NH #95: Radiation & Food Safety: FFAN Actions w/Cindy Folkers, Mary Beth Brangan

INTERVIEW:  Radiation from Fukushima, nuclear reactors and leftover atmospheric testing continue to compromise the safety of our food.  Learn the dangers of radiation contamination — and how to take action — from two members of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN): Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network).  Then go sign the FFAN petitions:

• Sign On Petition: http://signon.org/sign/keep-harmful-radioactive-1.fb26?source=c.fb&r_by=7470505
• FDA Petition:  http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2013-P-0291-0001
• Beyond Nuclear:  www.BeyondNuclear.org
• Ecological Options Network: www.Eon3.net

PLUS:

• Numnutz of the Week for Nuclear Boneheadedness:  White House draft report calls for steep rollback of standards for radioactive waste clean-up to levels expected to cause cancer in 1 in 23 people, while EPA spokesmodel tells the public to “put on their big boy pants and suck it up.” <!>

• Former NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko calls for phase-out of current US nuke fleet.
• Southern California Edison tries to TELL the NRC that they WILL approve a restart at San Onofre by June 1.
• NOAA testing to learn if Fukushima radiation is behind sea lion beachings and die-offs in Southern California.
• Fukushima tank leaks 120 tons of radioactive water, runoff channeled into a different tank… and that one leaks, too!
• TEPCO knocks Fukushima power offline yet again, while setting only mousetraps to catch potentially world-ending rats;
• Film critic Roger Ebert suspected radiation of causing his cancer, to which he succumbed this week after a decades-long battle.
• And much more!

LINKS:

• Cindy Folkers  on Food Safety at the Dr. Helen Caldicott/Physicians for Social Responsibility Symposium on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXhlGs5BnnI
• Link to all video from Dr. Caldicott’s symposium:  http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf# 
• Timothy Mousseau‘s 10 questions for the nuclear industry that show how dangerous it really is: http://japanfocus.org/-Timothy-A__Mousseau/3921
• Kindergartener Savana Urry‘s video report on Fukushima:  http://environews.tv/kindergarten-fukushima-science-project-says-it-all-now-tuna-fish-in-california-have-cesium-yuk/
• Iowa Petition to stop nuke plant from being built: http://www.change.org/petitions/midamerican-energy-company-stop-the-plan-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-central-iowa