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Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power – full report

Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power:
NGO world-wide study on the implications of the catastrophe
at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station   

There is a new international NGO world wide study on nuclear issues in light of the Fukushima disaster 6 months ago. It has a range of articles and country by country updates on the state of nukes. It is coordinated by Ray at Reaching Critical Will in New York. Its a must read and is downloadable from here:

full report
http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/publications/costs-risks-myths/report.pdf     It was released on 11 September 2011, six months after the disaster at Fukushima and in advance of the high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene at the United Nations on 22 September. Its release is also timed to coincide with the UN system-wide study of the implications of Fukushima commissioned by Ban.

The UN General Assembly opens this week in New York and it will be used there as well as that meeting on 22 September.

Here are the contents:

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Who, what, where: the nuclear fuel cycle’s footprint

Overview of the Fukushima nuclear disaster


Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power

No escape from accidents

Nuclear weapons and nuclear power

Poisoned pathways: impacts of the nuclear fuel chain

Nuclear energy and climate change: limits and risks

A sustainable planet: shifting the energy paradigm

Nuclear power vs. renewable energy

 

Civil society reports from around the world

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Democratic Republic of Congo

France

Germany

India

Israel

Italy

Japan

Namibia

Netherlands

Norway

Pakistan

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

 

Annexes

Annex 1: Letter from Yvonne Margarula to Ban Ki-moon

Annex 2: Letter from IPPNW to Prime Minister Kan

Annex 3: Other important resources

September 12, 2011 - Posted by | general

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