvest; cilantro (coriander) for heavy metal detox; and California Initiative petitions now available at: SanOnofreSafety.org.

Interview w/Gary and Laurie Headrick on how San Clemente Green worked in local government to make significant anti-nuke advances... and how you can do it, too. PLUS: Attempt at a nuclear coup as 4 NRC Commissioners - one w/direct nuke industry ties - try to oust the semi pro-safety Chairman Jaczko, while Rep. Markey (D-Mass) calls them out as interfering with post-Fukushima nuke safety in the US. Plus 3 Fukushima-related deaths, radiation leaking from Hanford into Columbia River in Washington State, and TEPCO prevented from releasing "treated" radioactive water by raging Japanese fishing interests. Oh, and the jellyfish are at it again!

Interview w/Steve Zeltzer, organizer of the Dec. 3 conference on Fukushima, The Lessons of Nuclear Power and the Media; Japanese government panel studying enbrittlement of steel in nuclear reactors; Director of Fukushima nuke reactor stepping down because of undisclosed "condition" but no one is saying the "r-word" ("radiation"); Christian Science Monitor says nuclear power "threatens human civilization;" Hanford not safe according to Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass); further Obama ties to nuke industry revealed; and Japan's richest man is building 10 mega-solar installations while donating his future earnings for life to the victims of the March 11 triple disaster. Yay for this member of the 1%!

Terrific interview on the proposed California ballot initiative to shut down all in-state nuclear reactors with Ben Davis, Jr., who wrote it and spearheads the drive to collect signatures and get it passed. Plus Fukushima Diary blogger Mochizuki interrogated by 4 "officials" in Japan on his anti-nuclear activities and intimidated into considering leaving the country - financial and legal help needed, fast; Fukushima designer admits that the reactors are now in China Syndrome - melt-through to hydrovolcanic explosion possible; TWO, count them, TWO accidents in TWO days at Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina; two important Fukushima studies revealed to be edited by pro-nuker; NRC asks about Vermont Yankee and Entergy, "When is strontium 90 NOT strontium 90?"; background radiation spikes to danger level for first time in Los Angeles; Japanese food supply showing first indications of radioactivity above even government-inflated levels; and 1% of Fukuoka, Japan's population (15,000) show up for an anti-nuke demo; what would 1% turnout look like in YOUR home town? Let's try, shall we...?!

Terrific interview on the proposed California ballot initiative to shut down all in-state nuclear reactors with Ben Davis, Jr., who wrote it and spearheads the drive to collect signatures and get it passed. Plus Fukushima Diary blogger Mochizuki interrogated by 4 "officials" in Japan on his anti-nuclear activities and intimidated into considering leaving the country - help needed, fast; Fukushima designer admits that the reactors are now in China Syndrome - melt-through to possible hydrovolcanic explosion; TWO, count them, TWO accidents in TWO days at Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina; two important Fukushima studies revealed to be edited by pro-nuker; NRC asks about Vermont Yankee and Entergy, "When is strontium 90 NOT strontium 90?"; bg radiation spikes to danger level for first time in Los Angeles; Japanese food supply showing first indications of radioactivity above even the government's inflated levels; and 1% of Fukuoka, Japan's population (15,000) show up for an anti-nuke demo; what would 1% turnout look like in YOUR home town? Let's try, shall we...?!

In-depth interview with engineer Dr. Ernest Goytein (a former nuclear insider who switched sides more than 30 years ago) on nuclear impact on global warming, the embrittlement problem in aging reactors, and nuclear disasters we barely missed. Solid info from a genuine expert. PLUS: North Anna restart, mystery radiation all over Europe, Japan's free trips to visit their irradiated land (all it costs are your chromosomes and your integrity), The Fukushima Marathon for teenaged girls (no, I'm not kidding), The Biggest Nuclear Liar in India and more! What a week, what a world...

In-depth interview w/engineer Dr. Ernest Goytein (a former nuclear insider who switched sides more than 30 years ago) on nuclear impact on global warming, the embrittlement problem in aging reactors, and nuclear disasters we barely missed. Solid info from a genuine expert. PLUS: North Anna restart, mystery radiation all over Europe, Japan's free trips to visit their irradiated land (all it costs are your chromosomes and your integrity), The Fukushima Marathon for teenaged girls (no, I'm not kidding) and The Biggest Nuclear Liar in India. What a week, what a world...

