No solutions for nuclear waste – no new nuclear power plants!
Greenpeace Switzerland, November 30, 2025
To date, there is no long-term safe solution for the storage of nuclear waste anywhere in the world. This is shown in a new study commissioned by Greenpeace Switzerland. It makes clear that the option planned in Switzerland—burying the nuclear waste in a clay layer north of the cantons of Zurich and Aargau—is fraught with numerous uncertainties.
Here are three reasons why Switzerland must phase out nuclear power as quickly as possible and reduce the production of highly radioactive waste.
1. Burying nuclear waste is not a solution
The Greenpeace study summarizes the findings of over 800 scientific papers on the deep geological disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the last 15 years. It reveals several new problems that are still poorly understood even by experts. These include phenomena such as the mutual weakening of various safety barriers, as well as processes (such as heat and radiation exposure, colloids, cracks, etc.) that could accelerate the spread of radioactive materials in the soil and groundwater.
Overall, it is clear that none of the “solutions” discussed so far for the deep geological disposal of these highly radioactive materials – neither in clay nor in granite formations – can guarantee that the radioactivity will remain safely contained in the long term. This finding is particularly worrying given that the Federal Council is considering a return to nuclear energy.
2. Swiss deep geological repository does not meet safety requirements
The report questions the safety of the planned deep geological repository. The National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) intends to store the highly radioactive waste in thick-walled steel containers, which are to be embedded in an Opalinus Clay layer at a depth of approximately 900 meters. The repository is designed to contain the radioactivity for one million years.
However, the study shows that certain processes could undermine the safety of the repository after only 1,000 or 2,000 years. Given these uncertainties, the optimism of the project’s proponents seems disconcerting.
The Federal Council also seems keen to present the public with a final plan as quickly as possible – for political and financial reasons. In other words, the problem should be resolved as quickly as possible in order to revive nuclear energy in Switzerland.
This is dangerous: We must not make any hasty decisions.
3. The safest way: No new waste – therefore no nuclear power
The reality is that Switzerland currently lacks a safe solution for the long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste. Continuing to pursue the planned deep geological repository in the Northern Lägern region, despite so many doubts, is not a good idea.
Furthermore, there is no disposal strategy whatsoever for a potential new reactor – a point that neither the Federal Council nor the proponents of nuclear energy ever openly address.
Given this situation, we must stop the production of highly radioactive waste as quickly as possible and prevent the problem from worsening through new nuclear power plants. Therefore, please sign our petition: https://www.greenpeace.ch/de/handeln/atomkraft-nie-wieder/
Week of Protest sees 100 Actions Demanding No War with Venezuela.
Protest actions took place in 100 locations during the week of November 15 – 23. Protests occurring across the U.S. and Canada as well as in Australia, Britain, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Napal and Pakistan. In the U.S., protesters also called for an end to federal troops in our streets and a number of protests also raised the issue of ending the genocide in Gaza and Sudan. Click here to see a list of the actions.
Holding the Memories Webinar
| Join us for our webinar co-hosted with Labrats, Holding the Memories: Communities Leading the Fight for Nuclear Archival Justice a panel presentation exploring barriers to accessing nuclear archives and expose the power of community-held memory. |
WHEN
NEW YORK Wednesday November 19, 4pm, EST
LONDON Wednesday November 19, 9pm, GMT
MELBOURNE Thursday, November 20, 8am, AEST
FIJI/MARSHALL ISLANDS Thursday 20 Nov – 9am FJT & MHT
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View or event on our new website and help us share the webinar out on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin
REGISTER – https://events.humanitix.com/holding-the-memories
Featuring:
- Dimity Hawkins (Nuclear Truth Project, Australia)
- Alan Owen (LabRats International, UK)
- Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara-Anangu community leader, Australia)
- Dr Chris Hill (University of South Wales, UK)
- Dr Jon Hogg (University of Liverpool, UK)
Building on the Nuclear Truth Project’s Challenging Nuclear Secrecy report (2025), this international collaboration brings together affected community members, nuclear justice advocates and organisations from the UK and Australia.
The webinar will explore barriers to accessing nuclear archives and expose the power of community-held memory.
Focusing on British nuclear weapons testing in Australia and the Pacific (1952–1963), the discussion will focus on archival access as a core part of nuclear justice, victim assistance, and environmental restoration.
