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Resisting nuclear power

Why anti nuclear energy?
11. June 2006 - 18:01

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.

Harrisburg, Chernobyl, Fukushima. When do we learn the lessons?
15. March 2011 - 11:42

„If there is anything to be learnt we will learn it, because safety is our number one concern“, said Energy Secretary Chris Huhne on 14 March, after the horrendous nuclear accident at Fuku

We can stop new nuclear – if we want to!
10. December 2010 - 0:00

Thoughts on the anti nuclear power movement in Britain

By Andreas Speck

Anti-nuclear campaigners blockade EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power plant
4. October 2010 - 21:00

Blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, 4 October 2010Blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, 4 October 2010From 6.30am until 10:45am, anti-nuclear campaigners from diff

Clickable nuclear power in Britain map
23. July 2010 - 11:12

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

EPR, an explosive technology
11. April 2010 - 14:05

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
5. April 2010 - 10:48

Flash presentation

Presentation on New Nuclear

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Nuclear Power in Britain (map)
1. March 2010 - 9:00

Nuclear Power in Britain: Map of past, present, and planned nuclear power stations in Britain. Map based on Wikipedia, icons based on Wikimedia. For an svg version of the map, click on the map imageNuclear Power in Britain: Map of past, present, and planned nuclear power stations in Britain. Map based on Wikipedia, icons based on Wikimedia. For an svg version of the map, click on the map image

Local Democracy Dumped!
23. February 2010 - 14:49

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
5. May 2001 - 0:00

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.