Nuclear Hotseat #141: Diablo Canyon Cancer Stats w/Dr. Jerry Brown

Published: March 5, 2014, 5:29 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Jerry Brown of Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy blows the lid off the presumed safety of "permissible" radiation releases from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant w/a newly commissioned report on cancer statistics in nearby counties by esteemed epidemiologist Joseph Mangano. We revisit the WIPP radiological accident and radiation release in Carlsbad, NM with Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center. PLUS: Hanford site threatened by cracked dam 40 miles upstream; Hawaiian state senators call for radiation tracking in their local Pacific waters; Babcock and Wilcox can't find buyers for their small modular nuclear reactors, while Exelon threatens to shut down 3 reactor sites in Illinois; "mind boggling" levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs as rockfish caught off the coast found even more radioactive than Japan's permissive permissible levels; and hundreds rally in Tokyo to protest prosecutors letting TEPCO off the hook without a single indictment. It's ALL numnutz!