Here is the Fukushima wake up call - will it go unheard?

A new report, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says, the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident should serve as a wake-up call to nuclear plant operators and regulators on the crucial importance of measuring, maintaining, and restoring cooling in spent fuel pools - in the face of, severe accidents and terrorist attacks.

The committee recommends that the U.S. nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) improve the ability of plant operators to measure real-time conditions in spent fuel pools and maintain adequate cooling of stored spent fuel during severe accidents and terrorist attacks.

These improvements need to go beyond the current, post-Fukushima response to include hardened and redundant physical surveillance systems such as cameras, radiation monitors, pool temperature and water-level monitors, and means to deliver makeup water or sprays to the pools, even when physical access is limited by facility damage or high radiation levels. Let's learn from Fukushima!

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Monday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Supreme Court Rejects Texas Abortion Law As 'Undue Burden'" by Jess Bravin.

Article: "Supreme Court vacates former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's conviction" by Ariane de Vogue and Tal Kopan.

Article: "A background guide to "Brexit" from the European Union" by The Economist.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren at Hillary Clinton event: Donald Trump 'money grubber'" by Jeremy Fugleberg, Chrissie Thompson and Sharon Coolidge.

Article: "Brexit: Why Most Commentaries Miss The Point" by Robert Kuttner.

Article: "¡Basta Ya, Brussels! British Voters Reject EU Corporate Slavestate" by Mike Whitney.

Article: "Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions" by Glenn Greenwald.

Video: Mark Blyth on the Brexit vote.

Article: "Mark Blyth".

Article: "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Administrators Ate My Tuition" by Benjamin Ginsberg.

Article: "Here's what Bernie Sanders has won in the Democratic platform (so far)" by David Weigel.

Hour Two: Brexit...what's next?
- Professor Steve Keen, Kingston University, London /Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?  

Article: "IS-LM model (Hicks-Hansen model)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maastricht and All That" by Wynne Godley.

Article: "Maastricht Treaty" (Treaty on European Union or TEU) by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers" by Danielle Ivory, Ben Protess and Kitty Bennett.

Article: "The Libertarian Delusion" by Robert Kuttner.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Iain Duncan Smith Says £350m 'Brexit' NHS Pledge Was 'Never' A Commitment" by Graeme Demianyk.

Article: "Video evidence emerges of Nigel Farage pledging EU millions for NHS weeks before Brexit vote" by Jon Stone.

Article: "Great Brexit betrayal: Vote Leave leaders backtrack from NHS and immigration pledges and admit there is NO plan" by Jason Beattie, Ben Glaze.

Article: "What Boris Johnson said about Brexit - and what he really meant" by Martin Kettle.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "What 5 Leading Leftists Think About the UK Leaving the EU" by .

Article: "Edward Snowden questions the future of the UK after it votes for Brexit" by Olivia Blair.

Video: Just One More Thing #EUref #Brexit #Lexit - George Galloway.

Article: "French Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Site: Free Speech TV

Site: Democracy Now!

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Article: "Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion law" by Gary Gately.

Article: "Don Siegelman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard M. Scrushy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court Affirms That Even 'Reckless' Domestic Abusers Should Lose Gun Rights" by Melissa Jeltsen.

Article: "EU leaders reject informal talks with UK" by BBC.

Article: "Warren hits Trump while stumping for Clinton" by TMN.

Article: "Democrats release Benghazi report" by Stephen Collinson and Ted Barrett.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Article: "Quick Morning News - UK Tries To Calm Markets - #Fail - June 27, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Neoliberalism vs. Neofascism
- Benjamin Dixon, The Benjamin Dixon Show  

Article: "10 Injured During White Nationalist Protest in Sacramento" by Mike McPhate.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Book: "Agrarian Justice" by Thomas Paine.

 

Article: "Biochar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Carbon Nanotubes Produced from Ambient Carbon Dioxide for Environmentally Sustainable Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes" by Stuart Licht et al.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Islamic banking and finance" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Buy American Act", 1933.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Article: "Thinking About Hillary - A Plea for Reason" by Michael Arnovitz.

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