This Week's Featured Interview:

• Nancy Foust of Simply Info sorts out truth from confusion regarding last week's major media echo chamber on Fukushima radiation levels.  Like a pebble can start an avalanche, a mis-translation can and did get blown up into a catastrophe.  Step away from the hysteria...

LINKS to the Simply Info articles referenced:

• No, Fukushima Daiichi Did Not Se A Radiation Spike
• Fukushima Unit 2 Failure Point Found!
   

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadeness):

• Leaking radwaste barrels in a van -- SO many things wrong with this story, it's both Numnutz AND DUCK!-and-Cover -- a Nuclear Hotseat first!

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The Missing Links

• European Report links:
  
  • https://europeannewsweekly.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/nuclear-hotseat-europe-report-notes-7-feb-2017   
  • http://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/smog-chokes-coal-addicted-poland/
• Algonquin Pipeline still planned to be Indian Point-adjacent
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission Kills Study on Cancer Risks to Residents Near Reactors

Featured Image by thierry ehrmann, photographer.