Anti-nuclear activists protest in Sydney


Anti-nuclear activists have protested outside an international nuclear forum at Sydney's Lowy Institute.

Protesters including Greens NSW MP John Kaye, gathered outside the building in Sydney's CBD this afternoon.

Mr Kaye said Australian uranium should not be fuelling "more Fukushimas".   ;)


The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in northern Japan were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on March 11.   :(  

It has been dubbed the world's biggest nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986.   :o

"We're hoping that the people in there understand that they can't have it all their own way," Mr Kaye said.

"For 50 years we've had expansion of nuclear; it's time to recognise that they have imposed huge costs both at Fukushima, Chernobyl and on to the Aboriginal people both in terms of waste dumps and mines.

"Next week is the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl and the world will still be living through the nightmare of Fukushima.   :(

"We hope that the Australian people will say very loudly they don't want to be part of the nuclear cycle."

The forum, titled "Asia's nuclear future after Fukushima: The role of nuclear industry", was led by the head of the Australian Uranium Association, Michael Angwin.

Those speaking at the forum included director of France's multinational nuclear energy company Selena Ng and the chief executive of Australian uranium production company Paladin Energy, John Borshoff.

Yes it's very safe isn't it :(

We hope that Australian people will say very loudly they don't want to be part of the nuclear cycle.   ;)

wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 5:27pm:

Anti-nuclear activists protest in Sydney Anti-nuclear activists have protested outside an international nuclear forum at Sydney's Lowy Institute. Protesters including Greens NSW MP John Kaye, gathered outside the building in Sydney's CBD this afternoon. Mr Kaye said Australian uranium should not be fuelling "more Fukushimas".   ;) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in northern Japan were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on March 11.   :(   It has been dubbed the world's biggest nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986.   :o "We're hoping that the people in there understand that they can't have it all their own way," Mr Kaye said. "For 50 years we've had expansion of nuclear; it's time to recognise that they have imposed huge costs both at Fukushima, Chernobyl and on to the Aboriginal people both in terms of waste dumps and mines. "Next week is the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl and the world will still be living through the nightmare of Fukushima.   :( "We hope that the Australian people will say very loudly they don't want to be part of the nuclear cycle." The forum, titled "Asia's nuclear future after Fukushima: The role of nuclear industry", was led by the head of the Australian Uranium Association, Michael Angwin. Those speaking at the forum included director of France's multinational nuclear energy company Selena Ng and the chief executive of Australian uranium production company Paladin Energy, John Borshoff.

AND, SO what???
Fukushima is not even close to Chernobyl....

Typical rent-a-mob bludgers.

protesting when there is nothing to protest.

gizmo_2655 wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 5:31pm:

AND, SO what??? Fukushima is not even close to Chernobyl....

What makes you so sure of that!?

The official estimates are that the Fukushima incident has already released about 10% of the radiation that was released in the Chernobyl incident - and the plant's operator is not even able to promise that they will have stopped the ongoing releases within 6-9 months...

These official estimates are likely to be proven to have been serious underestimates...

There are 3 partially-melted-down reactors involved at Fukushima - there was only 1 affected at Chernobyl...

There are also 4 choc-a-block, damaged and exposed spent fuel pools at Fukushima - none of which are secure some 5 weeks after the quake and tsunami - and much of which fuel has already been uncovered for many hours at a time...

Unlike Chernobyl, Fukushima is literally leaking swimming pools full of radioactive water directly into the groundwater and nearby ocean...

Unlike Chernobyl, which effectively-burnt itself out, there are ongoing issues at Fukushima - including the risk of spontaneously reaching criticality...

High and rising temperatures and low pressure levels in 2 of the reactors are not good signs - since they indicate that there is one or more leaks...

A lot can still go wrong in the next 9 months - and the coming 9 weeks in particular!

Shame that there ain't to many 'locals' of Chernobyl left to celebrate the historic occassion. Last doco done there showed what locals were left couldn't breed, let alone enjoy a quality of life due to ill health in very extreme aspects.

Nuclear is like a P-Plater doing 200km during a School Zone 40km.

...do you really need such 'power'? ::)

Good to see that the Federal Politics is still screwing the future of this country over for the benefit of other countries.
Can't wait for the Art Industry (not the pouncy Archibald tribe) kicks Politics in the  assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Happy birrrthday to Chernobyl.
Happy birrrrthday to you.
Happy birrrthday dear Chernobyl.
Happy birrrrthday to you.

hip hip!   HORAY!!!

