NH #255: Just Moms StL to United Nations - West Lake Landfill as Human Rights Violation?

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Just Moms StL’s Dawn Chapman reports on last week’s meeting with the United Nations Human Rights Commission.  Topic: whether the WWII nuclear weapons waste illegally stored at the North St. Louis West Lake Landfill and the EPA’s “nobody’s home!” lack of response to the crisis caused by the underground fire bearing down on the radioactive materials constitutes a human rights violation.  Ya think?

Numnutz of the Week:

“Mothers for Nuclear” may seem like an oxymoron, but two long-term nuclear employees at Diablo Canyon in CA who happen to be mothers are just nuclear mouthpieces fighting to keep their jobs — despite the fact that a whole slew of earthquake faults underlie the reactors and they now what could happen because one of these “mothers” works in earthquake assessment!

The Missing Link:

• Nuclear Plant Containment Failure: Pre-Existing Damage by David Lochbaum, director, Nuclear Safety Project, Union of Concerned Scientists