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Nuclear Hotseat #139: Carlsbad WIPP Radiation Leak w/watchdog Don Hancock + Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar

Friday, February 21, 2014 21:27

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BREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice sentenced to 2 years, 11 months for peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Co-defendants get 5 yrs. 2 months each. Details on next week’s Nuclear Hotseat #140.

Convicted peaceful anti-nuclear protesters Sister Megan Rice, flanked by co-defendants Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed

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INTERVIEWS:

Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center on the fire and radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM – two separate incidents within 10 days that point to a company culture that fails to take proper precautions. CONTACT: [email protected]

Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar, director of “High Power,” winner of the 2013 Uranium Film Festival Yellow Oscar for Best Short Documentary. To book the film or purchase a DVD, CONTACT: [email protected].

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Close this week, but we revisit the Fukushima Kids’ Cancer Seminar to learn how their slogan, “Especially because this is Fukushima, we need the best cancer education in Japan!” Learn what happens when the event’s organizer gets asked how that creepy slogan got picked and why children of Fukushima need “cancer education.”

Poster for Kids’ Cancer Seminar in Fukushima. Subtitle reads, “Especially because this is Fukushima, we need the best cancer education in Japan.” (Translation by Beverly Findlay-Kaneko)

PLUS:

“Experts” miss possible Hanford implications in Washington state rare birth defect cluster;
Massive cracks found at Fukushima near radioactive water storage tanks;
Fukushima dental assn. to study radiation in baby teeth (shades of Operation Tooth Fairy);
UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding;
The Irish will soon be able to sue the UK for Sellafield radiation damages;
The NRC DUCK! and Cover Report;
Radcast w/Mimi German;
…and more!

LINKS:

Interview w/Tokyo-based physician Shigeru Mita on the need to evacuate from Tokyo, an interview by Nelson Groom for Vice.com: http://nsgroom.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/vice-a-japanese-physician-is-encouraging-the-evacuation-of-tok

Petition to support journalist Mari Takenouchi and support her effotts to protect children living in areas contaminated with radioactivity: http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/we-stand-with-mari-takenouchi-save-kids-japan-as-she-stands-for-fukushima-children-s-health

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Nuclear Hotseat is the weekly international news magazine keeping you up to date on all things anti-nuclear. Produced and hosted by Three Mile Island survivor Libbe HaLevy, each podcast contains the week’s international nuclear news, at least one expert interview, ways to protect physical health of yourself and your loved ones from the dangers of radiation exposure, and activist opportunities.

Experts interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat in its first two years include: Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer and head of Fairewinds Energy Education; Dr. Helen Caldicott, founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Dr. Janette Sherman and Joseph Mangano, authors of “An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima: Is There a Correlation?”; Karl Grossman, Journalist and host of “Enviro Close-Up”; Daniel Hirsch, Nuclear Policy Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz; Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Mochizuki Iori, blogger, Fukushima Diary. Nuclear Hotseat accepts no advertising and is entirely community supported. To learn how you can help keep this vital resource going please click here.

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