NH #110: Disaster Prep Pro Chuck McCune on FEMA, Global Warming & Nukes

FEATURED INTERVIEW:  Chuck McCune, veteran disaster preparedness pro, talks about the nuclear aspects to natural disaster, including some projections FEMA never intended to get out to the public.  Chuck includes his vision of what it would take to make the anti-nuclear movement in the US REALLY effective. 

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:

Cluster of horrible birth defects in three Washington state counties and government officials can’t figure out what might be causing them… DESPITE one of the counties also hosting one of the 10 most polluted places on the planet:  The Hanford Site.  Can you say, “DUH!” 

PLUS: 

• Former San Onofre partners SCE, SDG&E and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries battling it out over who owes who what for those faulty steam generators that got the site SHUT DOWN FOREVER;
• Fukushima #3 blowing off steam, meaning it’s hot enough inside to boil radioactive water;

• Ft. Calhoun may force Omaha Public Power District to get moody about a Moody’s rating cut; 
• Japan elects a no-nukes actor to Upper House but supports pro-nuke LDP, despite the fact that 80% of the population believes a new nuclear disaster “probable;”
• And the Vermont Yankee “Shut It Down!” affinity group demonstrates and gets arrested again, which they seem to do every 28 days… 

LINKS:

• NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) pdf on reactors due for retirement, “Renaissance in Reverse.” http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/aging/renaissanceinreverse71713.pdf
• WHO (World Health Organization) news release from the end of May: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/01/science/la-sci-sn-world-cancer-incidence-20120601