Nuclear Hotseat

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...