Events
2022 Nuclear Free Future Award winners announced
Tanzanian activist, Anthony Lyamunda, American podcaster, Libbe HaLevy, and German researcher, Malte Göttsche, are the winners of the 2022 Nuclear Free Future Award. The prizes will be awarded officially during an online ceremony in February 2023, but were announced last week. The prize comes with the award of 5,000 Euros. Lyamunda is an outspoken opponent…
Read MoreNuclear corruption — in case you missed it
A special edition of Nuclear Hotseat focused this week on a panel discussion hosted by the The Museum of Political Corruption and moderated by Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy on Friday, December 6, 2022. The featured participants in the discussion were: Robbie Leppzer, director of the film POWER STRUGGLE, whose critically acclaimed feature-length and short documentaries about contemporary social issues,…
Read MoreRadioactive. The women tell their stories
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island, a film written and directed by Heidi Hutner, received its world premiere on Sunday, December 4 as part of the Dances with Films Festival in New York City where it won the audience award for best documentary. Hutner, professor of Literature, Sustainability, Women’s and Gender Studies at Stony…
Read More“A creeping Chernobyl” at Portsmouth
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) in Piketon, Ohio, was the site of uranium enrichment for the US nuclear weapons program. It operated from 1954 to 2001. The Department of Energy (DOE) has been conducting “cleanup” at the site since 1989. Plant operations generated hazardous, radioactive, mixed (hazardous and radioactive),…
Read MoreRADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown–the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers-turned-activists, two women lawyers who took the local community’s case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist…
Read MoreAn update on baby teeth and radiation
This week on Nuclear Hotseat: Writes podcast host, Libbe HaLevy: “Strontium 90 in baby teeth helped convince U.S. President Kennedy and Russian Premiere Khrushchev to sign the limited test ban treaty in 1963, which prohibited nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space. “Joseph Mangano is a…
Read MoreThe risks at Zaporizhzhia
The inherent dangers of nuclear power plants are exacerbated during war as we are currently seeing in Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia, the six-reactor nuclear power plant, closest to the most intense fighting, is of greatest concern. Please join the Massachusetts Peace Action online event — Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Plants in War and Peace —…
Read MoreLeaders speak about the Ban Treaty
Enviro Close-Up #671 with Karl Grossman features representatives from the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Writes Grossman: “This Enviro Close-Up focuses on the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)—especially it being a leader in getting action on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This visionary pact was passed at the UN in 2017.…
Read MoreOnline radiation course: U.S. radiation exposure standards!
SIGN UP FOR OUR DECEMBER COURSE! Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) have set out to teach about radiation. One more class is slated for 2022: UNDERSTANDING THE HOW AND WHY OF U.S. RADIATION EXPOSURE STANDARDS December 6, 7 and 8 noon, ET In this third class hosted by…
Read MoreDrowning in double-talk as Arctic ice melts
From this week’s Nuclear Hotseat: Writes host, Libbe HaLevy: “Given the pro-nuclear double-talk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of it is created by nuclear contamination…
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