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Meet Libbe HaLevy, M.A.<br />Producer/Host, Nuclear Hotseat<br /><br />Libbe HaLevy produces and hosts Nuclear Hotseat, the weekly international news magazine on all things anti-nuclear. <br /><br />She has been a TEDx speaker, an Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, hosted rallies, and led media workshops at anti-nuclear conferences around the country. She is also the co-creator of Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT (<a href="http://www.RAPTawareness.com" rel="noopener">www.RAPTawareness.com</a>), an audio series on how to best protect from the negative impact of radioactivity on our health.<br /><br />Nuclear Hotseat has been in weekly production since June 14, 2011. As of May, 2016, every month the program is downloaded in 112 countries on six continents and has received as many as half a million hits in a week. The show provides nuclear news through serious reporting as well as comic relief (“Numnutz of the Week” for Nuclear Boneheadedness), jingles and sound effects. Libbe’s insightful interviews w/nuclear experts on all aspects of the issue have broken national stories in mainstream media and been translated into German and Japanese.<br /><br />The Mission Statement of Nuclear Hotseat:<br /><br />Provide only verifiable information as news, so it can be trusted to be as accurate as possible.<br />When mistakes have been made, issue retractions and corrections immediately.<br />Provide context and continuity on stories, so that individual factoids and incidents can be seen as part of an overall pattern of nuclear policy, philosophy and danger.<br />Do whatever I can to keep the activist community in good heart.<br /><br />HISTORY: <br />Libbe was visiting friends one mile from the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island in<br />Middletown, Pennsylvania, when the nuclear accident happened on March 28, 1979. Libbe is author of the Amazon #1 best-selling nuclear memoir, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Beyond, available as an ebook on Amazon.com and coming out as a physical book in 2017.<br /><br />During an extensive career in broadcasting, Libbe worked for WGN-TV, WGBH-TV, 20th Century Fox Studios, Norman Lear’s production companies, and many local radio stations. A accomplished playwright and librettist, her plays and musicals have won awards, been produced internationally, and optioned for Broadway. For more than 20 years, she ran a musical theatre development organization, Broadway on Sunset, and produced shows for Joan Hotchkis and Tearsheets Productions. Now an experienced life and business coach (clients include stage and screen legend Julie Andrews), as well as a popular storyteller and sought-after public speaker, Libbe’s dream is to take Nuclear Hotseat international via satellite, cable or broadcast and continue to be a catalyst to help end all things nuclear. <br /><br />Along the way, she’d make a great Nuclear Pundit for any of the broadcast or cable comedy shows , as well as a consultant on nuclear issues for the film, television and entertainment industry.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.nuclearhotseat.com" rel="noopener">www.nuclearhotseat.com</a>

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Episode thumbnail for NH 468 June 9, 2020 9th ANNIVERSARY Linda Pentz-Gunter Space Force

June 13, 2020

NH 468 June 9, 2020 9th ANNIVERSARY Linda Pentz-Gunter Space Force

by Libbe HaLevy | Jun 10, 2020 <br /> Space Force and Nukes in Space – what, we don’t have enough nuclear problems on earth? I spoke with Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear. She is their international nuclear specialist, an experienced journalist, and writes columns on the follies and false representations of nuclear energy and the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The full list of her credits would take too long, but as a journalist, she is knowledgeable on a wide range of nuclear issues and can discuss all of them with depth, specificity, and clarity. We spoke on Friday, June 5, 2020<br /><br />Film referenced by Linda Pentz Gunter: The Atomic Soldiers and Beyond Nuclear International article on The Atomic Soldiers<br /><br />Special 9th Anniversary Messages from:<br /><br /> Voices from Japan co-producers Beverly Findlay Kaneko and Yuji Kaneko<br /> Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education<br /> Nancy Burton, Executive Director, Connecticutt Coalition Against Millstone<br /> Tsukuru Fors, Los Angeles-based activist originally from Hiroshima<br /> Hervé Courtois from France<br /> Kevin Hester from New Zealand<br /> Award-winning veteran investigative journalist Karl Grossman<br /><br />Also posted on YouTube at nutzforart<br /><br />subscribe to Nuclear Hotseat: <a href="http://www.nuclearhotseat.com" rel="noopener">www.nuclearhotseat.com</a>

