Episodes

  • NH #764: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Omits Victims in California, Piketon Ohio, Palomares Spain

    NH #764: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Omits Victims in California, Piketon Ohio, Palomares Spain
    Feb 19 2026
    Radiation warning sign in Palomares, Spain, where a U.S. bomber plane crashed in 1966, releasing four hydrogen bombs, two of which scattered radioactive plutonium over 200 hectares (@2-1/2 acres each) of farmland and residential areas. It’s still not cleaned up. This Week’s Featured Interview: It may only look like a trailer to you, but this is the Mobile Community Laboratory Dr. Ketterer referenced, where he’s testing for radiation in water and soil. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuking the moon?! No, no, it’s gonna be safe — really! (The “experts” say so!) Links:
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    1 hr
  • NH #763: Anti-Nuke Activist in the Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

    NH #763: Anti-Nuke Activist in the Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit
    Feb 11 2026
    This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Interview: Additional Resources: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Linda Pentz Gunter Nuclear nations should disarm first before telling other countries such as Iran they can’t have the bomb. Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - White House Pushes for More Nuclear Weapons
    • (00:02:39) - nuclear hot seat
    • (00:04:01) - The Trouble With Telling Iran It Can't Have Nuclear Weapons
    • (00:10:37) - Nuclear Deterrence Summit: Talking Points
    • (00:25:45) - Does radiation from nuclear power be too dangerous?
    • (00:28:37) - The 1984 Los Alamos Study Group Conference
    • (00:29:29) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:32:04) - The Nuclear Deterrence Summit
    • (00:40:55) - The Need for More Nuclear Weapons
    • (00:42:44) - Do You Think The Book Will Deter Nuclear Weapons?
    • (00:47:40) - The Nuclear Weapons Complex
    • (00:55:55) - Nuclear Hot Seat: Greg Mello
    • (00:58:10) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:59:02) - Nuclear Hot Seat
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    1 hr
  • NH #762: Navajo Nation Uranium Mine "Remediation" Con Job - Anna Rondon + Kevin Kamps w/Palisades "Zombie Nuke" Restart UPDATE

    NH #762: Navajo Nation Uranium Mine "Remediation" Con Job - Anna Rondon + Kevin Kamps w/Palisades "Zombie Nuke" Restart UPDATE
    Feb 4 2026
    Navajo Nation children make their wants and needs clear. This Week’s Featured Interview #1: Anna Rondon on government’s push for uranium extraction disguised as a “clean up”: Links: Featured Interview #2: Kevin Kamps and Holtec’s Planned Palisades Nuclear Restart in Michigan: ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett: Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) provides a look back at issues from 2025 and a summary of where we are now, including the latest on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or TPNW. He reports directly from ICAN’s headquarters in […] Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:04:41) - This Week's Nuclear News
    • (00:10:17) - Neutron Hot Seat
    • (00:12:12) - There are more than 500 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation
    • (00:22:28) - How Do the People of Navajo Nation Have a Voice on the Uran
    • (00:27:33) - Anna Rondon on the Nuclear Crisis in Navajo Nation
    • (00:32:49) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:35:19) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:36:12) - Palisades Nuclear Reactor: The Zombie Reactor
    • (00:43:04) - Holtak's plan to build 3 nuclear reactors near Palis
    • (00:46:37) - Kevin Camps on the Fight for the Great Lakes
    • (00:50:39) - Free Mordechai Vanunu
    • (00:56:28) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:58:00) - Nuclear Hot Seat
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    59 mins
  • NH #761: NUKED Film - US Cruelty in Nuclear Bombing of Marshall Islands + DOOMSDAY CLOCK: 85 Seconds to Midnight

    NH #761: NUKED Film - US Cruelty in Nuclear Bombing of Marshall Islands + DOOMSDAY CLOCK: 85 Seconds to Midnight
    Jan 28 2026
    This Week’s Featured Interview: The 2024 film NUKED presents the story of the US nuclear betrayal of the people of the Marshall Islands after WWII. The film won several awards, including Best Documentary at 2024 International Uranium Film Festival and has been picked up for international distribution by the Al Jazeera Media Network. March 1 marks Marshallese Remembrance Day, formally known as Nuclear Victims’ Day and Nuclear Survivors’ Day. It’s a national holiday in the Marshall Islands which honors the victims and survivors of nuclear testing done in the area in the 1950s. With March 1 just around the corner, […] Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - Nuclear Betrayal: The Marshall Islands
    • (00:04:00) - Doomsday Clock: Setting the Clock to Midnight
    • (00:07:41) - Nuclear Power: The Hot Seat
    • (00:15:50) - Nuked: The Marshall Islands History With US Nuclear Weapons
    • (00:17:29) - What Were the People of Bikini Atoll told beforehand that made
    • (00:29:01) - The Truth about Radiation Studies in the Marshall Islands
    • (00:33:18) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:36:22) - Nuked: The Marshall Islands Nuclear Tests
    • (00:41:04) - Runit Dome: The radioactive waste dump in the Pacific
    • (00:43:49) - The Marshall Islands: A Nuclear War
    • (00:50:55) - The Compact of Free Association with the Marshall Islands
    • (00:53:02) - Marshall Islands: The Nuclear Testing
    • (00:56:45) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:58:43) - Nuclear Hot Seat
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    1 hr
  • NH #760: Supreme Court Nukes Petition Opposing NM Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump - Kevin Kamps + Why Greenland? Award-winning Film Explains the Background

