Nuclear Hotseat

This Week's Featured Interview: 

Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground.

• Sierra Club letter to President Obama asking him to designate a Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument: https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=8872&s_src=
• Representative Ann Kirkpatrick's office is accepting public comment on the Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument through March 6 at the email [email protected].
• Arizonans can thank their Representatives for their letter asking President Obama to create a Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument:
  
  • http://kirkpatrick.house.gov/contact/email-me
  • https://grijalvaforms.house.gov/email-raul
  • https://rubengallego.house.gov/contact/email

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

All Nipon Airways (ANA) combines Fukushima and the locavore movement and comes up with yet another reason to hate airline food...

PLUS:

• Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion over earthquake risks allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals;
• Pressure building on California Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement;
• Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Radiation and Public Health Project's Mangano, Sherman;
• Fukushima shows record spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90;
• Submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb as containers decay and corporations want to mine the seas;
• UK nukes vulnerable to drone attacks.

 LINKS:

• Eon3 video: Protesting Peevey (California Public Utilities Commission former President):

 

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW: Alicyn Gitlin, who coordinates the Campaign to Restore and Protect the Greater Grand Canyon Ecoregion Campaign for the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, on uranium mining and "zombie mines" at the world's greatest hole in the ground. NUMNUTZ: Yet another reason to hate airline meals... PLUS: Diablo Canyon court case charging NRC and PG&E collusion allowed to go ahead by US Court of Appeals; CA Public Utilities Commission damned by collusion with Southern California Edison over San Onofre settlement; Fukushima radiation suspected of link to Alaska infant death spike by Mangano, Sherman; Fukushima shows record level spikes of radiation from tritium, strontium 90; submerged Soviet nuke waste a ticking time bomb; UK nuke sites vulnerable to drone attacks.

INTERVIEW:

Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation, including trans-generational DNA damage and a phenomenon she labels "Atomic Eggs."

http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radhealth/radhealthhome.htm

NIRS' Mary Olson speaks on impact of radiation on girls and women at International Nuclear Weapons Conference in Vienna.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

When is a flawed nuclear evacuation plan not a flawed nuclear evacuation plan?  When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives it a "White Finding," basically saying this snafu has only a "low to moderate safety significance."  Try telling that to the 46,000 people who live there and who'll have to get outta Dodge on a four lane road!  Can the NRC spell "homicidal gridlock?"

PLUS:

• NE Japan experiences 6.9 quake, one meter high tsunami.
• TEPCO water woes at Fukushima Daiichi so bad, even the nuclear-promoting International Atomic Energy Agency admits, "The situation remains very complex."
• Chernobyl re-releases 0.5 PETABequerels of radiation from smoke released during forest fires.  That's half of a million-billion Bequerels.  Do the math.
• Nuks not all they're cracked up to be:  Belgian nukes show 13,047 cracks in Doel 3 and 3,149 cracks in Tihange 2.  Feel safer now?

LINKS:

• Residents of Fukushima's Itate Village file petition for nuclear damage compensation. 
• Chernobyl's nuclear threat returns: Forest Fires in Ukraine cause Radioactive Particles to be Released Over Europe
• Let the Facts Speak: An Indictment of the Nuclear Industry (nuclear accidents)

INTERVIEW: Mary Olsen, Director of the Southeast Office for Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, on the greater danger faced by women and girls to exposure to nuclear radiation. DNA damage, and a phenomenon she labels "Atomic Eggs." NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: When is a flawed nuclear evacuation plan not a flawed nuclear evacuation plan? When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives it a "White Finding," basically saying this snafu has only a "low to moderate safety significance." Try telling that to the 46,000 people who live there and who'll have to get outta Dodge on a four lane road! Can the NRC spell "homicidal gridlock?" PLUS: NE Japan experiences 6.9 quake, one meter high tsunami. TEPCO water woes at Fukushima Daiichi so bad, even the nuclear-promoting International Atomic Energy Agency admits, "The situation remains very complex." Chernobyl re-releases 0.5 PETABequerels of radiation from smoke released during forest fires. That's half of a million-billion Bequerels. Do the math. Nukes not all they're cracked up to be: Belgian reactors show 13,047 cracks in Doel 3 and 3,149 cracks in Tihange 2. Feel safer now?

The 55 gallon drum of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Lab that "popped its lid" and released Plutonium and Americium into the environment on Valentine's Day, 2014.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Sure, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the U.S. without nuclear would be "unthinkable" -- but think about your state's Boone Dam, with its leaks, seepage and sinkholes, upstream of SEVEN NUCLEAR REACTORS!  You want to talk "unthinkable?"  I'll SHOW you "unthinkable!"

PLUS:

• Gundersen: Can we finally stop saying Fukushima is "the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl" -- because it's worse than Chernobyl.
• Internal radiation readings from Fukushima pigs.
• Concern that wildfires in Ukraine could re-release Chernobyl radiation into atmosphere, Eastern Europe, the world.
• US nukes snowed under by blizzards.
• Internationally speaking, United States wears a "black hat" for its stance on EU increasing nuclear safety, which it opposes.
• ...and much, much more!

LINKS:

• Radon's Deadly Connection w/Uranium Mining as Seen from the Navajo Nation.
• The USS Reagan sailors' $1B lawsuit against TEPCO covered in brilliant detail in the international edition of Spiegel, a German publication.
• Japanese resident and Nuclear Hotseat interviewee Dennis Riches (#115) has written the thought-provoking: Nuclear Horror Stories from Fukushima Daiichi to Kazakhstan.
• A video on Davis Besse by Myla Reson, featuring Harvey Wasserman:

NTERVIEW: Don Hancock, Executive Director of Southwest Information and Research Center, provides an update on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) accident of Valentine's Day, 2014 and perspective on the magnitude of the problem, the contaminated workers, and the likelihood that it will ever be able to be cleaned up. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Tennessee's senior senator can't imagine a world without nuclear, even as a dam in his state is continuing to show signs of possible failure... and it's upstream from seven nuclear reactors, all of which could be flooded to create a Fukushima-style scenario. PLUS: Lots of anti-nuclear news.