Nuclear Hotseat

ニュークリアーホットシート

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FEATURED:  Voices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

A Kennedy and a Beatle?  Yep!  When they could get together and save the world. Imagine...

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, in full hazmat at Fukushima.

PLUS:

• Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA;
• Radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week;
• California wildfires threaten San Onofre nuclear waste:

Southern California wildfire threatening San Onofre's spent fuel pools; note the traffic jam of people trying to escape.

• Thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids jumps 51.5% over February numbers;
• Los Alamos is the definite source of WIPP underground explosion and radiation leak - more containers at risk at WIPP, at WCS in Texas, and at Los Alamos;
• Ukraine stops armed gunmen from forcing their way into nuclear power plant;
• Canada throws out preliminary approvals for two new nukes in Ontario;
• CA Public Utilities Commission President Michael R. Peevey gets peeved and shouts/curses down honest question at SCE pork barrel evidentiary hearing;
• ...and much more!

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FEATURED INTERVIEWS:

• Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM, brings us up to date on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, including his take on the "green kitty litter" now being blamed for the "explosion that was not an 'explosion'" that caused a radiation leak at the government's only site for nuclear waste disposal.

CONTACT INFO for DOE Media Spokesmodel Bradley Bugger at WIPP:

EMAIL:  [email protected]

PHONE:  575-234-7545.

Worker at the WIPP Site in Full Hazmat Mufti

• Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight Project interprets the confusing shenanigans about the California Public Utility Commission's "done deal" bailout of  defunct San Onofre nuclear power facility's operators Southern California Edison, to the tune of $3.3 BILLION in taxpayer funds.  But it's not over yet!

This was not an invitation to SCE to continue to milk the ratepayers!

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Kyushu Electric Power and Hokkaido Electric Power are complaining: "Mom, TEPCO got a bailout from the Japanese government and they made a profit of $4.3 BILLION last year, why can't we get a multi-billion dollar bailout of our own, huh, huh???????"

PLUS:

• NRC sets seismic analyses of 21 nuclear reactors as "a priority" - as long as it takes place by 2019 .
• Fukushima Prefecture goes bonkers over Manga comic with characters who tell the truth about nosebleeds, fatigue;
• Worker sues TEPCO for radiation exposure, cites USS Reagan sailors;
• N. America's Fukushima fallout exposure estimated at 400 TRILLION bequerels of Cesium-137;
• and TEPCO's frozen sea wall - any bets?

Interview w/award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman on how the nuclear industry has gamed the media since before Hiroshima, why mainstream media continues to resist coverage of nuclear news, and thoughts on how to start breaking that logjam.  www.KarlGrossman.com

FREE KARL GROSSMAN BOOK (pdf):  Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power - For your FREE download, just click on Cover Up Sample

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NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

TEPCO double-header:  Naohiro Masuda, newly appointed head of the Fukushima Daiichi "Decontamination and Decommissioning" Company, on cost-cutting measures which include eliminating what?!?!????? from on-site workers?  AND - TEPCO claims they can't afford to keep providing stipends to Fukushima residents forced out of their homes and will cut them off next March.  So how much did this genocidal company net last year?  Hold onto your knickers...

(Full story  on Masuda here: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Taking-on-Fukushima-0205141.html)

PLUS:

• WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site in Carlsbad, New Mexico, shows damage to bags of magnesium oxide placed atop waste containers to stop radiation leaks - LOL!;

WIPP site magnesium oxide bags - intended to prevent release of radioactive material into the environment for 10,000 years.  How's that working for you?

• Hanford explosion during Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition hidden from authorities and public for two weeks; union rep furious;
• Tokyo quakes register 6.6 and 6.1, but word from Fukushima's Spent Fuel Pool 4: Don't worry, be happy!;
• Scott Portzline of Three Mile Island Alert offers a special invitation to participate in a webinar on NRC lies with Tim Judson of NIRS,  Eric Epstein of TMI Alert and himself.  
• ...and if we could talk to the animals - meaning the fish/sea lions/sea birds/whales/owls/otters on the west coast of North America, they'd be really really pissed off at us about what the radiation from Fukushima is doing to them!

Nuclear Hotseat #149: WIPP Radiation Leak SPECIAL - Download Here

Spotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees:

• Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center
• Karen Hadden, Executive Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition
• Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS.

PLUS:

• Chernobyl - collateral damage in Putin/Ukraine clash?
• Nuclear refugees being forced to return to Fukushima despite deadly radiation levels and ongoing health problems.
• And Obama eats sushi in Tokyo - what's wrong with THIS picture?