Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN), represented by Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network), on their new citizen-action petitions. Want clean food? Sign and send to your list! PLUS: Former NRC Chair Jaczko says nuke reactors not safe and need to be shut down; So Cal Edison trying to dictate restart plans to a compliant (somnambulant?) NRC; TEPCO rat-chasers knock fuel pool #3 offline - again!; Fukushima leaking highly radioactive water and the pool they're pumping it into leaks just as badly as the first one; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: White House planning to suspend radiation clean-up standards to allow 1 in 23 of us to get cancer, and citizens told by EPA official to "put their big boy pants on and suck it up" .

Quick: Southern California Edison asks NRC for licensing hearing - good or bad? Gary Headrick reveals recent SCE feints, manipulations and slickery, as well as sudden NRC personnel changes (investigation lead Elmo Collins "retires," engineer Art Howell takes over!) that may directly impact the results of the restart hearings. PLUS: Arkansas nuke plant accident kills 1, injures 8; new study indicates nuke plant shutdowns reduce local cancer rates; Quebec puts a moratorium on uranium exploration and development; cops turn Indian anti-nuke protest into mass jailing; no new nukes in Fukushima (can you believe they were thinking seriously about it?!?); and Nuclear Reactors: When Animals Attack!

Nuclear Hotseat Special Report on the 34th Anniversary of the Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Live through the first three days of the nuclear meltdown from an inside/outside perspective that will have you feeling like you've gone through the looking glass! Featuring nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com; longtime Middletown resident Mary Stamos; Walter Cronkite, "The Most Trusted Newsman in America;" the long-suppressed Dictaphone recording made inside the control room less than four hours after the accident began; and a surprise kicker at the end that will have you shaking your head at that wacky nuclear industry! Lies! Spin-speak! An unfettered media getting angry and upset! Hair loss! Mutated flowers! Activist response! And a nuclear industry stopped dead in its tracks for over 40 years! PLUS: Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy's personal story, previewed from her book, "Yes, I Glow in the Dark!"

Fukushima power outage timeline and potential consequences; Interview on maintaining health in the face of radiation with Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network and author of Silence Deafening: Fukushima Fallout... A Mother's Response; SCE wants to restart San Onofre at full power despite likelihood of breakdown ; NRC denies license to Calvert Cliffs ; Caldicott Symposium smashing success w/online viewers in 650 cities worldwide; France wins Numnutz of the Week for hiding results of a worst-case-scenario study for six years, then redacting the text and gaming the numbers in full view of the world; and Dr. Catherine Euler of the LANL 6 gets the best community service "punishment" ever!

Activists from around the world report on their experiences at the Global Symposium on the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, produced by Dr. Helen Caldicott. Get a ringside seat and hear what they heard, learn what they learned!

Interview w/international Fortune 100-level coach/consultant/organizational psychologist Dr. Lloyd Williams on organizational psychosis as it relates to Japan, TEPCO, the NRC and the rest of the nuclear industry, with tips to activists on how to break the nuclear cycle of abuse. BREAKING NEWS: Canadian company recycling radwaste into consumer goods forced out of business (now comes the clean-up). PLUS: World Health Organization issues shameful, lying report claiming no health damage in Japan from Fukushima radiation ; 67 tanks found to be leaking radwaste at Hanford in Washington state into the Columbia River; US legislators souring on nuclear because it costs too much; and activists around the world gear up for Fukushima's second anniversary.

Interview w/Christopher Noland, whose documentary, "3.11: Surviving Japan," captures the raw pain, confusion and anger of the Japanese people in the first six months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. Film debuts on 3/11/13 around the country. PLUS: Hanford leaking up to two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of plutonium-laden waste, endangering Columbia River; Germany facing nuke waste dangers and admit they haven't a clue how to handle it; Rep. Markey suspects Southern California Edison, operators of San Onofre, guilty of violating federal securities laws; Entergy spanked by Beyond Nuclear; Gundersen reports on mutations and miscarriages in Japan.

