Nuclear Hotseat

 

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Leona Morgan (C) and Japanese activist Yuko Tonohira (R) at the NYC Climate Change Rally, 9/21/14[/caption]

 

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INTERVIEWS:

Special report last Sunday's massive, historic Climate Change Rally in NYC:

• Michael Mariotte, the President of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, provided key national organizing that helped deliver thousands of anti-nuke demonstrators to the event;
• Gail Payne not only marched, she designed those terrific posters featuring King CONG – "CONG" standing for Coal, Oil, Nuclear and Gas;
• Boston's Sheila Parks provides an inspiring, personal vision of what the march meant to her.

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Dr. Sheila Parks in her stylish tyvek hazmat suit.[/caption]

MICHAEL BRUNE/SIERRA CLUB PETITION THAT ACTUALLY MENTIONS NUCLEAR!  PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE! 

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  The nuclear industry decodes its own bad language in dealing with banks and financial institutions.  They just gave us the script to use when we talk with these potential funders of nuclear expansion to make them think twice and decide against it!

PLUS:

• More WIPP woes in Carlsbad, NM, as and additional drum of radioactive waste may have leaked at the only US facility for underground storage of nuclear debris.
• Radiation in Fukushima groundwater now 25,000 times higher than when 2014 began... and believed to be seeping its way towards Tokyo.
• Hanford-area birth defects (anencephaly, spina bifida) spike in alarming cluster as Washington State report on 1968-80 study of birth defects in children of Hanford workers "mysteriously" disappears from the state's website.
• Read Hanford report on bizarre deaths after radiation exposure
• Watch Seattle KING 5 report Hanford whistleblower "illegally fired" for voicing safety concerns
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe-baby actually says that Japan will not restart its closed nucler power plants "unless safety is restored 100 percent."  I guess that means they will NEVER be restarting!  (Of course, it all hinges on Abe's definition of "safety.")

LINKS:

• Paul Langley's article on Academia.edu about "Radiation Sickness in Man - Part 1 of 2":  https://www.academia.edu/8442376/Radiation_Sickness_in_Man_Outlines_Part_1_of_2

INTERVIEWS:

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, Nuclear Hotseat's "boots on the ground" in Japan, talks extensively about the recent death of Asahi TV news director Masaki Iwaji, whose passing was officially categorized as suicide but  which is believed by many to have been something else.  Beverly also discusses how Japan's political shift to the right has impacted the anti-nuclear movement there and reflects on time she spent at a mountain retreat with Fukushima mothers and their children.

Award-winning journalist Karl Grossman provides the history of Nukes in Space, from President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative that proposed placing weapons platforms in orbit around Earth to recent breakthroughs in solar-powered interplanetary flight that give lie to the need for anything nuclear in space.  (An excerpt from this interview was used on Nuclear Hotseat #163, the August 5 Hiroshima Day Special.)

ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT:  Everyone who's marching in the People's Climate March on September 21 - safe journey and make the entire climate change/sustainability community understand that NUKES ARE THE WHITE ELEPHANT IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE LIVINGROOM!

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INTERVIEW:  Nancy Burton, founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, on the horrifying history of Connecticut's aging Millstone nuclear power station, on the ongoing dangers posed by owner/operator Dominion Resources' bottom line approach to safety, and the unreported radiation release that happened during the double-reactor shutdown on May 25, 2014.
www.MothballMillstone.com

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  Attempted Ukranian sabotage of Iran's Russian-built nuclear reactor possibly caused by  after-market nuclear parts from Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.  WTF?  

PLUS:

• New Mexico's Environmental Department Secretary accuses federal Department of Energy of blocking probe of Feb. 14 accident and radiation leak at WIPP Site in Carlsbad.
• 55 Greenpeace activists on trial in France for March 18 protest about lack of security at the Fessenheim nuclear facility that resulted in 20 managing to get into the facility and onto the dome of one of the reactors.  Security, anyone?
• India's Prime Minister Modi fails to land nuke deal with Japan, but gets a uranium deal from Australia.  Partial victory for India's Anti-Nuclear Gandhi, Kumar Sundaram.
• Chernobyl radioactivity found in wild boar in Germany must be destroyed uneaten... or shipped to the United States, which considers its 600 Bequerel per kilogram of radioactivity just fine and safe for Americans to eat, mmm, mmm, good!

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Chernobyl's Legacy: German boar found to be too radioactive to be eaten.[/caption]

•  Fukushima radiation detected in West Coast groundwater, meat, fish, milk and vegetation... IN 2011 AND 2012... and they're just letting us know about it now???