71 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from August 2011 to October 2026. Most recent: “NH #797: IDAHO! It’s NOT a “Nuclear Lifestyle Innovation Campus” – it’s a RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP! – Leigh Ford, Heidi Henderson of Snake River Alliance + BREAKING NEWS on Santa Susana Field Lab “Clean-up””.
Idaho courted to become site of massive nuclear waste dump, aka "Nuclear Lifestyle Innovation Campus." Idaho NGO leaders explain expose disinformation, dangers.
Nuclear collusion between EPA, NE Ohio's Industrial Excess Landfill Superfund site & discredited remediator Tetratech - the playbook on how to dismiss nuke danger.
Supreme Court refuses to hear petition protesting New Mexico proposed high level radioactive waste dump. Greenland as target for US explained in award-winning 2017 film.
Walmart Radioactive Shrimp Recall - How did contamination happen? Kimberly Roberson of FFAN spells it out + San Onofre battle for safe radwaste storage
Round-up of what's currently known about US bombing of Iran nuclear sites + Supreme Court reverses ban on building nuclear waste dumps in Texas, NM.
Canada seeks to site radioactive nuclear waste dump on indigenous lands and Ohio Christian group buys radioactive school for a rehab center! Activists push back.
Radioactive waste from uranium mining, reactors & weapons production - it lasts forever, deadly to health & DNA. What's to be done? Report on symposium Radioactive Waste: Growing T
$14+ billion taxpayer dollars for nuclear bailouts? Outrageous! Veteran nuclear waste watchdog Kevin Kamps exposes the absurdity of the nuclear money pit.
Canada's proposed radioactive nuclear waste dump adjacent the Ottawa River threatens drinking water for Ottawa, Montreal. First Nations & 140 communities oppose it. Dr. Gordon Edwa
Ohio want to make Portsmouth/Piketon a Nuclear (Waste) Hub but cancer death rates skyrocket near the nuke site & politicians go deaf to warnings.
France's A-bomb Tests in French Polynesia, sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, refusal of reparations to indigenous people - 2 experts report.
NRC semantics risks turning Utah uranium mine into int'l nuclear waste dump. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe fights back to save their water, land.
Idaho National Laboratory in the southeastern portion of the state has, in the past, disposed of radioactive waste in 55 gallon drums by dumping them and covering them with dirt – pictured above. Are you feeling safe? Thi
Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Dangers – Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear runs down what’s wrong with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granting a license for an “interim” (really forever) new nuclear waste dump in West
Radioactive Waste Dump Connection between Yucca Mt. (pictured above) and its the NRC-approved West Texas so-called “interim” waste site exposed and lambasted by Western Shoshone Principal Man Ian Zabarte. This Week’s Featu
Radioactive waste dumping in the Bristol Channel off Cardiff Coast from UK nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point is being carried out by dredgers similar to this one (and leaving comparable plumes of pollution). Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones
New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on a panel on how to stop Los Alamos plutonium pit production and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expansion and extension, and promote the United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. (Picture a s
New Mexico Nuclear Nightmare SPECIAL : DOE wants Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to get a new “ventilation” shaft – but activists point to long range plans by DOE to expand the site to take 50+ TONS of plutonium &
Nuclear Pacifists – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, 6 of whom have now been sentenced and imprisoned for their non-violent protest against the Trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia Listen Here: [powerpress] Thi
New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump: Two proposed radioactive nuclear waste dump sites in NM and West Texas, and all the routes that existing waste would have to take to get there. Map courtesy Nuclear Issues Study Group LISTEN HERE: [powe
Exelon Nuclear Hostage Crisis called out by Dave Kraft of NEIS , seen here at his command control console for slaying nuclear dragons. NOTE: Letters are still needed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing plans for Holtec to bu
San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canisters to High Tide on the beach. Can you spot the problems? HINT: There
Radioactive waste dump in Ontario on the shores of Lake Huron was resoundingly rejected and the idea killed in a vote by members of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, on whose land the proposed deep geological repository was to be sited… les
Smug Stupid Los Alamos: A guide to the atomic hot spots – meaning REALLY hot – around the radioactive Manhattan Project legacy sites with Joni Arends of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Pictured above: How much more smug c
Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together
Radioactive Nuclear Waste in Southern California : Google Maps image of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ‘s radioactive fuel rod storage canisters. Each one contains as much radiation as was released during the Chernobyl acci
NUCLEAR UPDATE: Three Mile Island Alert billboard states the plain and ugly truth about the radioactive waste left behind – that closing the reactors is only the first step in an endless process. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week
Uranium Miner Larry J. King (center) explains the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach that dumped more than 94 million gallons of uranium contaminated waste water into the adjacent Puerco River – a nuclear disast
Radioactive Waste Storage – NUCLEAR NIMBY: Activists rally against the proposed Holtec-Eddy/Lea consolidated so-called “interim” nuclear waste dump in New Mexico – January, 2019 SPECIAL REQUEST: Next week, I will be
Radioactive Nuclear Reactors – Millstone Nuclear’s strontium 90 spew into surrounding community was exposed by the late Katie the Goat’s milk. Her great-granddaughter Victoria carries on the family tradition. This WeekR
Diablo Canyon Nuclear activists from 2015 planning event This Week’s Featured Interviews: Harvey Wasserman is a veteran activist, author, and host of Pacifica’s KPFK-FM program Solartopia . He’s a firebrand when it c
New Mexico nuclear waste dump? A mock radioactive waste canister representing the 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods Holtec wants New Mexico to store until a permanent high level radioactive waste facility is built. (Don Hancock
New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad This Week’s Featured Interview: New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( WIPP ) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don
Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the comp
San Onofre Demonstration in San Clemente, CA, August 12, 2018 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 pic
Radiation Dump in NM or West Texas? No way! Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Haul No! Reports on NRC Public Scoping Meeting on Proposed Holtec “interim” High Level Radioactive Waste Dump This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr
Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY , which examines lives
Canada Nuclear Waste Dump in Chalk River, Ontario – “Mobile Chernobyl” highway route waste would take from Los Alamos National Labs This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coal
Southern California Edison plans to bury San Onofre radioactive waste 108 ft. from Pacific in cracking canisters 70 miles from LA! Madness!
