Activist to be jailed for peaceful protest

This week on Nuclear Hotseat, host Libbe HaLevy talks to longtime anti-nuclear activist, John LaForge, co-director of Nukewatch, a Wisconsin-based environmental and peace action group, dedicated to the abolition of nuclear power, weapons and continued radioactive waste production. John was arrested in Germany twice in 2020 after he participated in peaceful protests at the Büchel…

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1PM TODAY EVENT: Jail time for action against nuke weapons

Join Nukewatch TODAY at 1pm EST/ 7pm Central European Time/Noon CST/ 11am MST/ 10am PST. Register in advance. Nukewatch’s John LaForge will be entering a German prison on January 10 to serve 50 days for his part in actions aimed at removing US nuclear weapons from Germany. Dozens of activists that have been involved in…

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PALISADES DECOMMISSIONING: Groups Meet Public Comment Deadline

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) set a December 27, 2022 public comment deadline re: Holtec’s Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) and Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE). Despite the holidays, and the fact that Holtec is scheming to restart the reactor (and/or build one or more Small Modular Reactors on the site), not decommission it,…

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A ban-the-bomb retrospective

This week’s edition of Nuclear Hotseat features two previously-aired interviews that examine approaches to banning the atomic bomb. Interview #1:  Sr. Megan Rice was a Roman Catholic nun who was arrested more than 40 times for protesting America’s military industrial complex and nuclear weapons. She’s best known for breaking into Y-12 at Oak Ridge, one of the world’s…

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ZOMBIE reactor to re-apply for billion dollar bailout

Holtec has pulled yet another bait and switch. On December 19, it announced its second attempt at a billion dollar, or more, bailout to restart the Palisades reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore in southwest Michigan (pictured). Palisades was closed for good May 20 by previous owner Entergy, and its operating license relinquished in mid-June. Holtec…

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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…

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Nuclear 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,…

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The latest fusion hype

Despite the hype and the headlines, the real agenda behind the fusion “breakthrough” announced this week is to benefit the nuclear weapons sector, not electricity production. The NIF experiment far more closely resembles the process of a (very tiny) thermonuclear warhead. Since the U.S. has not tested nuclear weapons since 1992, the data from experiments…

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US keeps ‘usable’ nukes

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) General Secretary Kate Hudson outlines the US government’s latest position paper on nuclear weapons in the current edition of the CND magazine, Campaign. In October, the Biden administration published its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), much later than expected. The delay was reportedly due to differences over significant aspects of…

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