Nuclear Hotseat #127: Nuclear Refugee Setsuko Kida

Published: Nov. 27, 2013, 7:51 a.m.

INTERVIEW: Former Fukushima resident Setsuko Kida on the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, her emergence into activism and her recent trip to the US to meet with attorneys for the USS Ronald Reagan sailors who are suing TEPCO. PLUS: Japan Diet's lower house passes State Secrets Protection Bill amid fears of growing fascism and censorship; world's engineers express concern over TEPCO's attempts to remove fuel rods from Unit 4 spent fuel pool; unofficial reports (which will probably be banned under the Secrecy Act) show Fukushima worker deaths already over 4,000; TEPCO president warns the world that nuclear energy is "not fully safe;" Sen. Boxer boxes NRC's MacFarlane over her agency's refusal to release documents to senate committee investigation; and sea animals massing in California's Monterrey Bay - trying to escape the Pacific Ocean and Fukushima's radiation?