Nuclear Hotseat

Screen shot of Russian troops shelling the Zaporizhzhia six nuclear reactor site in Ukraine, March 4, 2022. LINK below for full NPR analysis of damage to the site.

• Kevin Kamps is Nuclear Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear.
• Dr. Gordon Edwards has been president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR.org) since 1978.  He graduated from the University of Toronto after studying mathematics, physics and chemistry with a gold medal in mathematics and physics.

Dear Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:  In light of the nuclear dangers of the past month that have been raised by Russia in Ukraine and in threats to use nuclear weapons… CAN YOU NOT TELL TIME???

The clock stopped.

• NPR Video Analysis of March 3 Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia 6-reactor nuclear power site.  https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085427380/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhia
• REGISTER for Bob Alvarez Lifetime Achievement Award – Saturday, March 19, 2022, 3 pm Eastern time, presented by Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS) and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
• Dianukes zoominar, Nuclear Power in the Battlefield: Ongoing Concerns at Chernobyl, Zaporizhzhya, and Beyond with Dr. Gordon Edwards; Dr. Olga Koshama, nuclear and safety expert, Ukrainian Nuclear Society, Kyiv; and Dr. Andrey Ozharovskym, Russian physicist and an independent expert on nuclear matters.  https://www.dianuke.org/chernobyl-in-the-war-zone-dianuke-conversation-on-the-unfolding-crisis-in-ukraine-zoom-recording/ 
• Pinar Demarican article: Rosatom’s woes before and beyond the war: implications of Russia’s embattled nuclear industry
• TRANSCRIPT OF MARCH 4 UKRAINE NUCLEAR REGULATOR REPORT

• Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates.

Nuclear Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors first shelled,
then captured by Russians.  Pumping stations are #4; reactors are at #3; building that got hit and burned is #15.

Our annual report on Fukushima, with reports direct from Japan, focusing on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum, featuring:

• Yuji Kaneko, Nuclear Hotseat Voices from Japan Special Japan Correspondent
• Beverly Findlay-Kaneko Nuclear Hotseat Voices from Japan Co-Producer, Editor and Translator.
• Ryan Kaneko, English narration and engineering for Yuji Kaneko’s travel diary.
• Aki Tabei, voiceover talent for Woman in Museum

Sterile representation of the horrors of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster at
the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum –
Japanese pro-nuclear public relations propaganda at its most obscene.  Photo supplied by Great East Japan Earthquake and National Disaster Memorial Museum.

In the foreground, radioactive tsunami debris still dots the landscape in Futaba. In the background, brand new Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum. Copyright Yuji Kaneko 2021.

Radioactive tsunami debris can still be found in many places in Futaba in the vicinity of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum. Copyright Yuji Kaneko 2021.

Processing of radioactive debris from across Fukushima Prefecture takes place nearby the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum. Photo taken from the roof of the building next door to the museum. Beyond the tree-covered hills lies the wreckage of Fukushima Daiichi.  Copyright Yuji Kaneko 2021.

SPECIAL:  Nuclear Ukraine in a Russian War Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjVORGDL5U

Nuclear Ukraine in a Russian War Zone - There are more ways to trigger a nuclear catastrophe i  Ukraine than mainstream media is currently reporting.  For this Nuclear Hotseat SPECIAL, we have three interviews with genuine experts.  Each knows the nuances of nuclear issues and covers the nightmare variants of possible Armageddon that we currently face.  They also provide some positive steps we can take at this dangerous moment towards ridding the planet of all nukes.

• Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates
• Karl Grossman is host of the television program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman, a professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, and author of six books – so far.  He has been covering nuclear issues for more than 50 years. 
• Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), base in Chicago, and a 40+ year veteran of anti-nuclear work.

