Fukushima Vs. Chernobyl Mutations w/ T. Mousseau (Nuclear Hotseat #243) HD

This weeks interview is with Prof. Timothy Mousseau. He and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting the Chernobyl region of Ukraine and Belarus. More recently, he initiated a second research program in Fukushima, Japan. (NOTE: The picture at the top of this page are mutated fire bugs found at Chernobyl.) Dr. Timothy Mousseau is an evolutionary biologist and since 1991, a faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Since 1999. Chernobyl, Fukushima Mutations w/Dr. Timothy Mousseau Nuclear Hotseat #243 http://tinyurl.com/zymttnr My Indian Point Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QWh... ‘Chernobyl on Hudson River’: Governor calls for NY nuclear plant closure over radioactive leak http://tinyurl.com/h33m48s My Timothy Mousseau Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/hf6er9t Fukushima Catastrophe and its Effects on Wildlife (Aug 2014) https://youtu.be/V6beUgyJPJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6beU... Numnutz of the Week The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may not be able to get anything right at West Lake Landfill in North St. Louis, or Flint, or actually anywhere… but that doesn’t stop them from coming up with really, really bad PR materials for the public to use: http://cfpub.epa.gov/npstbx/logos.cfm MISSING LINKS: By Harvey Wasserman: Bernie and Hillary – Speak Out on America’s Dying Nuclear Reactors! http://tinyurl.com/z5prqvh By Cindy Folkers: Who Is Monitoring the Health of Populations Around Nuclear Power Plants? http://tinyurl.com/hy7cakz By Byron DeLear: Helen Caldicott to Conduct Nuclear Symposium in St. Louis: The Atoms Next Door http://tinyurl.com/zbjm2dw By Tim Barribeau: Not-so-Secret Atomic Tests: Why the Photographic Film Industry Knew what the American Public Didn’t (HINT: Not your typical “Kodak moment.”) http://tinyurl.com/dyy24x2 ~~~~~~~~~ Some brief notes I took: 6:00 EPA mascots, NRA - reduced monitors around Fukushima St. Louis, West Lake, Bridgeton Fire, Coldwater Creek, Manhattan Project nuclear waste leak disaster 9:30 Mousseau interview begins 14:00 mothers and maternal adaptations due to radiation - no adaptive response chernobyl - dairy farms in exclusion zone - monitor barn swallows... found patches of white feathers (partial albino) 16:00 barn swallows return to the same predictable location watching for egg damages, sperm samples, male sperm deformed - fertility problems, tumors on heads, rear ends, wings and legs. Living Half as long with fewer chicks, cataracts in eyes due to radiation. Been tracking barn swallows for 15 - 16 years. Attached dosimeters to the legs of barn swallows. tracking radiation 2003/2004 - found growing interest in Chernobyl. So, then what about OTHER animals, insects, mammals, rodents, etc? Get more people to study, too. 19:00 new findings in small mammals - Chernobyl cadaracts on increased amounts of h