Decommissioning

Nuclear Free Future: Environmental Justice and Nuclear Waste 10/01/2019

Organized by the Citizens Awareness Network and the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, activists are raising awareness of nuclear waste from Vermont Yankee being transported to West Texas and New Mexico.

Guests:

Leona Morgan, Nuclear Issues Study Group (NISG), is from the Navajo Nation and a community impacted by uranium mining and the nuclear fuel cycle.

Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), addresses the vulnerabilities of centralized interim storage of HLNW and federal policy.

Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network (CAN), addresses the issues of NorthStar, decommissioning, and hardened on site storage at nuclear sites.

Nuclear Free Future: Picking Up the Pieces from Atoms for Peace 05/10/2018

Nuclear Free Future host Margaret Harrington talks with Maggie Gundersen, President of Fairewinds Energy Education, and Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds, about decommissioning nuclear power plants, “just transitions” for communities losing their nukes, costs, and long-term radiation after site clean up. They discuss “Interim Waste” storage in Texas and New Mexico, transportation problems, the cleanup of bomb factories and mining sites on native land, and the reality that the cost of nukes is astronomical.

For more information, please visit: www.fairewinds.org

Nuclear Free Future: Nuclear Update with Fairewinds Energy Education 03/26/2018

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, talks with host Margaret Harrington about his 5-year monitoring project of radioactively-hot particles detected in dust and soils in Northern Japan after the Fukushima-dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown on March 11, 2011. The research identifies a meaningful number of samples whose radioactivity increase the risk of suffering future health problems.