Nuclear Hotseat

Plus:

• Police kill anti-nuke protesters, including a small girl, as thousands continue to protest at Koodankulam NPP in India;
• The fight is on to stop PG&E from exterminating CA sea life to justify keeping Diablo Canyon NPP chugging away atop its earthquake faults;
• TEPCO says Unit 4 is "perfectly safe" in a quake up to 6.0... as long as it only shakes up and down, not side-to-side; nuclear physicist Nils Bohmer and Arnie Gundersen point out the problem;
• TEPCO alters unit 4 photo w/bad Photoshop, then pulls it, then crops it, then admits to it... but won't say why and we can't figure out what they were trying to hide;
• Japan feeding school children radioactive milk, oranges, apples - why?  Because they're the government and they say so and anyone who doesn't eat the food is a "chicken!" (the Mayor of Kawasaki City really said that to concerned parents!).
• Coalition Against Nukes Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future coming up next week; will you be in DC or will you donate from home?

Links of interest:

• www.CoalitionAgainstNukes.org
• Koodankulam protests:</li>

PLUS:

• For only the second time in history, the NRC denies a request for a license!  NIRS Exec. Director Michael Mariotte labels this action, "A blow to the so-called 'nuclear renaissance.'"
• San Onofre to get cost/benefit analysis to see if it makes sense to attempt to reopen it (CLUE: The answer is NO!);
• Dr. Michael Nobel of the Nobel Prize family focuses attention on radioactive contamination of milk and water in Hawaii and on US west coast;
• Arnie Gundersen reports on Japan's lawmakers laughing at TEPCO (see video below);
• And double the Nuclear Numnutz this week:  Fukushima trying to attract Tokyo's high school students as tourists AND three cities in Saitama prefecture to recycle radioactive rubble from Fukushima as... cement .  So much insanity, so little time...

Links:

• Koodankulam petition link; please sign:  http://www.indianvoice.org/stop-kudankulam-nuclear-plant-help-save-petition.html
• Arnie Gundersen's trip to Japan as presented by Green Action Japan:

Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, on how to grow grassroots activism, southeastern U.S. nuke issues, support for the CAN Rally for a Nuclear Free Future.

News:

• Whales Picket Diablo Canyon;
• India's $9 Numnutz - the ultimate pro-nuker's sweet deal;
• tsunami debris already hitting Alaska hard;
• Dr. Caldicott's 14 recommendations for Japan, none of which has been taken;
• Katie, the radioactive goat, has died;
• Dominion Resources denies that its Millstone nuclear power plant, only five miles away from Katie's meadow, where she grazed all day, was the source of the strontium found in her milk.  (By that logic, Dominion would also like to interest you in land speculation in northeast Japan.)  No word on where else the strontium might have been sourced. 

Great teleseminar on Post-Fukushima Food Safety issues this Sunday, September 2, featuring Kimberly Roberson, author of Silence Deafening... Fukushima Fallout... A Mother's Response and Mary Beth Brangan of EON3, an award-winning filmmaker and veteran activist.

Go to: www.SilenceDeafening.com and learn more.