Nuclear Hotseat

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Listen as veteran activists of the battle to shut down San Onofre celebrate the win by recalling where they were, how they received the news, what it means to them and where our movement goes from here (you didn’t think we were done, did you?).  Hear from:

• Gary and Laurie Headrick of San Clemente Green
• Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE)
• Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety
• Ray Lutz of Citizen’s Oversight
• Urban planner Torgen Johnson
• Cathy Iwane, who works with many groups as our direct connection to Japan

PLUS: National activists Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Diane D’Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN).

Southern California activists and their expert advisors celebrate permanent closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

PLUS: 

• Davis-Besse NPP protest gets boost from SanO closure;
• Browns Ferry NPP implicated in increased mortality rates in surrounding counties;
• Fukushima child thyroid cancer cases rise to 12 confirmed, 15 suspected; more than double February, 2013 rates;

• Japanese parents take child thyroid testing to private testing events because they don’t trust the Fukushima Health Survey;

• Transformer at France’s Catenom NPP explodes;

Cattenom NPP in France, explosion in transformer June, 2013

• Swedish utility Vattenfall buying up land for possible new nuke;  SWEDEN, DON’T TOUCH IT!  IT’S EVIL!

LINKS:

• Mamabears Protest against Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon – at the Grand Canyon.  Details here:  https://www.facebook.com/mamabears.againstnukes?fref=ts
• Support Independent thyroid screenings for Fukushima Children by donating here:  http://bit.ly/Wcfe2A
• Signatures sought for group and individual endorsements in support of UN Special Rapporteur’s recommendations on the Right to Health:  http://bit.ly/129eEIy

Nuclear Hotseat Takes the Cake! 100 episodes and counting…

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INTERVIEWS:

• Rudolph Herzog, author of A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY: MAD SCIENTISTS, DITHERING NAZIS, LOST NUKES AND CATASTROPHIC COVER-UPS.
  

• Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, explains the significance of the May 13 Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) ruling that mandates an adjudicated public hearing on Southern California Edison’s (SCE’s) scheme to restart the dangerous, damaged Unit 2 at San Onofre.
  

  The leaking, damaged nuclear reactors of San Onofre

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

When is dumping radioactive material into the ocean not dumping radioactive material into the ocean?  Leave it to Fukushima to figure out a loophole in that International law!

PLUS:

• 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice and two associates found guilty of conscience-driven break-in at Y-12 nuclear processing plant in Tennessee, could get 30 years <!>;

Plowshares Protesters: 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice w/57-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli, 64 – guilty as charged and fearless in admitting it.

• California Public Utilities Commission tries to stop all recording of its hearings on San Onofre but activists already told them: have digital cameras, will travel;
• Palisades NPP crack caused leaks into Lake Michigan and Michigan Congressman w/clout demands full accountability;
• Hanford may be “too dangerous to clean up” – huh?;
• NRC Commissioner Ostendorff owned stock in NRC licensee Honeywell during labor lockout <!>;
• Horses dying and stroke rate spiking in Fukushima; 
• SCE still trying to get someone to take that senior management position as Nuclear Communications Project Manager – any takers? <LOL!>

LINKS:

• Three Soma (Fukushima) High School girls write and perform their original play, “Unheard Voices.”  Powerful truths emerge from this heartfelt piece of student theatre.

Unheard Voices (with English Subtitles) by thedeaconrulz

• California Public Utilities Commission restricts public access to San Onofre Hearings:  http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1357
• NRC Commissioner Ostendorff owned stock in Honeywell during labor lockout:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/william-ostendorff-honeywell_n_3272376.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

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INTERVIEWS:

Three special interviews on the Legacy of Chernobyl and the implications to Fukushima and the future of the people of Japan:

• Chernobyl survivor Bonnie Kouneva, who as a 16-year-old lived in Bulgaria, 800 miles away from the nuclear disaster… but it wasn’t far enough.
• Dr. Alexei Yablokov, who compiled over 5,000 research papers in multiple languages for the book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, as well as co-founding Greenpeace, Russia.
• Dr. Janette Sherman, known for her work with Joseph Mangano on statistical studies indicating infant deaths and hypothyroidism in the US after Fukushima as well as editing the English translation of Alexei Yablokov’s  book.

PLUS:

• Los Angeles City Council votes unanimously to tell NRC to hold So Cal Edison to an Adjudicated Evidentiary Hearing on San Onofre – a BIG WIN!
• Florida House committee passes bill to prevent Progress Energy from charging customers for the development of nuclear plants before they even obtain a license to build the sucker!
• Shut It Down Affinity Group gets arrested yet again for blocking the driveway of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee NPP:

Ellen Graves (L) and Frances Crowe (R) – two Vermont Yankees blocking Vermont Yankee.  Photo by Hattie Nestle

•  NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  US Nuclear Power and the Ebay Connection

LINKS:

• Friends of the Earth full story on the Los Angeles City Council’s vote to demand an Adjudicated Evidentiary Hearing on San Onofre with the NRC and Southern California Edison:  http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2013-04-san-onofre-los-angeles-votes-to-oppose-reactor-restart

• Watch VP Joe Biden talk about nuclear in 2007; you’ll be surprised!

• Video on non-seismically qualified Spent Fuel Pools in the US: