Nuclear Hotseat

• Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, which holds and manages the largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster in the world, on how that group finds and vets its info.  Includes up to the minute report on Sendai nuclear reactors after Kumamoto quakes in Japan.
  
• Christian Brunn, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," on the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian soldier who was in charge of Russia's nuclear launch facility in 1983 when a computer malfunction showed that the United States had launched five warheads at his country.  Protocol, nationalism, pressure from those in the control room and the expectations of his position all pressured Stanislav to order them to push the button that would start World War III – but he did not.  The film explores the tremendous price he paid for having done the right thing and will be featured in next week's International Uranium Film Festival in Los Angeles.
• For free tickets to the April 27 International Uranium Film Festival, Email: [email protected].
• PETITION:  Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) calling for No 2020 Tokyo Olympics Events in Fukushima (yes, they're really planning to have events and housing in the radiation zone!)

Bernie Sanders meme by Gail Payne.

• West Lake Just Mom Dawn Chapman reveals the inner workings on the long-desired and oft-thwarted DC meeting she and fellow/sister Just Mom Karen Nickel had with Environmental Protection Agency head Gina Never-Met-A-Nuke-I-Didn't-Like-And-Cover-For McCarthy.  And oh yes, they also met with White House representatives who are the EPA's bosses and report directly to President Obama.  All to bring to the attention of our government the shocking lack of action to resolve the problem of the illegally buried World War II nuclear weapons waste at the West Lake Landfill that's been poisoning the residents of North St. Louis for over 40 years... and now there's an underground fire that can't be put out bearing down on it.  Tra la, tra lay!

French Energy Minister Ségolène Royal must be terribly passive aggressive, have a screw loose or just not understand how nuclear reactor decontamination works because she offered the site of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Fessenheim nuclear plant in the Alsace region near the German border to Elon Musk as the perfect place for him to build a Tesla manufacturing site!

• Fukushima animation w/voices by residents
• Byron DeLear: "EPA Takes Half Measures to Save Face on Radioactive West Lake Landfill"

Touring West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills
(l-r: Mali Lightfoot, Libbe HaLevy, Byron DeLear, Kay Drey, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Karen Nickel)
Photo:  Jonathan Lehmann

• "Changing Nuclear Landscape Alters WIPP's Role" by Rebecca Moss
• Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman:  "Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties"
• Petition to stop the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics from taking place in radiologically contaminated Tokyo and Fukushima.  Please sign here.

PHOTO: Courtesy Ed Smith of the Missouri Coalition on the Environment.  (l-r) Dawn Chapman, Karen Nickel, Ed Smith

• Donna Gilmore, head of SanOnofreSafety.org, offers a chilling update on the problems of short term nuclear waste storage, calling the on-site dry storage canisters approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission "Chernobyl in a Can."

Russia risks doubling the reactor lifespan of the Kola nuclear power plant in Murmansk to 60 years so it can produce energy the area doesn't need.  Why?  Because the station worked out an "investment plan" because it would be "too expensive to decommission it."  What part of "Chernobyl" do they not understand?

Photo:  Demonstration by Just Moms StL.  Used by permission of Christen Comuso.

What it was like on the ground at the first major commercial nuclear power reactor accident in US history... and what has happened in the 37 years since.

• Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert
• Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education
• Peter Bradford, former Commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown
• Middletown resident Mary Stamos
• Walter Cronkite and members of the mainstream broadcast media
• Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy's personal story of having been one mile away from the nuclear accident for the first three days.

From the musical "Armageddon: The Living End!"
Lyric by Libbe HaLevy / Music by Grady
Sung by Libbe HaLevy

• http://www.efmr.org/ TMI-Alert: http://www.tmia.com/ TMI Project: http://www.tmi35project.com/" class="text-nh underline hover:text-nh-dark" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Three Mile Island EFMR Studies
• TMI at 35 Project, including graphic novel
• Three Mile Island Archives - Dickenson College
• Steven Wing TMI Cancer Study
• The TMI Accident - Summary and Chronology
• TMI Had Lasting Consequences