Best Arctic Melt Podcasts (2024)

1
NH #691: Arctic Ice Melt & Nuclear Radiation Dangers: UK Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones 59:02

2h ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s Featured Interview: The next United Nations Climate Change conference, COP 29, is scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November, 2024 – an annual bone tossed to those who are striving to reverse the climate catastrophe despite not having any power to do so. Incessant pro-nuclear doubletalk has infested...…

1
NH #692: Bill Gates’ Microsoft Three Mile Island Restart Madness w/Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert 59:02

5m ago59:02

59:02

Three Mile Island This Week’s Featured Interviews: Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the 40th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown – March 28, 2019 Scene of the Crime: Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy in front of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island The Nukewatch Report with John LaForge...…

1
NH #690: The Global Hibakusha – We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders – Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs 1:07:52

5d ago1:07:52

1:07:52

Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs and his brilliant book NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha This Week’s Featured Interview: This is a. SPECIAL full-length interview with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs on his book, NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha.By Libbe Halevy

1
NH #689: Depleted Uranium Weapons in Russia, Ukraine… Israel? Jack Cohen-Joppa of the Nuclear Resister with Verifiable Info 1:00:01

8d ago1:00:01

1:00:01

This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Russia’s war in Ukraine has put another nuclear power plant in danger: their own. The ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett Monthly update on issues and actions regarding the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear War from ICAN –...…

1
NH #688: Trinity Downwinders’ Nuclear Legacy Exploded in Film: FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO – Director Lois Lipman 59:02

15d ago59:02

59:02

Poster for film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Downwinder Tina Cordova demonstrating outside entrance to Trinity site. From the film FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO. Links from Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): The Democrats went wild for Harris and Walz… but nobody was talking …

1
NH #687: Radioactive Ohio School Auctioned Off to Christian Group + Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands – Edwards, Petrone 59:36

22d ago59:36

59:36

Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands: Tons of radioactive waste from nuclear reactor operation keeps piling up, with no resolution in sight. What to do with the waste? Canada has been making plans… but they’re bad ones. Here to explain how we got ourselves into this problem, what’s wrong with Canada’s current...…

1
NH #686: Reuters Investigation Blasts Govt. Agency Incompetence, Lies at N St. Louis Radioactive West Lake Landfill – Dawn Chapman 59:43

29d ago59:43

59:43

Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL (l) and Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy at symposium on West Lake Landfill issues in North St. Louis, February 19, 2016. Keystone Photo – activists Dawn Chapman and Kay Drey on-site at radioactively contaminated Coldwater Creek in N. St. Louis, MO. February 19, 2016. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear...…

1
NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -“Atomic Cover-Up” film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN 59:21

1M ago59:21

59:21

The remains of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb destroyed the city, 1945 ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with..…

1
NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD 59:24

1M ago59:24

59:24

A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste. This Week’s Special Feature The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive …

1
NH #683: Ohio Radiation Contamination – More Radioactive Water, Soil, Plants Found at Piketon/Portsmouth: Dr. Michael Ketterer 59:11

2M ago59:11

59:11

The shuttered Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered for contamination with nuclear materials from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, only 3 miles away. And now the school district is trying to auction it off “AS-IS” without explaining what the “AS-IS” is?!?!??? This Week’s Featured Interview: To contact Dr. Michael Ketterer and Others Re: POR…

1
NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster 59:17

2M ago59:17

59:17

Annual walk to commemorate Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation land – from 2019. Site of the mine and tailings pond in the background. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders Advocating for Justice – Tina Cordova: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles...…

1
NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson 59:11

2M ago59:11

59:11

This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom …

1
NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk 57:02

2M ago57:02

57:02

A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...…

1
NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo 59:14

3M ago59:14

59:14

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill op…

1
NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia 59:51

3M ago59:51

59:51

Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda...…

1
Interview with Brian Sheng, CEO of Aquaria 28:54

4M ago28:54

28:54

Aquaria produces Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs) that create clean drinking water out of thin air.By Scott Amyx

1
Interview with Petri Laakso, CEO of Soletair Power 23:28

3M ago23:28

23:28

Soletair Power enables buildings to capture carbon dioxide from air by retrofitting HVAC with direct air capture technology.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards 59:02

3M ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activis…

1
NH #675: RECA Held Hostage by Mike Johnson’s Stupid Congress Tricks – Nuclear Victims’ Compensation Act Down to the Wire – Mary Dickson 59:15

4M ago59:15

59:15

The Miller Map. The path radioactive fallout took from the 100 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Actually, it took three or more nuclear fallout clouds overhead to make it onto this map. Compiled by Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. This Week’s Featured Interview: PHONE NUMBERS TO CONTACT CONGRESS...…

