'BradCast' 3/8/2016 (Journalist Steven L. Herman from Bangkok on 5th Anniv. of the Fukushima nuclear disaster)

Published: March 9, 2016, 12:23 a.m.

b"It's been five years this week since the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit Japan. We speak about the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant with Steven L. Herman of Voice of America News from Bangkok. Herman, with whom we spoke just hours after the initial disaster five years ago in 2011, was one of the first journalists to visit the plant and the exclusion zone around it shortly after the initial meltdown of 4 of 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daichi power plant. He reports today on the continuing fight to control the unstable nuclear material at the plant, the lack of long term plans to dispose of the toxic waste that continues to pile up, as well as of the plight of residents who lived near the plant and are still unable to return to their homes.\\xa0 Also today: More on the media's misreporting of the race between Sanders and Clinton and the Democratic party's so-called 'super delegates,' and some very good non-Bernie news for voters in the state of Vermont..."