Nuclear Hotseat

NOTE:  From now on, Nuclear Hotseat will be posted to YouTube as the one place you'll be able to get the programs.  No elaborate visuals yet; exploring ways to do that...

CONTENTS OF NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #137: 

INTERVIEW:  Susan Corbett is Chair of the National Sierra Club Nuclear Issues Activist Team and Chair of the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club.  She shares how South Carolina is the most nuclear-industry-intensive state in our country, Hanford-like leaks from the Barnwell Nuclear site, and the ongoing battle to prevent South Carolina from becoming "the nuclear waste "paid toilet of the south."

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  The Kids Cancer Seminar in Fukushima - just the thing for 5th and 6th graders!  According to the poster,"Especially because this is Fukushima, we need the best cancer education in Japan!"  Oy!

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

PLUS:

• RadCAST Radiation Weather Report w/Mimi German
  
• Sen. Boxer KO's NRC over missing San Onofre documents;
• Congress calls for investigation into radiation contamination of sailors after Fukushima on USS Reagan;
• Sen. Sanders tries for repeal of Price-Anderson;
• NHK forbids its broadcasters from mentioning nuclear issues pre-Tokyo mayoral election;
• Ukraine on the verge of civil war as protestors threaten nuclear reactors;
• and Hollywood weighs in on nuclear - the new "Judy Blue Eyes"? 

LINKS:

• Harvey Wasserman's great article on "50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima"     http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/02/50-reasons-fear-fukushima/
• NYTimes article by Martin Fackler on NHK: "News Giant in Japan Seen as Being Compromised" - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/world/asia/news-giant-in-japan-seen-as-being-compromised.html?_r=0

FOIA email from EPA to air quality districts immediately after Fukushima obtained by Daniel Hirsch, Nuclear Policy Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and head of Committee to Bridge the Gap

INTERVIEWS:  First-hand reports on the recent meetings between  anti-nuclear activists and top level reps of the NRC, EPA and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

• Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, Senior Associate at Radioactive Waste Management Associates, has been an international consultant on radioactive waste management for decades.  He met with NRC Chair Alison Macfarlane and Commissioners Magwood and Apostolakis and really burned them up with the hard facts of what they don't know about high burn-up nuclear fuel in their own reactors!

Dr. Marvin Resnikoff

• Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director for Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) explains how she took on the EPA over their inability to take radiation readings on the California coast after Fukushima -- and perhaps it was something other than incompetence?

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  TRINITY BLAST HEALTH STUDY

The Trinity blast on July 16, 1945, marked the start of the nuclear age... and the US government is studying the health impact on downwinders only now...?!?  Everyone alive back then is either over 70 or dead!

PLUS:

• Sentencing for 84-year-old Buddhist nun Sister Megan Rice and her co-nuclear-disarmament activists delayed on account of snow, rescheduled for February 18.
• Alaska cites the Twinkie, uh, banana defense to radiation charges as seals die of "white goo" throughout body that even crows refuse to eat;
• Gloves come off in Tokyo gubernatorial election as a referendum on nukes as TV/radio commentator "asked" by stations to "steer clear of nuclear power issues;"
• Canada wants to ship highly enriched uranium by truck to US Savannah River Site;
• AND:  Blinky strikes again!

Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish, shows up this time in Canada

LINKS: 

•  Sr. Megan Rice Petition, asking the judge for leniency: http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9007
• Martin Fackler Int'l New York Times article on the Fukushima farmer who defies the evacuation order to tend the prefecture's abandoned cows:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/defying-japan-rancher-saves-fukushimas-radioactive-cows.html?_r=0
• Amy Goodman, Democracy Now from Japan: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/17/mayor_of_town_that_hosted_fukushima
• Robert Jacobs 3-part series on Radiation Makes People Invisible: 
  http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=12200