Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Numnutz - for your year-end delectation!   You don't have to swallow it whole, just be aware...

Nuclear Numnutz of the Year!  The annual Nuclear Hotseat chance to revisit some of the year's worst nuclear impulses and actions.  It's a look back at the highlights from 12 months of our most popular (notorious?) feature, Numnutz of the Week.  Shake your heads in unison at the wilde and wacky antics of an industry that lost its mind and is working on us to lose ours.

• Fukushima's radioactive water... and what TEPCO has been planning to do with it since 2012!
• The mainstream media as unindicted co-conspirators in perpetuating the lies and  propaganda spewed by the nuclear industry!
• Looking for a new vacation hotspot?  Man, have the nukesters got some destinations for you!
• ...and so much more!

Thanks to all of you for being with us in 2021. If you haven't yet, please click HERE or on the Donate button and support us with a bit more than your good wishes.

Consider purchasing a copy of my book, YES, I GLOW IN THE DARK!  One Mile from Three Mile Island to Fukushima and Nuclear Hotseat.

Here's to us having a nuclear-disaster-free 2022 and beyond... but hey, don't hold your breath.  -- Libbe and Munchkin!

With thanks to Laura Lynch for this great calendar!

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Nuclear Hollywood Revealed!  Lookout Mountain Laboratories was the secret film studio dedicated to filming raw footage of nuclear weapons tests and editing them into propaganda films.  New book (cover picture above) reveals the full history.

• We talk at length with Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, authors of LOOKOUT AMERICA!  The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War.   Learn about the U.S. Government’s secret Hollywood studio that filmed nuclear above ground blasts and turned them into pro-nuke propaganda; and cranked out other images and films the government used to use to manipulate nuclear consent during the coldest of the Cold War.  It’s a whole new take on understanding how we’ve been deceived into believing what we believe about nukes.

• LOOKOUT AMERICA! website includes links to films and research information: www.LookoutAmerica.org.
• Atomic Blonde – how Marilyn Monroe became involved in Lookout Mountain.
• Nuclear Savage – a film by Adam Jonas Horowitz on the bombing of the Marshall Islands. Lots of film clips from Lookout Mountain included.
• OPERATION IVY – full film that made President Eisenhower want to share nuclear information with the country.
• Dr. Strangelove – Below, the final scene, including montage of bomb blasts filmed by Lookout Mountain Laboratory (montage starts at 2:34)

• Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World - Messages from Moms from Okuma and Futaba:

Nuclear reactor radiation releases are known to impact health, especially in kids,
who are particularly vulnerable to radiation exposure that can lead to cancer.

• Nuclear reactor radiation and its impact on public health - especially that of children - is the focus of the work of Joseph Mangano.  He is a health researcher and epidemiologist who has served as a director of Radiation and Public Health Project since 1989.  Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of the books Low Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy (1998) and Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link (2008). He managed the study of Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and now manages the citizen-based radiation monitoring programs near the Indian Point NY and Oyster Creek NJ nuclear plants.  We spoke for Nuclear Hotseat #418 from June 26, 2019.

The ex-sex partner of Person of the Year's Elon Musk (GAK!) got dumped by him in September, so here it is December and she's decided to become a pro-nuclear Social Influencer!  This make-up maven-cum-singer is telling the kids on Tik Tok why they should support Diablo Canyon's nuclear reactor in continuing to operate because hey, "green," etc. (and her make-up is terrific!).

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Fukushima radioactive water dump: TEPCO plans to release 1,280,000 metric tons of tritium-contaminated radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean despite country-wide and international pushback.

Fukushima radioactive water dump - and more.   This week focuses on the radiation dangers that Fukushima still poses - 1,280,000 metric tons of stored  tritium-contaminated radioactive water that TEPCO plans to dump into the Pacific Ocean; and the citizen-science testing proram that revealed Fukushima contamination throughout Japan.

This week's guests are:

• Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based independent Marine Pollution Researcher and Consultant. On September 15, for Nuclear Hotseat #534, he explained the radiological problems of dredging in the Bristol channel between the UK and Wales. Recently, he gave an online presentation on what it will mean if Tokyo Electric Power Company - TEPCO - is allowed to dump 1,280,000 gallons of radioactive tritium-contaminated waste water from Fukushima out of storage tanks and into the Pacific Ocean - an act which is being widely condemned around the world. His presentation was recorded for and disseminated by Yosomono-net: the worldwide anti-nuke network of Japanese people living abroad; the group has has given permission for Nuclear Hotseat to rebroadcast it. Here is the audio of the Tim Deere-Jones presentation, which was posted on Nov 21, 2021
• Mari Inoue of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World is part of the team who worked on the English translation. Here, she explains how the data was collected, what it shows, and provides instruction for any community to duplicate this process to compile accurate radiation data in communities where contamination is suspected.
• Citizens’ Radiation Data Map of Japan DIGEST EDITION: Grassroots Movement Reveals Soil Contamination in Eastern Japan in the Wake of Fukushima! by the Minna-no Data Site reveals the deadly impact of the radioactivity released by the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear meltdown of March, 2011. 4,000 citizens took soil samples to capture the data that created the full 200-page book, written in Japanese, which won a major mainstream journalism award and is a “hot” seller in Japan.
• The English digital version is available on Amazon. It is free if you have KindleUnlimited.
• For residents in the US, the group can mail a booklet by first class mail.
• In the EU, it is available in French.
• As of March 2020, Minna no Data site allowed the free use of two maps from the booklet. For more details, click HERE.

A Message from Moms in Iwaki who are fighting the dump of tritium-contaminated radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean:

Tim Deere-Jones for Yosomono-net:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHQqwXKe1_M