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In this prescient interview with Nuclear Hotseat host, Libbe HaLevy, Arnie goes over the problems at the Vogtle nuclear reactor construction in Georgia, where the weight of the unit is already causing it to sink into Georgia’s red clay. Arnie analyzed the data that became the basis for the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)’s petition…
Read MoreIn this Monday's video, Fairewinds investigates a recently released report from Tokyo Electric. Arnie Gundersen discusses TEPCO's latest analysis that, almost two years after the accident, fully substantiates Fairewinds long held position that the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 was the result of a detonation shock wave. Arnie also discusses troubling reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been avoiding the analysis of damage to many nuclear plants' emergency cooling systems (Ultimate Heat Sink) from storm surges, tsunamis or dam failures. The ramifications of both of these issues on old designs and also the AP1000 are also analyzed in depth.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen appears on Democracy Now to speak about the ongoing effects of radiation on the Japanese people and his recent contribution to the Greenpeace report Lessons From Fukushima.
Read MoreFairewinds was retained by the AP1000 Oversight Group to evaluate the AP1000 design for flaws that are now evident as a result of the nuclear accidents at Fukushima. The NRC’s refusal to thoroughly examine these flaws is reminiscent of the Atomic Energy Commission’s refusal in 1972 to thoroughly examine the innate flaws in the GE Mark 1 containment systems that failed at Fukushima. The AP1000 Oversight Group is demanding that these design flaws be remedied prior to design certification, lest history repeat itself.
Read MoreThis report combines the oral testimony of Arnie Gundersen to the NRC ACRS with previous Fairewinds reports on AP 1000 containment, adds new evidence and consequences of that evidence, addresses erroneous information provided to ACRS by the NRC staff in October 2010, and addresses additional misconceptions.
Read MoreDirect Testimony on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy on the Proposed Levy County and Turkey Point AP1000 Construction Projects, July 7, 2010, Arnold Gundersen
Read MoreBoth Westinghouse and the NRC assume that ASME XI inspections and protective coatings applied to the outside of the AP1000 containment will reduce the risk of a pinhole leak to ZERO.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen calls on the NRC and its Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) to review the AP1000 containment design.
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