California Nuclear Plant Closing has Local Implications: Critics want...
OAK HARBOR, Ohio — A southern California utility’s decision to decommission a nuclear power plant plagued by trouble with its replacement steam generators reinforces the need for deep scrutiny of...
View ArticleThe Echo Chamber Effect
About This Podcast After two weeks of traveling, Arnie is back in town to recount his adventures on this week’s podcast. His first trip was to Canada to testify about the Pickering Nuclear...The post...
View ArticleFukushima Kids with Yumi Kikuchi
About This Podcast On today’s podcast, Maggie and Nat interview our very inspiring friend Yumi Kikuchi. Fairewinds has been working with Yumi for more than a year now. She encouraged us to send...The...
View ArticleVt. AG asks for status in California nuke case
BRATTLEBORO — The attorneys general of Vermont and New York have joined a national environmental group in criticizing the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s response to a nuclear plant closing in...
View ArticleJapan’s Black Dust, with Marco Kaltofen
About This Podcast This week Fairewinds Energy Education interviewed Marco Kaltofen, a leading scientist who studies radiation as well as specific radioactive isotopes. Marco and Arnie discuss a recent...
View ArticleForty Good Years and One Bad Day
About This Video In this video, Arnie Gundersen talks with international diplomat Akio Matsumura, the former special advisor to the United Nations Development program, the founder and Secretary General...
View ArticleNuclear Timelines: A New Tool for Looking at History
About This Podcast Our team unveils the new, user friendly Fairewinds’ Timeline Maker for tracking problems at individual nuclear plants around the world. Listen as Nat, Lucas and Arnie explain how...
View ArticleArnie Gundersen on Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint, for Radio New Zealand
Arnie Gundersen is interviewed by Wayne Brittenden for his program “Counterpoint” on Radio New Zealand. Last Tuesday’s revelation that the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is leaking contaminated...
View ArticleEntergy replaces radiation monitors; state asks the NRC to investigate...
Four times since mid-June, monitors have recorded “spurious spikes” in radiation levels inside the Vermont Yankee plant. The “false positives” for high radiation levels were a result of faulty...
View ArticleVermont Yankee to cut about 30 jobs
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will see about 30 jobs cut by the end of the year, plant owner Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday. The cuts represent about a 4 percent reduction from...The post...
View Article40 Years of Being a Good Neighbor
About This Podcast This week’s podcast focuses on Arnie’s testimony about Canada’s Pickering Nuclear Plant on Lake Ontario, whose slogan is “40 years of being a good neighbor.” As Arnie explains in...
View ArticleVermont Yankee To Lay Off 30 Workers
A company-wide downsizing at Entergy will lead to 30 lay-offs at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Entergy officials announced the restructuring on Tuesday in the face ofdisappointing earnings....
View ArticleDuke Energy to cancel proposed Levy County nuclear plant
As it turns out, they were all wrong. Progress Energy insisted its proposed nuclear power plant in Levy County would provide low-cost energy for generations. The Legislature promised again and again...
View ArticleJapan’s nuclear regulator warns of new leak
About this Video Japan’s nuclear regulator has warned that it has been struggling to contain a new leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant. An underground barrier has failed to retain radioactive water and...
View ArticleA2-B-C: A Documentary Film by Ian Thomas Ash
A2-B-C: A Documentary Film by Ian Thomas Ash North American Premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival 12:15pm Saturday August 10, Providence, RI Fairewinds has done a lot of work about...
View ArticleThere is no way to stop Fukushima radioactive water leaking into the Pacific
About This Interview The rate at which contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant is worse than previously thought, an Industry Ministry...
View ArticleAn Ominous Forecast: Black Rain
About this Podcast This week’s podcast features an interview with Magdalena Vergeiner, daughter of theoretical meteorologist Dr. Ignaz Vergeiner. Magdalena currently works with the Austrian group AFAZ...
View ArticleAfter disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up
Aug 14 (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that...
View ArticleIf a Tree Falls in the Forest…
About This Podcast This week’s podcast features the testimonies of people living near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant at the time of the accident in 1979. Unlike most of our podcasts which...The...
View ArticleMission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel...
Scientists at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are preparing for their toughest clean-up operation yet – two and a half years after three of the plant’s reactors suffered a meltdown in Japan’s...
View ArticleArnie discusses VT Yankee closing with Mark Johnson
Arnie discusses the breaking news that Entergy decided to shut down the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. The post Arnie discusses VT Yankee closing with Mark Johnson appeared first on Fairewinds...
View ArticleBREAKING: Nuclear Expert Says It’ll Take At Least 20 Years — and More Money —...
By Ken Picard, Seven Days In the end, it wasn’t the attorney general’s federal lawsuit, the Vermont Legislature, the Public Service Board or any of those pesky enviros nitpicking about underground...
View ArticleNuclear engineer talks Yankee options
By Lauren Victory, WPTZ Watch the interview here BURLINGTON, Vt. —The news of the closure came as a shock to Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer who has been lobbying against the plant for...The post...
View ArticleCiting Economics, Entergy To Close Vermont Yankee By End of 2014
By John Dillon, VPR Vermont Yankee will close by the end of next year, ending years of litigation over the plant’s future. But Yankee says financial pressure not lawsuits or legislative mandates...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi Update
About This Video Arnie Gundersen is featured on EcoReview’s panel of experts to discuss Fukushima Daiichi. Host Tom Harvey poses the question, what has, is and will likely will happen and what...