1
NH #674: The Passing of an Anti-Nuclear Activist Hero: Patti Ameno 59:14

4M ago59:14

59:14

Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium an…

1
Interview with Blaine Collison, Executive Director of the Renewable Thermal Collaborative 30:35

4M ago30:35

30:35

Renewable Thermal Collaborative is the leading coalition for organizations committed to scaling up renewable heating and cooling at their facilities and cutting carbon emissions.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno 59:02

4M ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American...…

1
Interview with Tim Weiss CEO of Optera 28:43

4M ago28:43

28:43

1
NH #672: “Oppenheimer” Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute 59:12

5M ago59:12

59:12

Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima...…

1
Interview with Kimberly Ann Flynn, President at XA Investments 27:41

5M ago27:41

27:41

XA Investments LLC is a Chicago-based investment manager to pursue a single goal: provide investors with access to institutional-caliber alternative investments.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #671: Chernobyl Lies by World Health Org. – Chernobyl Truth with Alison Katz of Independent WHO – a Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC 59:02

5M ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes. Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources: No official Numnutz of th…

1
NH #670: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Survivor Bonnie Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman, Tim Mousseau, Alexei Yablakov, Ryuichi Hirokawa 58:50

5M ago58:50

58:50

The Elephant’s Foot – solidified melted fuel core at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Still highly radioactive, still dangerous. SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 38th Anniversary – Stories of its Deadly Legacy This Week’s Featured Interviews: The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began on April 26, 1986 – another of those dates that will live in infamy. Here is a…

1
NH #669: UCSB Global Nuclear Legacies Conference on the Nuke/Race/Gender/Religion/AI/Climate Connection 59:16

5M ago59:16

59:16

WHY WE DO IT: Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace shows off a picture of her 3-week old great grandson – the next generation of reason for working against nukes. KEYSTONE PHOTO: Dream Team of Activists at the UCSB Global Legacies conference: (l-r) Jane Swanson, Libbe HaLevy, Linda Seeley, Melissa Bumstead, Heidi...…

1
Interview with Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global 34:58

5M ago34:58

34:58

Today I am joined by Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global. She has 20 years of experience developing and leading integrated public health programs in Africa and the Caribbean with a focus on designing, implementing, managing and monitoring social marketing and health communication programs for se…

1
Importance of Empowering Storytelling of the Inupiaq~Patuk and Alice Glenn~Arctic Encounter Symposium 16:52

6M ago16:52

16:52

The Arctic Encounter Symposium celebrated it's 10th year in Anchorage, Alaska at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center. Arctic leaders, policy makers and creatives gathered from April 10-12th, 2024 to discuss challenges and successes of the today's current events in the Arctic. This episode is about the importance of empowering storytelling of t…

1
NH #668: Erwin, Tennessee Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – Citizens Fight Back w/5-Expert Panel – Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue 59:02

5M ago59:02

59:02

Erwin TN Nuclear Fuel Nightmare – People’s Hearing for Nuclear Awareness features Lodge, Ketterer, Olson, McNeill, Inoue This Week’s Featured Interviews: Erwin, Tennessee is a small town with a big problem: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., known as NFS, a company that since the 1960’s has been a major supplier of fuel for the United States...…

1
Interview with Stefan Schwab, CEO of Enlighted 26:54

6M ago26:54

26:54

Enlighted, a Siemens company, integrates cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls connecting to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs.By Scott Amyx

1
Interview with Dr. John J. Berger, Environmental Science and Policy Specialist 33:28

6M ago33:28

33:28

Dr. John J. Berger, Ph.D. is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #667: Outrageous Nuclear Bailouts -$14+ Billion of YOUR Tax Dollars & Counting! – Nuclear Waste Watchdog Kevin Kamps 1:05:57

6M ago1:05:57

1:05:57

Nuclear Bailout chart compiled by Environmental Working Group. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps Links from Interview: The Monthly ICAN UPDATE on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the latest on the Treaty from ICAN headq…

1
NH #666: SPECIAL: Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary – Timeline of the Accident, The Endless Future 59:05

6M ago59:05

59:05

Three Mile Island Alert’s Eric Epstein (l) and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, pictured at TMI’s 40th anniversary conference held in Harrisburg, PA, in late March, 2019. This week’s full-length Three Mile Island Anniversary SPECIAL features interviews with: Our thanks to filmmaker Robert (Robbie) Leppzer, producer of the two-hour audio documentary …

1
NH #665: SPECIAL: Int’l Uranium Film Festival Launches in Navajo Nation – Mining, Radiation & Nuclear Lies + Powerful Indigenous Pushback 1:02:25

6M ago1:02:25

1:02:25

SPECIAL: Navajo Nation Hosts Launch of Int’l Uranium Film Festival’s N. American Tour Sometimes a film festival is about more than just the films. The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) kicked off its 2024 North American tour in Window Rock, Navajo Nation, with not only powerful films but an informational and emotional space where Navajo...…

