Nuclear Hotseat

INTERVIEW:  Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green walks us through recent manipulations and slickery by Southern California Edison and explains why SCE's request for a licensing hearing by the NRC is not the same as an adjudicated licensing hearing by the NRC.  Plus the sudden departure of NRC Region IV head Elmo Collins, the new power of nuclear engineer Art Howell to influence the SanO hearings, and a juicy quote from former NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko on what it's really like on the inside of the institution charged with "Protecting People and the Environment" from the scourge of nuclear. 

Retirement: It's a good thing... because rats are always the first ones off a sinking ship!

PLUS:

• Arkansas nuke plant accident kills 1, injures 8;
• New study indicates nuke plant shutdowns reduce local cancer rates;
• Quebec puts a moratorium on uranium exploration and development;
• Cops turn Indian anti-nuke protest into mass jailing;
• Tohoku Electric decides: no new nukes will be built in Fukushima (can you believe they were thinking seriously about it?!?);
• Nuclear Reactors: When Animals Attack!
• ...and much more!

LINKS:

• San Clemente Green - www.SanClementeGreen.org
• New study by Dr. Janette Sherman and Joe Mangano on reduction in cancer rates once nuclear reactors are shut down: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/policy-closing-nuclear-plant-prevents-thousands-of-cancer-cases-032813
• Saturday Night Live "Two Mile Island" sketch ("Pepsi Syndrome"):  https://vimeo.com/20995501

Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy as a young, stupid woman standing in front of the still-leaking nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, approximately April 10, 1979

FEATURING:

• Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education with a blow-by-blow description of the chaos inside TMI during the first three days of the accident.

 Arnie Gundersen and Libbe HaLevy in front of the San Onofre Nuclear Reactors three days before decommissioning was announced.

• Long time Middletown, PA resident Mary Stamos, with a first-hand report of the aftermath of the accident and the impact upon her family.
• Media excerpts from Walter Cronkite and countless other reporters not yet hobbled by corporate media control.
• And a "punch line" of unimaginable proportions regarding what happened to the Three Mile Island Plant Manager (HINT: You won't believe it!).

LINKS:

• Three Mile Island Alert, the local Middletown activist organization:  www.TMIA.com
• Mark Catlin, "Voices of Three Mile Island":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmmdh8Xlbvg
• Adam Curtis, Adam Curtis, whose film "A is for Atom" provided excerpts from the Dictaphone recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ON-EnaRtAw
• John B. Wells, Host, Coast to Coast AM, Nuclear Power Special http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/03/23 - source of the Arnie Gundersen audio.
• CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite - Three Mile Island Special Report:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVu92rk4M0Q, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nAYUIKMiQ
• FRONTLINE:  Meltdown at Three Mile Island - excellent documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPAigMuBk0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaywLEEN9U

Walter Cronkite, "The Most Trusted Newsman in America," doing a CBS Special Report on Three Mile Island on March 30, 1979 - the third day of the nuclear accident that freaked out the entire eastern part of the US and -- oh yes -- the rest of the world.

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INTERVIEW:

Kimberly Roberson is a certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator and has served on the board of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She has worked at Sane/Freeze, CALPIRG and Greenpeace USA;  and has lobbied for environmental and natural health issues on the state and federal level, as well as at the Food and Drug Administration. Kimberly is the founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN). Her first book is "Silence Deafening, Fukushima Fallout...A Mother's Response."

Kimberly Roberson's Links:

Follow: https://twitter.com/RadFreeFoodie
Visit: www.silencedeafening.com
Support:  https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/676
Updates:  https://www.facebook.com/#!/SilenceDeafeningFFAMR
Sign and share: http://www.change.org/petitions/urgent-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-food-safety-petitionwww.SilenceDeafening.com

STORIES:

• Fukushima power outage timeline and possible consequences;
• Southern California Edison wants to restart San Onofre at full power despite likelihood of breakdown ;
• NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs - first license denial ever ;
• Caldicott Symposium smashing success w/online viewers in 650 cities worldwide;
• Japanese journalist Jun Hori muzzled, his documentary on Southern California nuclear activism ordered not to be shown by his employer, NHK;
• France wins Numnutz of the Week for hiding results of a nuclear worst-case-scenario study for six years, then redacting the text and gaming the numbers in full view of the world;
• Dr. Catherine Euler of the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory 6 (see: Nuclear Hotseat #86 - http://ow.ly/hsvSu) gets the best community service "punishment" ever!

Dr. Caldicott/Physicians for Social Responsibility Symposium Video Links - A Partial Listing (with thanks to Chistine Dillon Strickland for her hard work and good eye):

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Libbe HaLevy, Gail Payne of Coalition Against Nukes, Don Payne of CAN, Cathy Iwane[/caption]

Alexy Yablokov on Chernobyl:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZIaV-xrXk&feature=youtu.be

World Health Organization Pact w/IAEA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqiPkVhPoI

Spent fuel – an afterthought:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4RyFNgrswI

Medical consequences of Fukushima:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-sAiwV6MI

Q&A:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Nf5UTW2JI

Naval personnel poisoned by Fukushma radiation:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lSgcAO2zs

Dr. Caldicott – closing remarks:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMwJnQjj1A

Naoto Kan, experiences while Prime Minister of Japan during Fukushima disaster:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYv3w63us5k

Hiroaki Koide, Master of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute - Fukushima Daiichi: A Chronologicl Account of the Disaster:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmHptj2RVo

Chronology of Fukushima:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmHptj2RVo

Chernobyl – congenital malformations – ionizing radiation: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRgMLyuNDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEYZl8-3sDQ

Ian Fairley - Fukushima source terms, initial health impact:

#2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bLEb7qB1c4

#3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbsPx_BLAY

Dr. Steven Wing – Epidemiological studies of radiation releases from nuclear facilities

#2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1P61cZEAQQ

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Arnie Gundersen presentation:

http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-arnie-gundersen-presentation-helen-caldicott-foundation-symposium

Joseph Mangano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqW0PVT93d0" class="text-nh underline hover:text-nh-dark"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqW0PVT93d0

Karl Grossman report:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYClI5orMY

Kevin Kamps – 70 years of radioactive risks:

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Cindy Folkers – radiation in food: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9d3I3S99Dc