Nuclear Hotseat #174: WIPP Fan Restart, Food Safety from 2011 Still Timely

Published: Oct. 22, 2014, 5:52 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center provides another sterling update on the fan restart at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad, NM; and One from the Vault, Nuclear Hotseat #7 from July 26, 2011 - interview w/Jon Solomon, VP of Purchasing for Eden Foods, on the food safety protocol the company put in place in the days immediately after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Nuclear tourism to New Mexico - take the kids! PLUS: Stunner! NRC's MacFarlane announces retirement from Commission 4 years early; Gundersen says Fukushima surrounded by gamma radiation haze as cesium and strontium 90 levels in the water continue to skyrocket - Japan radiation release now seen to be almost four times worse than Chernobyl; Dr. Caldicott now will be allowed to testify in trial of The Four Grandmothers for trespass while planting protest flowers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant on Mother's Day; Special report from Frieze Art Show as "Ambivalent?" soup sourced from Fukushima offered free to attendees; and Canada to offer Potassium Iodide tablets to all who live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor in case of an emergency... but still want to convince us that a nuke waste repository within one mile of Lake Huron is safe? Does no one see the disconnect?