Arnie Gundersen

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Arnie Gundersen is the Chief Engineer, board member, and resident “science guy” at Fairewinds Energy Education nonprofit and the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates, Inc, a paralegal services and expert testimony firm. Arnie earned his BS in Nuclear Engineering cum laude and MS in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) via an Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship. With more than 50-years of nuclear power engineering experience, Arnie has a nuclear safety patent and was a licensed reactor operator who also taught reactor physics at RPI. As a former Senior VP in the nuclear industry, Arnie managed and coordinated projects at 70 US nuclear power plants. The Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates, he testifies on behalf of states, municipalities, NGOs, and environmental organizations regarding the hazards and violations at nuclear reactors and atomic waste sites. Since the catastrophe at Fukushima, Arnie focuses his energy worldwide on the migration of radioactive microparticles. During his multiple trips to Japan, Arnie has met and trained community-volunteer citizen-scientists to study the migration of radioactive microparticles from Fukushima in two co-authored peer-reviewed scientific articles. A guest on media outlets such as Democracy Now! and CNN to discuss Japan’s catastrophe at Fukushima, he has presented worldwide to universities, governments, and media outlets. Arnie and his wife Maggie also co-authored the Japanese best-selling book, Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth And The Way Forward, published in Japan in 2012.

Participation on Humanity Rising

Day 202 - Thursday March 11, 2021 Ten Years Deep—Nuclear Power Disaster in Fukushima, Japan