Nuclear Hotseat

This Week’s Featured Interview: Vina Colley Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on Elevated Cancer Rates Around Piketon: Joseph Mangano Links: The Nuke Resister with Jack Cohen-Joppa Here for another nuclear “milk and cookies” storytelling time is Jack Cohen-Joppa of the Nuke Resister with another story from our shared history of activist resistance to nuclear reactors and weapons....

Trinity atomic bomb blast – one second into the Atomic Age – July 16, 1945 This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dr. Tommy Rock is a member of the Navajo Nation from Monument Valley, Utah. He got his Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in Environmental Geography and Recreational Management in 2002, received his Master’s degree from...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Greg Mello, co-founder and Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett: Libbe’s Play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE – Staged Reading for Hiroshima Commemoration on Long Island! What is ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE about?

This Week’s Featured Interview: Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests at the Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia. This included 46 atmospheric tests that caused widespread radioactive fallout across the Pacific, contaminating an estimated 110,000 people —nearly the entire population of the territory at the time. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross at the...

Dr. Michael Ketterer (l) and Brian M. Wilcox (r), collaborators and co-developers of the Arthur S. Ratcliffe Mobile Community Laboratory (Ratcliffe Lab). Michael is the Lab Manager and chemist, and Brian is the Chief Engineer and Physical Plant Manager. Seen here on location in Colorado. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gundersen’s NRC Testimony on Palisades Restart...

This Week’s Featured Interview: International Uranium Film Festival Executive Director Marcia Gomes de Oliviera and Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy, who was given a Special Script Award by the IUFF Lynda Williams’ not-so-subtle logo for her upcoming podcast, Nuke Puke Song – Depleted Uranium – Words, Music, and Vocal by Lynda Williams: Numnutz of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHb375tWOwI

Back to where it all began - Three Mile Island

Nuclear Hotseat started as a conference call (I didn't know how to do a podcast) on June 14, 2011, only three months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began.  In the 15 years/780 episodes since, the show has covered a complete range of nuclear issues "from a different perspective," the information geared towards people who know nothing and want to know something about nuclear, and those who already know something who'd like to know just a little bit more.

In this retrospective, hear snippets from just a few from a range of interviews:

• Dr. Helen Caldicott on how she almost got Pres. Ronald Reagan to get rid of nukes completely.  (He didn't want to give up Star Wars.)

Dr. Helen Caldicott (r) being interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy

• Gregory Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on how he first learned about Fukushima, how he got his information, and what actions he took as a result.

Greg Jacsko, former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in Nagasaki for the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings, on why "deterrence" is a false concept and will not make us safe.

ICAN's Melissa Parke

• Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die, on U.S. plans to save the mucky-mucks and ditch the rest of us.
• Linda Pentz Gunter with her Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story anniversary offering.

Former uranium miner Larry J. King (center behind yellow banner) at the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill, telling the story.

• Former Dine uranium miner Larry J. King on his experience witnessing the July 16, 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill on Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

The Rainbow Warrior in Marsden Wharf in Auckland Harbour after the bombing by French secret service agents.

• New Zealand's Kevin Hester, who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior bombing that killed photographer Fernando Pereira. 
• Spotlight on Monthly contributors:
  
  • Alistair Burnett of ICAN with the ICAN UPDATE, focusing on the latest on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
  • Jack Cohen-Joppa of Nuclear Resister with stories from our shared history of non-violent direct action for a nuclear-free future to help inspire our activism today.
  • John LaForge with the NukeWatch Report, which was cut short when he "walked the walk" to protest U.S. nukes on Germany's Buchel Air Base and ended up in German jail.

And much more information on films, books, in memorium for those we have lost - all of it covered on 780 previous episodes. 

Libbe HaLevy's play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, received a Special Script Award from the 2026 International Uranium film Festival.  IUFF Executive Director Marcia Gomes de Oliviera on awarding the 2026 Special Script Award: 


“A future piece of great importance. This is a story that needs to be seen.”
- Marcia Gomes de Oliviera
For full story on the Award, CLICK HERE.

Joseph DeMare

• Joseph DeMare is producer and host of the podcast/broadcast For A Green Future, as well as a long time anti-nuclear and environmental activist. I read a passionate post from him on Facebook about the threats posed by Russian attacks on Ukrainian nuclear reactors, attacks which are coming ever-closer to triggering an irreversible radiological disaster, and knew we had to talk about it for this show. It gave us a chance to discuss other actions he is taking on behalf of people and the environment to combat the never-ending list of nightmares that we face.

• For a Green Future Podcast link:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/foragreenfuture
• Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@foragreenfuture6030?si=4dJkGsMDRzq9NINa
• Website: joedemareforagreenfuture.org

To Contact the International Atomic Energy Agency:

• General list of IAEA contacts:  https://www.iaea.org/contact
• IAEA Office at the United Nations: 
  [email protected]
  1 United Nations Plaza, Room DC-1-880
  New York, NY 10017, USA, T
  el: (001) 212-963-6010 or 6011
• IAEA  - Vienna International Centre
  Email: Official Mail
• PO Box 100
  1400 Vienna, Austria
  Tel: (+43-1) 2600-0
  Email: Official Mail

The White House plans to let private companies use surplus plutonium in their experimental startup reactors. More insanity!

How one man's persistence first stigmatized, then sparked resistence, then stopped shipments of radioactive waste into Idaho. 

https://youtu.be/ag0WNuq4PL0?si=CnL0I3zqSEvHt0rH