How do communities impacted by nuclear weapons testing overcome systemic barriers to accessing official records of harm to Peoples and Country?
Join us to learn how memory is held — and fought for — by those most affected.
22 October – Event for UN Disarmament Week -The Scientific Future of Nuclear War
Wednesday October 22. 10am New York Time / 4pm Central Europe Time
Join Youth Fusion and Dr. Maria Cetto, esteemed Youth Fusion Elder and newly appointed expert to the UN Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. This critical initiative, announced by the UN Secretary-General, is currently working to assess the devastating global consequences of nuclear war and produce a report to guide international action.
We will explore how the risks of nuclear war and approaches to preventing it are perceived across generations and how scientific evidence and advocacy efforts intersect to inform public awareness and political action. Dr Cetto and Youth Fusion will be joined by Emilio Meryn, a young Cambridge physicist, and advocacy representatives, creating a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational exchange.
For more information contact Camilla Braito.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board!
Nuclear Watch, Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Scott Kovac, Research Director, Sophie Stroud, Digital Content Manager and Youth Specialist, 13 Oct 25
| The government is still shut down (unfortunately). But it does mean there’s still time to ask Congress to get a provision in the pending Continuing Resolution to keep the government running that will help save the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). |
Background: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency within the executive branch of the Federal Government. The DNFSB is chartered with the responsibility to provide recommendations and advice to the Secretary of Energy regarding public health and safety issues at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons facilities, including with the health and safety of employees, contractors, and nearby communities (for more see www.dnfsb.gov).
Congress established the Board in 1988 in response to increasing reports of nuclear safety risks impacting workers and the public. Since early this year, the Board has been reduced to just two Members out of five, with a temporary one-year statutory bridge to constitute a quorum that is drawing to a close. In addition, the current Acting Chairman’s term expires this October 18, ending the Board’s functioning quorum. Without it, the DNFSB cannot effectively carry out its critical nuclear safety oversight mission. The public would simply not know about the DOE’s chronic nuclear safety problems without the Board. This is critically important today given expanding production of nuclear weapons.
| Specific request: There should be a provision in any Continuing Resolution for FY 2026 that would temporarily extend the authority of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board by allowing the Acting Chair to serve until the end of January 2027. The overriding purpose is to enable the Safety Board to fully continue operations and provide more time for the President to nominate, and the Senate to confirm, new Safety Board Members. |
| Congress must take action to protect nuclear safety by preserving DNFSB’s quorum! |
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The nuclear choice: a people’s economy or the bosses’ bomb?
30 September 2025, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nuclear-choice-peoples-economy-or-bosses-bomb
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
N a month’s time, trade unionists, environmentalists, community organisations and political activists will gather in Glasgow to push back firmly against the British government’s drive towards rearmament and further investment in Britain’s dangerous and wasteful nuclear weapons programme.
The gathering, organised by Scottish CND, will bring together campaigners from across these islands. But the particular spectre of Trident submarines located just a few miles down the road at Faslane will not be lost on anyone attending in person or online.
Bluntly entitled Stop the Nuclear Nightmare, the aim of this timely event in the heart of Scotland’s largest city — a former shipbuilding and heavy industry powerhouse — is to make the direct connection between the threat nuclear weapons pose in an increasingly unstable world and the vast misdirection of economic resources they represent.
As large arms companies savour the prospect of many more billions being poured into military production across Europe, and as the Labour government powers ahead with an unstable, unreliable and unnecessary Trident replacement programme, the choices facing us become abundantly clear.
Will the AI-driven technological revolution of the coming decades lead to an unprecedented era of opportunity and possibility for the great majority, or will our needs and future be sacrificed to the remorseless drive for accumulation by a heavily armed few?
A major focus of Scottish CND’s mobilising conference will therefore be on the back-to-front economics of nuclear-fronted militarism, and the huge potential benefits in terms of jobs, prosperity and environment which a genuinely “just transition” way from both nuclear and fossil fuel dependence could represent.
At the centre of this debate is the political challenge of reframing the discourse about defence towards the concrete issues of human need and security arising from a continuing cost-of-living crisis and the political fragmentation which a lack of a clear vision around this worsens.
The spin from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his defence secretary John Healey is that a massive expansion of military industry and capability is necessary to ensure Britain’s security and to guarantee jobs and prosperity for its people. Neither of these assertions is true.
