Fairewinds in The News

Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide

Do children suffer worldwide from atomic power? Absolutely. CCTV host Margaret Harrington anchored a panel with Maggie Gundersen, Caroline Phillips, and Chiho Kaneko from Fairewinds Energy Education to discuss the health risks to children around the world from operating nuclear power reactors and their burgeoning waste. In the aftermath of the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, mothers in Japan especially bear the responsibility to protect their children.

Arnie Gundersen on CCTV- Nuclear Free Future: Fukushima at 5 and the Vermont Yankee Shutdown: What Do They Mean

Host Margaret Harrington talks with Arnie Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear man made crisis when there is no sound methodology in place for decommissioning Fukushima Daiitchi or Vermont Yankee or any of the nuclear power plants being decommissioned in the US. A nuclear power plant carcass can sit for 60 or 70 years with ratepayers and tax payers paying for them after the plant owners have been subsidized at the public expense

Arnie Gundersen appears on Project Censored on March 30, 2016

Project Censored hosts Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff speak with Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen about his recent trip to Fukushima. Arnie warns listeners of the pervasiveness of radioactive contamination within the Fukushima Prefecture despite the Japanese government’s assurances that part of the area is safe for resettlement.

Fairewinds Responds to the Latest Indian Point Tritium Leaks

According to an Associated Press (AP) report from 2011, three quarters of all U.S. nuclear power plants have reported tritium leaks. News coverage, by the AP and ABC News about the newest reported leak from the aged Indian Point atomic plant located just north of New York City, has shown that tritium levels in groundwater are 740 times the amount allowed in drinking water.Indian Point atomic power owner Entergy Corp.

Fairewinds’ Maggie & Arnie Gundersen Tell All to EON’s Mary Beth Brangan & Jim Heddle, Point Reyes, November 21, 2015

Filmed by Ecological Options Network (EON), Fairewinds is excited to share a conversation between EON’s co-directors Mary Beth Brangan, and Jim Heddle with Fairewinds Energy Education’s president and founder Maggie Gundersen and Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen at Point Reyes Station in California. In this “Tell All”, Maggie and Arnie discuss their lives as former nuclear energy insiders, the lies they were told and led to believe, and the subsequent impact of speaking truth to power as whistleblowers.

Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen on Caravan to Midnight, December 20, 2015

arnie_Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen on Caravan to Midnight, December 20, 2015 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen returns to the John B. Wells Program, Caravan to Midnight, to discuss the status of United States domestic atomic facilities, the latest news from the ongoing nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, including the effects of saltwater on atomic reactors, and more.

The Whistleblower: Arnold Gundersen of Goshen

Written by: Katherine BoughtonReprinted from The Litchfield County Times, Connecticut, December 10, 1999Ten years ago, Arnold Gundersen of Goshen was a senior vice president with Danbury-based Nuclear Energy Services, a card-carrying member of the nuclear industry. Since then, he has become a dedicated whistleblower, taking on the industry that once supplied him in his family with a comfortable lifestyle and a bright future.Mr.