

Nuclear Hotseat
Libbe Halevy
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Jan 22, 2026 • 60min
NH #760: Supreme Court Nukes Petition Opposing NM Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump – Kevin Kamps + Why Greenland? Award-winning Film Explains the Background
Demonstration in New Mexico against the High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Award-Winning Greenland Film on Uranium Mining/Rare Earth Battle – Kuannersuit / Kvanefjeld Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Even worse news at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as environmental oversight is set to be weakened. Numnutz of the Week...

Jan 15, 2026 • 1h
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
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Lynda Williams Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Sambal goreng udang (Indonesian sambal shrimp) – radioactive??? More radioactive food warnings from the FDA. You really don’t want to have any Indonesian shrimp dishes! Activist Shoutout:

Jan 7, 2026 • 56min
NH #758: BOMBSHELL! – Explosive New PBS Documentary on Atomic Bomb Media Manipulation + Parallels to Libbe’s Play!
KEYSTONE COVER PHOTO: NYTimes science reporter William L. Laurence – aka “Atomic Bill” – with Gen. Leslie Groves at the Trinity site. Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers This Week’s Special Featured Interview: Atomic bomb “bedtime story” sold to Americans and the media manipulation it took to create it. Having spent more than 13 years...

Dec 31, 2025 • 1h
NH #757: SPECIAL – Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! – Jack Cohen-Joppa
This Week’s Year-End SPECIAL: Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! with Jack Cohen-Joppa Yes, fighting nuclear is an uphill battle – but sometimes we win! Here, for a year-end boost of optimism, hope and community is Jack Cohen-Joppa. He and his wife, Felice Cohen-Joppa, are co-founders and co-coordinators of The Nuclear Resister, a 45...

Dec 23, 2025 • 59min
NH #756: Holiday Special – 83-Year Old Peace Hero Nun, Sr. Megan Rice, on her Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox” Break-in
Sister Megan Rice getting a well-earned hug upon her release from prison for her non-violent break-in to the Y12 “U.S. Uranium Fort Knox” to protest nuclear weapons. She served more than two years in prison. This Week’s Peace Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder: What You CAN Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons...

Dec 18, 2025 • 1h 3min
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...

Dec 18, 2025 • 1h 3min
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...

Dec 11, 2025 • 1h 1min
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
This Week’s Featured Interview: Zoomathon interview with Prof. Steven Starr Steven Starr LINKS: This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano Joseph Mangano and RPHP LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Will a Supreme Court ruling mean the end of Democratic commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission? Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):...

Dec 4, 2025 • 1h 1min
NH #753: Childhood Leukemia Rates Soar for Kids Living Near Nuclear Reactors: UK Researcher Dr. Ian Fairlie Exposes Industry Lies
Dr. Ian Fairlie speaking at Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Symposium: Fukushima Two Years Later: NYC – March 11-12, 2013 This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie, UK-based radiation expert, compiled statistics from 60 international studies done on leukemia rates for children living within 5 kilometers/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. His shocking results – all supported...

Nov 26, 2025 • 1h 1min
NH #752: In Memorium – Jim Heddle, Director, SOS: San Onofre Syndrome – Nuclear Film’s Fierce, Gentle Warrior
Filmmakers and life partners Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, who along with Morgan Peterson directed the award-winning film SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome This Week’s Feature: Some weeks, it’s personal. It is with great sadness that this week’s Nuclear Hotseat commemorates and memorializes a fierce, gentle anti-nuclear warrior who spent decades filming protests, meetings,...


