If an earthquake fault caused a nuclear accident at California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, whose fault would it be? Did you know that Diablo Canyon is adjacent to two active earthquake faults: the Hosgri and Shoreline faults? When we think of earthquake damage we think of buildings shaking and crumbling, pipes bursting and breaking. […]
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Continue reading‘The Fukushima Nuclear Accident –
Lessons for California from then Prime Minister Kan and other distinguished speakers.’
In this segment, Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Associates, gives his analysis of the lessons learned from Fukush…
Continue readingLessons From Fukushima For San Onofre
Two public figures who led the response in Japan and the United States to the Fukushima reactor crisis will appear together Tuesday for the first time to outline the lessons of Fukushima for Southern Calif…
Continue readingsnip:The following paper shows that the entire NRC Regulatory Process is underfunded, broken and needs additional funding, oversight and extensive overhaul to ensure public safety.
snip:The presentation by SCE, Mitsubishi and other experts to the NRC was very disappointing and disturbing to 8.4 million Southern Californians. The presentation did not address U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Congressman Edward J. Markey’s concerns expressed on February 6, 2013 in her letter to NRC Chairman McFarlane, “Southern California Edison was aware of problems with replacement steam generators at its San Onofre nuclear power plant but chose not to make fixes.
snip:The structural integrity of SONGS degraded retainer bar system to withstand combined loads that result from postulated accident conditions events has not been demonstrated.
Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen was interviewed on Russia Today to discuss Southern California Edison’s “San Onofre” Power Plant. Arnie says, “The worst plant in the U.S. for evacuation plans, is San Onofre. When they built it in the fifties, no one w…
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Press Release 13-01-22 ATHOS Validity Questioned, Qualifying Investigation Required
The validity of the ATHOS T/H computer model for San Onofre Unit 2 at Main Steam Line Break conditions requires that the NRC Office of Nuclear …
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Press Release 13-01-22 ATHOS Validity Questioned, Qualifying Investigation Required
The validity of the ATHOS T/H computer model for San Onofre Unit 2 at Main Steam Line Break conditions requires that the NRC Office of Nuclear …
Continue readingThe Games People Play
In this week’s podcast, Fairewinds looks at how difficult it is for the public to meaningfully participate in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process. Arnie Gundersen was retained by Friends of the Earth t…
Continue readingSCE’s PR Machine Is Capable Of Overcoming ALL Hurdles,
Except Good Science And Safety
Albert Einstein also described INSANITY as
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The DAB Safe…
Continue readingSCE’s PR Machine Is Capable Of Overcoming ALL Hurdles,
Except Good Science And Safety
Albert Einstein also described INSANITY as
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The DAB Safe…
Continue readingNuclear Experts Agree, San Onofre’s Replacement Steam Generators Are Unsafe
Summation: Based upon our ongoing review of evaluations, engineering analyses, inspections, technical and operational assessment reports prepared by the NRC’s Augment…
Continue readingNuclear Experts Agree, San Onofre’s Replacement Steam Generators Are Unsafe
Summation: Based upon our ongoing review of evaluations, engineering analyses, inspections, technical and operational assessment reports prepared by the NRC’s Augment…
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In this week’s Fairewinds podcast Arnie Gundersen discusses rece…
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Continue readingThe 14 most important questions that the DAB Safety Team feels must be answered before the NRC, Atomic Safety Licensing Board, NRC Offices of Nuclear Reactor Regulations and Nuclear Regulatory Research can complete their investigation …
Continue readingThe 14 most important questions that the DAB Safety Team feels must be answered before the NRC, Atomic Safety Licensing Board, NRC Offices of Nuclear Reactor Regulations and Nuclear Regulatory Research can complete their investigation …
Continue readingNRC No Restart at San Onofre
Steam
generator tubes and their support structures need to be extremely carefully
designed and manufactured within the allowed design tolerances. These tubes preform a very important safety
function b…
NRC No Restart at San Onofre
Steam
generator tubes and their support structures need to be extremely carefully
designed and manufactured within the allowed design tolerances. These tubes preform a very important safety
function b…
The DAB Safety Team Agrees With Newly Released MHI Data:
Plug All Of SONGS Unsafe Tubes, Not Just Some
The DAB
Safety Team along with the support of an ever-growing number of SONGS
Concerned Insiders and Whistleblowers, prepared t…
San Onofre Unit 2 Replacement Steam Generators Incomplete and Inadequate Tube Inspections
San Diego, CA (November 9, 2012) – The failure of eight Replacement Steam Generator (RSG) tubes (something which has never
happened before…
The DAB Safety Team is thankful to numerous
anonymous concerned SONGS Workers, who have provided factual information in the
interest of the Public Safety to us so that we could arrive at these “Reasonable
Conclusions?…
via Fairewinds / September 1, 2012 / Fairewinds analysis of the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi determined that other Japanese reactor sites were also in jeopardy because their cooling water systems were destroyed by the same tsunami. In this fil…
Continue readingTONIGHT San Clemente City Council is poised to make history yet again regarding the San Onofre nuclear power plant. They will consider calling for special hearings and investigations about SAFETY, COST and RELIABILITY in formal letters to the Nucle…
Continue readingConclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
Conclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
via DemocracyNow / July 6, 2012 / A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year’s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and …
Continue readingSan Onofre is located in an urban area on the coast south of San Clemente with millions of people, in a tsunami hazard zone, above intersecting active earthquake faults and has the worst safety record of all 104 reactors in the U.S. .
Aging Nuke P…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / June 27, 2012 / CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island …
Continue readingIn conclusion, the NRC has stated that nuclear power plants like San Onofre cannot risk compromising critical safety systems and possible radiological contamination in an effort to return to operation before a thorough root cause analysis, modification…
Continue readingFukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
As part of a presentation in Kansai, Japan on May 12th 2012, Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education answers specific questions asked by symposium organizers regarding the condition of t…
Continue readingArnold Gundersen speaking tonight before the Irvine City Council, 6PM, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Irvine, CA 92606, USA
Mr Gundersen is an energy advisor with 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A former nuclear industry senior vice presid…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com Arnie Gundersen at the Japan National Press Club from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. The Japan National Press Club hosts Arnie Gundersen. Over 80 journalists were present where questions were asked regarding the nuclear disast…
Continue readingby Arnie Gundersen / Fairewinds.com / Feb 6, 2012 / New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Fairewinds shows that the nuclear industry’s plan to vent the containment at Fukushima Daiichi could …
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in e…
Continue readingTEPCO Believes Mission Accomplished & Regulators Allow Radioactive Dumping in Tokyo Bay from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Is the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that …
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / November 17, 2011 / Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, …
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / October 31, 2011 / Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute …
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