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Ukraine: Vulnerable Atomic Reactors Don’t Belong In a War Zone!

Join us tomorrow night Thursday, March 10th for a timely discussion about Ukraine and the commemoration of Fukushima Dai-ichi. We will examine the dangers of atomic power reactors in a war zone and also talk about how we work with our colleague Dr. Marco Kaltofen to study how minute microparticles of radioactivity spreads…

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Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog
Our Oceans Are Not Sewers

Whether it's plastic, mercury, or radioactivity, the entire world has treated our planet’s oceans as its sewage dump. As if we need more proof that Radioactivity Knows No Borders, three recent events prove the reality of our statements…

Read More → Human Perspective: The Power of Art & the Nuclear-Free World

Special Event: We share with you an exciting opportunity to join the conversation exploring how visual and performing artists advocate for a nuclear-free world…

Read More → Special Event: Uranium & The Waste It Leaves Behind!

We share with you a symposium that will tell the womb to tomb story of Uranium. The presenters will discuss the roles and responsibilities of both Art And Science to analyze and reflect upon human use of the atom to generate electricity and create weapons…

Read More → Nuclear 101: Back to Basics with BREDL

We are proud to rebroadcast this Jenn Galler and BREDL production explaining the inherent dangers of atomic power and nuclear weapons wherever they may be around the country and worldwide. Listen to it here!

Read More → Must-See Woolsey Fire & SSFL Documentary: ‘In the Dark of the Valley’

On Nov. 14th, in a brilliantly produced and acclaimed documentary entitled In the Dark of the Valley, MSNBC will widely share the stories of local community members, activists, and parents closest to the Santa Susana Field lab site…

Read More → Santa Susana Field Lab Meltdown & Woolsey Fire: Take These Beautiful Words...

In Take these Beautiful Words, Carmi Orenstein clearly unveils the history and ongoing Federal and State Government coverups of SSFL radiation leaks that have persisted for more than 60 years. We are grateful for her assertions…

Read More → Woolsey Fire Project: Citizen Science & the Way Forward

Our latest Nuclear Hotseat interview is a nuanced discussion detailing how Fairewinds and Dr. Kaltofen developed protocols used by the community-volunteer citizen-scientists who performed the data collection for the Woolsey Fire project…

Read More → Woolsey Fire Data—Our Environmental Justice Research

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 More → Woolsey Fire Data—Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

It’s published! One of our findings is that the Woolsey Fire caused radiation from the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) to become airborne and travel as far as 9 miles into surrounding communities. So, then, what makes our study unique? We are proud to announce the publication…

Read More → Nuclear Alert: Post-Hurricane Ida Status at Entergy’s Waterford Nuke

When Hurricane Ida approached NOLA on Aug. 29th, Entergy’s Waterford Plant deliberately reduced its power level to zero.. However, even when a nuclear reactor produces zero power, it still relies upon electricity from the power grid…

Read More → 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]…

Read More → Climate Crisis + Regulatory Collusion = Nuclear Disasters

The French and Chinese nuclear reactor Taishan Unit 1 is leaking radioactivity! Taishan Units 1 and 2 are also the first of their kind in China. Designed by Framatome Corporation in France, and now according to CNN, the reactors have created “an imminent radiological threat”…

Read More → Nuclear Alert: Iran & Israel Playing High-Stakes Poker with Nuclear Power & Nuclear Weapons

By now, Fairewinds hopes that you are aware that an explosion at an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant has slowed Iran’s progress to enrich uranium. The crisis shows a very blurry line between Civilian Atomic Power and Military Atomic Bombs

Read More → Fukushima’s First Decade In A 100-Year Long Catastrophe

On this 10th commemoration of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan, our thoughts and hearts continue to be with those impacted by both the ongoing radioactive contamination throughout Japan as well as those permanently displaced since March 11, 2011…

Read More → Japan’s Fukushima Meltdowns (New Video): Much Still Unknown 10 Years Later

As we approach the 10th commemoration of Japan’s March 11, 2011, Fukushima Dai-ichi triple meltdowns, organizations around the globe, including environmental groups, nonprofits (like us), engineering and pronuclear organizations, and media organizations like Japan’s Nippon TV, will release new information.

Read More → Nuclear Safety: Unusual Event at Grand Gulf & What It Means

We 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 More → The Grinch Who Stole South Carolina’s Christmas

Much like the Friday afternoon news-dump, almost no one watches, reads, or pays attention to the news during the holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s week are a time of family get-togethers, vacations, and travel…

Read More → Nuclear Bribery in Ohio: Let's Put It in Perspective

According to the FBI's criminal investigation, First Energy (aka Energy Harbor since it came out of bankruptcy) is a regulated public utility that illegally used $61 Million in corporate funds to bribe energy regulators and state legislators in Ohio…

Read More → It’s Darkest Just Before the Dawn!

Let’s face it. 2020 was a pretty awful year! Political turmoil and COVID-19 seemed to dominate the news. As we enter December, days are still getting shorter, and they will not lengthen again until after Dec 21st. It’s darkest just before the dawn!

Read More → Radioactive Isotopes Measured at Olympic and Paralympic Venues in Fukushima Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan

Today, as highlighted in a quick post-two-weeks ago, Fairewinds releases the data and links to the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science peer-reviewed article…

Read More → Fukushima: Detecting Radiation at Japan's 2021 Olympic Venues

Fairewinds ongoing scientific research with Dr. Marco Kaltofen of WPI has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science. As soon as the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science has an online preprint link available, Fairewinds will release details and a link to the publication…

Read More → Nuclear Radiation Alert: Could You Have A Dirty Bomb Next Door?

