Nuclear Hotseat

Terrific food safety interview w/Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Awareness Network.  Learn about the increasing dangers posed to our food supply by the radiation from Fukushima, as well as what you can do to boost your health and resist the effects of radiation.

Plus:

• Radiation in Fukushima #2 too hot for even the robots;
• Japanese politicians furious that Sapporo mayor refuses radioactive waste from Miyagi and Iwate;
• Former Prime Minister Kan now an anti-nuke activist!;
• San Onofre slammed into shutdown by NRC over steam generator pipe failures;
• NRC licenses 2 new nukes in South Carolina -- already in cost overruns and they haven't even started building;
• Radioactive kelp in southern California;
• Japan to provide canned radioactive fish to Cambodia for school lunches w/United Nations approval ; and
• Friends of Earth produce a TV ad to keep San Onofre shut. (Scroll down to view it.)

Hey, Jon Stewart -- when will this be on The Daily Show?

Download it here:
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/e0e8afa5-1b3d-95df-37be-2ffd0ba3ade2.mp3

• Special report on Three Mile Island on the eve of the 33rd anniversary, including host Libbe HaLevy's personal story of having been one mile away when it happened;
• Exclusive interview w/Dr. Helen Caldicott;
• 15 Koodankulam activists in India now 9 days into a fast to the death (if necessary) to stop two nuclear reactors from going online;
• Ongoing radiation woes in Japan;
• North Anna hits NRC's "Unusual Occurrence" list yet again (it's not so unusual...);
• and according to Japanese psychiatric workers, if you're afraid of radiation, you're nuts!

With thanks to sources for the Three Mile Island Special. Please visit and watch these two amazing videos:

Voices from Three Mile Island, compiled and uploaded by Mark Catlin; on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmmdh8Xlbvg; and
"A is for Atom" – a film by Adam Curtis – http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html#

Here's the player:



Here's the download link:
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat-40_3-20-12-CA-Update.mp3

On this week's Nuclear Hotseat Podcast...

• Donna Gilmore and Ace Hoffman interviewed for a CA update on San Onofre testing, the state's TRUE energy needs, and the CA Ballot Initiative.
• Jon Stewart/Daily Show to carry nuke industry ads - NIRS.org starts the protest, Nuclear Hotseat joins in.
• As of March 15, TEPCO no longer provides stats on the reactors.
• Japanese radiation hits new high in Iitate and farmers face a deadly harvest.
• Arnie predicts 20% cancer rate in Fukushima girls.
• US finally admits post-war nuke workers got cancer from being nuke workers - DUH!
• Protesters of India's Koodankoolam nuclear power plant arrested as government mandates that those reactors must open.

...and a 68-year old Japanese man urges other seniors to buy and eat Fukushima rice so it doesn't get eaten by children and expose them to radiation. One of the most vulnerable populations urging voluntary suicidal action on behalf of the other most vulnerable population.  Commit slow hiri-kiri, death by TEPCO. Where is government?  Where is protection? Where are the cranes...?