NH #83: Dr. Helen Caldicott!

Dr. Helen Caldicott talks for the first time about her March 11-12 Symposium: The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima – a watershed event for our movement, involving doctors, scientists and researchers from around the world.  She explains how she became an anti-nuclear activist while still a teenager, how she founded three of our most important organizations, and offers insights on how to make our activism even more effective. Simply the best!

PLUS: 

• Vogtle reactor ready for the nuclear “ding and dent” center (but the NRC says the shrinkwrap wasn’t damaged!);
• Fukushima governor hospitalized with symptoms consistent with exposure to radiation;
• Miyagi rice contaminated with too much radiation for Japan… but it’s still legal to sell it in the US;
• NRC’s Chair Macfarlane meets with San Onofre activists, but will it make any difference in the other Commissioners’ decision on restart?
• Arnie Gundersen on the failing economics of nuclear energy (http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcast)
• And much, much more…!

LINKS:

Books by Dr. Helen Caldicott are available at:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dr.+helen+caldicott

Tom English’s new song, “What Part of Fukushima Do You Not Understand?” – video by Myla Reson

Good article from Forbes on New Centralized Nuclear Plants – and lots of reasons Why They are Not an Investment Worth Making:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/01/15/new-centralized-nuclear-plants-still-an-investment-worth-making/