4/6/11 Meria speaks with Damon Moglen, director of climate and energy project with Friends of the Earth about the nuclear meltdown in Japan. The true cost of nuclear power;the nuclear industry in Japan and USA; worse nuclear disaster in history;Chernobyl’s 100 mile dead zone – how big will Japan’s be? one month later still not under control;radioactive iodine 7.5 million times the legal limit in seawater; dumping into the ocean against intl. law; the Global commons; The London Convention Treaty;plutonium’s lifetime;tuna on the West Coast;104 reactors in USA since 70′s; 23 identical plants in the USA; Angela Merkel an nuclear physicist;changing the background radiation of the planet;what are spent fuel rods? where’s the media’s depth? don’t panic! should you take iodine? (iodine has to be taken BEFORE exposure); where’s our govt’s transparency on this? what is a meltdown? NRC says it could be months or longer to get Fukishima under control; fallout and rainwater;future generations;”national sacrifice zones” here in the USA. Very important show.
I was hoping you had an interview with Helen Caldicott in the archives. T was thinking too about the potential ‘nuclear refugees’ and when the mass exodus from Japan was going to happen today and I looked up their population – 127 million people ! On that little island strip! The Japanese were the first to be educated (the hard way) about the horrors of nuclear fallout – it’s crazy that they have plants at all – chalk up another great show! Love, Mo