INFORSE-Europe & Nuclear Power

Protests Against Nuclear

INFORSE-Europe proposes a general phase-out of nuclear power, and is active in debates about the  development of new nuclear power plants. In Europe very few new nuclear power plants are planned, and INFORSE-Europe's recent activities in the field has been limited to the following specific activities and interventions in debates about the EU energy policy .

# CherNObyl+20: April 26, 2006
Twenty years ago on April 26, 1986, the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine marked a new era in the mindset related to nuclear energy. Our remembrance of the catastrophe is intended not only to highlight the very poor conditions in which many affected people still have to live, but also to use it to make the message heard:
“Nuclear power is not safe, not clean, and not cheap.”
This is of vital importance, especially nowadays, when some countries are considering new and renewed nuclear power plants. Several events are planned for the anniversary.

An International Conference, Kiev, Ukraine: “Remembrance for the future”, April 23-25th in Kiev, Ukraine. More: www.ch20.org

Photo-Documentary Publication & Exhibition “Chernobyl - 20 Years, 20 Lives” - follows 20 people in their daily lives today and reflects on how those lives were changed directly or indirectly by the Chernobyl catastrophe. More: www.earth-vision.biz/20lives/

More Events: World Information Service on Energy (WISE) and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) gather events related to the Chernobyl’s disaster. WISE/NIRS can be contacted in Argentina, Austria, Czech Republic, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, South Africa, and USA.
More information: www.antenna.nl/wise, and www.nirs.org
Ph: +31 20 612 6368, Fax: +31 20 689 2179, E-mail: wiseamster@antenna.nl .

# INFORSE-Europe Supports EUROPEAN PETITION –
1 Million Europeans Demand the Exit of Nuclear Power

INFORSE/Europe and 47 other organisations and movements from some 20 European countries were on the Chernobyl Memorial day April 26th, 2004, launching a European Campaign for collecting 1 million signatures against nuclear power.
For a period until April 26th 2006, the aim is to collect signatures and activate more organisations to join the campaign in order to convince all European countries to take the following measures without delay :

- To stop or prevent the construction of new nuclear power plants and facilities in the European Union,
- To launch a plan to abandon nuclear power within the European Union,
- To invest massively in energy saving and the development of renewable energies,
- To repeal the Euratom Treaty which massively supports nuclear power in Europe by means of public funding

You can read more about the petition at www.atomstopp.at/1million

# EURATOM
INFORSE-Europe support the proposal that EURATOM should have changed its mandate from promoting nuclear power to ensure the safety of nuclear power and other nuclear facilities. Therefore INFORSE-Europe also support the proposal that the EU countries should organise an intergovernmental conference on the revision of the Euratom Treaty.

14 New Reactors in Central Europe?
An article on the possible expansion of nuclear power in the new EU countries and beyond.

# K2R4 Anti-Nuclear Campaign

The K2R4 anti nuclear campaign is in Ukraine, where two half-ready nuclear reactors at the Khmelnytski and Rivne nuclear power plants were finished and got online in the summer of 2004.
INFORSE-Europe has protested against the plans to finish these reactor with loans from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and EU Euratom.

# Nuclear Power in Finland

In May 2001, INFORSE-Europe joined an appeal to the Government and Parliament of Finland. Read it.

In 2003, the Finnish government approved a new Finnish nuclear reactor.
In December 2004, the European Renewable Energy Federation (www.eref-europe.org) raised a courtcase against the state-aid involved in the financing of the new reactor.

# Import of Nuclear Waste to Russia

INFORSE-Europe is following the NGO-activities to stop a new proposal for import of nuclear waste to Russia. The Russian NGO's collected 2.5 million signatures against the plans in the fall of 2000, and have continued protests in 2001. In spite of this, the Russian Duma supported legislation to allow the import at votings in January and April 2001.