Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

Nuclear Hotseat Episode 500! celebrates with a look back on 9-1/2 years of weekly updates on nuclear issues around the world. One of them: the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons enters into International Force of Law as of this Friday, January 22, 2021! Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Church Rock all reviewed in interview excerpts w/Caldicott, Gundersen, Hutner, Zabarte, Paul, more! Producer/host Libbe HaLevy shares the tale of how it all came to be.

Report on the Radioactive 2020/2021 Olympics Torch Relay thru Fukushima Prefecture, specifically the nuclear reactor's host city, Futaba. Different year, same old wrongheaded plans. Interview with Nuclear Hotseat's Voices from Japan producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, based upon on-the-ground sources.

Radioactive Tokyo 2021 Olympics are being used to cover up Fukushima's ongoing dangers to evacuees, residents. German pediatrician Dr. Alex Rosen of IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War provides an update to the problems and the pushback campaign.

A look back at so much that's wrong about the #Nuclear industry, seen through our most popular feature.

Would we recognize peace if it bit us on the posterior? Hiroshima Peace Culture Village shows the way, digitally! Learn how Peace and Peace Culture are possible with this HOPEFUL HOLIDAY SPECIAL from Nuclear Hotseat. Exec. Director Steve Leeper on how global Conflict Resolution based on corporate models would work.

Nuclear Pacifists Sentenced to Prison: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 to serve sentences up to 3 years for peaceful protest of Trident submarine nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia. Special ENCORE interview w/activists Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey. PLUS Tokyo 2021 Olympics - 1st dates announced.

#Nuclear #Downwinder - Journalist Playwright Mary Dickson puts a human face on the high cost of Nevada atmospheric nuclear testing with her play EXPOSED - & shows how in truth, we are ALL Downwinders. https://bit.ly/3lYc8zH

Nuclear Lame Duck Legislation being pushed through by exiting administration is mostly bad news for activists, environmentalists, people and the environment. Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS takes us through some of the 18+ nuclear-related bills facing a lame duck Congress right now, most pro-nuke, some being pushed through before Jan 20. Attention must be paid!

Chris Shuey of Southwest Resource and Information Center provides the institutional memory on the Church Rock uranium dam tailing spill disaster of 1979, ongoing problems with over 500 uranium mines that have not been remediated, and the Navajo Birth Cohort Study.

Social Media for Activists: Colleen Moore of Beyond the Bomb offers easy steps to expand our digital messaging reach & why we must. All of us. Yes, that means you. Plus corrections & opportunity to dialog w/Susan Hito Shapiro on Nukes & Climate Change.

Children of Atomic Veterans suffer DNA damage, cancers, told not to have children under top-secret, need-to-know only basis. But restrictions lifted in late 90's, allowing Victoria Moore to learn about her dad's radiation exposure to 20-40 A-bomb tests. To cope with her own genetic legacy, illnesses & isolation, she helped found Children of Atomic Veterans.

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: who/how/why did it happen? Ray Acheson of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom was in the rooms where it happened and tells the tale! PLUS: Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter rebuts “Science” Friday’s Ira Flatow and his most recent pro-nuclear shill job on NPR.

Radium Girls, a new film, tells the true story of young women poisoned by painting glow-in-the-dark watch faces with radioactive paint. nterview w/writer and director. PLUS a Covid/Nuclear UPDATE on report prepared by anti-nuke coalition for Congress and the news media. Dave Kraft of NEIS tells the tale.

New Mexico Nuclear & West Texas Nuclear proposed "interim" radioactive waste storage dumps - UPDATE with Leona Morgan & Eileen O'Shaugnessy of the Albuquerque-based Nuclear Issues Study Group.

BREAKING: #Nuclear Football = Nuclear #Armageddon in a briefcase, but #Trump's Covid + medical steroids raise mental issues. If he orders nuke attack, could he be stopped? Maybe! Raven Rock’s #GarrettGraff offers alarming information and a tiny bit of hope. PLUS: South African Award-Winning Climate Change Activist Makoma Lekalakala #NuclearHotseat 485

Chernobyl Truth, World Health Organization lies revealed by Alison Katz of Geneva, Switzerland-baed Independent WHO. She covers in great detail the health impact of radiation release, the Chernobyl cover-up by WHO, IAEA, UNSCEAR. Classic interview by Libbe HaLevy for Nuclear Hotseat.

Seabrook Nuclear station, in New Hampshire only 40 miles from Boston, has been licensed to operate until 2050 despite signs of degrading concrete in the containment vessel. Natalie Hildt Treat of watchdog group C-10 reports. Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Shoshone Band of Indians, presents a powerful "Message from the Most Bombed Nation on Earth." HINT: it's not Japan.

VoteClimate2020.org website vets US candidates on Climate voting record. Interview w/visionary activist Robert Manning & Maggie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. + Dave Kraft nails Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis with socko op-ed in Chicago Tribune.

A tour of the toxic, radioactive lands around Los Alamos, New Mexico, site of the WWII Manhattan Project site where the first atomic bombs were built. The area is still radioactive, with homes being built on hot spots - and now the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) is gearing up to build more plutonium pits - bomb triggers for ever bigger, more deadly nuclear bombs. Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety explains it all.

Saskatchewan First Nations communities have been targeted for the building of at least one small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). Why in an area that does not need the power? For mining and drilling interests to power tar sands exploration. Candyce Paul of English River First Nation on history of uranium industry lies, manipulations, propaganda - and the latest moves to use and contaminate the aboriginal people of Northern Saskatchewan. Intrerviewed by Libbe HaLevy.