Nuclear Hotseat

Featured Image:  Safecast workshop in Japan -- building radiation monitors

• Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast, an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment.  It teaches how to build your own radiation monitor and connect it with the Safecast database of real-time, automatically uploaded radiation readings.  (Featured image above is of a Safecast monitor-building workshop.)
• Kumar Sundaram is an Indian anti-nuclear activist and the Editor of Dianuke.org.  He fills us in on upcoming protests in that country against a proposed build of six new reactors - and why those protests will be against Westinghouse and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Kumar Sundaram (l) and Libbe HaLevy

The President of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Tomoaki Kobayakawa,  actually thinks that his company's "main mission" is the delivery of electricity to customers?  NOOOOO! - your "main mission" needs to be cleaning up the nuclear disaster and radioactive mess at Fukushima Daiichi! 

• Petition from Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) demanding that the nuclear reactors at Ohi in Japan not be allowed to restart.
• West Lake Landfill – EPA 45-day Public Comment Period LINK.  Talking points:
  
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste from site
  • Buyout homes of those living closest to West Lake Landfill

• Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge.  He addresses Hanford's recent radiation contamination from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and maps out the timeline of recent events, which are still breaking in the news.
• Health Effects of Plutonium - article
• Information on radiation monitors mentioned in the interview:  Safecast

Mmmm mmm!  Nothing like a little snack of green laver seaweed - now in new, hot hot hot Fukushima flavor!  And yes, it glows in the dark!

• List of Fukushima Commemoration events for the March 11, 2011 start of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ongoing for seven years now:  https://dunrenard.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/fukushima-7th-anniversary-events-list/
  
• Nagasaki-Hanford Bridge Project - Nagasaki bomb victim returns to Hanford, the site where the A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki was manufactured.  For more information, to get the schedule, or to book the speaker, contact:
  
  • Trisha Pritikin, Hanford Downwinder, President, Board of Directors, CORE
    ([email protected])
  • Norma Field, Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies,
    University of Chicago ([email protected]
    
• West Lake Landfill – EPA 45-day Public Comment Period LINK.  Talking points:
  
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste from site
  • Buyout homes of those living closest to West Lake Landfill
• LINK to HBO documentary on West Lake Landfill,  “Atomic Homefront” – FREE on HBO until March 5, 2018.

• Susan H. Shapiro is an New York State attorney whose practice focuses on environmental protection and land use in the Hudson Valley. Since 9/11, she has been co-counsel on the groundbreaking litigation against Indian Point’s violation of the Clean Water Act for thermal and radiation pollution of the Hudson River; and against the NRC for reducing fire safety standards at Indian Point.   She help lay the groundwork opposing relicensing of aging nuclear reactors by filing 50 contentions against relicensing.   She participated in the Presidential Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste and has represented whistle blowers.    [email protected]
• Tim Judson has been Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS, since 2014. He had previously been Chair of the Board of Citizens Awareness Network, a leader in successful campaign to close the Vermont Yankee reactor; and co-founder of Alliance for a Green Economy in New York.

• With Hanford site contamination from plutonium and americium found more than 10 miles away from the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition location, what better time to cut clean-up funds?  The administration's 2019 proposed budget - oy!

• West Lake Landfill - EPA 45-day Public Comment Period LINK.  Talking points:
  
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste
  • Remove ALL radioactive waste from site
  • Buyout homes of those living closest to West Lake Landfill
• LINK to HBO documentary on West Lake Landfill,  "Atomic Homefront" - FREE on HBO until March 5, 2018.
• Petition to sign:  Statement against Kovvada nuclear plant in Andhra Pradesh, India, as Westinghouse officials from the US visit India next week.   http://www.dianuke.org/westinghouse-quit-india-statement-kovvada-nuclear-project-andhra-pradesh/
• Trump orders Dept. of Energy to Prepare for Possibility of First U.S. Nuclear Test in 26 Years - article