Secret Plutonium Shipment to Nevada: Nuclear Safety?
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Lately, Americans are experiencing an unprecedented volume of top-down lies emanating from the White House and its circle of acolytes like Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
Read MoreMaggie Gundersen, Editor
Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Prove Why Nuclear Power Will Never Be Inherently Safe
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Recently, after Forbes Magazine published an opinion piece entitled, It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe, a number of Forbes’ readers called and continue to write Fairewinds Energy Education to ask us if this opinion piece is true. Quite frankly, the article is an infomercial for the nuclear industry: it twists data in order to paint a rosy picture of nuclear energy.
Read MoreAtomic Balm Part 2: The Run For Your Life Tokyo Olympics
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To begin Part 2, let’s talk about the scientific studies that Dr. Marco Kaltofen and I began together back in 2012. Before the ongoing catastrophe created by the Fukushima meltdowns, the maximum allowable radiation exposure to civilians worldwide emanating from commercial atomic power reactors was 100 millirem per year (1 milli Sievert per year).
Read MoreAtomic Balm Part 1: Prime Minister Abe Uses The Tokyo Olympics As Snake Oil Cure For The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdowns
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As we prepare for the eighth remembrance of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, Fairewinds is ever mindful of what is currently happening in Japan.
Read MorePG&E: Diablo Canyon Defers Millions Of Dollars Of Maintenance - Nuclear: California
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In 2016 Fairewinds identified numerous examples of dangerously deferred maintenance for critical mechanical portions of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Now that PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection on January 29th, 2019, it is likely that new cash constraints will further delay critical plant repairs.
Read MoreThe Times They Are A-Changin! - Green New Deal #GND
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For several decades, electric energy visionaries like Amory Lovins foresaw a future that was powered by energy from the sun and wind. The electric power industry claimed that electric generation corporations needed what the industry calls ‘baseload’ power from CONG (coal, oil, nuclear, and gas) for the times when the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow. It turned out that the visionaries like Amory were correct!
Read MoreClosing 2018 and Moving To 2019
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Tomorrow begins the new year of 2019. I want to thank each one of you who writes and calls Fairewinds Energy Education with technical questions and/or encouragement for the work we do. Thank you to each one of you who donates to help us continue Fairewinds scientific research and is participating or has participated in one of Fairewinds citizen science programs. We so appreciate your work with us and your donations to us
Read MoreClimate Change Is Real: Nuclear Is Not The Answer!
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This summer Arnie and I moved to the South Carolina “LOW COUNTRY” where our house is twelve feet above sea level. According to scientists, in 100 years our house will be permanently flooded from rising sea levels due to climate change. Yet according to some politicians, South Carolinian and those on the national stage, there is no climate change here in South Carolina or anywhere in the world.
Read MoreA Heartfelt Thanks & Update
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As we all enjoy this holiday season and look toward the upcoming new year, let us give thanks for our families, friends, communities, and the human rights we are currently free to enjoy in the U.S.
Read MoreCatch-22 in the Hot Zone
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Eager to get shy of the exhausted milk cow, Vermont Yankee, Entergy is once again indulging in whimsy so as not to further complicate a potential deal with NorthStar.
Read MoreThe Nuclear Gamble
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During the past few weeks the U.S. government and the nuclear industry failed multiple times to keep workers and residents safe from the toxic radioactive waste that nuclear power produces. We witnessed the collapse of a storage tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation where highly contaminated radioactive material was being stored.
Read MoreMagical Thinking
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The oxymoronic term “alternative facts” has recently taken root in American political conversation, but the alleged magical thinking by the nuclear power industry is nothing new to informed energy sector critics.
Read MoreThe Bellefonte Boondoggle
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If this story was about a Hollywood science fiction blockbuster called “Bellefonte” costing billions of dollars to produce, critics would give it a “two thumbs down” rating. Unfortunately, it is not science fiction but is the truth, and it is happening right now in Hollywood, Alabama.
Read MoreHindsight 20-20: Why I Was Wrong About Three Mile Island
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When the meltdown occurred at Three Mile Island (TMI) March 28, 1979, I believed the lies, which were disseminated by the utility owner. I even went on television and radio and repeated that party line. Years later, during the early 1990s, I found out how wrong I really was.
Read MoreThe Industry Thinks You Can't Handle the Truth
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When a poor safety culture [to use nukespeak nomenclature] impacts nuclear power plant operations, what does that mean for plant employees, nearby communities, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)?
Read MoreLearning From Our Mistakes: It Could Have Been Worse
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March 11, 2017 marks 6 years since triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants and near meltdown at numerous atomic power reactors across Japan. Even today we are still realizing the widespread impacts these meltdowns have caused for the citizens of Japan and their ongoing impact around the earth.
Read MoreDemystifying Nuclear Power; The CO2 Smokescreen Backstory
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Demystifying Nuclear Power is what the Fairewinds Crew focuses on every day. Whether we are working on analyzing scientific data, collaborating with colleagues, researching critical energy and technical issues, lecturing to organizations, or writing the articles you read – our mission is to educate the people around the world about nuclear power and other energy issues.
Read MoreNuclear Power’s Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Smokescreen
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Does the nuclear industry’s latest claim that it is the world’s salvation from increasing levels of CO2 hold up under scrutiny? No! The evidence clearly shows that building new nukes will make global warming worse.
Read MoreDemystifying Nuclear Power: Air Quotes
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The NEI like many organs of the atomic power industry makes a lot of statements that beg for air quotes, so we thought it might be instructive to do a regular ‘Air Quotes’ feature on the Fairewinds website: sort of a cross between an instructional public service and a head-slap-in-disbelief moment of humor.
Read MoreDemystifying Nuclear Power: Ethics & Inquiry: Selective Truth Telling by the Energy Sector
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Even as I write this, there is an effort underway in the nuclear power industry to revise the radiation story in order to allow for greater public exposure.
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