Nuclear Hotseat

Featured Image:  Protesters against proposed Chalk River nuclear waste dump,
intended to be sited next to the Ottawa River

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means.  For SC ratepayers, the news is not good!

V. C. Summer nuclear - "Too cheap to meter" becomes "too expensive to build."

• Terrie Barrie is a worker advocate with Cold War Patriots and part of the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups (ANWAG).  She explains how recent whistleblower accusations about intentional Department of Labor obstruction to delay payment to radiation-exposed workers workers have led to action.  gain compensation under the too-complex Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Projects (EECAP).

The following are resources for nuclear and uranium workers:

• A poll being conducted on medical benefits can be found on the Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Projects home page.
• EECAP hosts a page for the Alliance of Nuclear Worker Advocacy Groups.
• Cold War Patriots is a great resource for claimants and potential claimants, too.

If you think you have been injured as a result of working on government nuclear or uranium mining sites, contact Terrie Barrie at the ANWAG office:  970-824-2260

Hiroshima Remembrance links:

LINK TO WILFRED BURCHETT ARTICLE:   "The Atomic Plague"

LINK TO NEWLY DISCOVERED HIROSHIMA PHOTOS:

Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means. For SC ratepayers, the news is not good!

Terrie Barrie of the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups (ANWAG) explains how recent whistleblower accusations about intentional Department of Labor obstruction to delay payment to radiation-exposed workers workers have led to action.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki Remembrance.

Featured Image:  What a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would do to Lower Manhattan.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.  Not exactly your light bedtime reading!
• Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO's first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi's wrecked containment vessel.

Numnutz of the Week:

Japan's agriculture ministry may be pushing to certify more agricultural producers in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but between hot particles widely dispersed throughout Japan and mushrooms grown within 20 miles of Fukushima Daiichi showing high levels of radiocesium contamination, this is one seal of approval of which Nuclear Hotseat does not approve!

Sarcodon aspratus - Hedgehog mushrooms grown in Kawauchi village,
30 km/18 miles from Fukushima Daiichi, where Cesium 137 in concentration
as high as 5,600 Bq/kg found in 68 of 68 samples.

Activist Shout-out:

72nd anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9).  Take a moment and remember, then go to NukeMap and see what a Hiroshima-sized bomb would do to your neighborhood.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading!

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading!

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading!

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading!

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die. Not exactly your light bedtime reading!

Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot pictures of inside Fukushima-Daiichi’s wrecked containment vessel.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 72nd Anniversary of first nuclear war bombings.

On-the-ground interviews by veteran UK anti-nuke activist Nikki Clark at the Coulport Disarmament Camp in Scotland, just after a successful blockade of a Trident nuclear submarine base.

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nikki Clark, a veteran UK nuclear campaigner who co-founded the group South West Against Nuclear, serves as Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent, on the ground at the Coulport Nuclear Disarmament Camp in Scotland.  She interviews: Angie Zelter, a founding member of Trident Ploughshares currently in prison for refusing to accept a court...