Nuclear Hotseat

• Veteran environmental activist John Jackson is author of the report issued on March 2 by the Canadian Environmental Law Association, calling for radionuclides to be designated by the US and Canada as a "chemical of mutual concern" under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. More than 100+ groups signed onto this report because they recognize the dangers of the high concentration of nuclear facilities that surround the largest surface fresh water repository in the world.  (Today's featured image is the map showing all the known nuclear sites around the Great Lakes.)
• Jane Swanson of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace fills us in on the Diablo Canyon nukes, focusing on a piece of California state legislation that could inadvertently trigger support for keeping those dangerous, failing, earthquake-zone reactors open.CONTACT:  Sen. Ben Hueso,  (916) 651-4040   Tell him that you oppose CA Senate Bill 968 because it calls for examining only the negative aspects of closure of the dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors and not the positive impact of its closure.

If you're going to drink, drink responsibly; do NOT drink wine made in Fukushima from locally grown produce!

• Radioactivity Contaminated Wild Boar, Pigs, Sheep and Deer Still Unfit to Eat in Japan, Russia, Europe, Norway, UK
• Trump's Terrifying Nuke Answer at Debate
• US Response to Fukushima: "Defense-in-Depth" or "Defense-in-Shallowness?" by Ed Lyman, Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Shocking Health Effects in Fukushima Nuclear Workers Under the Official Radiation Dose Limits

The PSR/IPPNW report released last week projecting at least 10,000 excess cancer cases in Japan because of the radioactivity releases from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. We'll hear from:

• Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility;
• Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War;
• Tim Mousseau, PhD, a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina and on-the-ground researcher into insect and animal mutations at Chernobyl and Fukushima.  Link to Nuclear Hotseat #243 featuring extended interview w/Tim Mousseau
• Bob Alvarez, who specializes in nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies for the Institute for Policy Studies.

Included will be insights into mainstream media response to this report.

Link to full PSR/IPPNW Report, "5 Years Living with Fukushima" - CLICK HERE.

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Tone deaf, brain dead Japanese Minister for the 2020 Tokyo NOlympics announces continued support for siting team sports in Fukushima... AND MAKES THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF THE NUCLEAR DISASTER THERE! 

• Reality of Fukushima is Unrecoverable: Interview with Fukushima farmer Kazuya Tarukawa
• The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime: Interview with Koide Hiroaki
• The Mothers who Set Up a Radiation Lab
• The IAEA Tries to Cover Up Another Nuclear Health Issue in Europe
• India's Prime Minister Modi in the Grip of the Global Nuclear Salesmen
• Profitable Element, Powerful Entity: Saskatchewan's Uranium Industry and Dene Ecology
• UK Minister and Member of Parliament: "I Was Never Told the Truth by the Nuclear Industry"

• Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an "on-the-ground in Japan" overview of the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  She is the producer behind our Voices from Japan series and this year is the Voice from Japan
• Kimberly Roberson is the founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, or FFAN. More than four years ago, she and FFAN became involved in bringing awareness of the problems of incineration of Fukushima's radioactive waste, and now takes a look at the newly revived problems of decontamination radwaste incineration.

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Evil numnutz as a quaint little village puts out the welcome mat for single moms and their kids... not mentioning that the welcome mat is radioactive and the village happens to be in Fukushima Prefecture.

• Fukushima Five Years Later: Stanford Nuclear Expert Offers Three Lessons from the Disaster
• Nuclear Meltdown: Releasing Radiation and Containing the Truth - Lucas Hixon
• On Forgetting Fukushima - Robert Jacobs
  
• No Bliss in This Ignorance: The Great Fukushima Nuclear Cover-Up - Linda Pentz Gunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-tDlQvyiw

Thanks to Jim Heddle and Mary Beth Brangan of EON3, Ecological Options Network, for use of this video. 

Featured image:  Piles of decontamination waste at one of 1,073 interim storage sites in Fukushima.

• Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).  On behalf of that group, he takes on the United Nations' UNSCEAR report on Fukushima that drastically, perhaps criminally downplayed the health dangers of that ongoing nuclear disaster.
• A pdf transcript of this interview is available in both English and German if you CLICK HERE
• The IPPNW's Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR report on Fukushima is available in English, German and Japanese translations if you CLICK HERE.
  

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TEPCO starts incinerating more than 66,000 special containers of radioactive workers' protective suits, gloves, masks with no radioactivity monitoring for the resulting release of particulate matter.  But the  day after the burning starts, to solve their future problems, TEPCO begins allowing workers to be on-site at Fukushima Daiichi WITHOUT any kind of protective clothing.

• Harvey Wasserman on Grassroots pressure escalates to shut down Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant
• Expanded Investigation into Safety Culture Likely at Columbia Generating Station
• West Lake Landfill - Landfill Fire Creeps Toward Buried Tons of Atomic Waste