View ArticleAs Fukushima Raises Severity Level, Nuclear Expert Warns Radioactive Leaks...
About this Interview Japan’s nuclear regulator said today it has officially raised the severity rating of the latest radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to Level 3 on an...
View ArticleIn Victory for Activists, Entergy to Close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant; Will...
About This Interview One of the country’s oldest and most controversial nuclear plants has announced it will close late next year. Citing financial reasons, the nuclear plant operator Entergy said...
View ArticleVermont Yankee: Where activists, lawyers and politicians failed, the market...
By Anne Galloway, Vermont Digger The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has been the subject of one of the longest and most intensive anti-nuke campaigns in the region. Even before the plant was...The...
View ArticleJust say no to nuclear power – from Fukushima to Vermont
By Amy Goodman, The Guardian Welcome to the nuclear renaissance. Entergy Corp, one of the largest nuclear-power producers in the US, issued a surprise press release Tuesday, saying it plans “to close...
View ArticleIs the United States remaining vigilant to Fukushima risks?
By Lucas W. Hixson, Enformable.com As our readers may be aware, on multiple occasions over the last two years Russia has made data public on contaminated imports from Japan which have been sent...The...
View ArticleHow concerned should we be about Fukushima?
About This Interview On today’s Your Call, we’ll talk about the recent leaks from the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, Japan. It’s been over two years since the plant suffered its original...
View ArticleThe Road Less Taken: Energy Choices for the Future
About This Video Today we feature an interview with Amory Lovins, preeminent environmental thinker and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. With forty years of energy policy experience, Amory...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Hour with Arnie Gundersen
About This Interview Arnie joined hosts Jeff and Doug for Renewable Energy Hour to discuss the state of Fukushima. The post Renewable Energy Hour with Arnie Gundersen appeared first on Fairewinds...
View ArticleOlympic Insanity + If Gundersen were in Charge at Fukushima
About this Interview Libbe HaLevy from Nuclear Hotseat radio interviewed Arnie Gundersen about the current state of problems at Fukushima Daiichi and asks what he would do if he were in charge of...The...
View ArticleTokyo 2020: Q&A with Arnie Gundersen
By Fairewinds Administrator Samantha Donalds After Saturday’s announcement that Tokyo had won the 2020 Summer Olympics bid, we thought it would be timely to post an old video on our Facebook page...
View ArticleFairewinds Team on Nuclear Free Future with Margaret Harrington
About This Video Nuclear Free Future host Margaret Harrington speaks with Fairewinds Founding Director Maggie Gundersen, Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen, Media Producer Nathaniel White-Joyal, and...
View ArticleDiscussing the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Arnie Gundersen is interviewed by Rock Cash on The People Speak Radio to discuss the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The post Discussing the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster...
View ArticleReport details drug and alcohol violations at U.S. nuclear plants
By Ivan Penn, Tampa Bay Times Drug and alcohol violations at U.S. nuclear plants increased from about one a month to almost one every week over the past five years, with a majority of cases in...
View ArticleBridging the News Gap, with Professor Matt Noyes
About This Podcast This week Fairewinds had the opportunity to speak with Matt Noyes, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo and a longtime Tokyo resident. Matt talked with us about his...
View ArticleNuclear Engineer: Japan’s PM “Lying to the Japanese People” About Safety of...
About This Interview Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen is interviewed by The Real News Network. Arnie says that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims Fukushima is safe but the nuclear...
View ArticleFish data belie Japan’s claims on Fukushima
By Alex Roslin, Straight.com Are fish from the Pacific Ocean safe to eat? It’s a question that’s back in the news after revelations of highly radioactive water leaking into the ocean from Japan’s...The...
View ArticleArnie discusses Fukushima Daiichi on WBAI’s Morning with Michael
Arnie Gundersen was interviewed on WBAI’s Morning with Michael radio program to discuss the ongoing crisis at Fukushima Daiichi.The post Arnie discusses Fukushima Daiichi on WBAI’s Morning with Michael...
View ArticleTour of Fukushima Daiichi
About This Video Each week Fairewinds receives many questions about the ongoing tragedy unfolding in Japan as a result of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Join us...
View ArticleNuclear Power Through the Fukushima Perspective
By Karl Grossman, Huffington Post It started this June in California. Speaking about the problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear plants through the perspective of the Fukushima nuclear complex...
View ArticleThe Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons
About This Presentation This week Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen participated in two panel discussions in Boston and New York City entitled “The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Ongoing...
View ArticleArnie Interviewed on Paradigms WBKM
About This Interview Baruch from Paradigms Radio interviewed Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen. Arnie discusses the cover-up the Japanese government is engaged in regarding the ramifications...
View ArticleFukushima on the Hudson: Could a nuclear accident happen near NYC?
By Wilson Dizard, Al Jazeera America The crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility again grabbed headlines in recent weeks after reports of radioactive water leaks into the Pacific Ocean and...
View ArticleHow Accurate Are The Instruments in Nuclear Reactors?
About This Podcast Accurately measuring the reactor water level in a nuclear power plant is critical to safe operation, yet nuclear power reactor water monitoring systems do not work correctly. What...
View ArticleRadioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well
Source: Russia Today Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported. Officials of...
View ArticleA Road Less Taken: Energy Choices for the Future
About This Presentation This week Fairewinds’ compares the paradigm of 20th century large nuclear power plants to the new 21st century paradigm utilizing smaller interconnected renewable sources of...
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