Nuclear Hotseat

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Aug 6, 2025 • 1h 1min

NH #736: SPECIAL – Hiroshima/Nagasaki at 80 – How Our Nuclear Narrative Was Manipulated – 2nd Generation Hibakusha Prof. Yuki Miyamoto

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: On the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at what this meant for further generations’ health and psychology. Yuki Miyamoto is Nisei Hibakusha, second generation daughter of an atomic bomb survivor, and brings a personal perspective to her powerful work. She is a Professor...
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Jul 30, 2025 • 59min

NH #735: Lies of Fukushima Radioactive Tritium Water Release Report w/Tim Deere-Jones + Palisades Restart Dangers – Arnie Gundersen

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Japan’s False Narrative of Fukushima Tritium-Contaminated Water Release: Planned Restart of Palisades Zombie Reactor in Michigan: ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT
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Jul 24, 2025 • 59min

NH #734: Atomic Cabaret with Physics Chanteuse Lynda Williams at Edinburgh Fringe + Remembering Church Rock

This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: Remembering Church Rock: Last week, we noted the dual nuclear nightmare anniversaries of July 16, focusing on the Trinity atomic test blast 80 years ago. There was no time on that show to go into the second July 16 anniversary, 1979’s Church Rock uranium tailings spill on...
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Jul 16, 2025 • 59min

NH #733: SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – NM Downwinder Radiation Victims Set the Record Straight

The new commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Trinity site of the world’s first atomic bomb explosion finally acknowledges and commemorates Downwinders. (l-r) Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison of ICAN; Tina Cordova of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – New...
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Jul 9, 2025 • 59min

NH #732: UK’s Sellafield Leaks Orange Acid Mine Waste & Radioactive Water into Irish Sea – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + ICAN Children’s Peace Memorial

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive...
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Jul 3, 2025 • 60min

NH #731: Iran Can Still Make Nuclear Bombs – Uranium Enrichment Dangers: Dr. Gordon Edwards

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and he regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly what is going on, why we should...
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Jun 26, 2025 • 59min

NH #730: US Bombs Iran Nuclear Sites + Supreme Court Reversal – “Interim” Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dumps in NM, TX Now Approved – Kevin Kamps

US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES – WE ARE UNOFFICIALLY AT WAR A roundup of what is currently known about last Saturday’s bombing attack by the United States on Iran nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Next week will feeature an extensive interview on what level of uranium enrichment Iran has achieved and how close...
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Jun 18, 2025 • 60min

NH #729: 14th ANNIVERSARY! + Illinois Nuclear Moratorium Saga w/Dave Kraft of NEIS + Israel/Iran Analysis by Susi Snyder, ICAN

Yup – 14 years and 729 episodes down. What’s the half-life of a nuclear podcast? This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Featured Interview: Israel/Iran Bombings – Susi Snyder of ICAN Susi Snyder of ICAN parses the meanings and history of the current Israel/Iran escalating exchange of drone and missile attacks. Given the recent and almost...
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Jun 12, 2025 • 60min

NH #728: WANTED: Writers, Filmmakers for Nuclear Issues Media Database – TMI Survivor Jill Murphy Long

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear product rep claims to represents a process to “kill” radiation, tries to get Nuclear Hotseat host to endorse it. This does not end well for him… THE ICAN UPDATE – The Latest on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons from the International...
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Jun 4, 2025 • 59min

NH #727: Life in Japan’s Ongoing Radiation Disaster Zone – Good Idea? (NO!) “Return to Fukushima” Author Thomas Bass

This Week’s Featured Interview: Piles of bags containing radioactive topsoil scraped from all over Fukushima, still awaiting removal. Links from Interview: To purchase Return to Fukushima, go to: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Why the Golden Dome is another “insane” Trump obsession that won’t work. LINKS to Linda’s other work this week:...

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