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.
Did 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 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 More“Hurricane Season Is Here: Are You Prepared?”
That’s the title of a flyer we received at the Fairewinds office in Charleston, South Carolina. It was from a local emergency preparedness organization. Yes, hurricane season is upon us…
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