Nuclear Alert: Japanese Victims of Radioactive Black Rain Finally Vindicated

Nuclear Alert: Japanese Victims of Radioactive Black Rain Finally Vindicated

A Japanese court has finally vindicated dozens of Japanese citizens suffering from radiation-related illnesses, who the Japanese government alleged lived too far from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to have been considered Hibakusha [victims of the two atomic bombs]…

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Hiroshima & Nagasaki - 75 Years After the Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima & Nagasaki - 75 Years After the Atomic Bomb

Today, Fairewinds is talking about history –– world history and herstory about the choices governments make when waging war and not planning for peace. On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States was the only nation in the world to unleash the horror of the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki just three days later…

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"Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games”

"Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games”

Today, Fairewinds is sharing several very personal essays and thoughts on our Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog and via Newsletter, Twitter, and Facebook. Several weeks ago, our friend and colleague, Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, published one of the best overviews any of us at Fairewinds has read about the impact of the meltdowns at the Fukushima…

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Nuclear Legacy: Trinity – 75 Years Later

Nuclear Legacy: Trinity – 75 Years Later

History: ­As the clouds of war grew darker in 1939, the US government undertook the highly secretive task of developing the first atomic bomb in the belief that Germany was working towards the same goal. In what would later be known as the Manhattan Project, because the Army Corp of Engineers began the project in Manhattan, NY, government laboratories would span America from Washington state all the way to rural Tennessee…

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Demystifying Nuclear Power: Nuclear IS Atomic

Demystifying Nuclear Power: Nuclear IS Atomic

Fairewinds Energy Education Board Member Chiho Kaneko is this week’s special guest blogger. Chiho worked as a volunteer interpreter at the United Nations in April 2015 on behalf of the Nihon Hidankyo (The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations). Stunned by the personal stories of A-bomb survivors' acting as delegates to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference, Chiho shares their accounts of "The Day" and what followed during the ensuing days, weeks, months, and years.

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