Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy's Nuclear Memoir is

PUBLISHED AS OF FEBRUARY 27, 2014!  

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Nuclear Hotseat #140

THE INTERVIEWS:

• Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center (www.sric.org) again provides us with on-the-ground information of what's really going on with the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
• Dr. Catherine Wind Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes (https://www.facebook.com/mamabears.againstnukes?fref=ts) goes over radiation basics as applies to the human body.
• RadCast's Mimi German weighs in on the EPA's pesky air monitors - will they work? will they not work? and Why?!? www.RadCast.org
• Chizu Hamada, a businesswoman originally from Japan, has been working to coordinate protest efforts around the world to mark the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  She tells us about the website she created that lists all the known events taking place on and around March 11:  http://fukushimathirdanniversaryevents.blogspot.com  If your event isn't listed, contact her through that site to have it added.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  Snow for the Odaiba Snow Festival trucked in to Tokyo... from Fukushima?  Oy! 

PLUS:

• 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice gets 35 months in prison, asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the Y-12 nuclear facility;

The "damage" done by 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice at the Y-12 Nuclear Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

• Second safety official at Hanford fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety!
• Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees as President Obama pays off his top campaign fundraiser;
• Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours, sirens sound the alarm;
• High levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture;
• Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it when truce is called.   Oy!
• Radcast Radiation Weather Report with Mimi German.
• ...and much, much more!

BREAKING NEWS:  Sister Megan Rice sentenced to 2 years, 11 months for peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  Co-defendants get 5 yrs. 2 months each.  Details on next week's Nuclear Hotseat #140. 

Convicted peaceful anti-nuclear protesters Sister Megan Rice, flanked by co-defendants Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed

INTERVIEWS:

• Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center on the fire and radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM - two separate incidents within 10 days that point to a company culture that fails to take proper precautions.  CONTACT: [email protected]
• Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar, director of "High Power," winner of the 2013 Uranium Film Festival Yellow Oscar for Best Short Documentary.  To book the film or purchase a DVD, CONTACT:  [email protected].   

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Close this week, but we revisit the Fukushima Kids' Cancer Seminar to learn how their slogan, "Especially because this is Fukushima, we need the best cancer education in Japan!" Learn what happens when the event's organizer gets asked how that creepy slogan got picked and why children of Fukushima need "cancer education."

Poster for Kids' Cancer Seminar in Fukushima. Subtitle reads, "Especially because this is Fukushima, we need the best cancer education in Japan." (Translation by Beverly Findlay-Kaneko)

PLUS:

• "Experts" miss possible Hanford implications in Washington state rare birth defect cluster;
• Massive cracks found at Fukushima near radioactive water storage tanks;
• Fukushima dental assn. to study radiation in baby teeth (shades of Operation Tooth Fairy);
• UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding;
• The Irish will soon be able to sue the UK for Sellafield radiation damages;
• The NRC DUCK! and Cover Report;
• Radcast w/Mimi German;
• ...and more!

LINKS:

• Interview w/Tokyo-based physician Shigeru Mita on the need to evacuate from Tokyo, an interview by Nelson Groom for Vice.com:  http://nsgroom.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/vice-a-japanese-physician-is-encouraging-the-evacuation-of-tok
• Petition to support journalist Mari Takenouchi and support her effotts to protect children living in areas contaminated with radioactivity:  http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/we-stand-with-mari-takenouchi-save-kids-japan-as-she-stands-for-fukushima-children-s-health

USS Reagan sailors on deck trying to clean up radiation during Operation Tomadachi, their humanitarian aid mission to Fukushima immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  (Note the lack of protective gear.)

INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, representing USS Ronald Reagan sailors harmed by Fukushima radiation, with an update on their lawsuit against TEPCO.  Now 79 named plaintiffs with cancers, tumors, blindness, wasting of limbs, internal bleeding and more face off w/power giant for medical expenses on behalf of 75,000 military personnel in Japan during the start of the Fukushima crisis.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  A lying professor claims you can eat 32 grams of plutonium... and not get sick!  And TEPCO has solicited Fukushima clean-up suggestions from experts around the world.  200 ideas being vetted... and implementation not expected or possible between 2020.  Just in time for the Olympics? 

PLUS:

• Eight more children diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Fukushima while medical "experts" claim it has nothing to do w/Fukushima;
• TEPCO admits their radiation data is "wildly wrong" as new sources of radiation leaks keep showing up;
• Tokyo gets Abe-baby's hand-picked pro-nuke misogynist Masuzoe as their new governor because anti-nuke vote got split;
• Hawaii getting hit hard with ongoing radiation, starts to discover how long it's been going on (HINT: longer than they've known);
• California kayakers report Fukushima radiation on their boat bottoms;
• Teen cancer cluster in LA suburb calls in Erin Brockovich, who needs to realize they're just ten miles from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, site of a 1959 nuclear meltdown and the largest radiation release in US history;
• Imminent influx of radioactive Pacific water from Fukushima will leave radwaste residue on west coast beaches;
• RadCAST radiation "weather report" with Mimi German.
• ...and more!

LINK:

• Three Mile Island at 35 conference, March 28-29, in Harrisburg, PA:  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conference-tmi35-the-three-mile-island-nuclear-crisis-in-perspective-tickets-9802807461