Nuclear Hotseat #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed – IPPNW’s Dr. Alex Rosen

Nuclear Hotseat #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed – IPPNW’s Dr. Alex Rosen – ENCORE

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MARCH 2, 2016

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician who is Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).  On behalf of that group, he takes on the United Nations’ UNSCEAR report on Fukushima that drastically, perhaps criminally downplayed the health dangers of that ongoing nuclear disaster.
• A pdf transcript of this interview is available in both English and German if you CLICK HERE
• The IPPNW’s Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR report on Fukushima is available in English, German and Japanese translations if you CLICK HERE.

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Numnutz of the Week:

TEPCO starts incinerating more than 66,000 special containers of radioactive workers’ protective suits, gloves, masks with no radioactivity monitoring for the resulting release of particulate matter.  But the  day after the burning starts, to solve their future problems, TEPCO begins allowing workers to be on-site at Fukushima Daiichi WITHOUT any kind of protective clothing.

The Missing Link(s):

• Harvey Wasserman on Grassroots pressure escalates to shut down Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant
• Expanded Investigation into Safety Culture Likely at Columbia Generating Station 
• West Lake Landfill – Landfill Fire Creeps Toward Buried Tons of Atomic Waste

COMPLETE / FOR LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat #245: UN/UNSCEAR Fukushima Lies Exposed – IPPNW’s Dr. Alex Rosen – ENCORE

Follow the Radiation

Today I feel like David and Energy NW, the owners of a large nuclear reactor in Washington State, the Columbia Generating Station(CGS), is my Goliath. My slingshot, Truth and I fight against Goliath, symbolic here of Radiation.

I have now figured out how to win this fight if only others would join me along with those of us who have also been fighting Goliath for almost 70 years and the answer was waiting for me to find it. It took 3 years of following radiation readings around the US to figure this out.

Sometimes we are told to follow the money. In this case, I had to follow the radiation. After tracking readings and following how the NRC and the EPA work I realized the symbiotic relationship between these two groups were where the answers were hidden and where the answers could be found. I will explain.

Since writing my first article 4 months ago published in CounterPunch titled, Why Fukushima Ended the Nuclear Debate, there have been about 11 reported NRC Events from CGS. I ask myself each time a new Event occurs, how many near misses can one nuclear plant have before the next Fukushima attacks us from within? When does the luck run dry? I also ask daily, why won’t the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shut down nuclear power plants before luck turns to corium, molten nuclear core?

more: Follow the Radiation | counterpunch

12.10 PORTLAND, OR: No Nukes NW Public Forum on Nuclear Madness ---Fukushima, Hanford, Columbia Generating Station

Purpose: 
For the public to have an opportunity to ask questions to a 
stellar panel about Fukushima, Hanford, CGS and in turn, 
receive truthful answers to some very deep problems. 

Why:
So people can truly become informed on how radiation is
affecting us in the NW from Fukushima, Hanford and CGS.
The media is mostly misinformed and provides, if anything,
very little accurate info to the public. In turn, the public has
almost no idea regarding what is happening to us in our
daily lives due to the radiation in our environment.

There will be a geiger counter demonstration following the event. If you have geiger counters, please bring them.


The panel:

Mimi German (RadCast)—Spokesperson
for RadCast bringing real time information about radiation in
our environment to the people 24/7. RadCast can be seen
on the Thom Hartmann News Show M-F and heard on
KBOO M-F during the News at 5pm.

Lloyd Marbett (Fukushima)—Founder of the
Oregon Conservancy Foundation and a key link to
decommissioning the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. A
devoted environmentalist for Oregon and for all living
things.

John Bertucci (Fukushima Response Team) --Filmmaker and co-creator of Fukushima Is Here event in San Francisco.

Leslie March (Waste Confidence: Long Term Waste
Storage)—A Founder of the Sierra Club Nuclear Free
Campaign

Chuck Johnson (Columbia Generating Station)—Director
of Joint Nuclear Power Task Force for OR/WA Physicians
for Social Responsibility

Dan Serres (Hanford)—Conservation Director for
Columbia Riverkeeper and member of the Hanford
Advisory Board. He is an advocate for a thorough cleanup
of the Hanford Site.

Kriyanna Feyalove—Moderator. Wife & Mother. Co-founder, Guide, and Healer with Divine Radiant Lotus and Make Love to the Mystery School. Ombudsman for Village Free School. Kin Council member.

