Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

INTERVIEW: Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network joins Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy to discuss a program they created, Radiation Awareness Protection Talk, or RAPT, which covers ways to best help protect from nuclear radiation. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Lettuce now consider the lunacy of Panasonic and Fukushima. PLUS: Beta radiation (cesium 134/137) spikes 57 times higher than four days earlier at Fukushima, w/TEPCO analysts unable to ID the reason (DUH!); record level of "flesh-eating bacteria" cases in Japan; 5 Japanese nukes heading for decommissioning scrap heap (YAY!); Cataclysmic bird die-off litters West Coast US beaches; Thyroid cancer rates in US increasing; Obama increases allowable levels of radiation in drinking water; Savannah River Site operators divert $3/4-million from cleanup to develop mini-reactors; and Exelon's longed-for bail-out from Illinois taxpayers ain't about to happen when agencies report, "We'll do fine without you!"