Nuclear Hotseat

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.

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.

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.

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.

THIS WEEK'S EXTENDED INTERVIEW:

• Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK, 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 the Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as "safe!" -- even as the country's own Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare  finds cesium contamination in 46 of 50 dried persimmons grown in Fukushima prefecture.

THE WEEK'S NEWS INCLUDES:

• Entergy announces Massachusetts' Pilgrim nuclear plant to close!... but ya gotta wait until  2019! (Why can't they just put it out of its misery now?)
• St. Louis area schools start modern "duck and cover" shelter-in-place exercises for kids in light of Bridgeton/West Lake Landfill fire approaching illegally buried uranium-tainted waste.
• Thyroid cancer rates in Fukushima children and adolescents up to 50% higher than the rest of Japan;
• International researchers publish results of large study of nuclear workers that shows that even tiny doses slightly boost risk of leukemia.
• Nearly 2,000 people protest restart of Sendai nuclear reactor;
• Nobel Prize for Literature won by Russia's Svetlana Alexievich for Voices from Chernobyl. 
• And seaweed -- seaweed! -- forces scram shutdown of Russia's Leningrad nuclear reactor.
• ...and lots, lots more!

Interviews:

• Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan;
• Carol Jahnkow, Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on safety problems she learned about USS Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima.

Filmmaker Spotlight:

Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival.

Numnutz of the Week:

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo"Pinnochio" Abe-Baby claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles (50 km) away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know?

PLUS:

• Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed;
• Cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities;
• Drums of radwaste reported "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN;
• and the largest Nuclear Regulatory DUCK! and Cover report ever, covering just one week's accidents at US nuclear facilities.  Mercury sure is retrograde!

INTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's PM Shinzo Abe claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know? PLUS: Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed; cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities; drums of radwaste "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN; and the largest NRC DUCK! and Cover report ever! Mercury sure is retrograde!

INTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's PM Shinzo Abe claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know? PLUS: Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed; cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities; drums of radwaste "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN; and the largest NRC DUCK! and Cover report ever! Mercury sure is retrograde!

INTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's PM Shinzo Abe claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know? PLUS: Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed; cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities; drums of radwaste "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN; and the largest NRC DUCK! and Cover report ever! Mercury sure is retrograde!

INTERVIEWS: Mr. Masahiko Goto, representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on activist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan; and Carol Jahnkow., Director Emerita of Peace Resource Center of San Diego, on problems she learned about with the Reagan when it was homeported in San Diego after it returned from Fukushima. FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT: Marcus Schwenzel, director, writer and producer of "Seven Years of Winter," a short dramatic film shot in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl that has just won the Yellow Oscar for Best Film at the Int'l Uranium Film Festival. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's PM Shinzo Abe claims "safety!" on Japan's second restart of a nuclear reactor, in Sendai, when there's an active volcano 31 miles away, the country's in the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire, it's a typhoon zone and a tsunami zone -- but hey, can't go all fascistic and militaristic w/o nukes, ya know? PLUS: Third Fukushima meltdown confirmed; cesium 134 found in water supply in Tokyo and nine other Japanese cities; drums of radwaste "bulged and hissing" at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, TN; and the largest NRC DUCK! and Cover report ever! Mercury sure is retrograde!