As far as security goes, the reality is that the drive to rearmament will increase insecurity and deepen potential conflict, likely leading to a new and perilous wave of nuclear proliferation. But the grim lesson of modern history is that almost all arms races lead to war.
Nor is this expansion necessary. Britain’s military spending was among the highest in the world, well before the latest hike was proposed, and in real terms exceeded spending on defence at the height of the cold war in 1980.
Yet this Labour government has committed to vast increases in the arms bill, from 2.3 per cent of GDP currently (£66.3 billion) to 2.5 per cent by 2027/2028 (£80.5bn) and 3.5 per cent (£121.2bn based on the 2029/30 GDP forecast) by 2035.
Unsurprisingly, it is transnational arms companies themselves who are lobbying hard for all this. They smell profits and the chance to retool in a way which will create neither sustainable jobs nor socially beneficial production.
The promise of “military Keynesianism” (a big boost to civilian benefit from military investment) is a false one. A people’s economy is effectively being sacrificed for a bosses’ bomb.
That picture is reinforced by research coming from an unlikely source, the leading military think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
“Framing defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments,” argue Noah Sylvia and Khem Rogaly in their recent RUSI paper, The False Promise of Defence as Prosperity.
They continue: “Starmer’s government claims that the defence sector will become an ‘engine for growth,’ a route to ‘prosperity’ and a source of security for working people. These arguments are now lynchpins of the government’s narrative as it fails to deal with stagnation and real incomes are squeezed.”
Sylvia and Rogaly then proceed systematically to dismantle such claims, citing sobering arguments and data from the European Commission, the Rand Corporation and other eminently Establishment sources.
Trade unions are among those who are waking up fast to the spectre of a dangerous and damaging future unless we make the link between economic security and a major shift away from the old technologies of human and climate destruction.
Others are yet to be convinced. There is understandable concern about the future of jobs and livelihoods currently tied to the arms sector and nuclear weapons.
But unless we start to build pressure now, to counteract the new military-industrial complex rhetoric, we will find ourselves with fewer and fewer genuine choices.
The Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow is a major opportunity to articulate a different vision, to mobilise for change, and to organise for a better and safer future.
Simon Barrow is a writer, trade union activist and consultant to Scottish CND on the Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference at Adelaide Place, Glasgow, from 10am to 4:30pm on Saturday November 1. Full details at www.banthebomb.org.
10 October Peace Camp: Salir de Casa por Gaza
10 October – 8:00 am – 18 October – 5:00 pm
WILPF Spain is taking the lead in calling for a women’s camp in Brussels to demand action from the European Union against the genocide in Gaza.
The camp is scheduled for October 10 to 18 or 19, 2025, and it will end with a public demonstration in Brussels. The aim is to show our solidarity with Gaza and demand that the European Union—the Commission and the Parliament—urgently:
1. Act to ensure constant and sufficient humanitarian aid, managed by the United Nations, to the population of Gaza in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law.
2. Exercise its influence to force Israel to agree to a permanent ceasefire and end the occupation.
3. Suspend the association agreement with the State of Israel in view of the violation of the clause on respect for human rights.
WILPF Spain calls on other women’s groups to join these demands by participating in and publicising this action.
Those interested in participating can register by completing this form and helping us to publicise this call.
Zoom Nuclear Waste Scholar Series: The Body is an Archive: Unearthing Hidden Histories of Radiation and Public Trust Through Baby Teeth
Date & Time
Oct 4, 2025 05:00 AM in Etc/GMT-10 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fn65SAKXRkWuWzmUfA4FKw#/registration
Description
What can a child’s tooth reveal about history, risk, and trust in science? In his talk on Fri, October 3 at noon PT, Professor Jeffrey Sanders will trace how the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey turned thousands of donated teeth into powerful evidence that Cold War nuclear fallout was entering children’s bones—evidence that helped secure the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He follows the surprising afterlives of this archive, from rediscovery in a New Jersey garage to cutting-edge research today that uses lasers to link early exposures to later health effects. Along the way, he asks enduring questions about science, activism, and public trust: Who gets to measure risk, control knowledge, and decide what stories our bodies can still tell?
Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB, Why Turn Away from the Right Path?