Featured Image: Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World” (1936-2017) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marianne Birkby is a wildlife artist who founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 to oppose geological dumpin
Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility continues his interview with Libbe HaLevy, covering the transport of highly radioactive liquid nuclear w
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. He speaks on the Chalk
This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps , Nuclear Waste Watchdog/Bulldog for Beyond Nuclear , gives an all-encompassing vision of nuclear waste problems faced by not just the United States, but the world. Included in his dis
Listen Here: [powerpress] HANFORD UPDATE: New Accident – Radioactive contamination of worker’s clothes as underground double-sided tank containing 800,000 gallons of radioactive waste shows signs of leak. Old Accident – Ma
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation ; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Activists and genuine experts from around the US, Canada and First Nations gathered in Chicago last weekend for a National Radioactive Nuclear Waste Strategy Summit – a 3-day planning extravaganz
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill and has been passionately involved in its clean-up, as well as being active in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a c
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the
This Week’s Featured Interview: Dave Sweeney has been active in the uranium mining and nuclear debate for two decades through his work with the media, trade unions and environment groups on mining, resource and indigenous issues. He w
WEST LAKE LANDFILL BREAKING NEWS The Senate has passed a bill to transfer remediation authority over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the s
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis – a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump – and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. FEATURED INTERVIEWS: The h
Featured Interview: Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo reveals the political manipulations, intimidation tactics and loose-and-fast burying of nuclear waste at WCS in West Texas, along with personal recollections of growing up the son o
INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock is Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. Don, a Nuclear Hotseat regular, brings us up to date on the ongoing aftermath o
The 55 gallon drum of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Lab that “popped its lid” and released Plutonium and Americium into the environment on Valentine’s Day, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:
BREAKING: Second death in the USS Reagan/Operation Tomadachi case. Exclusive interview w/Charles Bonner , attorney for the sailors in the $1 Billion lawsuit against TEPCO, General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi. INTERVIEWS: Don
“Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?” at Frieze Art Fair in London INTERVIEWS: At Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) near Carlsbad, NM, Department of Energy restarts exhaust fan exposed to Plutonium and Americium during Februa
INTERVIEWS : Focus on the American southwest and the fallout from the Valentine’s Day radwaste container explosion at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP site in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Don Hancock, Executive Director of Sout
INTERVIEWS: Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear goes after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s latest actions in speeding approval of all nuclear reactor license extensions and new builds, plus highlights the votes of compromised lame duck
URGENT – THE EPA PLANS TO RAISE “ALLOWABLE” RADIATION LIMITS BY AS MUCH AS A FACTOR OF 350! ACCEPTING COMMENTS UNTIL AUGUST 3, 2014 – WRITE TO THEM NOW! http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2
FEATURED: Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Information and Research Center , brings us up to date with another insightful update on what’s happening at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site following the February
FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock , Director of Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM, brings us up to date on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site , including his take on the “green kitty litter” no
Nuclear Hotseat #149: WIPP Radiation Leak SPECIAL – Download Here Spotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees: Don Hancock , Director of Sout
Nuclear Hotseat #146: Latest WIPP Radiation Release Update, Bequerels Awareness Day, UN’s Deadly Radiation Lies – http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/1a1ba8c9-5529-9e3b-4a42-98a476bb2688.mp3 .
Fukushima Collective Evacuation Lawsuit attorney Toshio Yanagihara (left), and voluntary evacuee Katsumi Hasegawa (right), met with Noam Chomsky and a Fukushima mother and child in Tokyo recently. FEATURING: Don Hancock of Southwest Researc
INTERVIEW: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again fills us in on the latest developments at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico following the Valentine’s Day radiation leak.&nb
Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Memoir Ebook #1 in Category on Amazon Kindle 3 Days in a Row! Buy it here: http://amzn.to/1llNo2w INTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown, director of the Safe Energy Project for the Santa Barbara-based World Business
BREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice sentenced to 2 years, 11 months for peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Co-defendants get 5 yrs. 2 months each. Details on next week’s Nuclear H
TEPCO plans to begin removing fuel rods from Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima as of November 6, 2013 – putting at risk the equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of nuclear radiation . This could be an extermination level event for
Interview : Mary Olson, Director of Southeast Office of NIRS.org , on what the June 8 DC court ruling means to the battle against nuclear waste production (meaning reactors and their radioactive legacy). This woman is a c
Any time Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds.com posts an updated report, it’s important to pay attention. As a former nuclear industry insider who ran a power plant, he has a clear eye on the truth of what’s happening and prese