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Nuclear Hotseat
Libbe Halevy
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Nuclear Hotseat
NH #750!: SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy – Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes!
This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Clements has been the director of Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest organization in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2014. SRS Watch monitors US Department of Energy management of weapon-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, and clean-up of high-level nuclear waste, with a focus on the Savannah River Site. While in...
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1 week ago
59 minutes 11 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #749: How Anti-Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World from Nuclear Weapons
NOTE: I needed to go in for a medical procedure this week (don’t worry; I’m fine) and was unable to produce a new episode. Given that President Trump has threatened to resume nuclear testing – with no specifics of whether that’s atmospheric or underground explosions – I think this is a good opportunity to look...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 7 minutes 11 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group
A House of Dynamite by Katherine Bigelow This Week’s Featured Interview: A new film, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, by Oscar-winning director Katherine Bigelow, follows what would happen in the 18 minutes following discovery of a nuclear missile aimed at the United States. It exposes vulnerabilities to our purportedly 100% protection from incoming nukes and creates...
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3 weeks ago
59 minutes 35 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #747: Nat’l Cancer Study of Residents Near Nuclear Reactors MUST take place BEFORE New Ones Built – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano
Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, head of Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) This Week’s Featured Interview: Such a national study of the health risks posed by existing reactors should: LINK: Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power – original article by Joseph Mangano and the...
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4 weeks ago
1 hour 28 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center
This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: This year’s 35th annual Westheimer Peace Symposium was based on the theme “Practicing Art, Practicing Nuclear Abolition” It was presented in conjunction with the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Academic conference: Archives as Witness from Monday, September 29 through Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. I attended...
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1 month ago
59 minutes 23 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #745: Nuclear Funeral for LA’s Santa Susana Field Lab Radiation Clean-up + Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Nightmare Continues
Tombstone for Protest “Funeral” for Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up. (Photo Credit, Melissa Bumstead) Keystone (cover) photo credit: Sean Muniz via Snappr This Week’s Featured Interview: The long-promised clean-up of radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab site near downtown Los Angeles is being killed by Boeing & CA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. Mothers from Parents...
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1 month ago
59 minutes 39 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #744: The Deadly Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards + Halloween Preview
This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activists and concerned citizens about...
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1 month ago
58 minutes 59 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #743: SPECIAL! Libbe’s play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE a Smash at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center
Ollie Basta, playing the lead role of podcaster/activist Jessie Keever, addresses a rally at the United Nations at the climax of ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE This Week’s Two-Part Very Special Feature – The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College and the Play: Ollie Basta as podcaster/activist Jessie Keever in ATOMIC BILL AND THE...
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1 month ago
1 hour 5 minutes 27 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #742: SPECIAL: Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change – Physicist M. V. RAMANA
This Week’s Featured Interview: CLICK on book cover to purchase from Amazon. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)
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2 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 28 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #741: We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders – Prof. Robert Jacobs book The Global Hibakusha
PERSONAL NOTE: Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I’m in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured...
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2 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 15 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #740: Walmart Radioactive Shrimp Recall – FFAN’s Kimberly Roberson + San Onofre RadWaste Storage Battle Heats Up – Gary Headrick
William L. Laurence – “Atomic Bill” (l) – and J. Robert Oppenheimer (r) at the Trinity Site, one month after detonation of the first atomic bomb. Libbe’s Play: ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUEPremieres Sept. 9 at Wilmington Peace Resource Center Next Tuesday, September 9, my play on media manipulation at the dawn of the...
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2 months ago
59 minutes 45 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #739: Executive Order: NRC Now Tasked w/”ENABLING” New Nukes?!? Stupid/Dangerous Nuclear Languaging Tricks w/LNT – Cindy Folkers
This Week’s Featured Interview: Cindy Folkers is Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, with close to 20 years experience. She co-authored with Dr. Ian Fairlie the book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. Here, she breaks down what’s wrong with the recent nuclear Executive Orders, including the mandate to...
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2 months ago
1 hour 16 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #738: Women and Children Worst! Generational Nuclear Radiation Risks Revealed in New UN Report by Mary Olson, Dr. Amanda M. Nichols
United Nations report on the generational impact of nuclear radiation on women and children, written by Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project and Dr. Amanda M. Nichols. This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is...
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3 months ago
1 hour 30 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #737: The Lie of Nuclear Deterrence – ICAN’s Melissa Parke in Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Korea for Atomic Bomb 80th Commemorations, Hibakusha
This Week’s Featured Interview: ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke in Hiroshima. Photo: ICAN / Takeo Nakaoku Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, traveled to Japan for the 80th anniversary commemorations of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She is a former Australian Minister for International...
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3 months ago
59 minutes 24 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #736: SPECIAL – Hiroshima/Nagasaki at 80 – How Our Nuclear Narrative Was Manipulated – 2nd Generation Hibakusha Prof. Yuki Miyamoto
This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: On the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at what this meant for further generations’ health and psychology. Yuki Miyamoto is Nisei Hibakusha, second generation daughter of an atomic bomb survivor, and brings a personal perspective to her powerful work. She is a Professor...
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3 months ago
1 hour 46 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #735: Lies of Fukushima Radioactive Tritium Water Release Report w/Tim Deere-Jones + Palisades Restart Dangers – Arnie Gundersen
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Japan’s False Narrative of Fukushima Tritium-Contaminated Water Release: Planned Restart of Palisades Zombie Reactor in Michigan: ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT
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3 months ago
59 minutes 15 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #734: Atomic Cabaret with Physics Chanteuse Lynda Williams at Edinburgh Fringe + Remembering Church Rock
This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: Remembering Church Rock: Last week, we noted the dual nuclear nightmare anniversaries of July 16, focusing on the Trinity atomic test blast 80 years ago. There was no time on that show to go into the second July 16 anniversary, 1979’s Church Rock uranium tailings spill on...
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3 months ago
59 minutes 2 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #733: SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – NM Downwinder Radiation Victims Set the Record Straight
Trinity atomic bomb blast, 0.044 seconds into the never-ending Nuclear Age. SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – New Mexico Downwinder Radiation Victims Set the Record Straight On the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb blast, the test at the Trinity site near Almogordo in New Mexico, Nuclear Hotseat gives voice to the Downwinders...
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4 months ago
59 minutes 8 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #732: UK’s Sellafield Leaks Orange Acid Mine Waste & Radioactive Water into Irish Sea – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + ICAN Children’s Peace Memorial
This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive...
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4 months ago
59 minutes 11 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat
NH #731: Iran Can Still Make Nuclear Bombs – Uranium Enrichment Dangers: Dr. Gordon Edwards
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and he regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly what is going on, why we should...
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4 months ago
59 minutes 36 seconds

Nuclear Hotseat