Fairewinds Comments on the EPA’s Proposed Changes to the Protective Action Guidelines (PAG)

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Fairewinds Comments on the EPA’s Proposed Changes to the Protective Action Guidelines (PAG)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed new radiation limits for the public that are at least twenty-five times higher than current exposure limits. These new guidelines would substantially increase the amount of radiation people can ingest the days and years following an atomic disaster. The EPA’s announcement was open for public comment until July 25. This is Fairewinds' brief report on the issue submitted to the EPA.

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Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide Part 2

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Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide Part 2

Join CCTV host Margaret Harrington, and from Fairewinds Energy Education: President Maggie Gundersen, Program Administrator Caroline Phillips, and Board Director Chiho Kaneko, for Part 2 of their discussion on the health risks to children around the world from operating atomic power reactors and their burgeoning waste.

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nuclear-news: When France uses Charles Aznavour to trivialize Fukushima

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nuclear-news: When France uses Charles Aznavour to trivialize Fukushima

Last week, the Embassy of France in Tokyo, Japan organized a “friendship dinner” to promote agricultural products from Fukushima. In this great communication exercise, the main purpose was to “serve the interests of France in Japan”, that is by defending the nuclear industry.

” The oceans are garbage dumps, the seabeds are soiled, smultiple Chernobyls are seeing fetuses stillborn”, sang in 2009 Charles Aznavour in “The Earth dies”.

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FAS: Navy Builds Underground Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility; Seattle Busses Carry Warning

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FAS: Navy Builds Underground Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility; Seattle Busses Carry Warning

The US Navy has quietly built a new $294 million underground nuclear weapons storage complex at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC), a high-security base in Washington that stores and maintains the Trident II ballistic missiles and their nuclear warheads for the strategic submarine fleet operating in the Pacific Ocean. 

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Expect the Unexpected: Arnie Gundersen speaks at California Polytechnic State University

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Expect the Unexpected: Arnie Gundersen speaks at California Polytechnic State University

Audience members employed by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E, utility owner of Diablo Canyon) attempt to denounce the inconvenient truths of Arnie’s speech at California Polytechnic State University during the presentation’s follow-up Q&A. The PG&E trolls’ irrelevant and rude query comes back to haunt them as audience members come to the defense of Fairewinds’ truth-speak. 

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The New York Times: Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident

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It was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward a farming village called Palomares, a patchwork of small fields and tile-roofed white houses in an out-of-the-way corner of Spain’s rugged southern coast that had changed little since Roman times.

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