Dr. Michael Ketterer (l) and Brian M. Wilcox (r), collaborators and co-developers of the Arthur S. Ratcliffe Mobile Community Laboratory (Ratcliffe Lab). Michael is the Lab Manager and chemist, and Brian is the Chief Engineer and Physical Plant Manager. Seen here on location in Colorado. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gundersen’s NRC Testimony on Palisades Restart...

This Week’s Featured Interview: International Uranium Film Festival Executive Director Marcia Gomes de Oliviera and Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy, who was given a Special Script Award by the IUFF Lynda Williams’ not-so-subtle logo for her upcoming podcast, Nuke Puke Song – Depleted Uranium – Words, Music, and Vocal by Lynda Williams: Numnutz of the...

Back to where it all began – Three Mile Island This Week’s 15th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL A Look Back at a Decade-and-a-Half of Nuclear Hotseat! Nuclear Hotseat started as a conference call (I didn’t know how to do a podcast) on June 14, 2011, only three months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. In the 15...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph DeMare LINKS from the interview: To Contact the International Atomic Energy Agency: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter The White House plans to let private companies use surplus plutonium in their experimental startup reactors. More insanity! The Nuclear Resister: Jack Cohen-Joppa How one man’s persistence first stigmatized, then...

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: United Nations report on the generational impact of nuclear radiation on women and children, written by Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project and Dr. Amanda M. Nichols. We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman (above) and Frank Melli, with book Award-winning environmental journalist Karl Grossman and producer/media activist and strategist Frank Melli, the team behind the long-running program Enviro Close-Up, on their new book which is based on the interviews from that show: EnviroVideo Book 1: Repurposing the TV series into a handbook...

Massive icebergs from Jakobshavn Glacier melting in Disko Bay on sunny summer evening, Ilulissat, Greenland. This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Heads up on drone dangers! Whether it’s hitting nuclear power plants or going rogue, autonomous drones are our latest lethal threat. Here’s Linda Pentz Gunter with this...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): If you get ’em while they’re young, you’ve got ’em! That’s the adage followed by the nuclear industry with their propaganda, uh. outreach to young high school students and even the Scouts!

This Week’s Featured Story: Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) just released a new study on infant mortality rates in San Luis Obispo County in proximity to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, comparing the levels in infant deaths and premature births from before the nuclear reactors were built to today. Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, founder...

This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from interview: Physicist Lynda Williams: NRC COMMENTS DUE NOW! Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): On Lawrence O’Donnell’s cable show The Last Word, former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz states that Iran already has uranium enrichment levels that could be used to make a bomb (info Nuclear Hotseat presented...