Moving Energy Education Forward
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 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 MoreBRATTLEBORO -- 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 California.
Read MoreOn today’s podcast, Nat and Arnie speak with Lou Zeller, the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL).
Read MoreDe-Briefing – Shutdown Lessons From San Onofre – The Significance Should Not Be MisunderestimatedIn this edition we bring you video reports relating to San Onofre’s closing, a brief commentary on what’s to be learned from that California campaign, and an update on the status of our forthcoming documentary, SHUTDOWN: The Case of San Onofre.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreAfter two weeks of traveling, Arnie is back in town to recount his adventures on this week's podcast.
Read MoreOAK 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 proposed steam-generator replacement at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo, an anti-nuclear activist coalition contends. Southern California Edison said Friday it will abandon plans to restart its twin reactors at San Onofre after investigation of a small radioactive-steam leak 17 months ago revealed extensive damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water in the plant’s virtually new steam generators.
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