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.
In our twelfth installment of our Nuclear Spring Series, we respond to several technical inquiries about the production of Carbon-14 as it pertains to atomic reactor operations, nuclear power plant meltdowns, and the impact of Carbon-14 on our worldwide climate emergency…
Read MoreMuch 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 MoreAccording 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 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 MoreWith thousands of excess nuclear weapons worldwide, it’s shocking to think that we need to build new ones. While Fairewinds Energy Education predominately works in the area of atomic energy, we look at the whole ‘fuel chain’ which includes waste management and uranium mining as well as every phase in between…
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 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!
Read MoreIf the Department of Energy (DOE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other federal agencies cannot solve a problem cheaply and swiftly, they simply define it out of existence – and these agencies have the statutory authority to do so! This is the approach the DOE is attempting to take…
Read MoreCalifornia’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), has a dubious safety record. PG&E customers have already seen their fair share of environmental threats, mismanagement and costly drama…
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