Why this petition matters:
- The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are international financial institutions funded by governments to support economic development, poverty reduction, and infrastructure.
- Until now, both institutions have avoided supporting nuclear power projects for the following reasons:
nuclear proliferation risks- serious concerns over safety
- radioactive waste
- extremely high costs
- On June 10, the World Bank’s Board decided to lift its ban on financing nuclear projects.
- The ADB is currently reviewing its energy policy, and indications suggest it may also move to allow support for nuclear power.
- However, the problems of nuclear power — safety risks, radioactive waste, nuclear proliferation, and high costs — remain unresolved.
- Introducing nuclear power in developing countries would impose major risks and costs not only on today’s citizens but also on future generations.
For these reasons, we are preparing to send the following petition to both the World Bank and ADB. We ask for your support by adding your signature. We will submit all signatures and comments to the World Bank and ADB.
Let’s act together to prevent today’s decisions from burdening tomorrow’s generations.
International Petition: “Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB, Why Turn Away from the Right Path?”
To: Mr. Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group
To: Mr. Masato Kanda, President of the Asian Development Bank
We are deeply concerned that the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are moving toward lifting the ban on financing and supporting nuclear power projects.
The core reasons why the World Bank and the ADB have long refrained from supporting nuclear energy include inseparable risks of nuclear weapons proliferation and the unresolved problems of radioactive waste. These concerns remain unchanged today. Furthermore, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed that nuclear power plants can become military targets, adding another serious security threat.
As demonstrated by the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasters, one accident can cause widespread, long-term contamination and serious social and economic disruption.
Even without accidents or attacks, nuclear energy releases radioactive substances into the environment at every stage of its lifecycle—mining, fuel production and processing, operation, decommissioning, and the disposal of spent nuclear fuel. Uranium mining, in particular, has often violated the rights of Indigenous peoples and harmed their health, lands and environment.
Nuclear waste generated from operating nuclear power plants remains hazardous for tens of thousands of years, requiring secure isolation from the biosphere for geological periods of time. Yet most countries still have no disposal site.
Due to “security” considerations, some information related to the planning and construction of nuclear power plants is kept secret. As a result, communities and NGOs often have limited access to crucial safety information. This lack of transparency conflicts with the safeguard policies of international financial institutions which emphasize openness, accountability, and stakeholder consultation.
In recent years, the cost of building nuclear power plants has soared, often reaching tens of billions of USD per unit and increasing several-fold beyond initial estimates. Private investors have shifted away from nuclear power and toward renewable energy, leading to the rapid growth of renewable energy technologies. The high costs of nuclear power – now the most expensive form of new electricity generation – and its requirement for large direct and indirect government subsidies have high opportunity costs, delaying and undermining the needed rapid scale-up of benign renewable energy.
Construction of nuclear power reactors typically takes well over a decade, often more than two, too slow for mitigating the accelerating climate crisis.
We must also recognize the vulnerabilities of nuclear power. As a large, centralized source of electricity, nuclear plants can have far-reaching impacts when they unexpectedly shut down due to accidents or technical problems. In recent years, heatwaves have raised seawater and river temperatures, making it impossible to obtain cooling water in some cases.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) also fail to address many of these concerns, especially those related to fissile material, radioactive wastes, nuclear weapons proliferation risks and economic viability.
Supporting the construction of nuclear power plants in developing countries would impose not only serious long-term dangers but also a massive economic burden on current and future generations in those nations.
We therefore call on the World Bank Group and the ADB to refrain from providing any form of support or financing for nuclear power.
Initial Endorsers:
11 march movement, Belgium
350.org Japan, Japan
Aktionsbündnis STOP Westcastor Jülich, Germany
AKW-nee-Gruppe Aachen, Germany
Alliance for Climate & Ecology, Korea
Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Australia
AYUS International Buddhist Cooperation Network／アーユス仏教国際協力ネットワーク, Japan
Belgische Coalitie Stop Uraniumwapens (Belgian part of the International Coalition for a Ban on Uraniumweapons), Belgium
Beyond Nuclear, United States
Bündnis für „Sichere Verwahrung von Atom-Müll, Germany
Centre for Financial Accountability(CFA), India
Citizen’s Eyes on Nuclear Regulation／原子力規制を監視する市民の会, Japan
Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) ／原子力市民委員会, Japan
Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center／原子力資料情報室, Japan
Climate Express11 march movement, Belgium
Corner House, United Kingdom
Ecodefense, Russia
Environmental Association “Za Zemiata” – Friends of the Earth Bulgaria, Bulgaria
European Environmental Bureau, Belgium
Forum for Protection of Public Interest (Pro Public) , Nepal
Friends of the Earth Australia, Australia
Friends of the Earth India, India
Friends of the Earth International, International
and so many more ………………………………………………….https://www.change.org/p/say-no-to-nuclear-financing-world-bank-and-adb-why-turn-away-from-the-right-path?recruiter=1386886086&recruited_by_id=c79f25d0-86d4-11f0-b695-9765954ef395&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&utm_medium=copylink