Special report on two major actions this week: the NRC's public meeting on San Onofre in southern California and the Climate Change Rally in DC. Interviews w/San Clemente Green leader Gary Headrick, member Grace Van Thillo, plus Priscilla Star of Coalition Against Nukes (CAN). PLUS: Hanford radwaste leak threatens Columbia river; Russian meteor barely missed 7 nuke facilities; two more confirmed cases of thyroid cancer in children near Fukushima; snow collapses roof at Chernobyl; It's official: with Crystal River closing, the number of nuke reactors in the US is down to 103. Progress, not perfection.

Sen. Boxer and Rep. Markey blister the NRC over report showing SCE knew about steam generator design flaws and STILL went ahead with installation; Interview w/Zach "No Cameco" Ruiter on the recent Idle No More demonstration in Toronto that stopped a train outside of GE-Hitachi's uranium processing facility; NRC to meet with community on San Onofre; Navy seamen exposed to Fukushima suffering laukemia, brain lesions, testicular cancer; Fukushima boy found w/6,000 bq/kg cesium in his body.

Nuke protest is in the air w/Vermont Yankee activists arrested and the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory 6 convicted and awaiting sentencing. During our interview with one of the LANL 6, Dr. Catherine Euler, she describes getting arrested by cops but detained by Bechtel, along with info on the underestimated dangers of uranium mining and low level radiation. PLUS: Duke Energy to close Crystal River for good; US dumps medical registry for military personnel and families exposed to Fukushima radiation; staggering cancer and birth defect cluster found in St. Louis; Osaka burning Fukushima waste and spreading radionuclides; VA activist opposition defeats attempted repeal of state ban on uranium mining; and why the proper response to the NRC's usual "unusual occurrence" is: DUCK!

Veteran journalist Karl Grossman traces nuclear media manipulation back to before Hiroshima and up to the present day. A special encore presentation of one of our most popular interviews. PLUS: Republicans on House Energy and Commerce Committee refuse to learn any lessons from the NRC's technical staff and the Japan Lessons Learned from Fukushima Task Force, reject safety recommendations. NRC pushes back San Onofre never-start decision to late April or early May. Vogtle and Summer new nuke construction pushed back again because contractor Southern Company can't even get the concrete and rebar right. TEPCO may be forced to permanently shut down largest nuclear facility in the world because "inactive" quake faults may not be so inactive. Bulgaria nixes nukes by voter no-show at referendum. European Union finds nuclear decontamination a growth industry, but Fukushima can barely fill 10% of its decontamination jobs. Gee, I wonder why...

Beyond Nuclear's Cindy Folkers (the brain behind those great weekly action bulletins) provides insights into nuke industry collusion and manipulation, as well asher specialty: ionizing radiation and its impact on health and the environment. PLUS: IAEA declares 47 Japanese reactors in "Long Term Shutdown;" allegations of fraud in Japan's general election that brought in a pro-nuke government; Nuke industry pre-3/11 talking points pushing the disinformation that "radiophobia" - fear of radiation - is more harmful to health than radiation ; Fuku fish caught w/2,500 times more radiation than Japan's bloated safety limit - it would even be illegal to import to and sell in the US!; and NRC asleep at the wheel literally as committee chair (NOT Allison MacFarlane) nods off and #2 chair (the stool?) gets upset that Arnie had more info on San Onofre's problems -- the nerve!

BEST NUCLEAR HOTSEAT INTERVIEW EVER: Dr. Helen Caldicott. She talks about her March 11-12 Symposium: "The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima" - a watershed event for our movement - as well as how she became an activist while still a teenager, major breakthroughs along her journey, and specific tips to make our activism even more effective. 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; new song debuts, "What Part of Fukushima Do You Not Understand?; NRC's Chair Macfarlane meets with SanO activists, but will it make any difference in their decision on restart? Stay tuned...