Many years ago, I woke up on a Sunday morning to find three State Police Bomb Squad cars andone truck pulling a bomb disposal trailer parked on the lot next door to our home in rural Connecticut. The heavily wooded lot next door did not have a house on it…

Read More → Regulatory Capture: Flying on the Small Modular Reactor

Yes, Fairewinds tracks nuclear safety issues, and no, Boeing will not build Small Modular Reactors that fly. However, when most of my colleagues and I look at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its supposedly thorough technical review…

Read More → Nuclear Safety: Final Opportunity for Citizens to Oppose Nuke Waste Dump

You heard correctly, this is your last opportunity to tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to oppose the storage of nuclear waste at the proposed sites in Texas and New Mexico…

Read More → VoteClimate2020.org in the Nuclear Hotseat & Nuclear Hostage Crisis

This week, Fairewinds Energy Education founder, Maggie Gundersen, joined Robert Manning, founder and organizer of VoteClimate2020.org, on Nuclear Hotseat with host, Libbe HaLevy…

Read More → Nuclear Alert: NRC & Nuke Safety In the Time of COVID-19

Did 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 More → Climate Emergency: Why We Support VoteClimate2020.org

Climate challenges are nonpartisan!

More than 95% of the scientific community, as well as local community groups around the world, agree that the global climate crisis is real and imminent.

Read More → California: A Climate Emergency Fraught with Nuclear Utility Mismanagement

From the beginning, their design and fabrication were one fiasco after another that led to almost 20-years of construction delays, during which portions of one Diablo Canyon reactor were built backward…

Read More → 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…

Read More → "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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We have accomplished so much this year. Fairewinds 2021 Annual Report contains the main highlights. Like all our other resources, it is Free to you and anyone visiting our website. Thank You for hanging in there with us!

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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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Radioactive Microparticles Related to the Woolsey Fire in Simi Valley, CA

Wildfire in radiologically contaminated zones is a global concern; contaminated areas around Chernobyl, Fukushima, Los Alamos, and the Nevada Nuclear Test Site have all experienced wildfires. In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire burned north of Los Angeles, CA, USA, potentially remobilizing radioactive contaminants at the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a shuttered nuclear research facility contaminated by chemical and radiochemical releases...

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Radioactive Isotopes Measured at Olympic & Paralympic Venues in Fukushima & Tokyo

Study consisted of a total of 146 independent soil & dust samples collected from sites in Fukushima Prefecture, Greater Tokyo, and the heavily traveled corridors between these northern Japan locations to assess radiological contamination related to the Fukushima meltdowns and “detected modest radioactive contamination at Olympic venues in Japan, and found significant alpha-, beta-, and gamma-emitter contamination at Japan’s National Training Center.”

Read More → Radioactively-hot Particles Detected in Dusts and Soils from Northern Japan

Co-authored by Dr. Marco Kaltofen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education, the article details the analysis of radioactively hot particles collected in Japan following the Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdowns. Based on 415 samples of radioactive dust from Japan, the USA, and Canada, the study identified a statistically meaningful number of samples that were considerably more radioactive than current radiation models anticipated…

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Meltdowns & Shakedowns Series

Meltdowns & Shakedowns
Meltdowns and Shakedowns: Our Nuclear Legacy

Recent federal indictments prove how utility executives use marketing ploys and employment bait to grab atomic power subsidies by threatening poor, black, Hispanic, and indigenous communities with plant closures. This use of marketing ploys and employment bait to relax regulations and increase graft is radioactive racism. Welcome to Fairewinds Meltdowns & Shakedowns series…

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You can read the entire Meltdowns & Shakedowns series here.

Nuclear Spring Series

You can read the entire Nuclear Spring Series here.


Fukushima Updates

Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog
Fukushima’s First Decade In A 100-Year Long Catastrophe Japan’s Fukushima Meltdowns (New Video): Much Still Unknown 10 Years Later "Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games” Fukushima - 9 Years Later: Deep Wisdom of the Heart Japan’s Nuclear Cover-up Continues, Nine Years after the Fukushima Disaster Brief Fukushima Prefecture Update Radiation Alert: Super Typhoon Hagibis Hits Japan Sweeping Away Radioactive Soil & Waste Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Prove Why Nuclear Power Will Never Be Inherently Safe Atomic Balm Part 2: The Run For Your Life Tokyo Olympics Atomic Balm Part 1: Prime Minister Abe Uses The Tokyo Olympics As Snake Oil Cure For The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdowns

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Woolsey Fire Blog

Woolsey Fire Collection
Woolsey Fire: Studying Radioactive Dust In SoCal - Science At Its Best SoCal: Hot Particles in SoCal - After The Dust Settles: A Woolsey Fire Sampling Update Hot Particles - Woolsey Fire: Third set of SoCal Dust Samples Have arrived SoCal: Woolsey Fire: First Dust Samples Have arrived! Woolsey Fire & Santa Susana Field Lab: Hot Particles Blowing in the Wind?

Vogtle Blog & Updates

Vogtle Updates
Georgia Nuclear: Vogtle – The Atomic Empire Strikes Back Reply of BREDL & Its Chapter Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff to Answers of NRC & Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) Georgia Nuclear: Vogtle Unit 3 Is Sinking! [BREDL Petition] Petition for Leave to Intervene and Request for Hearing by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)

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