anti-nuclear energy

Why anti nuclear energy?

Not only since Chernobyl it should be well known that nuclear energy is everything but safe. As I was involved with the German anti nuclear movement since the early 80s, here are some articles which reflect on movement strategy and/or success.


Clickable nuclear power in Britain map

This is a clickable map of past, present, and planned nuclear power stations in Britain, plus important sites of Britains nuclear weapons programme.

This map is based on OpenStreetMap, and users OpenLayers for placing of the icons. You can click on an icon to see more information. You can also zoom in and out (see zoombar on the left), or move around on the map.


EPR, an explosive technology

This is the translation of one of the documents the Network “Sortir du nucléaire” (“Phasing out nuclear power”) got from an EDF

Presentation on Nuclear New Build in Britain

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Presentation on New Nuclear

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Local Democracy Dumped!

As government ends flawed consultation on nuclear power, anti-nuclear power activists step up resistance and blockade Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, England.

Blockade of Sizewell nuclear power station, 22 February 2010Blockade of Sizewell nuclear power station, 22 February 2010Since 6.40am on 22 February 2010, anti-nuclear power activists from the 'People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition' [1] have been blockading Sizewell power station in protest against the flawed government consultation on nuclear new build, which ends today, and the dumping of local democracy.


Germany’s “anti-nuclear” government starts Castor transports again

30,000 police force transport through in Wendland - 5,000 police in Philippsburg two weeks later

Since October 1998 Germany has a coalition government of social democrats and Greens, who both proclaimed that getting out of nuclear energy would be one of their main concerns. Now this government started a series of nuclear waste transports accompanied by huge police forces and temporary bans on any form of demonstrations unprecedented in „democratic“ Germany. This year probably will bring even more transports of spent fuel rods to the reprocessing plants in La Hague/France and Sellafield/Britain.


Victory in defeat as nuclear transport goes through

On 25 April, a transport of spent nuclear fuel rods reached the intermediate storage site in Gorleben, Lower Saxony (Peace News September 1994, January 1995), the way having been cleared of protesters by 15,000 police in the county of Wendland and throughout the railway network. The bill for the police operation alone is estimated at 55 million marks (£25 million). ANDREAS SPECK looks at the history of the anti-nuclear campaign and suggests how to sharpen strategies for nonviolent protest.

The first "Castor" radioactive waste transport--enforced in April through a massive police operation--does not mark the end of resistance in the Wendland, but the beginning of a new and more powerful anti-nuclear movement.


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