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Arnie Gundersen going international

…ind people that it is often far more effective to aim at the archer than to aim at the arrows. (Of course, I am speaking figuratively here. My weapon is my keyboard.) PS – For the search engines out there, Gundersen is sometimes misspelled as Gunderson. Additional Reading Arnie Gundersen has inflated his resume, yet frequently claims that Entergy cannot be trusted This is an example of why people who lie about their resumes must not be believed NR…

Was Arnie Gundersen a Licensed Reactor Operator and Senior VP Nuclear Licensee?

…k at the claim of having been a licensed reactor operator. Digging through Gundersen’s 14 page resume provided to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on December 22, 2011, you have to reach the bottom of page 13 to find any mention of a job involving a license to operate a nuclear reactor. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) — 1971 to 1972 Critical Facility Reactor Operator, Instructor Licensed AEC Reactor Operator instructing students and uti…

Arnie Gundersen has inflated his resume, yet frequently claims that Entergy cannot be trusted

…uld remain running. After listening to the moderator’s introduction of Mr. Gundersen, I had to stop and share some thoughts. Here is the transcript of that introduction. Arnie Gundersen, who lives here in Burlington, is Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Associates is a well-known authority on the subject, someone who has figured prominently in recent accounts of Vermont Yankee circumstances. Mr. Gundersen, who has almost four decades experience in the…

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Paul Wilson & Bret Bennington vs Arnie Gundersen & Heidi Hutner on Nuclear Sustainability

…ext to a nuclear plant is .0009/600 = 1.5e-6. This is not 1% as claimed by Gundersen, it is .00015%. So Gundersen is off by about 4 orders of magnitude. Again, this kind of thing is known by nuclear supporters, but not by the general public, so I think it would be really useful to have a reliable “fact checkering” resource which goes through these kinds of debates and picks the claims apart point by point. Perhaps this would be a good project for…

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Is Arnie Gundersen Devious or Dumb? (Or is He Simply a Professional Fear-Monger?)

…acity. Translation: someone was paying them to be there. I also heard that Gundersen had been offering employed in the capacity of an “expert witness” on a number of previous occasions. Translation: Gundersen was a professional expert in court cases; these employment opportunities are often given to people with credentials who are willing to say things, in our adversarial judicial system, that are not necessarily factually incorrect, but are certa…

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Arnie Gundersen Caught on Video Lying About Risk of Radiation Released During Fukushima Event

…ng drive-by shots at the author does nothing to make you credible or helps Gunderson’s position. Brian Mays Does Gundersen know he is not telling the truth? Frankly, I am not sure. Liar or idiot? At the end of the day, does it really matter? James Greenidge I dunno Meredith. When anti-nukes were running around getting in the faces of Fukushima evacuees and shouting “you’re going to die!” I’d be pretty hard pressed not to call them liars in light a…

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Irish people should ignore Arnie Gundersen because he’s wrong

…ding and operating three AP1000 units in Cumbria. Additional Reading About Gundersen February 11, 2010 – Is Arnie Gundersen Devious or Dumb? (Or is He Simply a Professional Fear-Monger?) February 26, 2011 – Arnie Gundersen has inflated his resume, yet frequently claims that Entergy cannot be trusted June 18, 2011 – Arnie Gundersen going international December 13, 2011 – Crowd sourced debunking of Gundersen lies about AP1000 & Fukushima April 6, 20…

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Miscommunications Are Frequent in Human Discourse – Sometimes They Become Intentional Weapons

…additional background for the story, you can scroll forward to about minute 22 to hear this story directly from Mr. Gundersen.) There is one more piece of information that nuclear operators will understand as germane to Mr. Gundersen’s credibility. Though he claims to have been a licensed plant operator, the only reactor that Mr. Gundersen was ever licensed to operate was the research reactor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 1971 and 19…

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Crowd sourced debunking of Gundersen lies about AP1000 & Fukushima

…o might not know me or my concerns about the veracity of anything that the Gundersen PR machine puts out aware of the audio from Gundersen’s invited call-in to the Pat Thurston KGO San Francisco radio program and partial transcripts that I have prepared. They are at http://archive.org/details/ArnieGundersenOnKgoRadioPatThurstonProgram Roger Does this group make use of anything from the European Committee on Radiation Risk and/or its Scientific Sec…

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95% disagree with “Beyond Nuclear”. Let’s make it 99%

…g hot particles http://www.chrismartenson.com/martensonreport/part-2-arnie-gundersen-interview-protecting-yourself-if-situation-worsens ). In my opinion Mr. Gundersen is and always will be a fear monger that is looking to profit off of people’s fear of nuclear power. A fear he has helped to perpetuate. A true engineering professional would not be looking for opportunities to be on CNN spreading untruths or half-truths about an ongoing technical si…

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