California Nuclear Power Plant Preparing To Restart Reactor After Shutting Down Because Of Leak

About This Video Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen was interviewed on Russia Today to discuss Southern California Edison’s “San Onofre” Power Plant.  Arnie says, “The worst plant in the U.S. for evacuation plans, is San…

Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated

About This Video Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that…

More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Containment Failures and the Loss of the Ultimate Heat Sink

About This Video In this Monday’s video, Fairewinds investigates a recently released report from Tokyo Electric. Arnie Gundersen discusses TEPCO’s latest analysis that, almost two years after the accident, fully substantiates Fairewinds long…

Gundersen on Democracy Now Discussing Hurricane Sandy

About This Video Gundersen discusses the likelihood of nuclear plants in the path of Hurricane Sandy to lose off-site electrical power. In this scenario, a plant would be forced to rely on backup…

Fairewinds Japanese Speaking Tour: Fall 2012

Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen was hosted by educational, governmental, and citizen groups on a speaking tour in Japan during the end of August and early September 2012. The lectures were created to…

It Could Have Been Worse

About This Video Fairewinds analysis of the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi determined that other Japanese reactor sites were also in jeopardy because their cooling water systems were destroyed by the same tsunami….

Can Spent Fuel Pools Catch Fire?

About This Video In this Fairewinds’ feature, Fairewinds Associates Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen analyzes a US government national laboratory simulation video that shows nuclear spent fuel rods do catch fire when exposed to…

CCTV Live at Five with Margaret Harrington and Arnie Gundersen

About This Video CCTV Host Margaret Harrington and Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen discuss the urgent need to empty spent fuel pools into dry cask storage to prevent a serious but avoidable accident….

San Onofre Steam Generators: Worse Than All Others Nationwide

About This Video Peggy Pico of KPBS interviews Fairewinds Associates’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen about Fairewinds’ latest report commissioned by Friends of the Earth. Fairewinds reviewed NRC data and leaked documents from Edison…

Japanese Legislative Task Force Calls Fukushima Daiichi Triple Meltdown A Man-made Disaster

The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, the first independent investigation commission in the 66 years of Japan’s constitutional government, released a 630-page report July 5, 2012. This special report, that was delivered to the…

Tokyo Peace Film Festival: You Are Not Alone

About This Video Fairewinds Energy Education was invited to showcase one of its feature videos for the Tokyo Peace Film Festival on June 30, 2012. The video selected for the Festival was “Fukushima…

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link?

About This Video CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera…

Gundersen on EcoReview: Fukushima Daiichi Update and Nuclear Power Alternatives

About This Video Tom Harvey of EcoReview hosts Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. The two discuss: an update on Fukushima Daiichi; a look at why not all nuclear power plants are safe,…

Going Nuclear: What is the Future of Nuclear Energy in the U.S?

About This Video Al Jazeera segment “Inside Story Americas,” host Shihab Rattansi, along with guests: Arnie Gundersen, veteran nuclear industry expert and chief engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education; Mindy Kay Bricker, the editor…

As Japan Says Fukushima Daiichi Disaster "Man-Made" & "Preventable," Fears Grow for Nuclear Plants Worldwide

About This Video Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez hosts Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year’s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “a…

San Onofre: Bad Vibrations

About This Video Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds, demonstrates what has happened inside the replacement steam generators at the site of the San Onofre nuclear generating station in San Diego, California. Arnie…

Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future

About This Video As part of a presentation in Kansai, Japan on May 12th 2012, Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education answered specific questions asked by symposium organizers regarding the condition…

Does Japan Have a Nuclear Free Future?

About This Video CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts a conversation with Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education and writer Mark Pendergrast, author of Japan’s Tipping Point: Crucial Changes in the Post-Fukushima World….

Hot Particles and Measurement of Radioactivity

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen and Boston Chemical Data Corporation’s Founder Marco Kaltofen have an in-depth conversation regarding the challenges of measuring radiation exposures to people around the globe. Kaltofen…

Gundersen on KPBS Discusses Developing San Onofre Situation

About This Video A leak discovered earlier this year in a steam generator pipe at the San Onofre nuclear plant has lead to two unanimous City Council decisions to send letters of concern…

Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US

About This Video While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if…

Maggie Gundersen speaks at UVM regarding similarities between VY and Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video Maggie Gundersen, founder and president of the Burlington, VT-based Fairewinds Associates, a paralegal and expert witness firm specializing in issues of nuclear reliability issues, Jared Margolis, Attorney for the New…

Gundersen: Fukushima Meltdown Could Result in One Million Cases of Cancer

About This Video Arnie Gundersen appears on Democracy Now to speak about the ongoing effects of radiation on the Japanese people and his recent contribution to the Greenpeace report Lessons From Fukushima. Video…

Gundersen: One Year Anniversary of Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video Arnie appears on Russia Today to discuss the one year anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi and its ongoing effects on the Japanese people.

