Nuclear Hotseat #95: Radioactive Food, Activist Petitions

Published: April 10, 2013, 5:39 a.m.

Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN), represented by Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Beth Brangan of EON (Ecological Options Network), on their new citizen-action petitions. Want clean food? Sign and send to your list! PLUS: Former NRC Chair Jaczko says nuke reactors not safe and need to be shut down; So Cal Edison trying to dictate restart plans to a compliant (somnambulant?) NRC; TEPCO rat-chasers knock fuel pool #3 offline - again!; Fukushima leaking highly radioactive water and the pool they're pumping it into leaks just as badly as the first one; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: White House planning to suspend radiation clean-up standards to allow 1 in 23 of us to get cancer, and citizens told by EPA official to "put their big boy pants on and suck it up" .