Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Ukraine – No, not bombs, but 15 nuclear reactors on the ground, including six of them just 120 miles away from where Russia has amassed troops on the Ukrainian border.  And let’s not forget the radioactive remains of Chernobyl in the north.  What are the risks?  What is behind this...

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a marine biologist – a radiation researcher and consultant – who specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here he provides a SPECIAL report produced exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat on the Nuclear Arctic radiation dangers.  Tim...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Tonga tsunami nuclear dangers are explored in two featured interview this week.  We look at the possible impact both on Fukushima and United States domestic nuclear reactor sites, most specifically San Onofre in southern California Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Research Team Member SimplyInfo.org, a not-for-profit research collective that holds...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator.  (NOTE:  Link is to Amazon, but we recommend you order it through your local independent book store.) In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump – is an action that the decommissioning company has planned for the radioactive water from the reactor spent fuel pool.  But Holtec has been receiving ever-growing pushback from Massachusetts representatives and the public.  Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group...

This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Treat: Nuclear Numnutz of the Year!  The annual Nuclear Hotseat chance to revisit some of the year’s worst nuclear impulses and actions.  It’s a look back at the highlights from 12 months of our most popular (notorious?) feature, Numnutz of the Week.  Shake your heads in unison at the wilde and...

This Week’s Featured Interview: We talk at length with Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, authors of LOOKOUT AMERICA!  The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War.   Learn about the U.S. Government’s secret Hollywood studio that filmed nuclear above ground blasts and turned them into pro-nuke propaganda; and cranked out other images and...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear reactor radiation and its impact on public health – especially that of children – is the focus of the work of Joseph Mangano.  He is a health researcher and epidemiologist who has served as a director of Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989.  Mangano is author or co-author of 33...

This Week’s SPECIAL Features: Fukushima radioactive water dump – and more.   This week focuses on the radiation dangers that Fukushima still poses – 1,280,000 metric tons of stored  tritium-contaminated radioactive water that TEPCO plans to dump into the Pacific Ocean; and the citizen-science testing proram that revealed Fukushima contamination throughout Japan. This week’s guests...

Plutonium Pit lawsuit - why no Environmental Impact Statement?