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November 04, 2015NH #228: West Lake Nuclear Political Hot Potato - Byron DeLear on Legal Issues, Mimi German on Radiation Monitoring
THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEWS:
Byron DeLear lives within seven miles of the West Lake Landfill. He has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com, was founder of Global Peace Solution, and is currently running for state representative. We talked about the legal situation that makes West Lake ineligible for the federal FUSRAP clean-up program of Superfund sites -- and how that might be turned around.
Mimi German is the founder of RadCast, (Radcast.org) which helps citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, then compiles their data to figure out what's going on – radiologically speaking - wherever the EPA has fallen down on the job… which is just about everywhere. She can be contacted directly at: [email protected].
NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:
Wanna know how to get around having verifiable radiation readings at a nuclear site? Don't hire anyone to do the job when your current staff leaves! Workers, we're not in Kansas any more, but the Wolf Creek nuclear reactor still is!
THIS WEEK'S NEWS:
Entergy announces upcoming closure of Fitzpatrick nuclear reactor in upstate New York when its tank runs empty, er, when it's time to refuel and they won't.
Nevada nuke waste dump explosion and fire only 120 miles from Las Vegas and 21 from Nevada test site.
EPA admits to shutting off 99 of its only 135 radiation monitors around the country. If you don't have any data, it can't be contested. Planned deniability?
Explosion and fire at Doel nuclear reactors in Belgium near Antwerp.
Fukushima radiation at record highs; exposure to deadly radioactivity could kill a person within one hour.
...and more!
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October 28, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
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October 28, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
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October 28, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
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October 27, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
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October 27, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away. INTERVIEWS: Dr. Helen Caldicott on medical implications of exposure to the improperly stored West Lake Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste; Bob Alvarez on the history of the site, where the waste came from, how it got there, the current risks; and Dawn Chapman, a Mom who lives within two miles of the West Lake Landfill and Admis the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
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October 27, 2015NH #227: SPECIAL - St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare - West Lake Radioactive Waste Fire - Dr. Caldicott, Bob Alvarez, Dawn Chapman
A full-length Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL on the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis - a Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste dump - and the encroaching underground fire less than a quarter mile away.FEATURED INTERVIEWS:
The history of the West Lake Landfill nuclear waste with Bob Alvarez, who served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. He is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and wrote the landmark November, 2013 report: The West Lake Landfill: A Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Arms Race.
The medical consequences faced by those exposed to the West Lake radioactive waste with Dr. Helen Caldicott, arguably the single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises in the world. A medical doctor and former instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, she co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility – which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 - and was herself nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. She is the author of Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.
What it's like on the ground in the North St. Louis neighborhoods impacted by the radioactive waste with Dawn Chapman, a mother who lives less than two miles from the West Lake Landfill. She Admins the Facebook West Lake Landfill page.
CALLS NEEDED - CONTACT INFORMATION:
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Please include your e-mail address Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 TTY/TDD Comments: 202-456-6213 Visitors Office: 202-456-2121 Twitter: @POTUS @POTUSPRESSPOOL
Senator Roy Blunt United States Senate 260 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 201510 (202) 224-5721 Twitter: @RoyBlunt @RoyBluntMO @RoyBluntPress
Senator Claire McCaskill United States Senate Hart Senate Office Building, Ste. 506 Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6154 Twitter: @clairecmc
Congresswoman Ann Wagner United States House of Representatives 435 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-1621 Twitter: @RepAnnWagner
Congressman William Lacy Clay United States House of Representatives 2418 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-2406 Twitter: @LacyClayMO1
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, William Jefferson Clinton Building mail code: 1101A 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Twitter: @EPAGina
RADIATION AWARENESS PROTECTION TALK - RAPTThe RAPT 6-Audio Series on Best Possible Ways
to Safeguard Your Health from Nuclear Radiation (and Other Toxins) www.RAPTawareness.com
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October 21, 2015NH #226: Pre- and Post-Shutdown Reactor Woes - Turco on Pilgrim, Gilmore, Headrick on San Onofre
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED INTERVIEWS:
Diane Turco, one of the founders of Cape Cod Downwinders, discusses ongoing issues at the Pilgrim Nuclear facility in Massachusetts, which is going to be shut down... by the end of 2019.
Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org explains what her research has shown about the dangers of the "thin" (tin can) dry casks chosen by utility operator Southern California Edison and the NRC to store San Onofre's deadly radioactive waste.
Gary Headrick, c0-founder with his wife Laurie of San Clemente Green, an ecologically-focused group in southern California, looks at the kinds of manipulations the nuclear industry goes through to guarantee profits and negate citizen concerns once a nuclear cash cow reactor is forced to close. Gary discusses the latest rulings on "spent" fuel rods and fuel assembly storage at the San Onofre site, as decided by the California Coastal Commission just two weeks ago, on October 5.
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October 21, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #226: Pre- and Post-Decommissioning Nuke Woes
INTERVIEWS: Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders in Massachusetts on Entergy's announcement that Pilgrim NPP was closing!... by 2019 - what could go wrong from now to then? Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org on deadly problems with the thin "tin can" dry storage casks approved for radioactive nuclear "spent" fuel approved for San Onofre; and Gary Headrick of SanClementeGreen.org on the recent epic fail of the California Coastal Commission in granting SanO's opoerators, Southern California Edison, everything they want, hang the expense (to ratepayers) or long term danger. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Mobile Chernobyl in miniature as a drilling company searches over 18 counties in two states to find a missing radioactive piece of equipment -- you think we can trust them with high level nuclear waste on our highways? PLUS THE WEEK'S NEWS: St. Louis West Lake landfill fire draws mainstream media attention as residents struggle to cope with the implications for their lives; Japan recognizes its first case of cancer in a Fukushima worker - they've ignore all the other cases; EPA's Radnet radiation monitors continue to be down and unable to measure radiation exposures; and bill filed to protect Grand Canyon watershed. Here's hoping...
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October 14, 2015 Nuclear Hotseat #225: How Radiation Spreads from Sea to Land
INTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK and a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation from the UK's Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as safe, even as one of its ministries finds cesium contamination in 46 of 50 dried persimmons grown in Fukushima prefecture. WEEK'S NEWS INCLUDES: Entergy announces Pilgrim nuke to close!... in 2019 (why can't they just put it out of its misery now?); thyroid cancer rates in Fukushima children and adolescents up to 50% higher than the rest of Japan, while international researchers pin down the risks of low level radiation; Nearly 2,000 people protest restart of Sendai nuclear reactor; and seaweed forces scram shutdown of Russia's Leningrad nuke.
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