NH #222: Radioactive Legacy of Rocky Flats w/Author Kristen Iversen

INTERVIEW:

• Author Kristen Iversen on the history of the Manhattan Project and plutonium trigger manufacturing waste at Rocky Flats, which is about to open as a Colorado Wildlife Refuge <!>.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

The New York Times goes in for hard core “hormesis” (no – Whore-YOU-sis) propaganda that completely undercuts its reputation as the “Great Gray Lady” of U.S. journalism and turns it into a shill for radiation deniers everywhere.

IN THE NEWS:

• San Onofre secret meetings over waste and failed clean-up of the 1959 nuclear meltdown at the Los Angeles area Santa Susana Field Lab both subjects of major investigative reports by southern California mainstream media;
• NRC DUCK! and Cover Report: Five US nuclear reactors have NRC-level “unusual” events – isn’t that the definition of “usual?”
• US Senator petitions Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene with our deadly international neighbor to the north – Canada – to prevent to construction of the nuclear waste storage facility within one mile of the shores of Lake Huron;
• And no, the enormous wolf fish caught in Japan is not the result of radioactivity and mutation – it’s just a big ol’ ugly fish.

NOT a Fukushima mutation.  Neither is the fish.