23 September -Webinar -Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them.
REGISTER—Massachusetts Peace Action Zoom webinar, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, https://masspeaceaction.org/event/meltdown-of-democracy-bringing-nukes-back-despite-statewide-vote-against-them/ Tuesday, September 23.
Democratic State Governors across the country are selling us out to President Trump’s Executive Orders to revive “gold-plated nuclear power” to enrich the few, with nuclear waste and electrifying rate hikes for the rest. The people of Massachusetts are mobilizing to oppose Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s plan to repeal a 1982 Public Referendum requiring a statewide vote before new reactors and nuclear dumps can even be considered. But Democratic Governors Kathy Hochul (NY), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Gavin Newsom (CA), Tony Evers (WI), Ned Lamont (CT), Josh Shapiro (PA), JB Pritzker (IL) and Wes Moore (MD) are unwittingly or otherwise joining Healey to rally under Trump’s authoritarian “Unleashing Atomic Power”!
22 September 2025 – INVITATION: Global Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025
Co-Hosted by Kyoto Club, the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
at Spazio Europa, Rome, jointly operated by the European Parliament and the European Commission
Date
Monday, 22 September 2025
Time
10:00–12:30 (CET)
(Welcome coffee and registrations start at 9:30)
Location
Spazio Europa
Via Quattro Novembre, 149
00187 Rome
Italy
Language 
English and Italian, with simultaneous translation
To attend in person, please register here
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube here
Note: The full 589-page report will be available for free download as of 22 September 2025 at 10:00 CET here
There will be a diverse lineup of distinguished speakers from seven countries.
PROGRAM
Chaired by ELENA COMELLI, Independent Journalist
➣ Welcome: BENJAMIN FISHMAN | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Paris, France
➣ General Introduction: LETIZIA MAGALDI | President, Kyoto Club, Rome, Italy
➣ Topical Introduction: JOCHEN AHLSWEDE | Head of Directorate-General, Research and Long-term Documentation German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE)
Presentation WNISR2025
➤ Global Overview
MYCLE SCHNEIDER | Independent Analysist, Paris, France; WNISR Coordinator and Publisher
➤ South Africa & Potential Newcomer Countries in Africa
HARTMUT WINKLER | Prof, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)
➤ Russia, Ukraine & Russia Nuclear Interdependencies
DMITRY GORCHAKOV | Nuclear Advisor, Bellona Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania; WNISR Contributing Author
➤ Fukushima Status Report and Japan Focus
TATSUJIRO SUZUKI | President, Peace Depot, Visiting Prof, Nagasaki University, Japan; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)
➤ Decommissioning Status Report
ALEXANDER WIMMERS | Research Associate, Berlin University of Technology, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author
➤ Challenges of Integrating Nuclear Power into the Energy System – Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment
RUGGERO SCHLEICHER–TAPPESER | Independent Consultant and Writer, Berlin, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author
Q & A
➣ Conclusions : LETIZIA MAGALDI
Note: the event will prioritize questions from media representatives; however a public event with a similar program will also be held in the afternoon, at the same location (see full program attached).
