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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.

Nuclear Free Future: Obama in Hiroshima - Nuclear Waste Watchdog Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear Discusses Historic Visit 06/03/2016

Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, discusses President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima 71 years after US atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city.

For more information about Kevin Kamps and Beyond Nuclear: www.beyondnuclear.org

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Vermont Attorney General Posts Privacy Protection Recommendations

The Vermont General Assembly has asked the Attorney General, in consultation with the Public Service Department, to make recommendations on the adoption of regulations concerning telecommunications privacy, the designation of a Chief Privacy Officer, and whether to regulate businesses that handle the data of consumers with whom they have a direct relationship. Read the report.

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