Demystifying nuclear power is taking a critical look at nuclear power generation, a manipulative industry with seedy ties to government entities such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan. By uncovering nuclear industry lies, demystifying nuclear power reveals the danger of nuclear waste and radiation from atomic energy to people’s health and the environment worldwide. Growing solar and renewable energy technology is a cost effective, carbon-free solution for our energy future that provides safer and cleaner power production than nuclear energy.
We know how to help. We know how to set up a similar program to bring environmental oversight and analyses to needy communities. Now, as we approach the end of 2021, we reach out to each of you for support for Fairewinds Environmental Science Research…
Read MoreWe recently received an excellent question from a Fairewinds reader who asked about an “unusual event” at Mississippi's Grand Gulf nuclear power plant. Thanks to the member of the Fairewinds community whose question prompted us to write this Blog Post…
Read MoreDid you know that nuclear plants close for scheduled refueling every 18-months, meaning that 1/3 of the operating reactors are off-line each spring and fall? For the record, more than three dozen reactors had planned to do so in 2020…
Read MoreToday, 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…
Read MoreI have never experienced so many people wearing protective masks on the Shinkansen high-speed train, as I did at the end of January 2020, when I traveled from northern Japan to the airport in Tokyo. The news of the coronavirus outbreak was just starting to dominate the media…
Read MoreAs Fairewinds Crew Member Patrick Moore wrote in an earlier blog in Fairewinds May 8 Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog post entitled Climate Crises in the Midst of a Pandemic, all of us with Fairewinds are facing a myriad of events on a daily basis. Like Patrick’s personal essay, this post Living in the Time of Pandemic 2020 is also my personal essay and therefore my own personal opinion.
Read MoreIf you haven’t already realized, we at Fairewinds have been rather quiet and disconnected for the last few weeks. Many of you, our viewers and followers, have written about what you are facing in your lives, and a lot has been happening in our lives, too. We are taking this opportunity to do something slightly different
Read MoreAs the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps its way around the globe, the US nuclear industry is placed in a unique position of maintaining equipment and safety at its 98 operating nuclear reactors. What about those operating elsewhere? Join Nuclear Hotseat host, Libbe HaLevy, and Fairewinds' Arnie and Maggie Gundersen as they discuss just what this means for all of us!
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