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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 disaster is underfunded and lacks transparency, causing the public to remain in the dark.
Read MoreDrug 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 southeastern states, a new study has found.
Read MoreLibbe 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 disaster site.
Read MoreArnie joined hosts Jeff and Doug for Renewable Energy Hour to discuss the state of Fukushima.
Read MoreOn 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 damage from the earthquake and tsunami. Now, more than 300 tons of radioactive water has leaked from the plant into the ground and ocean. So what do we need to know? Could the entire Pacific Ocean be at risk? And what can we be doing to prevent this? Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Read MoreBy 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 back due to radiation concerns. In early August, Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s federal customer rights protection agency told Russian media outlets that some 112 contaminated batch lots of goods from Japan had been barred from entering the country after failing radiation tests.
Read MoreBy 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 and decommission its Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, Vermont. The station is expected to cease power production after its current fuel cycle and move to safe shutdown in the fourth quarter of 2014."
Read MoreBy 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 constructed on the banks of the Connecticut River in 1972, anti-nuclear activists demonstrated against Vermont Yankee with a fervor that bordered on religious conviction.
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