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Nuclear Crack Down?
Dec 18, 2014
Embrittlement, Palisades, Report, Video
Nuclear Crack Down?
Dec 18, 2014
Embrittlement, Palisades, Report, Video

Did you know that embrittled nuclear reactors could shatter like glass? Watch Fairewinds Energy Education’s Nuclear Science Guy Arnie Gundersen demonstrate reactor embrittlement and imagine the shattering glass as a shattering nuclear reactor vessel.

Dec 18, 2014
Embrittlement, Palisades, Report, Video
Whose Fault?
Nov 10, 2014
Audio, Diablo Canyon, Relay Chatter, Nuclear Risk, Video
Whose Fault?
Nov 10, 2014
Audio, Diablo Canyon, Relay Chatter, Nuclear Risk, Video

When we think of earthquake damage we think of buildings shaking and crumbling, pipes bursting and breaking. Diablo Canyon would suffer not only these traditional earthquake disasters, but also severe, dangerous mechanical threats. Arnie explains something engineers call "relay chatter". In three short video segments, he shows us what relays are and how a seismic event would wreak havoc at Diablo Canyon causing "relay chatter".

Nov 10, 2014
Audio, Diablo Canyon, Relay Chatter, Nuclear Risk, Video
10 Year Delay in SRS Mox Plant Construction
Oct 23, 2014
Nuclear Waste, Savannah River, SRSWatch, NRC, MOX, Areva, Waste Abandonment
10 Year Delay in SRS Mox Plant Construction
Oct 23, 2014
Nuclear Waste, Savannah River, SRSWatch, NRC, MOX, Areva, Waste Abandonment

The controversial plutonium fuel (MOX) plant under construction at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) now faces up to a 10-year delay in construction.

Oct 23, 2014
Nuclear Waste, Savannah River, SRSWatch, NRC, MOX, Areva, Waste Abandonment
Doubtful Data for Fermi 3, reports Beyond Nuclear
Nov 7, 2013
Fairewinds in the News, Beyond Nuclear, Detroit Edison, Fermi 3
Doubtful Data for Fermi 3, reports Beyond Nuclear
Nov 7, 2013
Fairewinds in the News, Beyond Nuclear, Detroit Edison, Fermi 3

Beyond Nuclear has a great article on Detroit Edison's creative use of the English language in their application for a permit for the proposed Fermi 3 Atomic Reactor. Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen points out issues with the geotechnical data presented, as well as with Edison's unusual spin on the topic:

Nov 7, 2013
Fairewinds in the News, Beyond Nuclear, Detroit Edison, Fermi 3
Let The Games Begin
Oct 30, 2013
NRC, Michigan, Detroit Edison, Maggie Gundersen, Audio
Let The Games Begin
Oct 30, 2013
NRC, Michigan, Detroit Edison, Maggie Gundersen, Audio

Today [Wednesday, October 30, 2013], The Games Began in Monroe Michigan as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (NRC ASLB) started hearings on Detroit Edison’s "Fermi 3 Licensing Project". Outgunned? Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen and the seven expert witnesses retained by the NRC staff and Detroit Edison agree that there was no Quality Assurance (QA) program in place for two years as required by federal law, but the seven industry experts say build it anyway! Damn the safety regulations; full speed ahead to the pork-barrel federal loan guarantees to build a one of a kind Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. Listen as Maggie, Arnie, and host Nathaniel White-Joyal discuss the stacked deck on this week’s Fairewinds Energy Education Podcast. 

Oct 30, 2013
NRC, Michigan, Detroit Edison, Maggie Gundersen, Audio
Post Accident AP1000 Containment Leakage
Jun 25, 2010
Presentation, AP1000, John Runkle, Nuclear Risk, Containment, Report
Post Accident AP1000 Containment Leakage
Jun 25, 2010
Presentation, AP1000, John Runkle, Nuclear Risk, Containment, Report

Both 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.

Jun 25, 2010
Presentation, AP1000, John Runkle, Nuclear Risk, Containment, Report
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