Human Perspective: The Power of Art & the Nuclear-Free World
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Special Event: We share with you an exciting opportunity to join the conversation exploring how visual and performing artists advocate for a nuclear-free world…
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Special Event: Uranium & The Waste It Leaves Behind!
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We share with you a symposium that will tell the womb to tomb story of Uranium. The presenters will discuss the roles and responsibilities of both Art And Science to analyze and reflect upon human use of the atom to generate electricity and create weapons…
Read MoreNuclear 101: Back to Basics with BREDL
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We are proud to rebroadcast this Jenn Galler and BREDL production explaining the inherent dangers of atomic power and nuclear weapons wherever they may be around the country and worldwide. Listen to it here!
Read MoreMust-See Woolsey Fire & SSFL Documentary: ‘In the Dark of the Valley’
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On Nov. 14th, in a brilliantly produced and acclaimed documentary entitled In the Dark of the Valley, MSNBC will widely share the stories of local community members, activists, and parents closest to the Santa Susana Field lab site…
Read MoreSanta Susana Field Lab Meltdown & Woolsey Fire: Take These Beautiful Words...
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In Take these Beautiful Words, Carmi Orenstein clearly unveils the history and ongoing Federal and State Government coverups of SSFL radiation leaks that have persisted for more than 60 years. We are grateful for her assertions…
Read MoreWoolsey Fire Data—Our Environmental Justice Research
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We know how to help. We know how to set up a similar program to bring environmental oversight and analyses to needy communities. Now, as we approach the end of 2021, we reach out to each of you for support for Fairewinds Environmental Science Research…
Read MoreNuclear Alert: Post-Hurricane Ida Status at Entergy’s Waterford Nuke
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When Hurricane Ida approached NOLA on Aug. 29th, Entergy’s Waterford Plant deliberately reduced its power level to zero.. However, even when a nuclear reactor produces zero power, it still relies upon electricity from the power grid…
Read MoreNuclear Alert: Japanese Victims of Radioactive Black Rain Finally Vindicated
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A Japanese court has finally vindicated dozens of Japanese citizens suffering from radiation-related illnesses, who the Japanese government alleged lived too far from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to have been considered Hibakusha [victims of the two atomic bombs]…
Read MoreClimate Crisis + Regulatory Collusion = Nuclear Disasters
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The French and Chinese nuclear reactor Taishan Unit 1 is leaking radioactivity! Taishan Units 1 and 2 are also the first of their kind in China. Designed by Framatome Corporation in France, and now according to CNN, the reactors have created “an imminent radiological threat”…
Read MoreAtomic Lies & Nuclear Falsehoods
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“We must not stop dismantling the atomic lies…” Watch as speakers from around the world present at the 2021 Nuclear Energy Conference entitled How to Dismantle an Atomic Lie – taking apart the nuclear falsehoods…
Read MoreLiving with Chernobyl
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Just last week a new Chernobyl catastrophe reared its ugly head. As the neutron population in the melted atomic core increases, it indicates that a self-sustaining chain reaction may develop and might allow a whole new raft of radiation to foul the air…
Read MoreChernobyl—35 Years Later
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Today is the 10th installment of our Nuclear Spring Series, and thirty-five years ago, the Chernobyl disaster began on April 26, 1986. We hope you will join us this week in reflecting and revisiting the Chernobyl meltdown and remember the heroes who died so bravely fighting such a fierce fire…
Read MoreNuclear Alert: Iran & Israel Playing High-Stakes Poker with Nuclear Power & Nuclear Weapons
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By now, Fairewinds hopes that you are aware that an explosion at an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant has slowed Iran’s progress to enrich uranium. The crisis shows a very blurry line between Civilian Atomic Power and Military Atomic Bombs…
Read MoreCCTV Interview—Fukushima Dai-ichi Meltdowns at 10
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For our sixth Nuclear Spring Series installment, we bring you the latest CCTV Nuclear Free Future interview. Margaret Harrington invited Fairewinds board member and fellow Vermonter Chiho Kaneko, Arnie, and Maggie to discuss the ongoing fallout and unending crisis fostered by the March 11, 2011, Fukushima meltdowns…
Read MoreThree Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 42: Never Forget
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In this fourth installment, the Fairewinds Crew listened in rapt attention to Nuclear Hot Seat founder Libbe HaLevy’s personal story woven into the many harrowing stories of community members who lived in the Three Mile Island area when the meltdown occurred…
Read MoreFukushima’s First Decade In A 100-Year Long Catastrophe
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On this 10th commemoration of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan, our thoughts and hearts continue to be with those impacted by both the ongoing radioactive contamination throughout Japan as well as those permanently displaced since March 11, 2011…
Read MoreJapan’s Fukushima Meltdowns (New Video): Much Still Unknown 10 Years Later
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As we approach the 10th commemoration of Japan’s March 11, 2011, Fukushima Dai-ichi triple meltdowns, organizations around the globe, including environmental groups, nonprofits (like us), engineering and pronuclear organizations, and media organizations like Japan’s Nippon TV, will release new information.
Read MoreNuclear Safety: Unusual Event at Grand Gulf & What It Means
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We recently received an excellent question from a Fairewinds reader who asked about an “unusual event” at Mississippi's Grand Gulf nuclear power plant. Thanks to the member of the Fairewinds community whose question prompted us to write this Blog Post…
Read MoreThe Grinch Who Stole South Carolina’s Christmas
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Much like the Friday afternoon news-dump, almost no one watches, reads, or pays attention to the news during the holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s week are a time of family get-togethers, vacations, and travel…
Read MoreNuclear Bribery in Ohio: Let's Put It in Perspective
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According to the FBI's criminal investigation, First Energy (aka Energy Harbor since it came out of bankruptcy) is a regulated public utility that illegally used $61 Million in corporate funds to bribe energy regulators and state legislators in Ohio…
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