EXCLUSIVE Fukushima: USS REAGAN v. TEPCO (Nuclear Hotseat #272) HD

EXCLUSIVE! USS Reagan vs. TEPCO Hearing – Attorneys, Survivors and John Edwards )Nuclear Hotseat #272) http://tinyurl.com/zwxkuhm This Week’s EXCLUSIVE Interviews begin approx 8:00 into video: Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy attended the US 9th District Court Hearing on USS Reagan Sailors v. Tokyo Electric Power Company. The sailors were on an humanitarian aid mission to Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns. TEPCO never informed the US Navy of the dangerous release of radioactivity from the crippled nuclear reactors and as a result, the sailors were exposed to catastrophic levels of radiation. At stake is whether the sailors’ case will be allowed to be tried in United States courts. TEPCO wants this case tried in Japan, which would effectively make it impossible for our sailors – many of whom are in failing health and would have to interrupt their medical treatments, fly to Japan, and fly out their own experts. The trip would be cost-prohibitive and forcing the trial to take place there would effectively end the lawsuit. That’s what TEPCO and its attorneys are counting on. David v. Goliath? Count on it! Hear excepts from the testimony and exclusive interviews with: Attorneys for the sailors Charles Bonner and Paul C. Carlson Garner Sailors from the USS Reagan during Operation Tomadachi: William Zeller, Chad Holt and Chris Shamrell. EXCLUSIVE BOMBSHELL: Former US Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, who reveals a bombshell: why he flew out to attend this hearing and is so public in his support for the sailors. The Missing Links: Watch recording for case: Lindsay Cooper v. Tokyo Electric Power Co., No. 15-56424 http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000010155 (Live links to all the Nuclear Hotseat episodes coming…) Video of full hearing of lawsuit HERE. http://tinyurl.com/ztp8a98 Nuclear Hotseat #96 – USS Reagan Sailors at Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Symposium Nuclear Hotseat #129 – Interview w/Attorney Charles Bonner Nuclear Hotset #138 – Interview w/Attorney Charles Bonner Nuclear Hotseat #159 – Interview w/USS Reagan sailor Steve Simmons http://tinyurl.com/zm5u7vq Nuclear Hotseat #162 – Steve Simmons and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano refute TEPCO claims Nuclear Hotseat #166 – USS Reagan sailors v. TEPCO Nuclear Hotseat #173 – Yokuska Homeporting of USS Reagan and Unresolved Radiation Issues w/Carole Jahnkow Nuclear Hotseat #176 – USS Reagan Case Win! Nuclear Hotseat #180 – Internal v. External Radiation Risks for USS Reagan Sailors NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Surf’s up! Anyone want to go swimming at a cesium-laden beach in northeast Japan? Of course not! So just don’t test for cesium – et voila! – problem goes away… er, not! Children swim in the sea at the Nakoso beach in Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, 65km south of the crippled TEPCO nuclear power plant, on July 16, 2013. NEWS: More suspect nuclear waste containe