Demystifying nuclear power is taking a critical look at nuclear power generation, a manipulative industry with seedy ties to government entities such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan. By uncovering nuclear industry lies, demystifying nuclear power reveals the danger of nuclear waste and radiation from atomic energy to people’s health and the environment worldwide. Growing solar and renewable energy technology is a cost effective, carbon-free solution for our energy future that provides safer and cleaner power production than nuclear energy.
This week, Fairewinds Energy Education founder, Maggie Gundersen, joined Robert Manning, founder and organizer of VoteClimate2020.org, on Nuclear Hotseat with host, Libbe HaLevy…
Read MoreDid you know that nuclear plants close for scheduled refueling every 18-months, meaning that 1/3 of the operating reactors are off-line each spring and fall? For the record, more than three dozen reactors had planned to do so in 2020…
Read MoreMore than 95% of the scientific community, as well as local community groups around the world, agree that the global climate crisis is real and imminent.
Read MoreFrom the beginning, their design and fabrication were one fiasco after another that led to almost 20-years of construction delays, during which portions of one Diablo Canyon reactor were built backward…
Read MoreToday, Fairewinds is talking about history –– world history and herstory about the choices governments make when waging war and not planning for peace. On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States was the only nation in the world to unleash the horror of the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki just three days later…
Read MoreToday, 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…
Read MoreHistory: As the clouds of war grew darker in 1939, the US government undertook the highly secretive task of developing the first atomic bomb in the belief that Germany was working towards the same goal. In what would later be known as the Manhattan Project, because the Army Corp of Engineers began the project in Manhattan, NY, government laboratories would span America from Washington state all the way to rural Tennessee…
Read MoreFact: nuclear power is too expensive and simply cannot compete against renewables. The Nuclear Industry’s solution? Cut corners to skimp on costs! And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is actively supporting this rushed attempt to pinch pennies…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreFairewinds would like to thank all of our followers and colleagues who have followed our updates on the situation surrounding the construction of Plant Vogtle in Georgia. We remain committed to keeping you updated and informed as the process continues. You can read what we have previously written and shared here and here. Also, you can read the BREDL legal briefs and press releases here and here. Stay tuned!
Read MoreWhere will you be at 7:45 pm EST tonight Monday, June 8 2020?
We hope you will be settling in on Zoom for the Introduction to the Ploughshares Fund annual gala – Chain Reaction: Securing Our Future, at 5 pm Pacific & 8 pm EST.
Read MoreWith thousands of excess nuclear weapons worldwide, it’s shocking to think that we need to build new ones. While Fairewinds Energy Education predominately works in the area of atomic energy, we look at the whole ‘fuel chain’ which includes waste management and uranium mining as well as every phase in between…
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreIf you haven’t already realized, we at Fairewinds have been rather quiet and disconnected for the last few weeks. Many of you, our viewers and followers, have written about what you are facing in your lives, and a lot has been happening in our lives, too. We are taking this opportunity to do something slightly different
Read MoreRefueling a nuclear power plant should not be like refueling a NASCAR racer! According to NASCAR, a pit crew can change four tires and fill a gas tank in 12 seconds. Moreover, under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, atomic power plant owners are pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to waive safety inspections so this spring’s planned nuclear refueling outages…
Read MoreAs the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps its way around the globe, the US nuclear industry is placed in a unique position of maintaining equipment and safety at its 98 operating nuclear reactors. What about those operating elsewhere? Join Nuclear Hotseat host, Libbe HaLevy, and Fairewinds' Arnie and Maggie Gundersen as they discuss just what this means for all of us!
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The six atomic power reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site were severely damaged 9-years ago when a Richter 9 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 2 p.m. on March 11, 2011 ravaging the nuclear reactors, flooding safety systems, and causing three atomic power meltdowns…
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