Nuclear Hotseat

• Norbert Suchanek, Director of the International Uranium Film Festival, reports from events in Berlin about the week's screenings and specific films, plus plans to bring the IUFF to Los Angeles next year.  Countries represented by the 29 films include  Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Macedonia, Spain, Denmark, Brazil, Poland, Austria, India, Ukraine, Ireland, Tajikstan, Australia and the United States.
• Christian Bruun, Executive Producer of "The Man Who Saved the World," talks about the nine years of shooting it took to capture the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian soldier in charge of the nuclear defense facility in 1983, who refused to issue launch codes despite computers showing five attack warheads coming at his country from the US.

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2020 Olympics Heads-up for new sports baseball for men, softball for women, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing -- all of which are proposed to take place in Fukushima Prefecture! 

• Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge .

The New York Times goes in for hard core "hormesis" (no - Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as the "Great Gray Lady" of U.S. journalism and turns it into a shill for radiation deniers everywhere.

IN THE NEWS:

• San Onofre secret meetings over waste and failed clean-up of the 1959 nuclear meltdown at the Los Angeles area Santa Susana Field Lab both subjects of major investigative reports by southern California mainstream media;
• NRC DUCK! and Cover Report: Five US nuclear reactors have NRC-level "unusual" events - isn't that the definition of "usual?"
• US Senator petitions Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene with our deadly international neighbor to the north - Canada - to prevent to construction of the nuclear waste storage facility within one mile of the shores of Lake Huron;
• And no, the enormous wolf fish caught in Japan is not the result of radioactivity and mutation - it's just a big ol' ugly fish.

NOT a Fukushima mutation.  Neither is the fish.

• Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Options Network (EON3) reports on the recent California event she helped to produce: FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION In the Ocean and in the Biosphere with scientists Timothy Mousseau on mutations at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and Ken Buessler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on radiation testing of the Pacific Ocean and seafood.  Knockout information!

What to do with former plutonium contaminated nuke sites?  Why, if you're Rocky Flats in Colorado, just turn it into a nature preserve!  And no, that's not meant to be ironic!  (NOTE: Next week's show, #222, features an exclusive interview with author Kristen Iversen on exactly how numnutz this idea really is.)

• NRC terminates study of cancer rates near nuclear reactors as "too expensive" and "takes too long" - what don't they want us to know?
• TEPCO releases first batch of radioactive Fukushima groundwater into Pacific Ocean.
• Highest level of radioactive Strontium 90 in recorded history detected in seawater of Fukushima plant port - 1,000,000 Bq/m3
• Flooding from Tropical Storm Etau washes away over 80 bags of Fukushima decontaminated dirt and debris back into the environment.