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Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Feature:  VOICES FROM JAPAN Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster. Featuring: Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear...

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster.

Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida.

Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida.

“Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama.

Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster.

Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida.

Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida.

“Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama.

Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster.

Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida.

Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida.

“Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama.

Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster.

Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida.

Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida.

“Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama.

Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Nuclear Hotseat’s annual Fukushima Anniversary program on the ongoing nuclear disaster features VOICES FROM JAPAN – interviews with displaced residents from Fukushima Prefecture whose lives have been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the ongoing nuclear disaster.

Featuring:

Former Tomioka resident (5 miles from Fukushima) and anti-nuclear activist Setsuko Kida.

Photographer and former resident of Miharu Town in Fukushima, Shinshuu Hida.

“Voluntary evacuee” Noriko Matsumoto, formerly from Koriyama.

Attorney Yuuki Saito, who is part of the legal team helping the town of Minimasoma sue the Japanese government.

Context and Perspective for VOICES FROM JAPAN provided by Guest Producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone and rescued 760 animals after the March 11, 2011 meltdown of the three nuclear reactors.  She also runs her own charity, Anywhere Foot Baths, which provides comforting foot baths and hand massages for those...

Kerry Anne O’Connor works with Nyander Guard Animal Rescue, which went into the Fukushima exclusion zone to rescue 760 animals abandoned after the March 11, 2011 nuclear triple-meltdown.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea.
• Dr. Caldicott Links:
  • HelenCaldicott.com
  • Helen Caldicott Foundation
  • Book – Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
  • Book – Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness):

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are numnutz enough by themselves, but to hold events and house athletes in Fukushima Prefecture, less than 13 miles from the reactors?

Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really bad idea.