Fukushima-Daiichi: An Accident Waiting to Happen

About This Video CCTV Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds about Arnie’s recent trip to Japan and their report for Greenpeace about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. The issue…

Arnie Gundersen at the Japan National Press Club

About This Video The Japan National Press Club hosts Arnie Gundersen. More than 80 journalists were present where questions were asked regarding the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi and the ongoing risks associated…

State of Vermont vs. Entergy on Vermont Yankee

About This Video CNN’s Amber Lyon cuts to the heart of states’ rights issues in her expose on Entergy’s use of legal force to prevent Vermont’s citizens from shutting down the Vermont Yankee…

New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1

About This Video Fairewinds shows that the nuclear industry’s plan to vent the containment at Fukushima Daiichi could not have prevented a containment failure and the ensuing explosions. Look at the graphics from…

Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video CCTV host Margaret Harrington interviews Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp regarding the triple meltdown in March 2011 at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. There were…

TEPCO Believes Mission Accomplished & Regulators Allow Radioactive Dumping in Tokyo Bay

About This Video Is the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that Fukushima is stable when it is not? Fairewinds’ chief engineer…

Fukushima – Could it Have a China Syndrome?

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen discusses whether the accidents at Fukushima were a meltdown, a melt-through, or a China Syndrome. Whatever the accidents are named, thousands of tons of water…

New Video of Scientist Kaltofen Presenting to American Public Health Association

About This Video A professional video of Marco Kaltofen’s presentation to the American Public Health Association was recently made available to Fairewinds. Kaltofen states that hot particles are contaminating portions of northern Japan….

Gundersen on EcoReview: Fukushima's Impact on the Oceans

About This Video Arnie Gundersen appears on EcoReview to speak about the impact that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will have on the world’s oceans.

Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen?

About This Video TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a laboratory experiment…

Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant

About This Video Fairewinds was retained by the AP1000 Oversight Group to evaluate the AP1000 design for flaws that are now evident as a result of the nuclear accidents at Fukushima. The NRC’s…

Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles

About This Video Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accidents at the annual…

Post Fukushima: All the King's Horses and All the King's Men…

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen testifies to the NRC Petition Review Board detailing why the 23 BWR Mark 1 nuclear power plants should be shut down following the accidents at…

New TEPCO Photographs Substantiate Significant Damage to Fukushima Unit 3

About This Video Analysis of new Fukushima 3 photographs released last week by TEPCO substantiate Fairewinds’ claim that explosion of Unit 3 began over the spent fuel pool. Fairewinds believes that significant damage…

Are Regulators And The Nuclear Industry Applying The Valuable Lessons Learned From Fukushima?

About This Video Fairewinds Presentation to the San Clemente City Council Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen discusses three nuclear safety problems uncovered during the Fukushima accident that nuclear regulators and the nuclear industry…

Nuclear Oversight Lacking Worldwide

About This Video Fairewinds disagrees with a recent New York Times Opinion that claims that Fukushima was caused because Japanese regulators did not properly oversee Tokyo Electric. Fairewinds shows that in the United…

Newly Released TEPCO Data Proves Fairewinds Assertions of Significant Fuel Pool Failures at Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video New TEPCO data measured on August 19 & 20 shows severe damage to the spent fuel in Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3. The adjacent TEPCO table posted on…

New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide

About This Video Correction: Salt is of Sodium Chloride, and this is a fact that Arnie learned in basic high school chemistry. In this video, Arnie discusses salt water (comprised of sodium chloride) being…

Fairewinds Introduces a Japanese Language Edition and Identifies Safety Problems in all Reactors Designed Like Fukushima

About This Video Gundersen expresses concerns that the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are not addressing major safety issues that have become evident since Fukushima. These issues include serious design flaws…

Dial "M" for Meltdown – by Brian Rich

About This Video Long time Fairewinds.com viewer and filmmaker Brian Rich has created a moving and high energy chronology of nuclear power and its impact upon the world. Video Transcript Our website has…

Fairewinds Report for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy on TVA Bellefonte Plant

About This Video Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Fairewinds Associates issued a report to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority regarding numerous concerns with the Bellefonte Unit…

Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?

