Episodes

  • NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno

    NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno
    May 15 2024
    This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American Tour office. Patricia (Patti) Ameno It is with great sadness that we let you know that Patti Ameno, long-time activist and a supporter of Nuclear Hotseat since our earliest days, has passed away. Patti grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not […]
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    59 mins
  • NH #672: "Oppenheimer" Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert "Bo" Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute

    NH #672: "Oppenheimer" Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert "Bo" Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute
    May 8 2024
    Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima City University. He is author of the book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha. Bo gives us an insightful examination of the many issues at play in Japan’s muted response to the film, as well as what has kept the country from developing a more robust […]
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    59 mins
  • NH #671: Chernobyl Lies by World Health Org. - Chernobyl Truth with Alison Katz of Independent WHO - a Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC

    NH #671: Chernobyl Lies by World Health Org. - Chernobyl Truth with Alison Katz of Independent WHO - a Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC
    Apr 30 2024
    This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes. Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources: No official Numnutz of the Week this week, but if there were one, this would be it: Vodka brewed by The Chernobyl Spirit Company, “a Social Enterprise producing high quality (and safe!) spirits made from crops harvested near Chernobyl.” I don’t care if – as they proudly state – at least 75% of […]
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    59 mins
  • NH #670: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary - Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman, Tim Mousseau, Alexei Yablakov, Ryuichi Hirokawa

    NH #670: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary - Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman, Tim Mousseau, Alexei Yablakov, Ryuichi Hirokawa
    Apr 23 2024
    The Elephant’s Foot – solidified melted fuel core at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Still highly radioactive, still dangerous. SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat classic episode to paint the picture of what happened and what it did to the people who lived through it, and what we still face. Originally produced for Nuclear Hotseat #357, April 20, 2018: Link:
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    59 mins
  • NH #669: UCSB Global Nuclear Legacies Conference on the Nuke/Race/Gender/Religion/AI/Climate Connection

    NH #669: UCSB Global Nuclear Legacies Conference on the Nuke/Race/Gender/Religion/AI/Climate Connection
    Apr 18 2024
    WHY WE DO IT: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace shows off a picture of her 3-week old great grandson – the next generation of reason for working against nukes. KEYSTONE PHOTO: Dream Team of Activists at the UCSB Global Legacies conference: (l-r) Jane Swanson, Libbe HaLevy, Linda Seeley, Melissa Bumstead, Heidi Hutner, Jim Heddle, Dr. Amanda M. Nichols, Denise Duffield, Mary Beth Brangan. This Week’s Featured Interviews Last weekend, UC Santa Barbara hosted a three day Global Legacies of Anti-Nuclear Activism conference in partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi. Presenters from around the world came together to […]
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    59 mins
  • NH #668: Erwin, Tennessee Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – Citizens Fight Back w/5-Expert Panel – Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue

    NH #668: Erwin, Tennessee Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – Citizens Fight Back w/5-Expert Panel – Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue
    Apr 10 2024
    Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered vessels. In recent years it has also reprocessed weapons-grade uranium into nuclear reactor fuel, which has impacted health and safety of people and the environment. Now, the U.S. government has granted NFS $57.5 million USD to refine uranium into thermonuclear bomb-grade […]
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    59 mins
  • NH #667: Outrageous Nuclear Bailouts -$14+ Billion of YOUR Tax Dollars & Counting! - Nuclear Waste Watchdog Kevin Kamps

    NH #667: Outrageous Nuclear Bailouts -$14+ Billion of YOUR Tax Dollars & Counting! - Nuclear Waste Watchdog Kevin Kamps
    Mar 30 2024
    Nuclear Bailout chart compiled by Environmental Working Group. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps Links from Interview: The Monthly ICAN UPDATE on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the latest on the Treaty from ICAN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He interviews Lina Hjärtström, ICAN Policy Researcher based in Sweden. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) suggests we nuke Gaza! Don’t believe me? CLICK HERE to hear him saying it on video! (Or just check the screen shot […]
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • NH #666: SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary - Timeline of the Accident, The Endless Future

    NH #666: SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary - Timeline of the Accident, The Endless Future
    Mar 26 2024
    Three Mile Island Alert’s Eric Epstein (l) and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, pictured at TMI’s 40th anniversary conference held in Harrisburg, PA, in late March, 2019. This week’s full-length Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL features interviews with: Our thanks to filmmaker Robert (Robbie) Leppzer, producer of the two-hour audio documentary Voices from Three Mile Island, for permission to use excerpts from that work in this program. These include: Robbie Leppzer’s complete VOICES FROM THREE MILE ISLAND audio documentary is available as a free download at: https://www.powerstrugglemovie.com/voices-from-three-mile-island Libbe HaLevy’s nuclear memoir, YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK! One Mile from Three […]
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    59 mins