Fairewinds Energy Education Comments on "Consent Based Nuclear Siting"

Fairewinds Energy Education Comments on "Consent Based Nuclear Siting"

Fairewinds submitted its comment to the United States Department of Energy regarding its "Consent based siting" process. “Consent based siting” is the process proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) to locate radioactive waste dump sites around the US.  Fairewinds Energy Education believes that such a process is biased against communities struggling financially due to factory closings and the global economy. 

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Fairewinds Comments on the EPA’s Proposed Changes to the Protective Action Guidelines (PAG)

Fairewinds Comments on the EPA’s Proposed Changes to the Protective Action Guidelines (PAG)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed new radiation limits for the public that are at least twenty-five times higher than current exposure limits. These new guidelines would substantially increase the amount of radiation people can ingest the days and years following an atomic disaster. The EPA’s announcement was open for public comment until July 25. This is Fairewinds' brief report on the issue submitted to the EPA.

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Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide Part 2

Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide Part 2

Join CCTV host Margaret Harrington, and from Fairewinds Energy Education: President Maggie Gundersen, Program Administrator Caroline Phillips, and Board Director Chiho Kaneko, for Part 2 of their discussion on the health risks to children around the world from operating atomic power reactors and their burgeoning waste.

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nuclear-news: When France uses Charles Aznavour to trivialize Fukushima

nuclear-news: When France uses Charles Aznavour to trivialize Fukushima

Last week, the Embassy of France in Tokyo, Japan organized a “friendship dinner” to promote agricultural products from Fukushima. In this great communication exercise, the main purpose was to “serve the interests of France in Japan”, that is by defending the nuclear industry.

” The oceans are garbage dumps, the seabeds are soiled, smultiple Chernobyls are seeing fetuses stillborn”, sang in 2009 Charles Aznavour in “The Earth dies”.

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FAS: Navy Builds Underground Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility; Seattle Busses Carry Warning

FAS: Navy Builds Underground Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility; Seattle Busses Carry Warning

The US Navy has quietly built a new $294 million underground nuclear weapons storage complex at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC), a high-security base in Washington that stores and maintains the Trident II ballistic missiles and their nuclear warheads for the strategic submarine fleet operating in the Pacific Ocean. 

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Expect the Unexpected: Arnie Gundersen speaks at California Polytechnic State University

Expect the Unexpected: Arnie Gundersen speaks at California Polytechnic State University

Audience members employed by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E, utility owner of Diablo Canyon) attempt to denounce the inconvenient truths of Arnie’s speech at California Polytechnic State University during the presentation’s follow-up Q&A. The PG&E trolls’ irrelevant and rude query comes back to haunt them as audience members come to the defense of Fairewinds’ truth-speak. 

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