Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

INTERVIEW: Tim Deere-Jones, an independent marine pollution consultant in the UK and a specialist in the behaviour and fate of marine pollutants in marine, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation from the UK's Sellafield ended up in the Arctic and Alaska, and applies sea-to-land dispersal patterns observed in England to Fukushima. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese propaganda at Milan Food Expo touts Fukushima food as safe, even as one of its ministries finds cesium contamination in 46 of 50 dried persimmons grown in Fukushima prefecture. WEEK'S NEWS INCLUDES: Entergy announces Pilgrim nuke to close!... in 2019 (why can't they just put it out of its misery now?); thyroid cancer rates in Fukushima children and adolescents up to 50% higher than the rest of Japan, while international researchers pin down the risks of low level radiation; Nearly 2,000 people protest restart of Sendai nuclear reactor; and seaweed forces scram shutdown of Russia's Leningrad nuke.