Nuclear Hotseat #294: NO Radiation Spike at Fukushima – Nancy Foust of Simply Info (It’s still bad, but it’s not suddenly worse)

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This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week’s major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels.  Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe.  Step away from the hysteria…

LINKS to the Simply Info articles referenced:

• No, Fukushima Daiichi Did Not Se A Radiation Spike
• Fukushima Unit 2 Failure Point Found!

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadeness):

• Leaking radwaste barrels in a van — SO many things wrong with this story, it’s both Numnutz AND DUCK!-and-Cover — a Nuclear Hotseat first!

EASY URGENT ACTIONS:

• JOIN THE WORLDWIDE THUNDERCLAP FOR BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS – CLICK HERE.  You can sign up to AUTOMATICALLY have the following Tweet sent out on

  FEBRUARY 10th @1pm “Nuclear weapons are an urgent threat – now states are starting historic negotiations to ban them in March 2017. Join us! http://thndr.me/jFF5Cw” sponsored by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

• Join your voice with those of the Hibakusha to say “Never Again.”

  To sign the petition for a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons, CLICK HERE.

The Missing Links

• European Report links:
  • https://europeannewsweekly.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/nuclear-hotseat-europe-report-notes-7-feb-2017   
  • http://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/smog-chokes-coal-addicted-poland/
• Algonquin Pipeline still planned to be Indian Point-adjacent
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission Kills Study on Cancer Risks to Residents Near Reactors

Featured Image by thierry ehrmann, photographer.

February 8, 2017 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized