Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea. Dr. Caldicott Links: HelenCaldicott.com Helen Caldicott Foundation Book – Nuclear Power is Not the Answer Book – Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman shares insights on the Indian Point Closure agreement, the hidden manipulation tactics of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and gives us examples of how activists have successfully scuttled nuclear industry plans. Karl Grossman’s Links: Article – “An Engineer’s Perspective on the Indian Point Shutdown“ FREE download...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels.  Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe.  Step away from the hysteria… LINKS to the Simply Info articles referenced:...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Carpenter heads up Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that works with whistleblowers and lawmakers to help create a future for Hanford that secures human health and safety, advances accountability, and promotes a sustainable environmental legacy.  Here, he explains exactly how much of a challenge that really is. The Missing Links:...

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...