The head of the UN warned on a landmark visit to Chernobyl on Wednesday that the Ukrainian tragedy and the recent accident in Japan prompted "painful questions" about the future of atomic power.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon visited the site of the Chernobyl disaster a day after world donors pledged 550 million euros ($800 million) towards a permanent shelter to secure the ruined reactor, which exploded on April 26, 1986.

Speaking in Kiev afterwards, he warned that the recent quake damage to Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant showed that accidents like Chernobyl were likely to occur again in the future.   :o


"The unfortunate truth is we are likely to see more such disasters. The world has witnessed an unnerving history of nuclear accidents," he said at a conference, calling for a global debate on the safety of nuclear energy.

"To many, nuclear energy looks to be a relatively clean and logical choice in an era of increasing resources' scarcity. Yet the record requires us to ask painful questions: have we correctly calculated its risks and costs?" he said.   :(

Ban spoke after flying to Chernobyl by helicopter, standing outside the power plant for around 20 minutes with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on a visit that he described as an "extremely moving experience."

He warned the effects of climate change were likely to lead to more disasters like that at the Fukushima plant, which was damaged by a quake and tsunami in a disaster that Japan has labelled at an equal level of severity as Chernobyl.   :(

"We have seen in Japan the effects of natural disasters particularly in areas vulnerable to seismic activities," the UN secretary general said.

"Climate change means more incidents of freak and increasingly severe weather (and) with the number of nuclear energy facilities scheduled to increase substantially in the coming decades our vulnerability will only grow."   :(

The UN chief's visit came after dozens of international donors gathered in Kiev Tuesday to come up with the funds needed to replace the temporary casing now protecting Chernobyl with a more permanent outer shell.

But the high-profile gathering, which included the head of the European Commission and the prime minister of France, fell short of the 740 million euros sought by Ukraine.   :(

The pledged money will go to a project administered by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), with part also funding a safe storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from inside the reactor.

Both the new outer shell and the storage centre are due to be operational in 2015 and Yanukovych stressed Wednesday that the money pledged was enough to complete the construction of the shelter on time.

"Yesterday we raised the main part of the sum. The rest, I am sure, will be gathered shortly. De facto, we have the possibility to build the new shelter to finish the construction here by 2015," he said.

The EBRD said in a statement Tuesday that it would work with major donors "to close the remaining financial gap."

The UN chief said he was impressed by the construction work he saw at Chernobyl.

"I saw the Chernobyl command centre and the encouraging progress in building a new shelter for a damaged reactor," he said.

"It was a very impressive, creative and ambitious project to shelter the damaged reactor for the coming 100 years."

We all know that LAND MINES are safe and are very useful as a preventative measure.
But we all know that one's own children and people walk over them and "pop goes the weasel".

...some things we just don't need and cancerous things like Nuclear Reactors are just such a thing.
We have, so far harmless (well thats what they tell us) levels of the Nipponese Radiation OVER AUSTRALIA now. :o

http://animal.sp@m/news/afp/20060417/gallery/chernobyl_zoom.jpg


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Running Wild in Chernobyl A worker in the so-called exclusion zone around Ukraine's ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear power plant lures a wild Przewalski's horse. Seventeen Przewalski's horses were brought to the Chernobyl zone in the late 90s for scientific purposes to watch radioactive influence upon animals after the fatal 1986 explosion. Today, the steeds number between 80 and 90, and the area around Chernobyl is one of the few places in the world where they still roam free.

http://animal.sp@m/news/afp/20060417/chernobyl.html

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Nearly completely unperturbed by man — some 350 "self-settlers" still live inside the zone, but this mainly elderly group generally keeps to its eight villages — the flora and fauna here have developed with virtually no human interference. In one day, a lucky first-time visitor may see elk, foxes, otters, beavers, wild boars, gray cranes and endangered great spotted eagles. Regular visitors say bears have also been spotted in the area. With so few people, the zone is the perfect habitat for endangered species. The Chernobyl International Radioecology Laboratory has so far recorded the presence there of more than 400 animal species, including 280 kinds of birds and 50 endangered species. And despite apocalyptic predictions at the time of the Chernobyl disaster, the animal species living inside the forbidden zone are not strange, disproportioned mutants.