Nuclear Hotseat

Hurricanes and Nukes:A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about nuclear power production, engineering, reliability, and safety issues.  She is also a former employee of the nuclear industry.Fairewinds Reports: Article – Hurricane Season and...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org again joins us to review the actual flooding at South Texas Project’s nuclear reactors next to Bay City, Texas. Satellite map of flooding at South Texas Project nuclear facility (UC Davis via Simply Info, with permission) Rundown on nuclear threat at Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear...

A Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL:The Ongoing Nuclear Aftermath ofHurricane Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter is Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear. Nancy Foust is Communications Manager & Research Team Member at SimplyInfo.org,  a not-for-profit research collective that holds and manages the world’s largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster. Susan...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: 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...

This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  He provides the history of US/N. Korea 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...

Featured Image:  Protesters against proposed Chalk River nuclear waste dump,intended to be sited next to the Ottawa River This Week’s Featured Interviews: 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...

Featured Image:  What a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would do to Lower Manhattan. This Week’s Featured Interviews: 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...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology.  He speaks on the Chalk River proposed Nuclear Waste Dump, its history, and the many ways it’s a dangerous, wrong-headed idea.  The first of three segments with Dr....

Encore Presentation of Nuclear Hotseat #272:EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan vs. TEPCO HearingAttorneys, Sailors + John Edwards 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...

Nuclear Hotseat: Downloaded in 122 Countries!(May, 2017 audit) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marshall Islands Sites: Nuclear Savage, the film: 465458 from adam horowitz on Vimeo.