    NH #760: Supreme Court Nukes Petition Opposing NM Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump - Kevin Kamps + Why Greenland? Award-winning Film Explains the Background
    Jan 22 2026
    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 (For Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Military personnel at an Army base in Alaska responsible for protecting the U.S. homeland from nuclear missile attack has struggled to feed its soldiers in recent months. Troops at Alaska’s Fort […] Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - Supreme Court refuses to hear petition challenging proposed nuclear waste dump in New Mexico
    • (00:04:28) - Nuclear News
    • (00:06:34) - New START nuclear arms control treaty to expire
    • (00:08:16) - US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to weaken environmental oversight
    • (00:11:45) - New Yorkers Fight for a Nuclear Free New York
    • (00:14:32) - Trump Is Building a Secret White House Bunker to Survive a Nuclear Attack
    • (00:16:53) - Army Base Struggles to Feed Soldiers Due to Trump's Budget
    • (00:20:02) - Nuclear Hot Seat: Turning 2026
    • (00:22:49) - Outside Nuclear's Fight for Nuclear Waste Dumps
    • (00:24:16) - Holtec's New Mexico Storage Plan
    • (00:36:28) - Places for nuclear waste disposal
    • (00:44:08) - Nuclear Hot Seat: Transportation of
    • (00:45:22) - Greenland: The Fight for Uranium Mining
    • (00:47:53) - Lisa Ottogina at International Uranium Film Festival
    • (00:57:01) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:58:19) - Nuclear Hot Seat
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    1 hr
  • 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

    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
    Jan 15 2026
    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: Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - Nuclear Hot Seat: State Law and Compliance
    • (00:04:25) - Are Trump's Yes Men Set to License a Dangerous New Reactor
    • (00:10:35) - Google to restart nuclear plant in Iowa, and more
    • (00:13:29) - Santa Susana Field Lab Superfund Site Fight
    • (00:21:44) - Protesting Boeing's COVID-19 plan
    • (00:23:53) - Supporters of Santa Susana Field Lab on Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:26:03) - Japan's Nuclear Policy
    • (00:29:09) - Nuclear Hot Seed: More Shrimp Recalled, This Time
    • (00:33:03) - Ukraine restores power to nuclear plant, while
    • (00:36:50) - Nuclear Hot Seat: Need to Raise Money to Keep the Show
    • (00:39:34) - Linda Williams on Hawaii's Nuclear Energy Issues
    • (00:47:42) - Hawaii Working Group on Nuclear Power
    • (00:52:32) - Hawaii's fight against nuclear power
    • (00:55:05) - The Doomsday Clock Set to 2026
    • (00:56:29) - John Barnard
    • (00:57:41) - Nuclear Hot Seat
    • (00:58:39) - Nuclear Hot Seat
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    1 hr
  • NH #758: BOMBSHELL! - Explosive New PBS Documentary on Atomic Bomb Media Manipulation + Parallels to Libbe's Play!

    NH #758: BOMBSHELL! - Explosive New PBS Documentary on Atomic Bomb Media Manipulation + Parallels to Libbe's Play!
    Jan 7 2026
    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 researching and writing my play about William L. Laurence, the NYTimes science reporter who was embedded in the Manhattan Project and who is a central source of the disinformation about the bomb from its earliest days, I was astonished to meet two people as obsessed […] Chapters
    • (00:00:00) - Neurological Interviews: The Making of 'American Experience
    • (00:03:46) - Bombshell
    • (00:06:42) - The Secret Life of Leslie Groves
    • (00:12:31) - William Lawrence on His War Coverage
    • (00:13:38) - Who Was the First to Report on Hiroshima?
    • (00:22:03) - Wilfred Burchard's story of the war
    • (00:27:51) - Charles Loeb on the Atomic Bomb
    • (00:35:27) - The New Yorker's 'The Story of Hiroshima'
    • (00:40:20) - The Story of Why We Dropped the Atomic Bomb
    • (00:48:10) - A New Play for Wilmington College
    • (00:49:39) - Nevada: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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    56 mins
  • NH #757: SPECIAL - Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! - Jack Cohen-Joppa

    NH #757: SPECIAL - Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! - Jack Cohen-Joppa
    Dec 31 2025
    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 year-old newsletter reporting on anti-nuclear and anti-war civil resistance actions, with a focus on supporting activists imprisoned for their acts of conscience. The Nuclear Resister has become a monthly feature on Nuclear Hotseat, with Jack providing stories from our history that most of us – […]
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    1 hr