Nuclear Hotseat

PLUS:

• Japan's new Nuclear Regulation Authority to create framework by which all nukes can be brought back online (this from a country that announced it would be "nuke-free by the 2030's")... but no one is willing to take responsibility for authorizing restarts (I wonder why...);
• Children in Fukushima exercise on land registering over 100,000 bequerels of radiation per square meter -- aka genocide;
• Researcher at Kyoto University Research Rector Institute states: "There is no longer ay such thing as clean and safe food."
• Mass cattle die-offs in Fukushima;
• Former licensed Senior Reactor Operator reports that TEPCO believes corium has eaten through the floor at Unit 1, while former Japanese ambassador to Switzerland tells of the nearly three feet of sinkage of Unit 4, making it even more precarious;
• Gundersen: "Entomb [the reactors] and come back in 100 years.

LINKS:

• For Kristen Iversen and her book:
  
  • KRISTENIVERSEN.COM
  • FALLOUTREPORT.COM
  • AUTHOR PAGE ON FACEBOOK
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Fukushima children run a marathon on contaminated route:

Fukushima children exercising on land that registers over 130,000 bq. per square meter .

INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network.

STORIES:

• US demands that Japan's PM Noda retain nuclear... so his announcement two weeks ago that the country would be nuke-free by the 2030's is now a worthless lie;
• Japan experiences cluster-quakes - 6.3 and 5.0 in NE Japan, three in Fukushima 4.4-5.2, all in one day!
• Exxon to drill for oil in Soviet offshore Arctic Ocean radiation dump;
• Koodankulam activists jam entrance to port with their boats, thousands of women and children stand in formations in knee-deep water to block passage, and bury themselves in sand up to their necks so they can't be moved as they protest the fueling of the nuclear reactors (and Americans can't get a hundred people to show up at the Capitol in DC for a simple rally on the lawn);
• PG&E to scale back sea life destruction disguised as seismic testing, but it's still an insane plan and activists won't accept it!
• Fukushima to be center for medical research into cancer; you mean "staying happy" isn't enough to keep the kids and their parents cancer-free?  Now they tell us!  (Actually, they don't; this is Mengle territory.)
• And you want a scary Halloween story?  Tell the kiddies about nuclear!  Be sure to include lots of pictures from Fukushima and Chernobyl...

LINKS:

• Gene Stone, www.ResidentsOrganizedforaSafeEnvironment.org - to learn about setting up a citizen-run radiation monitoring system around your local neighborhood nuclear power facility.

Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the

Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future

September 20-22, 2012

An audio journey through three days of top-level activism, starring the best minds and hearts in the Nuclear-Free Future activist community.  This podcast includes interviews with or speeches by:

• Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)
• Gene Stone of ROSE
• Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
• Susan Hito Shapiro of  Radiation and Public Health Project & Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (Indian Point)
• Mariko Bender, World Network for Saving Children from Radiation
• Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear
• David Kraft of Nuclear Education and Information Service (Illinois)
• Courtney Hanson of Georgia WAND and Stop Plant Vogtle
• Alice Slater of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Gary Shaw of Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
• Jim Henry, an attorney and economist with Tax Justice Network
• and Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes

Come take an audio ride through our three days of activism in "the belly of the beast," Washington, D.C.  Then -- GET ACTIVE!

LINKS:

• Nuclear Hotseat host/producer Libbe HaLevy sings two songs she wrote about Three Mile Island:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JWbWyWgku4&list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&index=8&feature=plpp_video
• Videos of the Sept. 20 Capitol Rally: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&feature=em-share_playlist_user 
• Congressman Dennis Kucinich speaking on nuclear at the Sept. 20 Congressional Briefing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz_Q3l_qtU&list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&index=2&feature=plpp_video
• Congressional Briefing on Nuclear, Pt. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhaDFzhvCU4&list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&index=3&feature=plpp_video
• Congressional Briefing on Nuclear, Pt. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG9xeBRYOSs&feature=relmfu
• Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein at the CAN Busboys and Poets fundraiser:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onWkY36xqc&list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&index=5&feature=plpp_video
• Full playlist of videos:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_kG76Xcvg_Y5AKuJ9XPDFrDNlYHjaU8h&feature=em-share_playlist_user 

My favorite picture from the three days, with Arnie Gundersen:

Here's my other favorite photo from the rally -- my first photo w/a Presidential candidate, Jill Stein of the Green Party: