Arnie Gundersen on Decommissioning: Trust Fund or Slush Fund?
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2016-01-25

In the first Fairewinds podcast of 2016, the Fairewinds Crew discusses nuclear industry exemptions to regulations allowed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – A.K.A. the NRC. For decades, exemptions have been made by the NRC in order for the atomic business to turn a profit from their otherwise too expensive, high risk production of nuclear power. Answering the question, “Why is this shifty NRC practice more pressing than ever?” is Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen, President and Founder of Fairewinds Maggie Gundersen, Program Administrator Caroline Phillips, and Podcast and Web Producer Toby Aronson. 

Decommissioning: Trust Fund or Slush Fund? http://tinyurl.com/h76lyo9 

During 2016, Fairewinds aims to provide you with both podcast and videos! Due to the fabulous infrastructure provided by their new web host SquareSpace, the Fairewinds website now includes a direct RSS feed to directly link up to our Fairewinds Energy Education Podcast. So, don’t forget to subscribe online at Fairewinds.org and add the Fairewinds Crew to your podcast listening favorites!

Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog: Demystify: Anticipating the Worst http://tinyurl.com/gmsbfru 
Did you know that the concrete casks approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for long-term above ground storage of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel only have a life-expectancy of less than 100 years?  Likewise, did you know that no practical plan has ever been established for replacing these casks at the end of their useful life, or a plan in the event of an unexpected breach that would allow radioactivity to escape and contaminate surrounding areas? http://tinyurl.com/hxbgo89

The current gas leak, which has nearby residents dealing with headaches, nosebleeds and anxiety for their children’s health, has been traced to failure of a pipe buried deep underground in the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Field. This pipe was capped-off and left in place when Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) had no further use for it.  Since the rupture occurred in October 2015, the SoCalGas facility has already released more than150-million tons of methane. The mechanical challenge to repair the break in the pipe and the lack of motivation to do it quickly means the leak will continue spewing massive amounts of methane for at least another month or more. 
The World Is Hemorrhaging Methane, and Now We Can See Where http://tinyurl.com/hh5knjx

SoCalGas refuses to acknowledge the severe long-term health risk from this release that contains Benzene and other harmful carcinogenic substances effecting neighborhoods surrounding the facility where literally hundreds of families are reporting a variety of alarming symptoms. Worse still, there is no question that, pound-for-pound, methane is a greenhouse gas many times more hazardous to the environment than CO2. 
5 Facts to Know about the California Methane Leak http://tinyurl.com/hagcpky

Nuclear Meltdown
Ocean Oil Drilling
Triple Meltdown
Explosive Oil Transport
Fracking
http://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education//demystify-anticipating-the-worst

Radiation Risk: LNT Model Tested http://tinyurl.com/jvawjt9
Disproving what critics of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Risk Model have claimed and also disproving the theory of hormesis (that radiation doses are good for you), Ian Goddard has compiled solid research on the incidence of cancer in relationship to radioactive dose exposure.  Goddard based his research on well established reports and peer reviewed data from the National Library of Medicine, and he shares this information in an easy to follow fashion in this video.

for more podcasts, link here: https://soundcloud.com/fairewinds-energy