Moving Energy Education Forward
More than 50 years ago the Advisory Committee ignored its minority members and pushed ahead without rigorous failure-proof containment structures and systems. The Nuclear Regulatory Committee made the decision not to require stronger containments. Japan followed the American lead.
Read MoreIn the first half of Arnie's interview, he focuses on the Fukushima Daiichi tragedy from its current status to the Olympics, legal battles, and volcanoes.
Read MoreOnly luck and real courage at 14 nuclear reactors on Japan’s Pacific coast overcame the technical failures of nuclear power and prevented the nation from being destroyed by radiation. The untold story of March 11, 2011 is how close Japan came to three more spent fuel pool fires at Fukushima Daiichi and four meltdowns at Fukushima Daini.
Read MoreThis new 50-minute documentary in Japanese chronicles the story of Vermont's citizens and state government to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. It features Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen.
Read MoreFairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen was hosted by educational, governmental, and citizen groups on a speaking tour in Japan during the end of August and early September 2012. The lectures were created to discuss the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe, the ongoing problems at the Fukushima Daiichi site, and the non-nuclear options for Japan's energy future.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke to independent journalists in Niigata, Japan on September 1, 2012. He spoke about his experience in aftermath of Three Mile Island, when the US government hid facts about the accident. He is trying to bring the truth out about Fukushima.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke at the Olympic Center in Tokyo on September 5, 2012. The focus of his talk was Japan's opportunity to change the way it generated power for the last fifty years. Brief video in Japanese with translation beginning at 2:14; there is a translation of his full presentation at the end of this post.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen spoke to the Free Press Association of Japan September 7, 2012. TEPCO does not have the management skill to decontaminate and decommission Fukushima Daiichi in any reasonable time. The problems have not been faced by any company before, and TEPCO is locked into a paradigm to consider the creative solutions that must be developed. While the workers need to remain, the site needs to be completely separated from TEPCO. He proposes that a project management firm take over responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi site which reports to the Japanese government, with oversight by a group of international experts (although not not IAEA). Japan must phase out nuclear power, which it can do without raising the cost of electricity. English only version.
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