NH #106: Keegan: Ohio's Davis-Besse follows SanO Lead; MamaBears, Native Elders Protest Grand Canyon Uranium Mining

Davis (R) and Besse (L) at home downwind of the nuclear disaster-in-the-making that bears their names.

INTERVIEWS:

Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact the campaign to shut down Davis-Besse in Ohio.

     Links:

• Beyond Nuclear - http://www.beyondnuclear.org/
• Citizens Environment Alliance SW Ontario - http://www.citizensenvironmentalliance.org/
• Don't Waste Michigan - http://dwmi.homestead.com/
• Sierra Club Ohio - http://ohiosierraclub.org/

MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native American Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways.

Links:

• MamaBears Against Nukes - https://www.facebook.com/mamabears.againstnukes?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
• Article on recent protests:  https://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/protesters-in-santa-fe-say-no-uranium-mining/

Nuclear Tightrope at Grand Canyon as Uranium Mines Create Hotter Tourist Hot Spots than Nik Wallenda

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority

PLUS:

• Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;"
• MacFarlane survives Sen. Boxer's wrath at NRC refusal to hand over San Onofre documents, gets re-nominated as NRC Chair;
• David Lochbaum of Union of Concerned Scientists provides the NRC "DUCK!" Report on Non-Detecting Examinations;
• Elevated levels of tritium, strontium found in harbor at Fukushima Daiichi;
• Yablokov takes on the UNSCEAR report minimizing cancer risks from Fukushima;
• First of the Fukushima 50 dies of lung cancer.

LINKS for the NRC "DUCK!" Report: 

• Union of Concerned Scientists - NRC slides on their NDE (non-destructive examinations aka non-detecting examinations):  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1315/ML13159A009.pdf