Moving Energy Education Forward
It will be five years in March since the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi began and the Japanese public and people around the world continue to search for the truth about nuclear risk and honest answers to their energy future. Fukushima@5 exposes the truth of the ongoing atomic devastation caused by the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi.
Read MoreFairewinds’ 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 discuss the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe, the ongoing problems at the Fukushima Daiichi site, and the non-nuclear options for Japan's energy future.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke to independent journalists in Niigata, Japan on September 1, 2012. He spoke about his experience in aftermath of Three Mile Island, when the US government hid facts about the accident. He is trying to bring the truth out about Fukushima.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke at the Olympic Center in Tokyo on September 5, 2012. The focus of his talk was Japan's opportunity to change the way it generated power for the last fifty years. Brief video in Japanese with translation beginning at 2:14; there is a translation of his full presentation at the end of this post.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke to the Free Press Association of Japan September 7, 2012. TEPCO does not have the management skill to decontaminate and decommission Fukushima Daiichi in any reasonable time. The problems have not been faced by any company before, and TEPCO is locked into a paradigm to consider the creative solutions that must be developed. While the workers need to remain, the site needs to be completely separated from TEPCO. He proposes that a project management firm take over responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi site which reports to the Japanese government, with oversight by a group of international experts (although not not IAEA). Japan must phase out nuclear power, which it can do without raising the cost of electricity. English only version.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen made a presentation to Diet members August 31, 2012. The Diet is Japan's legislative body, with 480 members elected to the House of Representatives and 242 elected to the House of Councillors. He opens by explaining why he is dedicating the rest of his life to making sure that the consequences of this accident were chronicled properly, compared to what the US did after Three Mile Island.
Read MoreWhile 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 found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.
Read MoreArnie's presentation to The Japanese Bar Association discussing Nuclear Law in The United States.
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