Nuclear Hotseat

Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay – Again! – will Run through Futaba.
It was host town to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
and ground zero for radiation releases from the 2011 triple meltdown. 

• Radioactive Olympics Torch Relay – Again! – Beverly Findlay-Kaneko is Nuclear Hotseat’s Voices from Japan producing partner.  She evacuated Japan with her son following the 2011 nuclear disaster.  Here, she provides details from on-the-ground reports out of Fukushima Prefecture, along with direct statements by former residents of Futaba translated from Japanese blog posts exclusively for Nuclear Hotseat.  We revisit this interview from Nuclear Hotseat #450 and it’s deja vu all over again.  The 2021 Olympics are still being called the 2020 Olympics, and every plan made for last year is being implemented this year, as-is.  We spoke on January 20, 2020, which was before the Covid 19 pandemic forced cancellation of last year’s Radioactive Olympics plans.  

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (r) and Libbe HaLevy (l) with Kumar Sundaram (c)

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (r) and Libbe HaLevy (l) with Kumar Sundaram (c)

Japan can’t lure evacuees or even newbies to live in Fukushima Prefecture, so maybe a bit of bribery, er, financial incentive might help them along…? 

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Radioactive Olympics deja vu - While they're set to happen in 2021,
they're still called the 2020 games... same schedule, same dangerous locations
for torch relay and first games.  Will Japan and the IOC never learn...?

Radioactive Olympics - Dr. Alex Rosen is one of two co-chairs of the German affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), where he is responsible for the topic of nuclear energy.  Dr. Rosen is a pediatric specialist and head of the pediatric emergency department of the Berlin University Clinic Charité.  In the past ten years, he has closely followed the developments in Fukushima, especially the Fukushima Medical University thyroid-screenings, and published numerous critical commentaries on the WHO and UNSCEAR reports, the screening publications, and the health effects of the nuclear disaster. We spoke on December 21, 2020.

Dr. Alex Rosen

Saturday, February 27, 2021 Symposium: "10 years living with Fukushima" - https://www.fukushima-disaster.de/information-in-english.html

Information on the Olympic games and radiation risks: 
http://www.radioactive-olympics.org/information-in-english.html

Micro-nukes at truck stops to charge electric semi-trucks?  Oy! 

• 6 Things to know about the 2020 Cyberattack and Nuclear Plants by Ed Lynam, Director of Nuclear Power Safety, Climate & Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Green Fantasy and Messy Reality of Nuclear Power by Mike Plant
• Inviting Nuclear Disaster by Karl Grossman

Nuclear Numnutz of the Year - because we're all stuck on the only planet that we have
and nuclear is the manifestation of hate and insanity... so why not laugh?

NUCLEAR NUMNUTZ 2020 - Numnutz of the Week is Nuclear Hotseat’s most popular feature – always good for a laugh, a head-shake, or a deep sigh at some freshly revealed nuclear absurdity, or to provoke a sense of outrage at how a single industry has been allowed to play so loose and fast with all our futures.

2020 - a year that will live in infamy - was especially rich in nuclear numnutzery, from Japan's attempted use of the Olympics as propaganda to get us to forget about Fukushima to US officials proclaiming nuclear weapons are responsible for "the betterment of society" to just basic stupidity all the way from politicians to tourists seeking selfies with Chernobyl. 

So come travel with us back in time for a year of highlights from some of the worst, most absurd, insane, short-sighted, or just jaw-droppingly stupid nuclear stories from 2020, culminating in NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR 2020!  (Remember:  All nuclear decisions are made top-down, not grassroots-up!)

• Cancelled treaties
• Fukushima foodstuffs (mmm mmm GAK!)
• Radioactive Waste Follies
• Nuclear recycling - the kind you don't really want to have.
• The (Radioactively) Green New Deal
• How/why Star Trek's George Takei terminally ticked me off! 
• ...and much much more! 

Come join us for our annual look back upon a year filled with... well, Nuclear Numnutz! 

Peace and Peace Culture:  Are they possible?
Steve Leeper, Executive Director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Village,
explains how conflict resolution on a planetary level is the key to achieving peace...
along with a real plan of how to get there. 

A SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat interview that considers what Peace is, what Peace Culture is, and how we might work on a planetary basis to institute new ways of being and building for a sustainable future.  A Holiday gift from me and the crew at Nuclear Hotseat for those who are working in what this interview teaches us to call the Peace Industrial Complex. - Libbe HaLevy, December 22, 2020.

• Peace and Peace Culture:  Steve Leeper is Founding Partner & Vice President of PEAC Institute, which stands for Peace, Education, Art and Communication.  Steve has spent about half of his 70 years in Japan. He has a master’s degree in clinical psychology and has worked as a family counselor (10 years), management consultant (14 years), translator (30 years to present) and peace activist (16 years). He believes, until he encounters facts to the contrary, that he has translated, edited, or interpreted more A-bomb survivor stories than anyone in the world except his wife. He began working for Mayors for Peace in 2002, which led to his appointment in 2007 as chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. He stepped down in 2013 and currently is visiting professor at Hiroshima Jogakuin University and Nagasaki University as well as executive director of PEAC's Hiroshima campus, Peace Culture Village. His publications include Hiroshima Resolution (bilingual), Nihon ga Sekai wo Suku and Amerikajin ga Tsutaeru Hiroshima (Japanese).  We spoke on December 10, 2020.
  

Peace and Peace Culture: Steve Leeper

• To contact Steve Leeper:  [email protected]
• If you're interested in booking a virtual tour of Hiroshima Peace Culture Village, email Steve at the above address.
• Here's a flyer with an overview of the Peace Culture Village tour information: