West Coast Radiation Exposure: What are the risks?

West Coast Radiation Exposure:  What are the risks?

Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen discusses the risk to the US West Coast population from the ongoing releases from Fukushima Daiichi. Should we be worried about walking by or swimming in the Pacific? How safe are California’s beaches? What about eating Pacific seafood? These are the links mentioned in the film:

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is not going to explode

Beginning on Monday December 30, 2013, the Internet has been flooded with conjecture claiming that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is ready to explode. Fairewinds Energy Education has been inundated with questions about the very visible steam emanating from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3. Our research, and discussions with other scientists, confirms that what we are seeing is a phenomenon that has been occurring at the Daiichi site since the March 2011 accident.

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Fukushima Daiichi: Why It's So Hard To Clean Up

Fukushima Daiichi: Why It's So Hard To Clean Up

In this, the fourth installment in our short film series, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen responds to questions we have received about cleanup at Fukushima Daiichi. Please consider supporting our work, so we can continue to bring you the truth about nuclear power.

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What the Japanese Government Isn't Saying About Fukushima

What the Japanese Government Isn't Saying About Fukushima

In this, the third installment in our short film series, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen discusses sources of radiation the Japanese government is not taking into consideration when assessing the risk to it's people and the rest of the world.

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Arnie Comments on the Fukushima FOIA Documents

Arnie Comments on the Fukushima FOIA Documents

At Fairewinds we get numerous questions about Fukushima Daiichi and nuclear power in general. This is the first in a a series of short videos designed to answer the questions that come in from you, our supporters. From recently released FOIA (freedom of information act) documents about the condition of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 it's clear from the documents that the NRC believed a massive problem was occurring and they made choices that compromised the safety of Japan's citizens.

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Remove TEPCO Before Removing Fuel

Remove TEPCO Before Removing Fuel

Fairewinds has fielded a number of questions regarding the removal of the fuel rods from the spent fuel pool in Unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi. Today's video shows Arnie debunking TEPCO's animated film point by point, and highlights the issues TEPCO will have removing the fuel rods. TEPCO needs to be removed as the organization overseeing the cleanup of the site prior to the removal of the fuel rods.

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Tour of Fukushima Daiichi

Tour of Fukushima Daiichi

Each week Fairewinds receives many questions about the ongoing tragedy unfolding in Japan as a result of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  Join us as Fairewinds' Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen highlights the many problems facing Japan as he takes you on a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi site by combining satellite video, animated graphics and photos to create a comprehensive and easy to follow video tour.

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Nuclear Engineer: Japan's PM "Lying to the Japanese People" About Safety of Fukushima

Nuclear Engineer: Japan's PM "Lying to the Japanese People" About Safety of Fukushima

Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen is interviewed by The Real News Network.  Arnie says that Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims Fukushima is safe but the nuclear disaster is underfunded and lacks transparency, causing the public to remain in the dark. 

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