Why nuclear alarms are elusive: with nuclear weapons, evacuation is not an option

I would hate to see the catastrophe experienced by our community played out on a global nuclear battlefield, but that is the direction in which the world is heading. The time ending the nuclear weapons threat to humanity is now, before it is too late. The draft Nuclear Posture Review should be scrapped and replaced with the commitment to take nuclear weapons off high alert status; to implement pledges of No First Use; and to commit to negotiate to achieve the only number that makes sense in a nuclear context: Zero.

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Cancel the Astravets Nuclear Power Station Project: NGOs Demand After Stress Test in Belarus

NGO Statement on the National Report of the Republic of Belarus on the Belarusian NPP Objective Safety Reassessment (Stress tests) 22 January 2018 In November 2017, the National Report of the Republic of Belarus on the Belarusian NPP Objective Safety Reassessment was published on the web-site of the Belarusian nuclear […]

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Swedish Environmental Court Says NO to Nuclear Waste Repository, A Precedent Which Others Must Follow

The Swedish Environmental Court says no to the power industry’s Nuclear Waste Company SKB’s license application for a final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, Sweden. This is a huge triumph for safety and environment – and for the Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG), the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), and critical scientists who have been presenting risks of the malfunction of the selected method. Now it is up to the Swedish government to make the final decision.

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Rooppur Nuclear Project in Bangladesh: Challenging Rosatom’s Claims

On December 25, 2017, an opinion piece was published in The Daily Star by Andrey Shevlyakov titled “Changing perceptions on nuclear energy.” Given the author’s institutional position as the acting CEO of Rosatom South Asia and their business interest, it is not surprising that he is engaged in an effort to change the public perception of nuclear power. After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and global trend to backtrack from nuclear power projects, any company with huge investment in this industry is bound to engage in such a campaign. We appreciate the author’s effort to publicly engage in discussion on the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant; however, we write this response to his article to record our dissent to Rosatom’s misinformation campaign. What Shevlyakov has written does not reflect the real scenario of the nuclear industry today, rather it was a clever attempt to justify a dangerously destructive project.

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