1
Interview with Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network 31:45

6M ago31:45

31:45

Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), released her new book The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, enviro…

1
NH #664: Keep Your Money Out of Nukes! Anti-Nuclear Financial Fitness w/Domini’s Mary Beth Gallagher 59:02

6M ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s Featured Interview: Mary Beth Gallagher Links mentioned during the interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter A Hollywood letter calling for an end to nuclear weapons was the initiative of an organization that promotes nuclear power. No two thumbs up to that. And here’s a LINK to Linda Pentz Gunter’s article on this...…

1
Interview with Michael Azlen, CEO of Carbon Cap Management 29:15

7M ago29:15

29:15

Carbon Cap Management is an alternative asset management firm operating in the global carbon and environmental markets. Their mission is to provide solutions directly related to the capping and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #663: SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN, Fukushima at 13, Quakes + Nukes = Nuclear UNsafety – Beverly Findlay-Kaneko 59:02

7M ago59:02

59:02

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary SPECIAL: VOICES FROM JAPAN this year considers earthquake dangers to Japan’s nuclear reactors. In addition to an update on Fukushima, it focuses on the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula quake which shook the two Shika nuclear reactors, one of them beyond what it was built to be able to sustain....…

1
Interview with Dr. Ethan Cohen-Cole, CEO of Capture6 32:28

7M ago32:28

32:28

Capture6 is a technology that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere while producing additional freshwater for local communities.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #662: Belly of the Beast: LASG’s Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit + NEW! ICAN Update 58:59

7M ago58:59

58:59

This Week’s Featured Interview: A networking session, with trade booths, at the 2024 Nuclear Deterrence Summit in DC. Each of those tables costs $6,000 – $7,500 for 90 minutes of branding. Logo keychains, anyone? Links referenced in this interview: NEW FEATURE: The ICAN Update – From the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The ICAN...…

1
NH #661: Dr. Gordon Edwards – Proposed Canadian Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Threatens Water for First Nations, Ottawa, Montreal 59:02

7M ago59:02

59:02

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): GREENWASHING ALERT: Boeing is aiming at school kids with their 12-week naturalist training at the Santa Susana Field Lab in Simi Valley – one of California’s most toxic sites that’s never been cleaned up. O…

1
Interview with Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director at Regenerative Organic Alliance 35:15

7M ago35:15

35:15

Regenerative Organic Alliance manages the Regenerative Organic Certified program, a groundbreaking certification for food, fiber, and personal care products. Integrating USDA Organic, Fair Trade, and high-bar animal welfare standards, it surpasses current criteria, setting global benchmarks for soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness.…

1
NH #660: RECA LIVES! Dawn Chapman on DC Meetings, Hawley Support for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act 59:02

7M ago59:02

59:02

Hand-out prepared by Navajo Nation and given to members of Congress during meetings on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). KEYSTONE PHOTO: The team that educated Congress for passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. (l-r) Christen Commuso, Reyaun Francisco, Karen Nickel, Dawn Chapman, Rep. Tricia Byrnes, Rep Chantelle Nickson…

1
Interview with Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems 26:47

7M ago26:47

26:47

Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems, The National Science Foundation.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #659: Nuclear Clean-Up Lies, Tricks & Secrets – It’s all the same! Melissa Bumstead on Santa Susana Field Lab in CA, Vina Colley on Piketon/Portsmouth in Ohio 58:53

7M ago58:53

58:53

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Vina Colley – Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security Melissa Biumstead – Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab Burn pit at Santa Susana Filed Labs Area 1, which was supposed to begin on Monday, Feb. 5 but was delayed by the massive rainstorm and flooding. Historical photo from Parents Ag…

1
Interview with Jan Skjoldhammer, CEO of NoviOcean 27:47

8M ago27:47

27:47

NoviOcean is a wave energy developer that uses ocean waves to generate electricity.By Scott Amyx

1
NH #658: Int’l Uranium Film Festival Coming to US, Canada! – Norbert Suchanek + Holtec Illegally Evaporating Pilgrim RadWater in MA – Diane Turco 59:17

8M ago59:17

59:17

Int’l Uranium Film Festival Coming to US, Canada! – Norbert Suchanek + Holtec Illegally Evaporating Pilgrim Radwater in MA – Diane Turco This Week’s Featured Interviews: (l-r) International Uranium Film Festival Co-founders and Directors Marcîa Gomes de Oliviera and Norbert Suchanek, and Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at the 2023 IUFF in Rio de Jan…

1
Interview with Stéphane Germain, President & CEO of GHGSat 31:26

8M ago31:26

31:26

GHGSat monitors emissions from space, using its satellites and aircraft sensors to measure greenhouse gas emissions directly from industrial sites, providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and regulators.By Scott Amyx

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Arctic Melt Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Quick Reference Guide