GUNDERSEN ON FUKUSHIMA FISH SALES AND REACTOR’S BUCKLING BUILDING
In a startling mix of market forces and nuclear therapy, the Japanese government is now allowing the sale of seafood from Fukushima, where radioactivity continues to be released daily into the Pacific from the doomed Fukushima Daichi nuclear power stations. Officials and merchants insist that the locally sold octopus and snails are safe for consumption. But a new study shows alarming levels of hot cesium, strontium and plutonium in local anchovies, crabs, and other marine species. However, sea bass off the coast of Japan are being thrown back for exceeding radiation limits, and “hot” bluefin tuna have now traveled all the way to the U.S. west coast, Nuclear expert ARNIE GUNDERSEN of Fairewinds Associates [ fairewinds.com ] has the latest details;
Lincoln Chase – “Fish Specie”;
BOLIVIA’S PRESIDENT EVO MORALES ON RIO+20 “EARTH SUMMIT”
The Rio+20 “Earth Summit for Sustainable Development” recently concluded, amid widespread complaints that the promoted concept of a “green economy” is being used to help bail out the current global recession, while ecological safety and recovery are being neglected. Bolivian president EVO MORALES discusses those issues, indigenous and national rights, and what he calls the capitalist undercurrent of major power “environmentalism.”
Anchor: Robert Knight
Producer: Thiago Barrozo
Engineer: Michael G. Haskins
Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
