Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Evolutionary biologist Dr. Timothy Mousseau on his on his groundbreaking, on-the-ground research at Chernobyl and Fukushima on the mutations showing up in a wide variety of species.  A Nuclear Hotseat special encore presentation. Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental Council and the Nuclear Matters Committee for the Sierra Club on the TVA...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Scott Portzline is the the Security Consultant to Three Mile Island Alert in Harrisburg, PA.  He fills us in on cyber security attacks, near-misses and lack of vigilance at US nuclear reactors. Alexei Yablakov Memorial: Russian scientist Dr. Alexei Yablakov brought together the work of dissident Soviet scientists and revealed to...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Paul Gunter is Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear specializing in all aspects of reactor hazards and security. We discuss France’s Areva Le Creusot forge and the faulty major nuclear reactor parts produced there which are reported to be in use by 19 US nuclear reactors on 11 sites. LINK to...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Christopher Busby, a British nuclear scientist who has been representing UK nuclear test veterans in a major court case, shares some remarkable new information about the impact of low dose radiation on fertility and genetic health.Dr. Busby’s article in The Ecologist: The “Genetics” Letter, the Euratom Suicide Clause, and the...

Nuclear Hotseat takes a look back at 2016 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week: Thrill as you hear the unbelievable truths about: Fukushima 2020 Tokyo Olympics (aka the NOlympics) Rocky Flats Radioactive waste shipments Nuclear industry propaganda, spin and lies Radioactive foods How to legally buy depleted uranium – makes a great gift...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Lucas Hixon is a nuclear researcher who has been on-the-ground at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, part of a US-led coalition of experts and professionals who work hand in hand with the workers.   We spoke initially while he was in Ukraine, but waited until he was back in...

Photo:  Mike Dailey, hanging Christmas Lights at his home in Spanish Village, where tests confirmed radioactive Thorium 230 contamination. © Copyright Christen Commuso and Humans of West Lake Landfill, used by permission This Week’s Featured Interview: Robbin Ellison Dailey and her husband Mike own the home in North St. Louis less than half a mile from...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmaker Robbie Leppzer discusses his new film, POWER STRUGGLE, about the battle to close down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.  Excerpts from the film include some choice observations by nuclear engineer and Fairewinds Energy’s Arnie Gundersen. Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy EducationTestifying on the Vermont Yankee Shutdown hearings as...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and an outspoken critic of Japan’s nuclear policies, has issued a statement calling for the United Nations to hold an “International Day for Global Ethics” in the wake of their resolution to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.  The interview is an Encore Presentation...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole...