Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

INTERVIEW: Laura and Giichi Inoue, who run Komoro Homestay, a safe retreat from radiation for Fukushima mothers and small children. BREAKING: First death recorded from USS Reagan sailors. PLUS: NRC needs to "duck and cover" as Sen. Boxer demands accountability and Sen. Markey blows the lid off NRC reprisals against employees who stand up for safety; Vermont Yankee critics use laugh track on NRC and Entergy spokesmodels; radioactive groundwater spikes under Indian Point NPP; TEPCO admits it hasn't a clue what's happening with the melted core or the water leaks at Fukushima; Japan forgets to report on its hidden stash of 80-bombs-worth of weapons grade plutonium; and Canada has the gall to produce report saying that while the rest of the world's radioactive materials may produce cancer, their s**t don't stink and their radiation won't hurt you... unless... well sometimes... but not often... really (said Pinnochio as his nose grew longer...).

Special encore presentation of a full-length interview w/Alison Katz of Independent WHO on why we cannot trust any nuclear information that comes from the World Health Organization.

Voices from Japan features former Futuba Mayor Idogawa, filmmaker Satomi Horiki, and an examination of the Oishinbo manga comic controversy over nosebleeds, radiation fatigue and government suppression of the medical facts. PLUS: Fukushima Prefectural Government and Fukushima Medical University found to have signed secrecy pact with pro-nuclear IAEA; radiation keeps peaking over previous peaks at Fukushima, but TEPCO plans to just dump radwater into the Pacific starting next week; thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids jumps 51.5% over February numbers; Los Alamas is the definite source of WIPP underground explosion and radiation leak - more containers at risk; CPUC President Michael R. Peevey gets peeved and shouts down honest question at SCE pork barrel evidentiary hearing; and a Kennedy and a Beatle get to be Numnutz when they could join together and save the world. Imagine!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center again gives us the straight facts about the WIPP problems, including his interpretation of why the "Kitty Litter" solution may not be so; Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight Project (COP) tears the CPUC's "untouchable!" corporate bailout of SCE over San Onofre to shreds. PLUS: NRC takes its sweet time about setting earthquake hazard analyses in 21 nuke facilities; Fukushima Prefecture goes nuts over Manga comic that tells the truth about nosebleeds, fatigue through its characters; Worker sues TEPCO for radiation exposure, cites USS Reagan sailors; N America's Fukushima fallout exposure estimate at 400 TRILLION Bequerels of Cesium-137; and TEPCO frozen sea wall - NOT!

Interview w/award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman on how the nuclear industry has gamed the media since before Hiroshima, why mainstream media continues to resist coverage of nuclear news, and thoughts on how to start breaking that logjam. PLUS: WIPP damage found to bags of magnesium oxide placed atop waste containers to stop radiation leaks - LOL!; Hanford explosion at the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition hidden for two weeks; Tokyo quakes register 6.6 and 6.1; TEPCO registers record net profits while wanting to cut Fukushima workers' face masks; and if we could talk to the animals/fish/sea lions/whales/owls/otters/ etc., they'd be really pissed off about radiation from Fukushima and what it's doing to them!

Spotlight on the radiation leak and closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad New Mexico with a trio of interviewees: Don Hancock, Director of Southwest Research and Information Center; Karen Hadden, executive director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, and Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at Nuclear Information and Resource Service, or NIRS. PLUS: Chernobyl - collateral damage in Putin/Ukraine clash? Nuclear refugees being forced to return to Fukushima despite radiation levels and deadly health problems. And Obama eats sushi in Tokyo - what's wrong with THIS picture?

Interviews with: • Dr. Janette Sherman on the medical consequences of Fukushima • Dr. Alexey Yablokov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment • Bonnie Kouneva, Chernobyl downwinder living in Bulgaria, on the personal impact of the disaster on her life and the lives of her family “Voices from Japan” features Japanese photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa, the first non-Soviet journalist to document the Chernobyl disaster and one of the first journalists on the scene at Fukushima.

Interviews w/ Italy's anti-nuclear firebrand Massimo Greco on facing legal charges for his support of a Sardinian anti-nuke protest; and Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition on the WCS site in Andrews, Texas, where the WIPP waste is being sent -- and there are problems. Beverly Findlay-Kaneko on a different approach to informing people about nuclear problems and Fukushina without scaring them; and a Final Thought on the passing of Michael Ruppert.

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides the latest news on the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project site in Carlsbad, New Mexico; Kimberly Roberson, founder of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, explains about Bequerels are BAD Day on April 10 and info on how to call in to elected representative to demand a lowering of the allowable limit of radiation in our food. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Evil Numnutz to UNSCEAR for having the NERVE to release a lying piece of shit "report" on how the radiation from Fukushima will not impact health or cancer rates in Japan or elsewhere.

Three Mile Island at 35: A Nuclear Hotseat Special. Featuring Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford, long time Middletown resident Mary Stamos, TMI Alert tech expert Scott Portzline on possible sabotage, excerpts from news reports, including the CBS Special with Walter Cronkite, and Libbe HaLevy's personal story of what it was like to be one mile away from a nuclear reactor accident as it was happening.

INTERVIEW: We revisit Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center to learn the latest developments on the radiation leak at the Carlsbad WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Project) site. PLUS: We introduce a new regular feature on food safety with Certified Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator Kimberly Roberson, who also founded the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network. NEWS: Fukushima news round-up; radwaste leak in Nova Scotia and fire in Scotland; Fairbanks, AK passes Fukushima radiation monitoring resolution; NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK is (almost) explosive; and of course, RadCast w/Mimi German.

Nuclear Hotseat marks the third anniversary of the start of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster with a special program. Interviews with Japanese anti-nuclear scientists, politicians, activists and more - what it is like in Japan since the accident began, what information is not getting out and what they want the world to know. Featuring Prof. Hiroaki Koide, Diet member/actor Taro Yamamoto, and actress Midori Kiuchi. Posting simultaneously in Japanese.

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown of Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy blows the lid off the presumed safety of "permissible" radiation releases from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant w/a newly commissioned report on cancer statistics in nearby counties by esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano. We revisit the WIPP radiological accident and radiation release in Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. PLUS: Hanford site threatened by cracked dam 40 miles upstream; Hawaiian state senators call for radiation tracking in their local Pacific waters; Babcock and Wilcox can't find buyers for their small modular nuclear reactors, while Exelon threatens to shut down 3 reactor sites in Illinois; "mind boggling" levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs as rockfish caught off the coast found even more radioactive than Japan's permissive permissible levels; and hundreds rally in Tokyo to protest prosecutors letting TEPCO off the hook without a single indictment. It's ALL n

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. And Chizo Hamada shares international Fukushima 3 Anniversary events. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors reeive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nucle

BREAKING NEWS: Sister Megan Rice, 84, gets 2 years 11 months in prison for her peaceful protest at the Y-12 National Security complex, a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Details next week. For this week's program, focus on the recent fire and radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. Then the featured interview w/Indian filmmaker Pradeep Indulkar, on tour in the US with his award-winning film, "High Power." PLUS: "Experts" miss possible Hanford implications in Washington state rare birth defect cluster; Massive cracks found at Fukushima near radioactive water storage tanks; Fukushima dental assn. to study radiation in local baby teeth; UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding; later this year the Irish will be able to sue the UK for Sellafield radiation damages; and then there's Numnutz of the Week, the NRC DUCK! and Cover Report, and Radcast w/Mimi German.

INTERVIEW: Charles Bonner, attorney for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors, on their lawsuit against TEPCO for radiation exposure after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. PLUS: Eight more children diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Fukushima; TEPCO admits their radiation data is "wildly wrong" as new sources of radiation leaks keep showing up; Tokyo gets Abe-baby's hand-picked pro-nuke misogynist Masuzoe as anti-nuke vote gets split; Hawaii getting hit with radiation; kayakers reporting Fukushima radiation on their boat bottoms; and the pending influx of radioactive Pacific water from Fukushima will leave radwaste residue on west coast beaches.

Interview w/Susan Corbett, Chair of the National Sierra Club Nuclear Issues Activist Team that watchdogs nuclear issues. Learn what's going on to ensure nuclear-industry-intensive South Carolina does NOT turn into the "nuclear waste paid toilet of the South." PLUS: Sen. Boxer KO's NRC over missing San Onofre documents; Congress calls for investigation into radiation contamination of sailors after Fukushima on USS Reagan; Sen. Sanders tries for repeal of Price-Anderson; NHK forbids its broadcasters from mentioning nuclear issues pre-Tokyo mayoral election; Ukrainian protestors threaten nuclear reactors; Hollywood weighs in on nuclear; and a seminar for Fukushima kids on cancer treatment? It's Numnutz!

Interviews with two participants in the recent DC meetings with the NRC, EPA and reps for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: Dr. Marvin Resnikoff on NRC "duh!" over the dangers of high burn-up fuel and Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS on how the EPA squandered every opportunity to record radiation levels on the west coast after Fukushima. PLUS: Sr. Megan Rice sentencing called on account of snow; Alaska cites the Twinkie, uh, banana defense to radiation charges as seals die of "white goo" throughout body that even crows refuse to eat; gloves come off as Tokyo gubernatorial election becomes a referendum on nukes and a TV/radio commentator is asked by stations to "steer clear of nuclear power issues;" Canada wants to ship highly enriched uranium by truck to US Savannah River Site; NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: US only starting to study health impact of Trinity blast 70 years after it happened! AND: Blinky the three-eyed fish strikes again!

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko of Families for Safe Energy reports on the deeply human side of Fukushima following her recent trip back home. Catch up with Setsuko Kida, interviewed for Nuclear Hotseat #127, and learn how these nuclear refugees cope with radiation and how you can help. PLUS: nuclear pork barrel in Congressional budget, military meltdowns suspend 34 nuke site officers, NRC Alert for fire at Harris nuke in North Carolina, Alaska salmon showing signs of Fukushima radiation but US government buys cans of it for food pantries. Talk about yer Numnutz of the Week! And RadCast!