Note: We would like to thank David Delk of the Alliance
for Democracy and the Economic Justice Action Group of
the First Unitarian Church for organizing the space for us
tonight. Thank you very much!

facebook event page: No Nukes NW Public Forum on Nuclear Madness ---Fukushima, Hanford, Columbia Generating Station

2.27-28 Shut Down CGS | No Nukes NW | Beyond Nuclear

Shut Down CGS – Feb. 27, 2013, Seattle, WA | ~ NO NUKES NW ~

Shut Down CGS – Feb. 28, 2013 Vancouver, WA | ~ NO NUKES NW ~

For Immediate Release
February 27, 2013

CONTACTS:
Tom Buchanan, WA Physicians for Social Responsibility, 206-947-6832
Chuck Johnson, OR Physicians for Social Responsibility, 503-777-2794
Leslie March, Sierra Club, 503-547-5479


Renowned Nuclear Expert to Speak in Seattle and Vancouver on Columbia Generating Station.
Northwest’s Only Boiling Water Reactor and Nuclear Power Plant


Seattle - Paul Gunter, renowned expert on nuclear issues and director of Beyond Nuclear will speak in Seattle and Vancouver, WA this week.  Gunter has been focusing on the lessons we should have learned from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan nearly two years ago. This includes supporting a shutdown of GE Boiling Water Reactors like the Northwest’s only nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) located on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River.  Gunter will identify the risks and future consequences if we don’t protect our own Fukushima-style boiling water reactor from containment failure.  (http://www.beyondnuclear.org/freeze-our-fukushimas)

A coalition of environmental and citizen action groups including WA/OR Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign, and No Nukes NW are holding public meetings in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, WA with Gunter as the keynote speaker.  The coalition is asking the ratepayers of Energy Northwest (a group of NW utilities including the City of Seattle and Clark County formerly known as the Washington Public Power Supply System or WPPSS) to call for a shutdown of the Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant in favor of renewable energy and efficiency.

Miriam German, an organizer with Portland based No Nukes NW, brings up the question of whether the CGS could survive a Fukushima like event.  “The plant is located in an area that has seismic activity, wildfires and according to the Nuclear Regulatory could be vulnerable to floods, how will this plant hold up in an emergency?  Do we want to find out?“

The coalition cites the boiling water reactor as dirty, dangerous, and expensive.  “This is an irresponsible risk to the people, the environment, and the economy of the Pacific Northwest.  Rather than courting disaster in return for less than 4% of the region’s electricity,” says Tom Buchanan, Vice President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.  “The CGS nuclear plant should be shut down as rapidly as possible and its highly radioactive wastes stabilized.”

“It begs the question whether we are truly committed to renewable energy and efficiency when we continue to commit the public’s dollars to a dirty and dangerous boiling water reactor” remarks Leslie March, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign.

Public meetings will be held in:

Seattle, February 27, 2013 7:30 p.m.  University Lutheran Church, 1604 NE 50, Seattle, WA 98115;

Vancouver, February 28, 2013 7:00 p.m.  Clark Public Utility, 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, WA 98663


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Columbia Generating Station Fallout Plume!

Posted on November 12, 2012 by No Nukes NW

http://www.nuclearpowerdanger.com/plume-maps/columbia-radiation-plume-map.php

Columbia Generating Station 25 Mile Radius Fallout Plume Map

http://www.nuclearpowerdanger.com

The center of this Toxic Plume is located approximately 160 miles southeast of Seattle, Washington. This plume is produced by 1 reactor located at the Columbia Generating Station.

“They plan to bring in an experimental fuel made from surplus weapons plutonium. Not only is the plant not designed for this MOX type fuel, using the plutonium based fuel will spread plutonium radiation downwind of the plant. This plant has the worst unexpected shutdown record of all Nuclear Power Plants in the US. Ground leaks have been reported from its elevated Radioactive Spent Fuel Pool.”

 http://www.nuclearpowerdanger.com/plume-maps/columbia-radiation-plume-map.php

~ NO NUKES NW ~ | No Excuses! No Apologies! No Nukes!!!

New website - Shut Down CGS!!!

CGS FACTSHEET from new website page 1 (go to website for complete PDF)

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: 

The Columbia Generating Station, which produces less than 4% of the region’s electricity, is an irresponsible risk to the people, the environment, and the economy of the Pacific Northwest.  The CGS nuclear plant should be shut down as rapidly as possible.

Who are we?

Beginning the fall of 2011, a number of environmental groups in the region began to organize against extending the operation of this demonstrably dangerous nuclear plant, the Columbia Generating Station.  These groups included the Oregon and Washington Chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility, local chapters of the Sierra Club, Heart of America Northwest, Hanford Challenge, Columbia Riverkeeper, the Alliance for Democracy, and a new group – No Nukes NW –  forged of the Portland Occupy movement.

Through a series of conferences, rallies, meetings and strategy sessions, we have coalesced around a multipronged effort to demonstrate the unsafe nature of operating this nuclear plant and the manageable consequences of shutting it down.  We are now beginning the process of seeking support throughout the utility districts of the State of Washington, which collectively own the nuclear plant, and to present our findings to appropriate decision-makers and opinion leaders in the region in order to shut down CGS.

The campaign has begun and we are in it to win it!

Shut Down CGS!!! | Atomic energy is a stupid way to boil water! —Buckminster Fuller