• Dave Kraft's article on the NEIS website: When Nuclear Power Meets War.  
• Article on 4th quarter power earnings, containing this quote:
  "There's a realization that Europe has to move away from dependency on Russian oil and gas and one way to achieve that is renewables," Deepa Venkateswaran, an analyst at Bernstein Autonomous, tells Bloomberg. "Now it's not just about decarbonization, but also about security of supply."
• Article by Bennett Ramberg: A Russian invasion raises questions about the country's 15 nuclear reactors and the dangers they pose  
• Article by Tilman Ruff of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW.org) - The Ukraine crisis could trigger a nuclear catastrophe

Nuclear Downwinders - Actually, that would be all of us.  Map shows all locations where fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests landed at least three times. Map created by and used courtesy of Richard L. Miller.

• Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more of us than you might suspect.   Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City journalist and writer whose award-winning play, Exposed, puts a human face on the cost of nuclear testing. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime work on behalf of downwinders and regularly speaks out against the resumption of nuclear testing as well as her downwinder information talks.  We talk about the horrific price paid by those who were downwind of the atmospheric atomic bomb tests of the 1950’s and 60’s… and the ongoing legacy of those blasts.
• Contact Mary Dickson:  [email protected]

Mary Dickson

• Richard L. Miller's book, Under the Cloud: Decades of Nuclear Testing
  It is the original source for the keystone graphic of the map, seen above.
• Nuclear Downwinder Map – An excellent explanation of the map and what it means.  It includes implications for those who live at distance from the Nevada bomb blasts, but are nevertheless at ongoing risk from the radiation it dispersed.

Pssst!  Wanna make a lot of money?  Forever?  Why, radioactive nuclear waste as a business is just the ticket!  Government money - mmmmmmm!

• Webinar on Tik Tok for Activists by ReThink Media on March 15, 2022.  To register, CLICK HERE.
• Call the Midwife episode with a story line about British sailors exposed to nuclear radiation from south Pacific bomb tests.  Suddenly, years later, they have to deal with personal health issues and devastating problems with their infant offspring.  The cause is only revealed near the end of the show.  This episode is not yet available on Netflix, but can be accessed for free (at least in the U.S.) - CLICK HERE.
• The Bomb and Us: Why Gen Z Should Care about Nuclear Disarmament by Anna Bartoux
• The Ukraine crisis could trigger a nuclear catastrophe by Tilman Ruff, IPPNW
• The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine by Bennett Ramberg, former foreign affairs officer in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and author of Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy.
• OIG "Special Inquiry" Finds Fraudulent, Counterfeit Parts in U.S. Reactors by Linda Pentz Gunter.
• Canada's Big Banks Urged to Drop Nuclear from Green Investment Portfolios

Fukiushima thyroid cancer in kids - 5 former Japanese Prime Ministers cite the known facts while current Prime Minister lashes out to protect nuclear industry image.  Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, Exec. Director of Radiation and Public Health Project (above), cites landmark Cherobyl book to back up his findings.

• Joseph Mangano is Executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project.  He is an epidemiologist - one who searches for the cause of disease, identifies people who are at risk, determines how to control or stop the spread, or prevent it from happening again. Joe has over 30 years of experience working with nuclear numbers and comes from a history of teasing out health information from data.  We spoke on Friday, February 11, 2022.

• Chernobyl: Consequences of the Disaster for People and the Environment by Yablakov, Nesterenko, Sherman.
• Excerpt from a book on Jerome Wiesner, JFK science advisor (who, among other things, received a copy of an article on St. Louis baby teeth results on the buildup of Strontium-90 in teeth, and who presented these to JFK). Go to page 58, and you'll see the JFK quote about radioactive fallout: "You mean it's in the rain out there?"
• LINK to address by President John F. Kennedy Address to the Nation on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963
• Transcript of President Kennedy's speech. 
• National Cancer Institute 1999 study on Iodine-131 in bomb test fallout, and the estimated 11,300 to 212,000 thyroid cancers among persons age 0-19 from 1951-1962, from Nevada testing.

RE: Los Alamos National Lab's recent accident and radiation release:

Is this "lucky" Pokemon really worth exposing kids to Fukushima radiation?