Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen on Caravan to Midnight, December 20, 2015

Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen on Caravan to Midnight, December 20, 2015

Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen returns to the John B. Wells Program, Caravan to Midnight, to discuss the status of United States domestic atomic facilities, the latest news from the ongoing nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, including the effects of saltwater on atomic reactors, and more.

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Pressenza: The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terrorism

Pressenza: The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terrorism

The dropping of two atomic bombs that detonated over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August 1945 caused the immediate deaths of 200,000 people besides those injured, the destroyed families, the ecological disaster and the humiliation of an entire people.

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TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

TEPCO Puts Salt in the Wound of Fukushima

Listen as Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen explains why TEPCO’s workers injected saltwater into Fukushima’s failing reactors, what happens when salt water meets steel, and what forces come into play after saltwater is used to cool down an atomic reactor in this Fairewinds Audio Update.

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Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is power. The Fairewinds Crew is committed to providing you with the most up to date, undistorted news about risks at atomic power plants.  Fairewinds is working with an amazing group of interns from the University of Vermont involved in a capstone project focused on energy and sustainability research and looks forward to incorporating more interns into new projects this Spring. 

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Ashai Shimbun: City to investigate NRA's conclusion that radioactive rice unrelated to Fukushima plant work

Ashai Shimbun: City to investigate NRA's conclusion that radioactive rice unrelated to Fukushima plant work

MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Addressing cover-up suspicions, the city assembly here will investigate how the Nuclear Regulation Authority concluded that work at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was not the cause of radioactive contamination of rice paddies.

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Nuclear Industry's Secret Santa

Nuclear Industry's Secret Santa

Thursday, November 6, was a day for much rejoicing in the U.S. environmental community...Many members of that environmental community would have withheld celebration had they known that on that very same day, under cover of the Keystone XL announcement, the Obama administration held a “White House Summit on Nuclear Energy,” apparently organized and attended only by industry insiders.

 

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California Tour 2015

California Tour 2015

Fairewinds President and Founder Maggie Gundersen and her husband Arnie, Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Energy Education, are in California and will be presenting to groups at college and venues up and down the coast! Don't miss it! Check out dates and locations here! 

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