NH #715: VOICES FROM JAPAN - FUKUSHIMA at 14 - Clean-up or Cover-up?" True State of Disaster Site from Citizens' Nuclear Information Center

Fukushima disaster site, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

We get all kinds of overly optimistic reports about the clean-up of radioactive water and debris from Fukushima, with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Japanese government, and their political enablers all claiming that things are going well! Clean-up is not only possible, it’s on schedule! Everything is A-OK… but is it?

There are so many inconsistencies and contradictions in the information from so-called “official” sources that it takes a report by a citizen’s non-profit group, the Japanese Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, to provide us with a more accurate, less optimistic picture than the nuclear industry would rather we not know about.

This report was written by Mayu Takakuwa, editor of the CNIC newsletter Nuke Info Tokyo, and her team. It is delivered on this program by veteran anti-nuclear activist Tsukuru Fors.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

So many choices, but whittled it down to two: vacation options in Chernobyl-adjacent Pripyat, Ukraine would be the top numnutz in any other week, but here, it must take a back seat to Trump’s ongoing assault on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) extending to language in the most un-nuclear, counter-historical ways:

Politically “NO DEI WORDING!” correct, historically incorrect re-naming of the infamous plane that carried the men who dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima. (They couldn’t fit “heterosexual” on the nose…)

The ICAN UPDATE with Alistair Burnett

Alistair talks with Susi Snyder for background information on Don’t Bank on the Bomb’s new report, At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers, a joint publication of ICAN and PAX. NOTE that this report was recorded the week before the UN 3rd Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

LINKS:

• Fukushima Pollution Solution: Spread Radioactivity Far and Wide by John LaForge
• “Difficult-to-Return” zones
• Life as a “Displaced” person
• Big Tech’s big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
• Alice Slater: New Report Warns of Increasing Nuclear Dangers
• Karl Grossman: The nuclear testing revival: Global fallout with deadly consequences