Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.” He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming. In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.

UChicago’s India Weston, a remarkable student anti-nuclear activist, on her 2 actions at UChicago Henry Moore Nuclear Energy statue, new-media methods to attract/educate next generation anti-nuke leaders, and why nuclear is a crucial issue for young people to understand and get involved in. Nuclear Hotseat 394 https://bit.ly/2VGuJEo

A look back at 2018 through the lens of Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature, Numnutz of the Week. Listen to the wacky antics of the world’s most dangerous technology as it sails through: Japan’s hard work to “normalize” Fukushima and its radiation so the tourists dumb enough to show up for the 2020 Radioactive Tokyo Olympics will think that everything is AOK! US nuclear crews who opt for “high” crimes and misdemeanors – not once but twice! Ancient, decrepit or just irrelevent so-called “experts” opining to a transfixed mainstream media in support of nukes… when they have nothing to do with them. The ongoing Fukushima Food Fight – whether it’s propaganda on the ground selling Fuku sake to New York hipsters or Japan taking South Korea and now Taiwan to the World Trade Organization to try to ram Fukushima fish down the throats of safety-conscious residents of other countries. Department of Energy playing word games to make us believe that high level waste is really low level waste – and

The Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice. She speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action. She and two other activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Recorded when she was newly out of prison pending a re-sentencing hearing. All further charges were later dropped. The break in was an antiwar protest referred to as “the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex.” Co-defendant Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, who along with co-defendant Michael Walli, 68, was sentenced to over five years in prison for their non-violent protest.

International Uranium Film Festival kicks off its Southwest, America tour with 22 films in 3 days at Window Rock, AZ, the capitol of the Navajo Nation. Filmmakers and activists from France, Denmark, Greenland, UK, Germany, India, Navajo nation -- and Ames, Iowa?!? All that and more.

Alison Katz, the head of Independent WHO (World Health Organization), continues to expose the lies and manipulations of perception regarding radiation impacts on health at Fukushima and Chernobyl. A powerful calling out of the nuclear powers-that-be. A special Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat #331, October 24, 2017.

Santa Susana Field Lab/Woolsey Fire Analysis: Joseph Mangano is an epidemiologist – a medical statistician – who has headed Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989. He is author or co-author of 37 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998); Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008), and 2013’s Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment. He managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.

The shuttered SanOnofre nuclear site flunks Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection after Aug. 3 near-miss of a disaster while loading hot "spent" fuel rods for storage on the beach. We barely dodged the bullet! Dr. Tom English reviews the bad news for So CA residents. Plus: UPDATE on Woolsey fire/Santa Susana Field Lab - nuke accident site - was there radiation in the smoke? Nuclear Hotseat 387 w/producer/host Libbe HaLevy

Norbert Suchanek is the Executive Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, which will be held in the American southwest beginning the end of this month. Norbert is based in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and we spoke on Thursday, November 1, 2018. Rebecca Cammisa is director of the award-winning, “Atomic Homefront” which was aired on HBO and is widely credited with helping to turn around the federal response to the problems of highly radioactive WWII Nuclear weapons waste illegally buried in the West Lake Landfill in N. St. Louis. Taylor Dunn and Eric Stewart are the filmmakers behind the work-in-progress OFF COUNTRY, an excerpt of which will be shown at this year’s IUFF.

Radiation exposure is not an equal opportunity danger. Little girls are harmed 10x more than the adult "Reference Man" used as the basis for laws & safety regs! Mary Olson of NIRS & new Gender & #Radiation website explains.

San Onofre nuclear nightmares continue: San Onofre Safety’s Donna Gilmore w/latest bombshell on dangerous spent fuel incompetence & NRC/Edison lies. Excerpts from speakers at the October 8 music/rally Songs for SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – get it?) at San Clemente’s famous Belly Up music club: Report on a videotaped Welcome by Gregory Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ian Cairns is a former champion surfer who was influential in establishing the world professional surfing circuit and particularly the World Championship Tour. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Ian has lived in California for 27 years and has family in Laguna Beach. Cathy Iwane was living in Japan with her husband and two children when the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdown happened. She shares how that event play out in her personal life and led to her leaving that country with her two children. Leona Morgan is a member of the Nuclear Issues Study Group, Haul No, and Diné N

Holtec proposed so-called "interim" radioactive waste dump in New Mexico meets stiff fight-back from environmental activists, NM legislators, anti-nuclear groups. Attny. Terry Lodge reports from the front lines: where we are and what's at stake. #NuclearHotseat 381 https://bit.ly/2pNdrGI

Ocean radioactivity and the way it transfers to land is the area of expertise of Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant who is a specialist in the behavior and fate of pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He has been a consultant for many of the major environmental campaign groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund.

UK’s Dr. Chris Busby, a successful science-based foe of the nuclear industry and the government’s lack of support for nuclear workers, speaks out on aspects of his attempted arrest on trumped-up suspicions of bomb making — all because, as a scientist, he has a laboratory in his home. And Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the group Just Moms StL, has helped shepherd community protest of radioactive waste from Republic Services’ two landfills that had contaminated the neighborhood, back yards, even inside the houses where they and others live. She provides background and context for this week’s report issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services regarding the health effects of the Bridgeton landfill stench. There’s good news – and bad news.

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all! LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.

Space Force, the proposed new military branch, has roots in Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists brought to USA after WWII. Bruce Gagnon of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space reveals its dark heart. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat 377.

Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War takes down official UNSCEAR report w/footnotes, peer-review studies, truth. Libbe HaLevy interviews for Nuclear Hotseat. PLUS: "sexiest" Numnutz of the Week yet! Those nuclear bombs really turn the military industrial complex creeps on!

This week's show covers Vermont Yankee's risky decommissioning - owner Entergy wants to sell radioactive dead nuke reactor to inexperienced demolition company! San Onofre near-accident update - the NRC is coming to town. Dr. Gordon Edwards on what radioactivity is and does. Plus the week's nuclear news and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding nuclear boneheadedness.) Nuclear Hotseat 375 w/Libbe HaLevy

San Onofre Safety‘s Donna Gilmore tells what she tried to say to Southern California Edison at the August 9 Community EnRagement, uh, Engagement Panel when the “experts” shouted her down. More scary information on how the nuclear industry is playing loose and fast with highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste, as well as Southern California’s future. Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explains a new project, Beyond Nuclear International – a source for in-depth news stories that get beyond the nuclear headlines to provide history, context and details. Sign up for this weekly email delivery.

SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR NEAR-MISS - A Nuclear Hotseat Full-Length SPECIAL Featuring: Charles Langley and Nina Babiarz of PublicWatchdogs return to Nuclear Hotseat to paint the picture of how Southern California Edison, Holtec, and the NRC continue to mishandle the forever-deadly radioactive legacy of San Onofre. The shocking statement by the San Onofre OSHA worker, whistleblower and HERO who blew everyone away (fortunately just figuratively… for now). It involves more than 30,000 lbs. of highly radioactive used fuel rods, equal to One Chernobyl of radiation that almost fell 18 feet! Doubletalking points from Southern California Edison’s Tom “Twitchy” Palmisano, showing that SCE was ready to “manage” awareness of the accident if necessary, BUT NOT TO REVEAL IT TO THE PUBLIC! Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org , trying to call out Palmisano’s statements as a lie, which got her shouted down by the Edison cabal.