Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING:  After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after delivering a letter demanding permanent shutdown to Mass. Governor Baker.  Nuclear Hotseat spoke with Diane immediately after her arraignment hearing.  Also in the news: ...

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Interviews: 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 and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns.  TEPCO never informed the US Navy...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is an independent marine pollution consultant and a specialist in the behavior and fate of marine pollutants in ocean, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation in the ocean from Fukushima and the UK’s Sellafield nuclear facility have impacted food safety at tremendous distances, as far away as...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Lou Ricciuti has been a nuclear researcher, writer and speaker for nearly 20 years on the radioactive waste-stream generated by Niagara Falls’ vast involvement in the earliest days of the Atomic Age. Veteran anti-nuclear activist Myla Reson reminds us of the leaked report from Nuclear Regulator Commission’s Dr. Michael Peck saying...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist who has been active, effective, visible and often controversial expert witness on radiation’s impact on health. We discuss his very different role in the recent lawsuit in the UK regarding British  veterans exposed to nuclear radiation while in the military and suing to...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: When is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Consent-Based Siting to decide the location of the next U.S. radioactive nuclear waste repository NOT “Consent-based?”  Two activists at ground zero of this domestic nuclear war tell all: Karen Hadden, Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development, or SEED Coalition, headquartered in Austin,...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, which is cited...

BREAKING:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be interviewed by John B. Wells for Caravan to Midnight, airing Friday, July 8, 2016, available for download thereafter for a small fee. This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of Canada‘s best known independent experts on...

BREAKING:  CA Lands Commission Bails on Responsibility, Won’t Hold PG&E Responsible forDiablo Canyon Environmental Impact ReportThis story hit as production was almost concluded; details in the coming weeks.  Enjoy listening to what was a brief moment of optimism. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace about what was then...

BREAKING – Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactorsto be Shut Down by PG&E… in 8-9 Years.Interviews on next week’s show.  This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Zealand anti-nuclear and climate activist Kevin Hester offers an in-depth analysis of what his no-nukes country is doing inviting a US naval vessel into its waters next year – an absolute legal...