Nuclear Radiation Alert: Could You Have A Dirty Bomb Next Door?

Nuclear Radiation Alert: Could You Have A Dirty Bomb Next Door?

Many years ago, I woke up on a Sunday morning to find three State Police Bomb Squad cars andone truck pulling a bomb disposal trailer parked on the lot next door to our home in rural Connecticut. The heavily wooded lot next door did not have a house on it…

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Regulatory Capture: Flying on the Small Modular Reactor

Regulatory Capture: Flying on the Small Modular Reactor

Yes, Fairewinds tracks nuclear safety issues, and no, Boeing will not build Small Modular Reactors that fly. However, when most of my colleagues and I look at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its supposedly thorough technical review…

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"Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games”

"Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games”

Today, Fairewinds is sharing several very personal essays and thoughts on our Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog and via Newsletter, Twitter, and Facebook. Several weeks ago, our friend and colleague, Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, published one of the best overviews any of us at Fairewinds has read about the impact of the meltdowns at the Fukushima…

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Fukushima - 9 Years Later: Deep Wisdom of the Heart

Fukushima - 9 Years Later: Deep Wisdom of the Heart

I have never experienced so many people wearing protective masks on the Shinkansen high-speed train, as I did at the end of January 2020, when I traveled from northern Japan to the airport in Tokyo. The news of the coronavirus outbreak was just starting to dominate the media…

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Living in the Time of Pandemic 2020...

Living in the Time of Pandemic 2020...

As Fairewinds Crew Member Patrick Moore wrote in an earlier blog in Fairewinds May 8 Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog post entitled Climate Crises in the Midst of a Pandemic, all of us with Fairewinds are facing a myriad of events on a daily basis. Like Patrick’s personal essay, this post Living in the Time of Pandemic 2020 is also my personal essay and therefore my own personal opinion.

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