Nuclear Disaster in St. Louis Update on West Lake Landfill w/ Byron DeLear
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 07/01/2016

This Week’s Featured Interview: Byron DeLear lives near the West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis, Missouri, and has been involved in clean energy issues as chairman and CEO of Energy Equity Funding. He is a columnist with Examiner.com and is currently running for state representative. We spoke about latest developments on radiological nightare site – the flood, the fire – as well as the politics behind the West Lake “nuclear hot potato.”

Numnutz of the Week:
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is taking recycling a wee bit too far as it proclaims plans to use radioactively contaminated soil from Fukushima in public construction projects.  Hey, those lawn and garden bags haven’t been worth anything in holding the nuclear garbage…!

And In This Week’s News: 
More than I have time to go into right now – but in 14 minutes, you’ll know more about what’s happening in the nuclear part of the world than any single politician running for President (…unless Bernie’s been listening to the show…).

The Missing Links:
New scientific, peer-reviewed report on the West Lake Landfill, published in the Journal of Environmental Radiactiivity, shows hows radioactive contamination has migrated off-site. http://tinyurl.com/jszbesf
Tracking legacy radionuclides in St. Louis, Missouri, via unsupported 210Pb
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity http://tinyurl.com/jszbesf
Volume 153, March 2016, Pages 104–111

Dr. Ian Fairlie on radioactive Tritium in the water — and why it’s not a good idea to try to boil it off, like TEPCO wants to do at Fukushima. http://www.ianfairlie.org/?s=tritium Fukushima: Evaporating tank contents is not the solution

National Geographic’s (pre-Murdoch purchase) article:  As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? http://tinyurl.com/zoea3xw

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releases new Progressive Action Guides (PAGs) on “allowable” radioactivity in your food and water… and it’s hardly progressive. http://www.nuclearworld.net/pag/ New Protection Action Guidelines Will Leave You Chilled to the Bone

Nuclear Hotseat #237: West Lake Politics, Update w/Byron DeLear http://tinyurl.com/jtznuzs

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BONUS LINKS: 
Manhattan Project leads to rise in cancer cluster near St. Louis https://youtu.be/AXvrcfeux7k 

Nuke plant faked fire inspection records in NOLA https://youtu.be/vHQhhlsdw48 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission just concluded a 15-month investigation at the Entergy nuclear power plant in New Orleans, Louisiana. They found that a contractor faked fire inspection records for 10 months

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's Statement on DPRK https://youtu.be/bF2CsTKPViY

North Korea nuclear: State claims first hydrogen bomb test http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35240012

Abe calls N.Korean nuclear test serious threat Jan. 5, 2016 
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says North Korea's latest nuclear test is a serious threat to his country's security.
Abe called the test totally unacceptable and strongly condemned it.
He said it is a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions and a challenge to efforts for nuclear nonproliferation.
Abe said Japan will respond firmly as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, and that it will cooperate with the United States, South Korea, China, and Russia.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20160106_22.html

NRA orders utilities to check nuclear plant cables http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20160106_39.html
Japan's nuclear regulators have urged Tokyo Electric Power Company to take the necessary steps to properly lay electrical cables for the main safety equipment in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.
The reactors at the plant in Niigata Prefecture on the Japan Sea coast are currently offline after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
Last year, at least 1,700 safety-related cables were found to have been jointly laid with other cables under the floor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant's central control room and in other areas.
New government requirements introduced after the nuclear accident require safety-related cables to be installed separately for fire management.
On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said the way the electrical cables are installed could cause the plant's safety functions to go down.
The authority concluded that this violates the new requirements and instructed TEPCO to take necessary measures.
It also ordered the utility to inspect whether proper installation procedures have been followed for the other main safety equipment.
Similar problems have been identified at 5 other nuclear plants across the country.
The authority called on all nuclear plant operators to conduct probes and report by the end of March.