Nuclear Hotseat

Featured Interview:  Engineer and activist Ray Lutz "nukes" the NRC's cover-up of SCE's responsibility for San Onofre's steam generator problems.

PLUS:

• Four nuke plants trigger NRC "Unusual Events" in a single day.  With that many, is it still "unusual?"  (And still, no blackouts!);
• Illinois reactor in "hot water" - at 102 degrees, cooling water can't cool but the nuclear reactor's still on line;
• Japanese Prime Minister Noda admits that nuclear energy is dividing the nation;
• TEPCO gets a rate hike as well as a bailout;
• Temperature gauge cables on verge of breaking at Fukushima;
• Subcontractor forces Fukushima clean-up workers to cover their dosimeters w/lead shields;
• And Russia is doing a better job at protecting its citizens from radiation than the US.

Interview w/filmmaker Chris Noland (NOT Christopher Nolan from "Batman"),
who recorded the first months after Fukushima as a relief worker in the
field. His film, "311 Surviving Japan" is in post-production and already
garnering overwhelming response in preview screenings.

PLUS:

• 170,000 march against nuclear energy and the Oi restart in Japan;
• KEPCO cooked the energy books, turning off eight functioning thermal plants to "justify" restarting the nukes;
• Cesium 134 and 137 found in 2011 crop CA almonds and prunes;
• internal radiation found to be 100 times worse than a chest x-ray;
• the power of mint;
• and SCE warns San Onofre employees not to leak documents to Arnie Gundersen at Fairewinds.com... which we learned about because somebody leaked THAT document to Fairewinds!