Scientists predicted the increased humidity that led to this year's massive snowfall, and the floods surrounding the Fort Calhoun and Coopers Point nuclear generating stations.
They also predicted the drying in the South West that drove the drought behind massive fires in the South.
Now tens of thousands of barrels of plutonium-laced waste is only a few miles from an out-on-control fire, at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab.
A report on what happened and why.
Includes a profile of the politicians and owners of the American nuclear operator Entergy. Straight from regulating at Congress to big $$$ as Board Director at nuclear company. All owned by named Wall Street firms.
Then the big picture at Fukushima. Why has the U.S. government downplayed the triple melt-down in Japan, and left troops possibly in harm's way? Why won't the U.S. test for radiation in fish, or the air?
Did America make big concessions to Japan to avoid their cashing in $700 billion in U.S. treasuries to pay for the cleanup? Is everybody hiding an international bankruptcy? The scandal of Tokyo secrets, and the banks who want it kept quiet.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Japanese continue in the world's largest experiment of living in a nuclear waste zone.
From Radio Ecoshock show 110629 29 minutes found at:
http://www.ecoshock.org/eshock11.html