Nuclear Hotseat

 
SPECIAL BICOASTAL REPORT:  Interviews with participants in two major actions on opposite coasts.  Gary Headrick, Grace Van Thillo and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (via proxy) weigh in on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's public hearing on Southern California Edison's dumbass intention to restart the aging, leaking, dangerous reactors at San Onofre.  In DC, Coalition Against Nukes founder Priscilla Star shares her perspective on the nuke issue at the Climate Change Rally - the "elephant in the Climate Change livingroom."

PLUS:

• Hanford, WA radwaste leak threatens Columbia River;
• Russian meteor barely missed 7 nuke facilities;
• Two more confirmed cases of thyroid cancer in children near Fukushima;
• Snow collapses roof at Chernobyl;
• It's official: with Crystal River closing, the number of nuke reactors in the US is down to 103.  Progress, not perfection.
• ...and of course, a lot more!

So. Cal. Activists greet union workers being bussed in to San Onofre Hearing.  Photo: Myla Reson

Letter to the NRC from San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, read by Dr. Rob Wilder, the mayor's Public Advocate for Energy and Climate Change (video courtesy Myla Reson): 

Coalition Against Nukes in DC for Climate Change Rally

 
INTERVIEW:  Zach "No Cameco" Ruiter, Canadian activist, on the recent Toronto Idle No More-led blockade of a train outside GE-Hitachi's mid-city uranium processing facility.  Plus words of wisdom and strategy for activists hoping to make a difference in their local communities.

Zach "No Cameco" Ruiter joins with Idle No More at the Toronto Train Blockade protesting GE-Hitachi

PLUS:

• Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Ed Markey blister the NRC w/a leaked document from Mitsubishi showing that SCE knew of design flaws BEFORE it installed the flawed, leaking steam generators at San Onofre;
• Navy seamen exposed to the worst of Fukushima radiation as part of the humanitarian Operation Tomodachi now suffering from leukemia, testicular cancer, brain lesions, loss of sight;
• Fukushima physicians report their "physical state is not well;
• Fukushima boy found w/6,000 disintegrations per second in his body - 50 disintegrations per kilogram of body weight leads to irreversible lesions in vital organs;
• NEW!  Nuclear Hotseat's weekly NRC report, otherwise known as DUCK!

REMEMBER:

Dr. Helen Caldicott is producing a landmark Global Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima March 11 and 12 in New York.  Come to learn from scientists, researchers, medical doctors and genuine experts on the cutting edge of the information of what's happening as a result of the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen… and it's not over yet.   www.HelenCaldicottFoundation.org for the line-up of speakers and all the latest information on livestreaming.