Nuclear Hotseat

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FEATURED INTERVIEWS:

• Hiroaki Koide, Asst. Professor, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
• Taro Yamamoto, actor and member of the Japanese Diet Upper House.
  http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307220053
• Midori Kiuchi, popular television and movie actress
• Kaori Suzuki, Director of the Tarachine Citizens Radiation Monitoring Center
• Ruiko Muto, lead plaintiff of a large group of Fukushima residents who have filed a criminal complaint against TEPCO and the Japanese government.  http://japanfocus.org/-Muto-Ruiko/3784    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201206160009

The last time Setsuko Kida was home was Oct. 7 last year. She forgot her keys, and in an angry moment, she scrawled graffiti on her front door: “This house cost $320,000 21 years ago, TEPCO paid us $90,000, and we still owe $70,000 on our loan. Bureaucrats, politicians, Reconstruction Agency, TEPCO, Keidanren and PM Abe: Before you say anything, TRY LIVING HERE FOR A WHILE!”
去年10月7日。木田さん自身が自宅の玄関ドアに書いた政府、東電への抗議文。
その日は、うっかり玄関の鍵を忘れて中に入れなかったという。
Photos courtesy of Yuji Kaneko for use on Nuclear Hotseat website. Reproduction requires permission.

• Seiichi Mizuno is a businessman, former president of Seibu Department Stores, and former member of the Japanese Diet Upper House. www.miznos.com.
• Kosuke Ito is a former citizen of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, who helped to start Frontier Minamisoma NPO. www.frontier-minamisoma.org/‎
• Laura Inoue of Komoro Homestay Programme for Mothers and Children.  [email protected]

MUSIC LINKS:

• Music at the top of the program, "Sokoniaru Hikari," by Zero-nomi-kuma:  http://zeronomikuma.com  and  https://www.facebook.com/zeronomikuma) 
• Music at the end of the show, "No Nukes, Baby," is based on  "Nothing on You" by B.O.B featuring Bruno Mars, with a new lyric by singer Natsu No Color, a Tokyo-based musician who performs regularly at Japanese anti-nuke rallies. http://m.reverbnation.com/artist/natsu

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INTERVIEWS:

• Dr. Jerry Brown, director of the Safe Energy Project for the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy, talks about the new study commissioned from esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano.  It reveals shocking cancer statistics in counties adjacent to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.  Link to a free pdf of the study: http://worldbusiness.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Report-on-Health-Status-of-Residents-Near-Diablo-Canyon-Nuclear-Power-Plant.pdf
• Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides an update on the Valentine's Day radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.  Thirteen above ground workers now know to have been exposed to Plutonium, Americium.  How big was the release and how far did it go?  And when will we know?  www.sric.org for updates.

LOL if it weren't so upsetting.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Evil Numnutz as World Nuclear News releases a report that they claim "proves" that Fukushima residents are "unlikely to receive doses significantly different to normal background radiation levels as a result of the accident."  What are those people smoking/drinking?

PLUS:

• Hanford site threatened by cracked dam 40 miles upstream;
• Hawaiian state senators call for radiation tracking in their local Pacific waters, citing fish found w/high levels of cesium contamination;
• Babcock and Wilcox - makers of low quality nuclear reactors including the one that melted down at Three Mile Island - can't find buyers for their small modular nuclear reactors, while Exelon threatens to shut down 3 reactor sites in Illinois because they aren't making any money - awwwwwww! (not!);
• "Mind boggling" levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs as rockfish caught off the coast found even more radioactive than Japan's permissive permissible levels;
• Hundreds rally in Tokyo to protest prosecutors letting TEPCO off the hook without a single indictment, while government persecuting journalist Mari Takenouchi for speaking out on radation risks and the need to evacuate children from Fuushima.  Here's a link to a petition to support Takenouchi: http://nuclear-news.net/2014/03/03/support-mari-takenouchi-and-radiation-protection-the-attack-on-japanese-truthtellers-continues/
• RadCast Radiation Weather Report w/Mimi German;
• ...and more!  More!  More!

LINK:

• Journalist Karl Grossman's article for Counterpunch, "The Giant Lie about Fukushima" - http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/03/the-giant-lie-about-fukushima/  Check out Karl's reference to Nuclear Hotseat #118 interview w/Alison Katz of Independent WHO.  http://ow.ly/oSftT