About This Video TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and…

Ex Japanese Nuclear Regulator Blames Radioactive Animal Feed on "Black Rain"

About This Video While many radioactive cattle have been discovered large distances from Fukushima, what is more important is where their feed is coming from. “It’s not only about the radioactive cattle in…

Why Fukushima Can Happen Here: What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know

About This Video The well-known safety flaws of Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactors have gained significant attention in the wake of the four reactor accidents at Fukushima, but a more insidious danger lurks….

New Analysis of Unit 3 Fuel Pool Video Reveals Top of Fuel Bundle

About This Video A video first released by TEPCO in April has been re-analyzed by Ian Goddard and appears to reveal a handle found atop a single nuclear fuel bundle. This raises more…

Gundersen Discusses the Situation at the flooded Ft. Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Power Plants.

About This Video Gundersen says “sandbags and nuclear power shouldn’t be put in the same sentence, but it is a lot better than Fukushima.” Gundersen explains that Ft. Calhoun was already shut down…

Duxbury Emergency Management Hosts Independent Nuclear Expert Panel

About This Video As you know we were on a road trip three weeks ago and thus there has been some time without videos. At the same time we were away, our media…

Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed

About This Video Original estimates of xenon and krypton releases remain the same, but a TEPCO recalculation shows dramatic increases in the release of hot particles. This confirms the results of air filter…

CNN's John King interviews Arnie Gundersen about the Hot Particles discovered in Japan and the US.

About This Video CNN’s John King and Arnie Gundersen discuss “hot particles” detected in Seattle and Japan, the cozy relationship between Japanese regulator NISA (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) and plant owner TEPCO,…

White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen emphasizes the need to enlarge evacuation zones around US nuclear plants to 50 miles. Reducing US evacuation zones to only 10 miles during a nuclear…

Gundersen Gives Testimony to NRC ACRS

About This Video The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) held a special ACRS meeting Thursday May 26, 2011 on the current status of Fukushima. Arnie Gundersen was invited…

The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors

About This Video Arnie Gundersen explains how containment vents were added to the GE Mark 1 BWR as a “band aid” 20 years after the plants built in order to prevent an explosion…

Fukushima – One Step Forward and Four Steps Back as Each Unit Challenged by New Problems

About This Video Gundersen says Fukushima’s gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated.  With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area school…

Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History

About This Video A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to “luck”. Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had…

Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter?

About This Video Fairewinds’ founder Maggie Gundersen interviews environmental scientist and professional engineer Marco Kaltofen about his ongoing analysis of radioactive fallout from Fukushima.

Gundersen Postulates Unit 3 Explosion May Have Been Prompt Criticality in Fuel Pool

About This Video When building 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded last month, those who saw the video footage were left to wonder why it was more severe than the other explosions….

Russia Today: Gundersen First to Say Fukushima Worse than Chernobyl

About This Video April 26th was the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Six weeks ago, when Gundersen first appeared on Russia Today, he said that Fukushima would be “Chernobyl on steroids”. Japanese…

Fairewinds Calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Delay Licensing Until Fukushima Lessons Are Evaluated

About This Video Gundersen implores Congress and NRC to think outside the box. Pause licensing of new nukes and 20-year-life extensions until the lessons learned from Fukushima are applied. Fairewinds Associates recommends that…

Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing, Discusses Global Radiation Exposures and Consequences with Gundersen

About This Video Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing and nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discuss the consequences of the Fukushima radioactive fallout on Japan, the USA, and the world. What are the long-term health effects?…

Gundersen Discusses Current Condition of Reactors, TEPCO Claim of "No Fission" in Fuel Pool, and Lack of Radiation Monitoring in Fish

About This Video Gundersen analyzes new pressure and temperature data from the Fukushima reactors and containments. TEPCO recently denied that the fuel pool in Unit 4 was experiencing a partial inadvertent criticality, despite…

Arnie Gundersen Speaks With Russia Today About the Increased Severity Rating at Fukushima

About This Video Gundersen discusses why it took so long to increase the accident severity level at Fukushima to a 7. He addresses the current status of the Unit 4 fuel pool. Gundersen…

Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to '7': Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data

About This Video Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discusses why TEPCO’s announcement of an increased accident severity level should not be a surprise. He also discusses similarities among the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and…

Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates How Fukushima's Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, conducts a field demonstration simulating the impact of Fukushima’s intense heat upon Zircaloy [zirconium alloy] fuel rods. Gundersen’s demonstration shows that intense heat weakens…

Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates How Fukushima's Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered

About This Video Fairewinds’ Chief Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, conducts a field demonstration simulating the impact of Fukushima’s intense heat upon Zircaloy [zirconium alloy] fuel rods. Gundersen’s demonstration shows that intense heat weakens…

