Nuclear Hotseat

NH #791: SPECIAL: San Onofre Symposium – Is Full Decommissioning An Impossible Dream?

Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, showing off the latest family member and another reason why she fights against Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter You’d think dynamiting the Danube, raging wildfires and dropping river and lake levels would deter...

NH #789: AI and Nukes to Power Them? An Unholy Alliance – Physicist M.V. Ramana

NH #788: 2 Bombs, 200,000 Dead – Hiroshima/Nagasaki 81 Years Ago – Yuki Miyamoto on Legacy, Commemoration, Aftermath

NH #787: CALLS NEEDED: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Survivors in line for RECA Compensation – Vina Colley + Mangano on PORTS Cancer Rate Spike

NH #786: Protecting Navajo Nation from New Uranium Rush – Dr. Tommy Rock + Trinity Blast Nuclear Downwinders Tina Cordova, Bernice Guttierez

NH #785: HOW Many New Nukes?!?!? Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Demands & Other Insanities – Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group

NH #784: France’s Deadly Nuclear Test Legacy in French Polynesia: Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross + 100th Country Signs TPNW – UN Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

NH #783: Setting the Record Straight! Ketterer on RECA Radiation Testing in Colorado & NM, Gundersen Testifies to NRC Against Palisades Restart

NH #782: Mic Reversal! Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy Interviewed by Physics Chanteuse Lynda Williams on Start of Year 16

Back to where it all began – Three Mile Island This Week’s 15th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL A Look Back at a Decade-and-a-Half of Nuclear Hotseat! 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...

NH #781: Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! Caldicott, Jaczko, Starr, Graff, Church Rock, Rainbow Warrior, More!

NH #780: Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine - Nuke Reactors in a War Zone - Joseph DeMare

NH #779: Women, Children At Greatest Risk from Nuclear Radiation - UN Report by Mary Olson, Dr. Amanda M. Nichols

NH #778: NEW NUCLEAR BOOK - EnviroVideo Book 1 - Handbook for Action and Change - Karl Grossman, Frank Melli

NH #777: Arctic Ice Melt & Nuclear Radiation Dangers: UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones

This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): If you get ’em while they’re young, you’ve got ’em! That’s the adage followed by the nuclear industry with their propaganda, uh. outreach to young high school students and even the Scouts!

NH #776: Deadly Irony & Blind Spots at UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - John LaForge of Nukewatch

NH #775: Infant Mortality Rates Soar Near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors - New RPHP Report - Joseph Mangano, Christie Brinkley

NH #774: Nuke Tax Costs You HOW MUCH?!? Annual Nuclear Weapons Programs Tax Calculator - PSR's Dr. Robt. Dodge + NRC Comments NOW - Lynda Williams

NH #773: NE Ohio Nuclear Waste Superfund Site Exposes EPA Collusion + Nuke Industry "Playbook" to Avoid Clean-up - Reporter Greg Schwartz

NH #772: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster at 40 - New Safe Confinement UN-SAFE; Bulgarian Survivor Kouneva; Gundersen on Fukushima Comparison

NH #771: HEADS UP, MICHIGAN, CHICAGO! Palisades Reactor Restart Risks Nuclear Catastrophe - Gundersen

This Week’s Featured Interview: I have the privilege of working with some tremendously skilled, knowledgeable, big-hearted people for this show, but we’re usually so focused on the work at hand that we don’t get to engage in longer, more wide-ranging conversations. Linda Pentz Gunter That’s why this week’s featured interview is a particular joy for...

NH #770: NO TO NUCLEAR - Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story's Linda Pentz Gunter's HOT New Book

NH #769: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 47: Restart? Radwaste? Bill Gates/Microsoft AI? TMI Alert's Eric Epstein Explains the Bad Ideas

NH #768: Records of Veteran's Depleted Uranium Exposure Disappear - DOD Incompetence or Cover-Up? Iraqi War Vet Nate Teach

NH #767: Fukushima at 15 - Danger from Nuclear Triple Meltdown is Far From Over - Nancy Foust of Simply Info

NH #766: Iran War - Is the Nuclear Threat Real? Col. Ann Wright (Retired), 29 Year Military Vet & Diplomat, Now a Peace Activist, Parses the Issues

NH #765: Nuclear Humor?! Foreign Policy Expert Bill Hartung Relieves Ugly Nuke Facts w/Stand-Up Comedy + Reactor Radiation Mutations

NH #764: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Omits Victims in California, Piketon Ohio, Palomares Spain <!> - Dr. Michael Ketterer Has the Tests, Data

NH #763: Anti-Nuke Activist in the Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

NH #762: Navajo Nation Uranium Mine "Remediation" Con Job - Anna Rondon + Kevin Kamps w/Palisades "Zombie Nuke" Restart UPDATE

NH #761: NUKED Film - US Cruelty in Nuclear Bombing of Marshall Islands + DOOMSDAY CLOCK: 85 Seconds to Midnight

NH #760: Supreme Court Nukes Petition Opposing NM Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump - Kevin Kamps + Why Greenland? Award-winning Film Explains the Background

NH #759: States & Nukes: Hawaii Report Nixes Nuclear Energy - Lynda Williams; Court Sides w/ Boeing on Superfund Clean-up at CA's SSFL - Melissa Bumstead

NH #758: BOMBSHELL! - Explosive New PBS Documentary on Atomic Bomb Media Manipulation + Parallels to Libbe's Play!

NH #757: SPECIAL - Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! - Jack Cohen-Joppa

NH #756: Holiday Special - 83-Year Old Peace Hero Nun, Sr. Megan Rice, on her Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox" Break-in

NH #755: Japan's 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies

This Week’s Featured Interview: Here’s This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day.  She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News...

NH #754: Nukes in Space? Just One Explosion = Massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) = Buh-bye Grid! – Prof. Steven Starr + Cancer Rates near US Nuclear Reactors - Joseph Mangano

NH #753: Childhood Leukemia Rates Soar for Kids Living Near Nuclear Reactors: UK Researcher Dr. Ian Fairlie Exposes Industry Lies

NH #752: In Memorium - Jim Heddle, Director, SOS: San Onofre Syndrome - Nuclear Film's Fierce, Gentle Warrior

NH #751: SPECIAL: Powerful Navajo Nation Nuclear Films - Int'l Uranium Film Festival at Window Rock

NH #750!: SC's Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy - Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes!

NH #749: How Anti-Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World from Nuclear Weapons

NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - Film Explodes Nuclear "Protection" Myth of US Safety - Activists Get Active - Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group

NH #747: Nat'l Cancer Study of Residents Near Nuclear Reactors MUST take place BEFORE New Ones Built - Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

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...