Moving Energy Education Forward
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 feature scientists and other nuclear experts, today you will be hearing from ordinary citizens who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Read MoreThis week's podcast features an interview with Magdalena Vergeiner, daughter of theoretical meteorologist Dr. Ignaz Vergeiner. Magdalena currently works with the Austrian group AFAZ to translate Fairewinds website. Dr. Vergeiner was instrumental in demonstrating the extent of radiation spread from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania.
Read MoreThis 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 this podcast, it is not a matter of whether the people operating nuclear plants are good or bad. It is about a dangerous energy source that no amount of good intentions can make completely safe. It is about the forty good years that can end with one bad day.
Read MoreOur crew 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 simple it was to use the Fairewinds' Timeline Maker to illustrate the technical issues and flawed corporate decision-making that ultimately forced the shutdown of San Onofre. The Timeline Maker can be used at any nuclear plant throughout the nation, and can be customized by individuals and groups to prevent Forty Good Years from becoming One Bad Day.
Read MoreIn this video, Arnie Gundersen talks with international diplomat Akio Matsumura, the former special advisor to the United Nations Development program about the continuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site, and come to the conclusion that Tokyo Electric must be removed from the clean-up process.
Read MoreThis 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 sample that contained highly concentrated radioactive material from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. As the sound quality of this recording varies, we have transcribed the podcast so you can read along.
Read MoreOn this week's podcast we interviewed Terry Lodge, a trial lawyer with significant experience working on nuclear issues. We have worked with Terry on cases involving San Onofre, Fermi, and Davis Besse, and today he joins us to discuss the challenge of participating meaningfully with the NRC. Is the NRC doing their job to protect citizens, or have they designed a byzantine system to thwart the public and protect the industry?
Read MoreOn today’s podcast, Nat and Arnie speak with Lou Zeller, the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL).
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