Fabulous interview with Dr. Janette Sherman, contributing editor to Chernobyl - Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature. Hear how she's been forced to re-prove her study with epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on the effects of Fukushima radiation on neonatal mortality in the US in the seven weeks after the disaster started; French presidential candidate proposes cuts to nuke industry - and he's ahead of Sarkozy in the polls; Germany's alternative energy has them generating enough power to export it; Japanese broadcaster who ate Fukushima food on air now in chemo for leukemia; and North Anna's Dominion Power oligarchy again shown to deserve the epithet, "Liar, liar, pants on fire!"

TEPCO to get Japanese bail-out funds instead of jail time; radiation effects showing up on Japanese children; radiation plume in March hit west coast of US and Canada much harder than previously thought; Japanese kitten mutated in way eerily similar to children at Chernobyl; Japanese official drinks Fukushima water collected from puddle between reactors 5 and 6 by hazmat-suited worker; Belgium agrees to shut down its remaining nuclear reactors; and Homer Simpson proves to be a prophet: three-eyed fish found outside Argentine nuke plant.

Interview with Michael Keegan of Nuclear-Free Great Lakes; radiation news and health problems from Japan; Swedish nuclear plant fire; Canadian radiation higher than originally reported; Cesium in San Francisco-area milk... again; NIRS report on radiational harm worse for women than men; apple pectin good for more than jelly; San Clemente unanimous in lobbying for disposal of nuclear waste at San Onofre and construction of additional roads for evacuation; and eavesdrop on email between Arnie Gunderson and Prof. Christopher Busby.

Interview with Barbara George of Women's Energy Matters of Marin County, Ca; radiation news from Japan, including compromises to the food chain in plankton and rice; TEPCO muzzles anyone who wants to work for them and makes workers who accept a "danger bonus" of 10 euros ($13.50) an hour give up the right to sue later if they get sick; TEPCO shorts evacuees, cutting monthly payments from the equivalent of $1,300 to $650; crack found in nuclear reactor head in Ohio; new reactor design for Florida provokes "non-concurrence statement of dissent" from the NRC's lead structural reviewer; Interfaith Peace Walk from Diablo Canyon; Prof. Christopher Busby offers video on supplementation; and a surprisingly relevant 51-year-old quote from President John F. Kennedy.

Second of two hearings on San Onofre nuclear reactors will present the anti-nuke perspective tonight in San Clemente, CA; Japan radiation updates; Plants and trees reported dying in northwest Japan; Four generator failures hit US nuclear plants since April; NRC knew about thyroid irregularities in Alaska following Fukushima; TEPCO injects nitrogen into piles of reactor vessel #1 eject explosive hydrogen created when radiation dissolved water into its component atoms; Japan government tells residents to return to their homes in the former evacuation zone… and they refuse – can you imagine?!?

Report on NRC hearings on San Onofre in San Clemente, including on-site interiew with Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE); Radioactive water found beneath Hatch reactor in Georgia; GE Hitachi says 35 US nuclear reactors could fail during quake; North Anna semantic manipulation point to restart soon whether it's proven safe or not; nuke industry group sent $580,000 lobbying federal officials in second quarter 2011; Los Alamos clean-up claims toxed land will soon be suitable for residential development; TEPCO admits its own nuclear accident manual "useless;" mutant rats found in Tokyo; zeolite for health and radiation mitigation; activists blockade Hinkley Pint power station in UK; and approval of South Texas power plants delayed to allow full hearing on plant's foreign ownership - which is illegal.

Infant mortality spike in Pacific Northwest; radiation leak at Michigan nuclear reactor; Tweets from nuclear plant worker at Fukushima on potential for another explosion; cesium found in Japanese rice at 2-1/2 times safety level; if French explosion at nuclear reactor at Marcoule was "not nuclear," why was the worker killed there buried in a coffin with "antiradioactive internal shielding?" Calcium Bentonite Clay for detoxing your produce and yourself.

Infant mortality spike in Pacific Northwest; radiation leak at Michigan nuclear reactor; Tweets from nuclear plant worker at Fukushima on potential for another explosion; cesium found in Japanese rice at 2-1/2 times safety level; if French explosion at nuclear reactor at Marcoule was "not nuclear," why was the worker killed there buried in a coffin with "antiradioactive internal shielding?" Calcium Bentonite Clay for detoxing your produce and yourself.

