Featured Image:  Arnie Gundersen in Japan, with bags of radioactive material in background.
Sign says “Decontamination is still in progress.”

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This Week’s Feature:

• Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, focuses on the human toll inflicted by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.  Recorded December 2, 2017, at DePaul University, at an event sponsored by Chicago’s Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

The only “conspiracy” I can determine thus far in Hawaii’s 38-minute false alert of an incoming nuclear missile is one to hide GROSS INCOMPETENCE in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.  Password “security,” anyone?

Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency’s Operations Manager, proudly posing last July with… does that Post-it say “Password?”  And is that a password, legible underneath?  OMG, HI-EMA!

And then there’s this shot of the infamous drop-down alerts menu:

Screen shot of HI-EMA’s alerts menu.
Notice PACOM (CDW) – STATE ONLY and DRILL – PACOM (CDW) – STATE ONLY.
Low blood sugar, need-to-pee or just ham-handed operator = Hawaii’s 38 minutes in nuclear hell.