Nuclear Hotseat

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?

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear-Free Earth – can we achieve it?  Karl Grossman provides the vision. He is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, and host of the television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman. Karl is the author of six books – so far –...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Disarmament:  Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day.  She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News and NBC News for...

This Week’s Featured Interview: New York Times Outed on Radiation Lies of Omission:  Beverly Deepe-Keever is an American journalist, Vietnam War correspondent, author and professor emerita of journalism and communications at the University of Hawai’i after 29 years teaching and researching there.  She is author of the essential nuclear reference book, NEWS ZERO: The New...