Nuclear Hotseat

INTERVIEW:  Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) shares her passion and vision for a women-led meeting with a White House superstar! PLUS: BIG STORY:  US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO over radiation exposure while on Fukushima disaster relief. ANOTHER BIG STORY:  NRC smacks SCE upside the head over San Onofre “restart” plans,...

 IN THIS NUCLEAR HOTSEAT PODCAST: Activists send in their requests to Santa for a nuclear-free 2013; US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; Russia gives us a clue what could be happening with Fukushima produce; Construction cost overruns and construction delays at Vogtle; French electricity giant EDF‘s...

INTERVIEW: This week, a special interview with two women who have lived the nuclear nightmare.  Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are American-born, fell in love with and married Japanese men, and were raising families in Japan when the Fukushima disaster began.   Both evacuated with their children to southern California, where they’ve become active in the...

INTERVIEW: Torgen Johnson is a Harvard-educated Urban Planner with a professional degree in Architecture from USC.  He brings a unique perspective to the nuclear conversation based upon three separate professional disciplines.  As a resident of southern California who lives near San Onofre, he interprets the risks to community and accumulated wealth from a single major...

SPOTLIGHT: San Onofre really heated up last week: Possible sabotage at Unit 3 now being investigated by the FBI; Radwaste steam generator leaking radiation at the SanO gates; Buddhist monks in San Clemente praying/fasting/chanting/meditating for an end to nuclear; NRC/SCE public meeting on SCE planned restart muzzles activists (as usual)… and Nuclear Hotseat is there!...

SPECIAL REPORT: THE NUCLEAR THREAT OF SUPERSTORM SANDY It seems we ducked the nuclear bullet from Superstorm Sandy… but what happens the next time there’s an attack like this from Mother Nature?  In this Special Nuclear Hotseat: Learn about what the real nuclear dangers were that 13 nuclear power plants faced from Sandy; Find out...

INTERVIEW:  Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the global fight for freedom and sanity.  www.abolition2000.org; www.wagingpeace.org. PLUS: San Onofre leaks again and it’s not even on line!...

PLUS: Japan’s new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be “nuke-free by the 2030’s”)… but no one is willing to take responsibility for authorizing restarts (I wonder why…); Children in Fukushima exercise on land registering over 100,000 bequerels...

INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his announcement two weeks ago that the country would be nuke-free by the 2030’s is now a worthless lie; Japan experiences cluster-quakes...

Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future September 20-22, 2012 An audio journey through three days of top-level activism, starring the best minds and hearts in the Nuclear-Free Future activist community.  This podcast includes interviews with or speeches by: Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein Rep. Dennis Kucinich...