San Onofre steam generators may hold the key to global push-back against nuclear. Learn facts and strategies from DAB Safety Team principles Ace Hoffman and Don Liechtling, representing their network of whistleblowers from around the country. PLUS: Did Iran's Bushehr nuke plant have city evacuation-level accident? Thousands protest against 6 proposed nuke facilities in Jaitapur, India; Japan unlawfully detaining nuke protesters. Turkey tests all Japanese food for radiation while US does NOTHING; Lupus spike linked to Cincinnati former uraniume or processing facility; and Fukushima workers admit to only decontaminating areas around measurement sites. Oy!

HOT INTERVIEW w/Coalition Against Nukes founder Priscilla Star sharing her New Year's Resolutions, which include a run at the White House in 2013! Plus: US Navy rescue workers sue TEPCO for lies that subjected them to radiation levels that have already destroyed their health; NRC gets tough w/Southern California Edison over their restart plans, demands answers; Japan's Prime Minister Abe wins NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK for his plans to BUILD MORE NUCLEAR REACTORS ; Quebec's Chantilly 2 NPP offline for good; and "Three Mile Island," the musical (yes, a musical!) wins international award; can Broadway be far behind?

Activists ask Santa for their favorite nuclear-free future. PLUS: US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; French electricity giant EDF's Flamanville reactor's construction delays and cost overruns loses Italy as their partner -- a win for our side; death toll from Chernobyl now believed to be 1.5 million; and Fukushima kids are getting fatter because they can't exercise outside any more. Ho ho ho?

Two Japanese evacuees in Southern California are returning to Japan with their families for Christmas. Hear what Cathy Iwane and Beverly Findlay-Kaneko are up against, how they're preparing, what they face. PLUS: LA City Council gamed out of having a voice in NRC's actions as SCE continues to forge towards a San Onofre restart; Japan's election manipulations bad news for nuclear sanity; TEPCO proves once again it doesn't know its ass from its elbow when it comes to the condition of Fukushima; and Japan mandates use of Fukushima rice in all school lunches. This is insanity.  

Interview with Harvard-educated urban planner Torgen Johnson on the true impact in human and financial terms if/when San Onofre has an accident; Passionate final word from producer/host Libbe HaLevy; Japan 7.4 double-quake raises new concerns about the SFP at Unit 4; UN tries to straightjacket international nuclear conversation, while WHO actually has the gall to say there's no health danger from radiation at Fukushima ; tens of thousands join P-MANE at Koodankulam to again blockade the sea in ongoing protests against the NPP going online; and researchers are going to study the impact of uranium mines on Navajo children... 30 years after the mines were closed. Timing is everything...

SAN ONOFRE SPOTLIGHT: Sabotage, Buddhist monks, a pre-planned restart on Feb. 2 and SCE expects a softball from NRC; will they get it? Things heated up at San Onofre last week! Plus Greenpeace weather balloon models radiation dispersal pattern show Toronto will get nuked if/when Darlington NPP goofs up, Oyster Creek leaking and still offline after Sandy, and whistleblowers charge NRC with favoring secrecy over safety - can you imagine?!?

SAN ONOFRE SPECIAL: Interviews with four So Ca activists on this week's events surrounding Friday's NRC public meeting with Southern California Edison on their numnutz plan to restart San Onofre. Hear from video activist Myla Reson, Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green, Gene Stone from Residents Organized for a Safe Community, and engineer Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight on the politics, the positioning, untwisting pro-nuke spin and how in the world Buddhist monks came to be meditating and praying at the foot of the twin reactors themselves. PLUS: UN chastises Japan for post-Fukushima incompetence and cruelty to its own citizens, UK activists blockade Hinkley NPP, Illinois provides free potassium iodide to residents within ten miles of only one of its reactors (why not the other five locations?) and South Korea wonders if cracks in their nuke plant control rod tunnels will impact their efforts to export nuclear technology to other countries (ya think?!?).