Infant mortality spike in Pacific Northwest; radiation leak at Michigan nuclear reactor; Tweets from nuclear plant worker at Fukushima on potential for another explosion; cesium found in Japanese rice at 2-1/2 times safety level; if French explosion at nuclear reactor at Marcoule was "not nuclear," why was the worker killed there buried in a coffin with "antiradioactive internal shielding?" Calcium Bentonite Clay for detoxing your produce and yourself.

Great interview w/author-activist Ace Hoffman on problems at San Onofre and the power of his free ebook, an expose of the nuclear industry, THE CODE KILLERS; multiple problems emerging at Fukushima including evidence of renewed criticality, groundwater contamination, missing plutonium and radioactive cesium coming soon to an ocean near you; 60,000 Japanese in Tokyo demonstrate against nuclear power; new Arnie Gunderson/Fairewinds.com video on design flaws in the GE Mark I reactor, plus a list of 23 GEMIs still online in the US; radioactivity detected in France following explosion at Mancoule nuke plant last Monday; radical suggestion for managing radiation exposure (HINT: it's legal for some in California...); and NRC hearing on San Onofre in San Clemente next Tuesday - be there!

Interview with Gene Stone of ROSE (Residents Organized for a Safe Environment) on upcoming San Onofre/NRC hearings in San Clemente; Oct. 1 anti-nuke rallies planned in NYC and around the country - join in or form one!; North Anna exceeded design stats during east coast quake (we scooped the LA Times on that one); Fort Calhoun almost flunks safety; water leak shuts Connecticutt's Millstone reactor; NRC votes w/President Obama to shut Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump, but Republicans in Congress vow to fight this sudden outbreak of nuclear sanity; Fukushima sea radiation at least 3x higher than estimated...and increasing; Japan's government wants to stop citizens from taking thir own radiation measurements; Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima clean-up; effects of fallout on in-utero infants; and what Adm. Hyman Rickover told Congress about nuclear energy.

Summary of new audio - Arnie Gunderson interviewed by Dr. Helen Caldicott - wow!; North Anna's Dominion operators caught in lie about quake-resistance; Vermont Senate votes to block nuclear plant as of 2012; Fukushima workers receiving 17 times the maximum allowable radiation dose; and one bet Lloyds of London won't make.

Interview w/Sean Bonner of Safecast on providing free on-the-ground radiation monitoring devices to groups in Japan; post-quake damage suspected at North Anna in Virginia; post-Hurricane Irene "Unusual Event" at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland; "anecdotal" tweets and email from Japan reveal the devastating human toll of Fukushima; Activist opportunities in California, DC, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis; and a superfood for radiation detox that was used successfully on children after Chernobyl.

Interview w/Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog for Beyond Nuclear; East Coast quake knocks out emergency generator at Virginia nuke plant, causes NRC "unusual occurrences" at eight others; Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds on Japan's burning of nuclear waste as "recreating Fukushima;" Evacuate Fukushima video and petition - please sign!; Canada to test food sources; and what the Nuclear Numnutz say to each other when they think we aren't listening! www.NuclearHotseat.com

Nuclear News: Excessive radiation found in Fukushima fish; radioactive iodine found in the thyroid glands of Japanese children; shipping containers from Japan found to be radioactive; tweets from a hospital nurse in Sendai City @cases of radiation poisoning; Arnie Gunderson's latest update on hot particles and US government collusion with Japan to downplay Fukushima to the American public; audio of radiation rain in Toronto; demonstrations; Adrenal Fatigue in the wake of all this nuclear talk; and the music of decaying isotopes.

Interview with Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director of Green Action - Japan, based in Kyoto, about her work with families unable to evacuate children from Fukushima; Japanese govt. lies @ radiation plume lead would-be evacuees into greater danger; Wall Street Journal finds economics of nuclear waste "unsustainable;" Activist Moment by Mary Beth Branagan of EON3.net on how to handle nuclear depression; and a nuke "eco-tourism" site in the Phillippines.

Interview w/Michael Mariotte of Nuclear Information and Referral Service (NIRS.org); the week's nuclear news from Fukushima, Alabama, Ft. Calhoun; radiation protection tips from Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds.com; and simple ways YOU can get involved in creating a nuclear-free future.

Turkish Nuclear Reactors give #Russia a toehold into Mediterranean - reactor sites or pre-military bases? Journalist Pinar Demircan reports from Istanbul exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat.