Recently, Tokyo Electric announced that the core inside the nuclear reactor had “definitely melted through and had also melted partly through the containment at Fukushima.” Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds Associates explains what is going on and the danger to our oceans and groundwater.
Read MoreMr. Kaltofen’s analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO’s Fukushima reactors.
Read MoreNow Tokyo Electric has released a new photograph. The first photograph is taken from behind the building, so you are still looking out toward the ocean at a slightly different camera angle. The fuel pool is on the south side which is the right of this picture.
Read MoreLatest update from Fairewinds Associates, Arnie Gundersen, regarding the ongoing concerns over the Fukushima meltdown and other nuclear power plants that use the same GE Mark I boiling water reactors.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates discusses why he believes Fukushima spent fuel pools 1 through 3 are severely damaged despite claims from the NRC to the contrary.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates discusses recent claims of “China syndrome” at Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power Plant and observes that evidence indicates ongoing events of criticality or nuclear reactions.
Read MoreTEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates explains the basics of nuclear energy that everyone needs to know…Transmission and delivery account for almost 70% of every utility bill because power plants are so far away from the end customer and because so many middlemen are involved with the final distribution. Creating power at the point of consumption with renewable sources is by far the most responsible and efficient way to produce energy.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates reports on some disturbing new findings of the extensive levels of radioactivity that extend well beyond the official evacuation zone. Beef has been found to be heavily contaminated with cesium.
Read MoreArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates and David Lochbaum from the Union of Concerned Scientists explain how Fukushima happened and why it is likely to happen in the US.
Read MoreBlackouts extending more than eight hours that might occur in the event of cyclical geo-magnetic storms could initiate a series of cascading failures at any of the US nuclear reactors.
Read MoreDuring the month of April, Seattle residents breathed in strontium, cesium, plutonium, cobalt and more at a rate of five hot particles per day. In the area around Fukushima residents were breathing in forty times that while Tokyo breathed in one part per day.
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