Episode thumbnail for NH 467 June 2, 2020 Majia Nadesen Radiophobia

June 6, 2020

NH 467 June 2, 2020 Majia Nadesen Radiophobia

This Week’s Featured Interview:<br /><br /> RADIOPHOBIA? Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how “radiophobia” has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Risk Cultural Studies; Autism and Bioethics, Globalization, and Political Economy, Energy Politics, and Organizational Communication. Her books include: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization, Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. She recently provided a chapter on “Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion” for the book, Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations – and that’s what we’re focusing on today – Radiophobia. <br /><br />Majia Nadesan’s LINKS:<br /><br /> Nadesan, M. (2018). Radiophobia and the Politics of Social Contagion, a chapter in the collection: Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations, edited by B. Fahs, A. Mann, E. Swank; Rutgers University Press.<br /> “Lessons of Fukushima” presentation and draft versions of radiophobia chapter<br /> BOOK: Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Palgrave Pivot.<br /> VIDEO : “Fukushima’s Genetic Legacy” – Interview produced by EON – Ecological Options Network.<br />LOG: Majia’s Blog <a href="https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener">https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/</a><br />Go to <a href="http://www.nuclearhotseat.com" rel="noopener">www.nuclearhotseat.com</a> for more info<br /><br />podcasts are also listed on YouTube at: nutzforart

Episode thumbnail for NH-465-May-19-2020 Arnie Gundersen-Vogtle Nancy Burton-Millstone

May 22, 2020

NH-465-May-19-2020 Arnie Gundersen-Vogtle Nancy Burton-Millstone

by Libbe HaLevy | May 20, 2020<br /><br /><br /> Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has more than 45 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US. Here, he goes over the problems at the Vogtle nuclear reactor build in Georgia, where the weight of the unit is already causing it to sink into Georgia’s red clay. Arnie analyzed the data that became the basis for the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)’s petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission called on regulators to revoke the plant’s license for false statements made by its owners, Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Here is the latest Fairewinds blog post by Arnie and Maggie Gundersen about the sinking reactor of Vogtle.Here is the BREDL legal petition and Arnie’s expert report for BREDL via the Fairewinds website.Fairewinds’ research about safety issues of AP1000 reactor design, the same reactors at Vogtle<br /> Nancy Burton is Director of Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone (MothballMillstone.org), and she joined us to talk about the implications of the latest Covid cases at Millstone nuclear reactor in Waterford, CT during the current refueling outage.<br /><br />Go to <a href="http://www.nuclearhotseat.com" rel="noopener">www.nuclearhotseat.com</a> to sign up for weekly information directly to your email box<br /><br />Podcast is also putlished on YouTube: nutzforart

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Meet Libbe HaLevy, M.A.<br />Producer/Host, Nuclear Hotseat<br /><br />Libbe HaLevy produces and hosts Nuclear Hotseat, the weekly international news magazine on all things anti-nuclear. <br /><br />She has been a TEDx speaker, an Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, hosted rallies, and led media workshops at anti-nuclear conferences around the country. She is also the co-creator of Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT (<a href="http://www.RAPTawareness.com" rel="noopener">www.RAPTawareness.com</a>), an audio series on how to best protect from the negative impact of radioactivity on our health.<br /><br />Nuclear Hotseat has been in weekly production since June 14, 2011. As of May, 2016, every month the program is downloaded in 112 countries on six continents and has received as many as half a million hits in a week. The show provides nuclear news through serious reporting as well as comic relief (“Numnutz of the Week” for Nuclear Boneheadedness), jingles and sound effects. Libbe’s insightful interviews w/nuclear experts on all aspects of the issue have broken national stories in mainstream media and been translated into German and Japanese.<br /><br />The Mission Statement of Nuclear Hotseat:<br /><br />Provide only verifiable information as news, so it can be trusted to be as accurate as possible.<br />When mistakes have been made, issue retractions and corrections immediately.<br />Provide context and continuity on stories, so that individual factoids and incidents can be seen as part of an overall pattern of nuclear policy, philosophy and danger.<br />Do whatever I can to keep the activist community in good heart.<br /><br />HISTORY: <br />Libbe was visiting friends one mile from the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island in<br />Middletown, Pennsylvania, when the nuclear accident happened on March 28, 1979. Libbe is author of the Amazon #1 best-selling nuclear memoir, Yes, I Glow in the Dark! One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Beyond, available as an ebook on Amazon.com and coming out as a physical book in 2017.<br /><br />During an extensive career in broadcasting, Libbe worked for WGN-TV, WGBH-TV, 20th Century Fox Studios, Norman Lear’s production companies, and many local radio stations. A accomplished playwright and librettist, her plays and musicals have won awards, been produced internationally, and optioned for Broadway. For more than 20 years, she ran a musical theatre development organization, Broadway on Sunset, and produced shows for Joan Hotchkis and Tearsheets Productions. Now an experienced life and business coach (clients include stage and screen legend Julie Andrews), as well as a popular storyteller and sought-after public speaker, Libbe’s dream is to take Nuclear Hotseat international via satellite, cable or broadcast and continue to be a catalyst to help end all things nuclear. <br /><br />Along the way, she’d make a great Nuclear Pundit for any of the broadcast or cable comedy shows , as well as a consultant on nuclear issues for the film, television and entertainment industry.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.nuclearhotseat.com" rel="noopener">www.nuclearhotseat.com</a>

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