Peter and Mickey open the program with a wide-ranging conversation with long-time social justice activist Medea Benjamin; the discussion covers topics from trade deals to drone warfare, as well as her latest project of trying to alert Americans about the human rights abuses committed by US ally Saudi Arabia. In the second half of the show, Peter and Mickey speak with nuclear-power whistle blower Arnie Gunderson, who recently returned from a visit to Fukushima, Japan; he warns that radioactive contamination is now pervasive in the Fukushima area, but the Japanese government is trying to avoid addressing the health issues.
Fukushima : Build-Up In Biosphere Expected
Scientists have raised concern over the rate of radioactive contamination of the Pacific, due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. Expert : Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan. Officials : Molten fuel now ‘particle-like’, contains ‘special’ nuclear materials. Gov’t Labs : Large areas of oceans contaminated by plutonium from events such as Fukushima; Build-up …