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Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. There is troubling news out of Japan - where there's now more signs now that the Fukushima nuclear crisis is still ongoing. Sludge samples taken from Tokyo Bay reveal that radioactive cesium contamination has increased in some areas by 13-times since measures were taken last August. Health officials claim the radiation levels pose no immediate risk to the population - but could get worse as contaminated fish filled with radioactive isotopes travel up the food chain into the world's restaurants and dinner tables. Meanwhile, in the United States - the Associated Press is reporting that nuclear regulators have quietly watered-down US planning for nuclear emergencies. Despite nuclear plants all around the nation ageing beyond their recommended operational lives - nuclear regulators have reduced evacuation zones around them, required fewer exercises for accidents, and relaxed training for emergency officials. In other words, we're less prepared today to deal with a nuclear disaster than we were before Fukushima happened. ***NOTE*** it has been reported that the Japanese Government has allowed dumping of radioactive waste into Tokyo Bay, in addition, they are trucking radioactive waste all over Japan and Burning it, contaminating the whole island and sending it up into the atmosphere for it to travel the world and fallout. Richard Fowler Jeremiah Right Joe Ricketts TD Ameritrade Mitt Romney Abortion Eleanor Holmes Norton Austerity Indefinite Detention Filibuster Thom Hartmann The Big Picture.

Published on May 17, 2012 by peaceedcenter In a conversation with the Peace Education Center, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org) talks about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and describes the current situation as the disaster site. The conversation took place in Lansing, Michigan, on May 2, 2012. [NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org) talks to the Peace Education Center about Ontario, Canada's plans for a deep underground dump (DUD) for nuclear waste on the Great Lakes. The conversation took place in Lansing, Michigan, on May 2, 2012 and was an offshoot of the showing of the documentary, "Into Eternity."