Fukushima Death Toll Climbs, WIPP, Rocky Flats & More update 1/24/15
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 24/01/2015

Rocky Flats and Atomic Worker Compensation – Kristen Iversen, Terrie Barrie Nuclear Hotseat #187: 
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/2374/

INTERVIEWS:
Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, on the dangers and deadly legacy of that atomic weapons manufacturing site near Denver, CO.
Terrie Barrie is Rocky Flats Special Exposure Cohort co-petitioner.  She has been working to help exposed workers from that nuclear site get compensation from the US government under a little-known government program that admits that exposure to radiation is implicated in at least 22 named cancers!
    To learn more about this  program: Alliance of Nuclear Worker Advocacy Groups –  http://eecap.org/ANWAG_News.htm.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK:
If  someone chooses to purchase and eat rice from Fukushima, methinketh they are the Numnutz of the Week!
PLUS:
    Two worker deaths in a single day at Fukushima Daiichi;
    Sea animals dying in Tokyo, Hawaii and Pacific west coast;
    Lots more that she had no time to read on the show!
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Study: Fukushima the most serious man made disaster in human history http://preview.tinyurl.com/ldqxh3m

“One of largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded” now underway on West Coast — Gov’t: “I’ve never seen anything like this, ever” — Experts: “Just massive, massive, unprecedented” … “Strong possibility of it escalating to affect other species” — “Significant uptick in mass-mortality events in marine world” http://preview.tinyurl.com/m6zjucr

AP: Ceiling collapses at WIPP nuclear waste dump — Officials: Roof has separated — “Ground control a significant concern for all of us” — 6 other areas at risk due to ‘significant bolt loss’ — Failures are exceeding safety levels (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/oa25tww

Gov’t: Sea urchins with insides empty, bare skeletons, and black lesions in Hawaii — Birds dying of unusual cancers, rarely seen in wildlife (PHOTOS) http://preview.tinyurl.com/oa25tww

TV: Gov’t approves plan to ‘drain’ Fukushima nuclear waste into ocean — Professor: Monitoring necessary to detect ‘worrisome signals’ — Expert: “It’s completely unsafe… impossible to remove 100s of radioactive materials” — 1,200 radionuclides, only 62 reduced — Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco” (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/pwbntht

Study: Fukushima plume spread worldwide, far exceeding the hundreds of miles mentioned previously — 100 Quadrillion becquerels of Cs-137 released tops Chernobyl — “Implicates radiological hazard at distances otherwise overlooked” http://preview.tinyurl.com/n2c4cd4

TV: “It’s like a scene from a horror movie” along West Coast — “We’re seeing all sorts of mysterious goings-on” — “There is no food out there” — Scientists can’t figure out why there’s mass starvation of seabirds — “This is a really serious thing” — “A species die-off is always unsettling” (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/my7jf8u

Multiple deaths at Fukushima nuclear plants – Worker dies after plunging over 30 feet into water tank – Another killed from severe head injury after caught in equipment – Tepco warned last week about soaring number of worker injuries http://preview.tinyurl.com/kny3ybb

TV: Hawaii coral “the worst scientists have ever seen” — Professor: “It’s like a ghost town… We would not typically see entire colonies bleached, ever” — Gov’t map of ‘maximum bleaching alert area’ in Pacific mirrors Fukushima plume model since 2011 (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/pe2a2zv

(for more on the above coral bleaching story see:) MASSIVE RADIATION/WEST COAST/PACIFIC  http://youtu.be/xznzStBwHgY

“Sea creatures sick, dying or disappearing at alarming rate all along Pacific coast… Some wonder if it’s fallout from Fukushima” — New York Times: “Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction” — Study: “We may be on precipice of major extinction event” in marine wildlife (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/ktokdo4

Official: Fissures in earth now suspected under dam upstream of nuke plants — “There’s plenty of rumors… We’re considering all possibilities… Leak is actually in embankment, that’s where all the focus is” — Speculation that problem to go on for years — New drone footage shows excavation in progress (VIDEO) http://preview.tinyurl.com/m89ku49

Huge radiation spike detected at Fukushima plant — Multiple records set near workers trying to stop nuclear waste flowing into ocean — Cesium up 7,500% this week http://preview.tinyurl.com/nx8tjym

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