Nuclear Hotseat

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NH #790: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Extension Dangers Exposed as Gov. Newsom Kicks Can Down the Road – Linda Seeley Aug 20, 2026

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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 Aug 12, 2026

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and author M. V. Ramana Physicist M.V. Ramana has been featured numerous times on Nuclear Hotseat and his input is highly prized here not only for his understanding of nuclear power’s failures, shortcomings, and dangers, but the clarity with which he can explain it. He is the Simons Chair in...

NH #788: 2 Bombs, 200,000 Dead – Hiroshima/Nagasaki 81 Years Ago – Yuki Miyamoto on Legacy, Commemoration, Aftermath Aug 04, 2026

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Hiroshima before and after – One bomb did all this. FYI – Modern U.S. nuclear weapons are 20-80 times more powerful. 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,...

NH #787: CALLS NEEDED: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Survivors in line for RECA Compensation – Vina Colley + Mangano on PORTS Cancer Rate Spike Jul 29, 2026

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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....

NH #786: Protecting Navajo Nation from New Uranium Rush – Dr. Tommy Rock + Trinity Blast Nuclear Downwinders Tina Cordova, Bernice Guttierez Jul 23, 2026

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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...

NH #785: HOW Many New Nukes?!?!? Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Demands & Other Insanities – Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group Jul 16, 2026

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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?

NH #784: France’s Deadly Nuclear Test Legacy in French Polynesia: Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross + 100th Country Signs TPNW – UN Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Jul 08, 2026

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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...

NH #783: Setting the Record Straight! Ketterer on RECA Radiation Testing in Colorado & NM, Gundersen Testifies to NRC Against Palisades Restart Jul 02, 2026

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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...

NH #782: Mic Reversal! Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy Interviewed by Physics Chanteuse Lynda Williams on Start of Year 16 Jun 25, 2026

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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...

NH #781: Nuclear Hotseat 15th Anniversary SPECIAL! Caldicott, Jaczko, Starr, Graff, Church Rock, Rainbow Warrior, More! Jun 18, 2026

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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...

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