Nuclear Hotseat

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• Christian Levesque, organizer for this year's Uranium Film Festival in Quebec, explains how he coordinated the timing of this year's event with an international scientific symposium on uranium issues and a political gathering of Canada's Prime Minister and political elite of the Provinces.  www.UraniumFilmFestival.org.

Uranium Film Festival 2015 - Quebec City

• Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility NW, representing Oregon and Washington state, goes over the history and problems at the Hanford Site and Columbia Generating Station.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come up with $4 billion in aid to disaster victims... of any and every disaster in the world EXCEPT Fukushima on the northeast coast of Japan.

PLUS:

• Fukushima at 4 - triple the number of people impacted by radiation in Japan as compared to Chernobyl;
• Thyroid cancer rates 50x higher than normal in Fukushima children, w/more than 100 cases confirmed or suspected;
• TEPCO admits rainwater radiation levels at Fukushima surge yet again;
• Army Brigadier General James A. Blankenhorn double-dips as Deputy Project Manager for civilian contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM, and "goes bananas" confusing the public's understanding of natural, background and man-made radiation.

Myla Reson's video, "James Blankenhorn's Radioactive Banana"

• Utah radwaste company Energy "Solutions" tries to convince South Carolina to re-open tritium-leaking atomic garbage dump w/media blitz;
• Korean Hydro and Nuclear Power hacker releases more files from December hack and demands money or he'll leak country's sensitive nuke info to other countries - and no, Sony is not involved.

• TV and Film star Midori Kiuchi

Midori Kiuchi (r, in red vest) with friends Tatsuya Majima (l) and Yasuko Tamanaka (c) in front of the No-Nukes Occupy tents.  Note her English-language banner, which was shipped to Germany for a rally and ended up featured on an NHK news report. (Photo © 2015, U.G. Kaneko)

• No-Nukes Occupy tent veteran Taro Fuchigama
• Professor Hiroake Koide, Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
• Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center
• Seiichi Mizuno, businessman and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House
• Taro Yamamoto, actor and member of the Japanese Diet Upper House.

If Fukushima's Prefectural government thinks social media will turn around its international image, they're even crazier than I thought!

• Fukushima disaster at four - a radiation rundown;
• Breaking scandal at Diablo Canyon NPP on California coast over 30 years of seismic lies;
• Navajo Nation slams door on deal that would have allowed uranium mining on trust lands.
• Easy actions to commemorate Fukushima.
• ...and more!

Weekly candlelight vigil by the Beautiful Energy group in front of the Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. The group asks that you Light a Candle for Fukushima, wherever you are. (Photo ©Copyright 2015, U.G. Kaneko)

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy traveled to New York to cover the February 28/March 1 symposium put together by Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Video archive of the complete two-day event is available HERE. 

This Nuclear Hotseat Special Report includes interviews, excerpts from presentations, "nuclear humor" and two news scoops with:

• Dr. Helen Caldicott
• Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security Policy, MIT
• Steven Starr, Associate of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Former Board Member and Senior Scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space
• Bob Alvarez, Institute of Policy Studies
• Robert Parry, Investigative Journalist
• Susi Snyder, PAX, The Netherlands -Don'tBankOnTheBomb.com
• Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Cindy Folkers, Beyond Nuclear
• Diane Turco, Cape Cod Downwinders, on latest developments at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
• Rachel Clark, Freelance interpreter, on Fukushima waste incineration - blockbuster revelation!

• Do-it-yourself map to see what a bomb going off in your neighborhood will look like.  (Mega)Tons of fun for kids, parents and nuclear psychopaths!  Nukemap and Nukemap3D

Britain's Prince William may be a dim bulb, but after Japan's PM Abe got him to eat Fukushima food, he may be glowing in the dark!

Photo Credit - Dr. Helen Caldicott and Libbe HaLevy featured image - Peny Pkwy