Closing Ranks: The NRC, the Nuclear Industry, and TEPCO are Limiting the Flow of Information

About This Video Arnie Gundersen discusses inconsistencies between what the NRC, TEPCo, and the Nuclear Industry are saying privately and publicly. Documents from the french nuclear firm, Areva, and the NRC reveal what…

Arnie Gundersen Discusses Radioactive Water Leaking Into the Pacific Ocean with CNN's John King

About This Video Gundersen discusses the radioactive water which is sitting in trenches and leaking into the ocean. He explains how the hydrogen explosion in reactor 2 caused a breeched containment. Gundersen puts…

Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1

About This Video Recent press reports have discussed the possibility that Fukushima Unit 1 may be having a nuclear chain reaction. New data released by TEPCO indicates that even though Fukushima Unit 1…

Update on Fukushima: Discussion of High Level Radiation Releases and the Previous "Worse Case Senario" Planned for by The Industry

About This Video Gundersen describes the Fukushima plant as stable, but precarious. In this update, he discusses the high levels of radiation (2 Million disintegrations/second being found on the ground as far as…

New Images Reveal Nuclear Fuel Rack Exposed to Air

About This Video Fairewinds Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, analyzes new video from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. Gundersen determines that the fuel rack in reactor building 4 is exposed to air. Original Ustream Video:…

Update on Fukushima: Discovery of Plutonium Leakage and Highly Radioactive Water

About This Video Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Associates, discusses the recent finding of plutonium in the soil at five locations around the Daiichi power plant. He also addresses the discovery of…

Arnie Gundersen on American Morning Discussing the Failed Attempt to Cool the Spent Fuel Pool at Fukushima

About This Video Gundersen discusses the failed attempts to cool the spent fuel rod pools by dropping water from helicopters. He also talks about radiation exposure levels faced by the Fukushima workers.  

Arnie Gundersen on Damaged Nuclear Fuel in Fukushima Reactor and Potential Radiation Damage

About This Video Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Associates, explains how damaged fuel has turned to molten in the bottom of the nuclear reactor. Gundersen discusses the similarities and differences between a…

Arnie Gundersen on Rachel Maddow: Discusses the Fukushima Radiation Plume

WPTZ Burlington Reports on the Recent Media Attention Paid to Fairewinds Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen

Fukushima Update: Gundersen Discusses Various Types of Radiation Experienced at Fukushima

News on Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video Arnie Gundersen discusses the failure of the Daiichi ventilation stacks and the resulting high radiation ground level release. IAEA data shows background radiation at 1,600 times normal levels in areas…

Arnie Gundersen on EnergyNow With Former NRC Commissioner, Peter Bradford, to Discuss the Future of Nuclear Safety

Update from Fukushima Daiichi

About This Video Arnie Gundersen analyzes a satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. Gundersen notes that the service water pumps are gone and therefore the safety system would have…

Gundersen Discusses the Environment and Radiation Levels Faced By the Fukushima Rescue Workers

About This Video Gundersen expresses his belief that authorities should have acknowledged sooner the severity of the accident and revealed more information to the public. He calls the accident one hundred times worse…

Updates on Fukushima

About This Video Fairewinds Associates Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen discusses the current state of the Fukushima plant in Japan.

Gundersen on John King Discussing How Water Might Be Delivered To Cool Spent Fuel Rods

About This Video Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Associates, praises the Japanese for scrapping a plan to drop water on to the overheating fuel pools from helicopters. Gundersen explains that it’s a…

In Historic Vote, Vermont Poised to Shut Down Lone Nuclear Reactor

About This Video Arnie Gundersen interviewed by Democracy Now about the pending vote to shut down Vermont Yankee. Associated Materials In Historic Vote, Vermont Poised to Shut Down Lone Nuclear Reactor  Video Transcript…

Epidemiologist Steve Wing Discusses the Increases in Cancer Rates After Three Mile Island Accident (Part 2)

About This Video These talks were recorded live at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on March 26, 2009. Dr. Steven Wing’s talk is about the long-term health effects to human, animal, and plant life…

Epidemiologist Steve Wing Discusses the Increases in Cancer Rates After Three Mile Island Accident (Part 1)

About This Video These talks were recorded live at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on March 26, 2009. Dr. Steven Wing’s talk is about the long-term health effects to human, animal, and plant life…

Three Myths of the Three Mile Island Accident

About This Video Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen gives a talk on his calculations of the amount of radiation released during the accident at Three Mile Island. Mr. Gundersen’s calculations differ from those of…