Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 42: Never Forget

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown at 42: Never Forget

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…

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TMI (Three Mile Island) Archival Records Unearthed

TMI (Three Mile Island) Archival Records Unearthed

In this third installment we’ll share some newly discovered archival material about the 1979 meltdown at TMI. You may remember Fairewinds asserted that the meltdown at TMI was much worse than the NRC insistently portrays. These archival documents substantiate what we have always said…

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Japan Hasn’t Recovered 10 Years After Fukushima Meltdowns

Japan Hasn’t Recovered 10 Years After Fukushima Meltdowns

Did you know that there have been five nuclear meltdowns during the last 42 years, and all of them have happened during springtime? Fukushima Dai-ichi on March 11th (2011), Three Mile Island on March 28th (1979), and Chernobyl on April 28th (1986). Welcome to Fairewinds Nuclear Spring Series

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Three Mile Island (TMI): Nuclear Spring: A Legacy of Lies 

Three Mile Island (TMI): Nuclear Spring: A Legacy of Lies 

Arnie spent one week at the end of March in the Harrisburg Pennsylvania area for a series of events remembering the 40-years since the meltdown at TMI. Arnie was invited to present the keynote at Penn State’s 40th commemoration of the TMI disaster and was filmed by C-Span…

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Three Mile Island Opera

Three Mile Island Opera

I was startled in October 2011, when I received a phone call and email from Karl Hoffmann, a German Public Radio and Television (ARD) correspondent and freelance journalist, requesting an opportunity to interview and film Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen for an opera about the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island (TMI).

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