{"id":36218,"date":"2011-03-26T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36218"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:58:52","slug":"podcast-nuclear-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/podcast-nuclear-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Nuclear News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36218-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110326nuclear.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110326nuclear.mp3\">http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110326nuclear.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Good afternoon &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Following the theory that awareness is the antidote to fear and shadow, I&#8217;ve just completed a nuclear news podcast, pulling together the best I can find from mainstream and alternative sources.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36220\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/225+web-eric-audio-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36220\" title=\"225+web-eric-audio-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/225+web-eric-audio-photo.jpg?resize=225%2C305&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/225+web-eric-audio-photo.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/225+web-eric-audio-photo.jpg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me, today - at Blue Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The upshot is that there is still a really big problem at Unit 3 and in truth nobody knows how bad it is. The radiation has spread to some parts of the plant that raise the question of the source &#8212; the spent fuel pond or the reactor core.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are still underway to keep the thing cool, and they&#8217;ve decided to switch to freshwater instead of seawater because they are having a problem with salt accumulating and preventing the water from cooling the fuel down.<\/p>\n<p>What we are left with is something that can never be cleaned up &#8212; Japan is going to be forced to abandon an significant swath of its very small country, and leave us with a point source of radiation right on the Pacific. The question really is: what are we humans going to do to prevent this from happening again?<\/p>\n<p>Anything? There is plenty that can be done &#8212; it&#8217;s really a matter of intelligence and will, which seem to be in short supply at the moment; maybe we hobbits can muster up a little where the big people leave off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planet Waves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" width=\"185\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"9\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110326nuclear.mp3 Good afternoon &#8212; Following the theory that awareness is the antidote to fear and shadow, I&#8217;ve just completed a nuclear news podcast, pulling together the best I can find from mainstream and alternative sources. The upshot is that there is still a really big problem at Unit 3 and in truth nobody knows how &#8230; <a title=\"Podcast: Nuclear News Roundup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/podcast-nuclear-news-roundup\/\" aria-label=\"More on Podcast: Nuclear News Roundup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}