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Greenpeace Sweden activists attempted to block a nuclear waste transport ship. The ship is in Sweden to pickup 4.8 tons of radioactive waste (including 1.2kg of “super weapons grade plutonium) for transport to the UK.
April 8th, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
A long-muted antinuclear movement in New England regained its voice today as more than 75 people held a State House rally to protest the region’s aging nuclear plants and the increasing stockpile of radioactive spent fuel rods at them. The protest was held shortly before a State House hearing where legislators were scheduled to hear [...]
April 8th, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
NEW DELHI, Mar 14, 2011 (IPS) – Anti-nuclear campaigners in India see the earthquake that hit Japan last week, which threatens the meltdown of the Fukushima atomic power facility there, as a wakeup call for this country’s ambitious nuclear power programme. When India completed a nuclear power cooperation deal with the United States in October [...]
March 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
ANTI-nuclear campaigners are demanding government suspend Britain’s plans for new nuclear build until a full safety review is carried out following the Japanese disaster. Newport West MP Paul Flynn has tabled a Commons motion claiming a full independent evaluation into the long-term implications for the safety and cost of nuclear power needs to be done [...]
March 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
中新社东京3月20日电(记者孙冉)20日，日本东京涩谷街头爆发了千人反核游行。参加游行的人们一边举着“请立刻停止核”的黄色标牌，一边高声呼喊走过东京最繁华的涩谷街头。 本次游行由日本全学连执行委员会和日本全国劳动组合交流中心发起。参加者以大学生和各地的工会性质团体为主。他们纷纷从仙台、北海道、大阪、冲绳赶来，只为参加几个小时的游行。 反核游行在地震发生后已举行数次，20日的涩谷游行参加人数接近两千人，日本警视厅出动上百名警察维持秩序。 来 自东北大学的织田阳介代表灾区向参加集会的人们介绍了灾区情况：地震已经过去一周时间，然而物资紧缺，医疗人员匮乏，受灾城市基能丧失等情况依旧没有得到 改变——这一切都要归因于政府对于核电站技术的过于信赖。本次东北大地震引发的核电站泄露，使得地震救援受到严重干扰。 织田阳介在接受本社记者采访时表示：“一定要迅速中止一切核电设施。本次福岛第一核电站造成的核泄露事件，引起无法预计的财产损失和人员恐慌，而至今东京电力公司对于公众公布信息的透明度有多少，还是个疑问。” 曾 经在核电站工作过的山本弘行气愤地告诉本社记者：“那些坚守在福岛第一核电站的员工，将成为此次事件的最初牺牲者。日本卫生部临时上调抢修人员所能接受的 辐射最大标准由100增加到250毫西弗，这不是拿这些人的生命开玩笑吗？为什么最后对这件事情负责的却是这些劳动工人？” 参加者们在游行中表达了自己的不满，游行队伍行进至涩谷街头，呼喊声引起行人的驻足围观，堵塞了涩谷主干街的通行。一位年轻的女子举着反核标语，冲着路边的行人大声喊道：“你还能允许这样的核电继续破坏我们的生活吗？请加入我们的行动！
March 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
Some environmentalists criticise the anti-nuclear movement for under-stating the environmental costs of fossil fuels and non-nuclear alternatives, and overstating the environmental costs of nuclear energy.[148][149] Of the numerous nuclear experts who have offered their expertise in addressing controversies, Bernard Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, is likely the most frequently cited. [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
In 2005, the International Atomic Energy Agency presented the results of a series of public opinion surveys in the Global Public Opinion on Nuclear Issues report.[141] Majorities of respondents in 14 of the 18 countries surveyed believe that the risk of terrorist acts involving radioactive materials at nuclear facilities is high, because of insufficient protection. [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
Beginning in the 1960s, anti-nuclear ideas received coverage in the popular media with novels such as Fail-Safe and feature films such as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The China Syndrome (1979), Silkwood (1983), and The Rainbow Warrior (1992). Dr. Strangelove explored “what might happen within the [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
Historian Lawrence S. Wittner has argued that anti-nuclear sentiment and activism led directly to government policy shifts about nuclear weapons. Public opinion influenced policymakers by limiting their options and also by forcing them to follow certain policies over others. Wittner credits public pressure and anti-nuclear activism with “Truman’s decision to explore the Baruch Plan, Eisenhower’s [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
For many years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster nuclear power was off the policy agenda in most countries, and the anti-nuclear power movement seemed to have won its case.[92][93] Some anti-nuclear groups disbanded.[93] More recently, however, following intense public relations activities by the nuclear industry,[4][5][6] and concerns about climate change, nuclear power issues have come [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Anti-Nuclear-Activities | Read More »
