Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

How the United Nations World Health Organization has systematically suppressed and misrepresented Alexei Yablakov's collection of over 500 Eastern European studies on the devastating impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He specializes in information on nuclear winter. www.NuclearDarkness.org

Former White House Energy advisor Bob Alvarez provides history, context & a sober perspective on our current situation with North Korea and how we got there. And Big Honking Win for those who oppose nuclear weapons as the Int'l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is awarded Nobel Peace Prize! HUZZAH!

Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a proper cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility that is highly polluted with radiological and chemical contamination. She calls current owner Boeing out on their lies and faux "clean-up" plans. Nancy Foust of Simply Info provides context, continuity and interpretation on Fukushima's ongoing problems in a new monthly feature, Nuclear Hotseat's FUKUSHIMA UPDATE.

Nuclear issues in the Lake District in the north of the UK, where activists in Cumbria are fighting government plans for a geological nuclear waste dump in their World Heritage Site. We’ll talk with Marianne Birkby, who founded Radiation Free Lakeland, and who is leading the fight against a range of nuclear issues in her region that have the potential to impact us all.

Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste that impacted the health of everyone in the area — including Patty. A trained investigator with Naval Investigative Service (NIS) and former U.S. Federal Criminal Investigator, Patty took on NUMEC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Babcock & Wilcox and Atlantic Richfield… and won.

Floods, winds, storm surge... and four nuclear power plants allowed to run at full power??? Examination of insane nuclear industry risks during Hurricanes Irma and Harvey - A #NuclearHotseat SPECIAL w/Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nucleaer, and Nancy Foust of Simply Info. Nuclear Hotseat #325.

Nancy Foust of Simply Info with the latest on flooding on-site at South Texas Project nuclear reactors as Hurricane Irma takes aim at Turkey Point, Ste. Lucie nuclear reactors in Florida. NRC lets reactor operators decide when/if/how to shut down reactors in the face of possible 185 MPH winds.

#Fukushima in Texas? 2 South TX #Nuclear reactors ran at 100% during #Hurricane #Harvey, now face storm surge from Gulf, up to 15' more rain, Colorado river cresting at record highs! Will design basis hold? Paul Gunter, Nancy Foust, Susan Dancer.

Kristen Iversen, author of the superb book Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, explains the Preliminary Results of the Rocky Flats Health Survey, which is meant to determine what has happened to the health of those who lived and worked in proximity with that nuclear weapons production site near Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Tiffany Hansen, M.A., is co-founder of Rocky Flats Downwinders, a community activist group that focuses on dangers faced by local residents. Dani Ball is a nurse who grew up near Rocky Flats and has epilepsy, just recently connected with Rocky Flats Downwinders and brought a body of knowledge to their attention that is exploding out the possibility of a link between epilepsy and exposure to ionizing radiation. She can be contacted directly via email or on Facebook.

Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He fills us in on how people in Japan are REALLY responding to threats of a possible missile strike on their country by North Korea. (SPOILER ALERT: Not very.)

Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means. For SC ratepayers, the news is not good! Terrie Barrie of the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups (ANWAG) explains how recent whistleblower accusations about intentional Department of Labor obstruction to delay payment to radiation-exposed workers workers have led to action. Hiroshima, Nagasaki Remembrance.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading! Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel. Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

On-the-ground interviews by veteran UK anti-nuke activist Nikki Clark at the Coulport Disarmament Camp in Scotland, just after a successful blockade of a Trident nuclear submarine base.

More Canadian Nuclear Waste Nightmare - Threats to Great Lakes, Savannah River Site – Libbe HaLevy interviews Dr. Gordon Edwards,

Dr. Gordon Edwards on Chalk River Nuke Waste Madness, dangers to Ottawa, Quebec drinking water. Historic audio from inside United Nations as Heidi Hutner calls Nuclear Hotseat from #UN just minutes after Nuclear Weapons Ban passes.

Exelon saying it will close the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, site of the infamous 1979 partial core meltdown... IF it doesn't get a whole buncha money from Pennsylvania to keep the money-losing, leaking, dangerous technology running. Scott Portzline of TMI Alert sorts the wheat from the lies.

On September 1, 2016, Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors and as a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic levels of radiation. At stake in this hearing: the right for the already ill sailors to have their case heard in U.S. court, not Japan.* (NOTE: The ruling handed own just this week will allow the case to proceed in the United States court system. This program lets you glimpse what it took to get here.)

#MarshallIslands #Nuclear test Atrocities fuel #UN activism on Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. Featured interview w/Desmond Doulatram, co-founder of the NGO #REACH-MI (#Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity - Marshall Islands).