NH #134: NIRS New Head Tim Judson + India's Kumar Sundaram

Regarding the nuclear that Japan has sold overseas and wants to sell to India: in the case of a nuclear accident, it is the Japanese taxpayers who are obliged to pay (be inevitably billed for) damages. The boys in the manga are like, "Wh...What?!"

http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f6d50b6e-8387-69b7-4fb0-1dd602808c06.mp3 

INTERVIEW:  Long-time anti-nuclear activist Tim Judson took over as Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) on the first of the year.   Hear what this long-time anti-nuclear activist sees as the strategies our movement can use against entrenched, monied nuclear interests, as well as a fascinating revelation about Entergy that exposes the vulnerable underbelly of that underfinanced nuclear slumlord.  

Tim Judson, Executive Director of NIRS

Kumar Sundaram, anti-nuclear firebrand and organizer in India, offers insights into the upcoming nuclear-fueled visit to India of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo "Pinnochio" Abe-baby and shows us how to join the massive protests by way of a poster and a selfie.  FULL INFO HERE:

https://www.facebook.com/events/262774790547186/

Take a selfie w/this poster and send it to Kumar Sundaram for the anti-nuke demonstrations in India when Abe-baby comes to town.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:  Shinzo "Pinnochio" Abe-Baby.  Prime Ministers say the darndest things! 

PLUS:

• SPECIAL OCEAN REPORT, with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ken Buessler organizing a crowdsourced Pacific Ocean water sampling project to determine radionuclides in the water.  To participate, go to:  www.whoi.edu
• Race for governor of Tokyo heats up w/former Prime Minister and now anti-nuclear candidate Hosokawa joining the fight;
• New Japanese study confirms what we've known all along: there's no way to evacuate from a nuclear disaster before the radiation plume hits;
• and between the Fort Calhoun and St. Lucie nuclear reactors, nukes can't seem to keep operating if it snows or rains.  What a wimpy, flawed technology!  
• RadCast w/Mimi German, of course!

LINKS:

• BONUS:  How Radioactive is Your Gourmet Jam?  Cesium 127 found in European gourmet and organic fruit preserves.  Full story from Enformable and Lucas Hixon here:  http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=12058