Nuclear Issues/Sustainable Energy
Nuclear energy is not sustainable and the nuclear industry is a closed one, there is no public control. People have no information about the consequences and risks. There are no mechanisms of public participation.
Nuclear transportation carries the danger of incidents, which involve high risks for public health or heavy environmental pollution. Each Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and research facility needs fresh nuclear fuel and produces spent nuclear fuel, which have to be delivered from the fuel factories-often thousands kilometres. The Johannesburg WSSD documents consider nuclear transportation as a serious problem. The problem of transport of nuclear materials is acute in countries using nuclear energy (GB, F, D, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan etc) as well as transit countries and coastal zones.
Each Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and research facility produces nuclear waste, ultra-long-term pollutants. The waste has to be kept or reprocessed. Storing the waste the waste is costly and will continue for many thousand years. Reprocessing nuclear waste creates high volumes of liquid waste, which are discharged into the sea (GB, France) or discharged into lakes and rivers or are pumped into groundwaters (Russia). No one can guarantee that a Chernobyl like catastrophe will not happen again in another place.
The nuclear industry is not profitable. It gets great subsidies from governments. National Export Credit Agencies support export of dangerous nuclear technologies to developing countries (Russia – to China, Iran, Indonesia; Canada- to Romania etc).
Current and Planned Activities
- Working Group strategy planning meeting
- Joint Pilot Project – on nuclear transportations or NPP monitoring
- Study visits to renewable sites (Denmark , the Netherlands)
- Lobbying at IAEA, be a watchdog for IAEA,
- Lobbying anti-nuclear approach at different international forums.
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