Nuclear Hotseat

• Dr. Alex Rosen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who takes on and eviscerates the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report that criminally underplays the radiation dangers from Fukushima; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; www.ippnw.org
• Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project, who explains why TEPCO’s interpretation of radiation data is intentionally wrong as the company tries to undermine legitimate claims of damages to the health of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, who were hit with catastrophic radiation while on an humanitarian aid mission in the immediate aftermath of Fukushima.  www.Radiation.org.

IPPNW – English:  Link to downloadable PDF: http://www.fukushima-disaster.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/english/Akzente_Unscear2014.pdf

IPPNW – Germany: www.ippnw.de
IPPNW Germany’s Fukushima Website w/link to downloadable PDF: www.fukushima-disaster.de

Japanese version of Critical Analysis of UNSCEAR report – WHO (世界保健機関)の「2011年東日本大地震津波後の原発事故がもたらす被曝線量の仮算定」フクシマ大災害リポート：アレックスローゼン博士による分析の 日本語版はこちらをクリックして下さい。: http://fukushimavoice2.blogspot.com/2014/06/psrippnw-unscear.html

English version – Interview Transcript:  Dr. Alex Rosen – Interview Transcript – English

German version: IPPNW report on UNSCEAR/Fukushima – German 

Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org gives lie to dry cask manufacturerer Holtec's presentation to Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel regarding long term storage of the plutonium-contaminated nuclear waste at the now-defunct Vt. Yankee Nuclear Reactor.

I guess that, according to the Pentagon's new tome, The Laws of War, I'm a Belligerent Journalist of Unprivileged Persuasion -- who knew?

• New forest fires near Chernobyl exclusion zone
  
• Illinois nuke reactor almost hit by tornado
• South Korea/Japan food fight continues as South Korea tells World Trade Organization it has a right to protect its citizens from the radiation dangers of Fukushima food;
• Pope's encyclical on climate change gives heart and voice to anti-nuke religious denominations around the world
• New poll finds that when it comes to storage of nuclear waste, even Tea Party members go full NIMBY - are you surprised?  Can you blame them?

Photo credit courtesy Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - cnduk.org

• Urs Ruegg of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Switzerland on that country's nuclear problems and IPPNW's upcoming Nuclearization of Africa Symposium in South Africa.
• Adam Weissman of Global Justice for Animals and the Environment gives us an update on the Senate's approval of Fast Track for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) - not a good thing.

Head of France's nuclear watchdog group tells the truth about problems with EDF's new nuke in Normandy - the nerve! 

• Sister Megan Rice, 85-year-old anti-nuclear nun, not to be re-tried by US government on sabotage charges - she's free except for some formalities!
• Pope Francis' Encyclical on Climate Change comes out against nuclear issues, skirts reactors.  You can Tweet him your thoughts - @Pontifex is his Twitter handle.
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees w/international study that shows any exposure of the eyes to radiation can increase the possibility of cataracts, but ignores all the other health implications put forth by the  International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
• Japan approves 40-year Fukushima clean-up plan despite not knowing where the melted fuel is, if it can even be removed and, if so, what it will take, plus needing to invent and build all the proper decontamination equipment from scratch.  40 years just kicks the can down the road.

• Erica Gray, Nuclear Issues Chair for the Virginia Sierra Club, reveals details of Dominion Power's plans to experiment with dry cask storage of high burn-up nuclear fuel at North Anna in Virginia, which was 11 miles from the epicenter of the  5.8 east coast earthquake in 2011.
• Diane Turco, co-founder of Cape Cod Downwinders, reports from the four-day protest March for All Children, which brought attention to safety issues and the state's lack of an effective emergency plan for those in a 50-mile radius of the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station.  March ended today (June 16) at the Massachusetts state house with a speech by former Governor Michael Dukakis.

Countries Where Nuclear Hotseat was Heard - May, 2015

• Excerpts from Nuclear Hotseat #1
• How we grew from a conference call to an international phenomenon
• Where we're going - if you see it, you can be it!
• *List of countries will be posted as soon as I figure out how to do it...

I don't care how you decide to spin it, there ain't no way nuclear reactors will ever be "aesthetically pleasing."  Even in England.  Even if that's what Amber Rudd, the new UK Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, has made as one of her priorities.

• High alpha radiation in Los Angeles
• US government emergency preparedness contractor calls Fukushima so fragile that at any moment it could "turn globally catastrophic";
• Canada delays its approval of $1B nuke waste dump on shores of Lake Huron until after its elections - wouldn't want to upset the results, now would we?
• Radiation Monitoring Project, national initiative to establish monitoring of radioactivity in communities contaminated by the nuclear fuel chain: www.dinenonukes.org.

• Vicki Nelson, founder of  the Hawaii-based nonprofit, Fukushima Friends, Inc., a program that puts Fukushima radiation refugees in people's homes for a stay of up to 3 months or longer, if the visas can be managed.  Tokiko Noguchi, participating in the program, came from Fukushima with her 10-year-old son, Michael.  She speaks through volunteer interpreter Kea  Uehara.  Her Japanese-language website is: www.aaa3a.jp.
  

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• Laura and Gichi Inoue run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat in southwest Japan for Fukushima mothers and small children needing relief from the radiation in their homes and communities.

Fukushima artisanal saki earns 22 Grand Prizes at annual competition.  Made with loving care and locally grown rice from fields near the blazingly radioactive nuclear reactor ruins.  Best drunk in great quantities by those who made it to help them forget the radiologic nightmare that surrounds them.

• Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admits record radiation spike in port water from Fukushima Daiichi leak.
• Japanese government gets pushback for plan to end rent subsidies for some Fukushima evacuees/refugees.
• Japan plans nuke restarts despite severe volcanic activity less than 50 miles from reactor site.
• The pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) releases report that Japan's overconfidence regarding the safety of its nuclear power plants was a major reason behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
• AND - Japan plans for nukes to supply 20-22% of all electricity in the country by 2030.  What's wrong with this picture?