Nuclear Hotseat #195: Uranium Film Festival Quebec

Published: March 18, 2015, 5:16 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Christian Levesque, organizer of the 2015 Uranium Film Festival in Quebec; and Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Campaigner for Physicians for Social Responsibility in Oregon and Washington State, on the problems at the Hanford site and with the Columbia Generating Station. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has come up with $4 billion in aid to disaster victims... of any and every disaster but the one on the northeast coast of Japan. PLUS: Fukushima at 4 - triple the number of people impacted by radiation in Japan as compared to Chernobyl; thyroid cancer rates 50x higher than normal in Fukushima children; TEPCO admits rainwater radiation levels at Fukushima surge yet again; WIPP site going for "bananas" faux comparison; Utah radwaste company tries to convince South Carolina to re-open tritium-leaking atomic garbage dump w/a media blitz; and Korean hacker demands money or he'll leak country's nuke info to other countries - and no, Sony is not involved.