NH #767: Fukushima at 15 – Danger from Nuclear Triple Meltdown is Far From Over – Nancy Foust of Simply Info

Fukushima Daiichi, Explosion in Reactor 1 on March 12, 2011

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nancy Foust

• March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi triple nuclear reactor meltdown disaster. To find out how Japan and TEPCO’s attempt to stabilize and clean up the radiologically contaminated site is progressing, we talk with Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org, which publishes an annual report: 15th Anniversary Report Fukushima Daiichi. You don’t have to be a science nerd to understand the content. It’s a clearly written, scientific, fact-based, footnoted, fully vetted analysis on the current situation with the clean-up and its ongoing problems . We also discuss the Japanese “nuclear amnesia,” the attempts to downplay Fukushima as the country pushes nuclear expansionism and aims to build new reactors without having cleaned up its existing nuclear reactor mess.

Simply Info 15th Anniverary Report Fukushima Daiichi:

LINKS to other Fukushima Anniversary Materials:

• Fukushima at 15 – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Comprehensive article by Thomas Bass.
• The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight
• How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public
• Trailer for HBO Documentary on Fukushima:

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko – Voices from Japan

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko at The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futuba, standing next to her “buddy,” the “mascot” <!> of Fukusihima Daiichi. Propaganda at its most blatant. From Nuclear Hotseat #611

• Excerpt from 2023 Voices from Japan with Writer/Co-Producer Beverly Findlay Kaneko. She priovides an “on-the-ground in Japan” report on the then-current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Beverly lived in Yokohama, Japan, for 20 years until March 2011, leaving for the United States after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in 2011 and the start of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. She relocated back to Japan in 2025.

Activist Shoutout:

• NUCLEAR POETRY CONTEST – Hanford “Get It While It’s Hot” poetry contest
  Deadline March 31
  • You must be a student enrolled in a school in the United States to participate. 
  • Poetry must be on the topic of nuclear weapons waste
  • More information here and here.
    
• Libbe HaLevy’s play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE is now in conversation with theatre people in Hawaii and Oregon. If you have any theatrical contacts – producers, directors, actors, musicians, school theatre departments – who might be interested in deeply emotional play that takes on how we got tricked into supporting nuclear by media manipulation, have them contact Libbe at: info@nuclearhotseat.com

The Nuclear Resister with Jack Cohen-Joppa

Two generations ago, tens of thousands of people from coast to coast organized to resist the “Atom State” by putting their liberty on the line. Here with another story from our shared history of resisting nukes is Jack Cohen-Joppa, co-coordinator of the Nuclear Resister.