Background. The annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) is the go-to source for reliable, fact-based information on the nuclear industry. It provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on age, operation, production, and construction of reactors. In addition, the WNISR2025 assesses in an in-depth focus chapter the Challenges of Integrating Nuclear Power into the Energy System, a compatibility analysis of nuclear energy with modern renewables-based electricity systems, complemented by a comparative analysis of Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment. Solar plus storage increasingly emerges as a major game changer. A chapter on Russian Nuclear Interdependencies looks not only into supplies from Russia but also into western industries’ dependence on Russia as a client for their products. The state of development—less advanced than generally thought—of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is subject to a dedicated chapter. Most of the Potential Nuclear Newcomer Countries assessed—including Italy—are in very early stages of planning. The Fukushima Status Report evaluates persistent onsite and offsite challenges 14 years after the disaster began. The Decommissioning Status Report provides an overview of the current situation of the 218 closed reactors in the world (only nine have been released as greenfield sites). Overall, the industrial reality of the global nuclear sector that sees most of the indicators in decline is very different from public perception.
26 September – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Yesterday (August 29) at the United Nations in Geneva, a group of civil society organizations including UNFOLD ZERO launched NuclearAbolitionDay.org, a platform for actions and events to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (‘Nuclear Abolition Day’).
Nuclear Abolition Day has been observed annually on September 26 since 2013, when it was established by the United Nations General Assembly to enhance public awareness and education about the threat posed to humanity and the planet by nuclear weapons, and on the necessity for their total elimination. The day serves to mobilize international efforts towards achieving the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.
The NuclearAbolitionDay.org initiative, which is open for any anyone to join, encourages individuals and organizations around the world to organize or join an action or event on the day. It also calls on governments to announce concrete plans, at the September 26 UN High Level Meeting on nuclear disarmament, on the prevention of any use of nuclear weapons and the achievement of a nuclear-weapons-free world no later than 2045.
The initiative was launched at a special event at the UN commemorating the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. For more information see Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands: New initiative launched for Nuclear Abolition Day 2025
Joint appeal to governments on NuclearAbolitionDay
NuclearAbolitionDay.org, launched at the United Nations in Geneva yesterday, includes a joint appeal from civil society to governments and legislators to:
- Affirm the inadmissibility of the threat or use of nuclear weapons;
- Implement this by standing down nuclear forces;
- Commit to achieving the global elimination of nuclear weapons no later than the 100th anniversary of the UN;
- Cut nuclear weapons budgets and investments; and
- Redirect these funds to strengthen the UN, advance peacekeeping and conflict resolution, accelerate steps to protect the climate, and meet other human and economic needs.
The appeal which is open for endorsement by individuals and organizations, will be presented to the United Nations, governments and inter-parliamentary bodies on September 26. https://www.nuclearabolitionday.org/post/stop-nuclear-weapons-peace-is-in-our-hands
9th of September (7 – 8 pm AEST) – ZOOM- What Remains: Nuclear Legacies of the Montebello Islands.
Please join us by registering here.
In the 1950s, the Montebello Islands off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia were the site of three British nuclear tests. The first, in 1952, detonated inside a warship anchored off Trimouille Island, followed in 1956 by two larger blasts as part of Operation Mosaic.
In July 2025, a group of artists, writers, researchers, and nuclear survivors travelled to the Montebello Islands to explore the lasting impacts of British nuclear testing there. Next Tuesday the 9th of September (7 – 8 pm AEST) they will come together in a conversational panel to reflect on what they witnessed and experienced, and discuss what they will carry forward from their time on the islands.
Featuring:
- Jesse Boylan – Artist and ICAN Media and Comms Adviser (Convener).
- Maxine Goodwin – ICAN Ambassador and nuclear veteran descendant.
- Dr Liz Tynan – Writer and Academic. Tynan is author of The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia & Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story. Her new book on the history of the Montebello Islands nuclear tests is due out in 2026.
- Merilyn Fairskye – Visual artist living in Sydney. Her work explores the relationships between technology, atomic landscapes and community and have taken her on location to the Polygon in Kazakhstan, Sellafield, Chernobyl, and other key nuclear sites.
- Paul Grace, Writer and nuclear veteran descendant. Author of Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain’s first atomic test and the legacy that remains.
- Gary Blinco – Nuclear veteran descendant.
- Tobias Holden – Student.
This discussion is free and open to all.
2nd September CND Webinar – From Hiroshima to Today: Jeremy Corbyn & Caroline Lucas report back
2nd September CND Webinar – From Hiroshima to Today: Jeremy Corbyn & Caroline Lucas report back – Register here.
This year, across the world, commemorations have taken place marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. CND Vice-Presidents Jeremy Corbyn and Caroline Lucas participated on behalf of CND in Japan to hear first-hand the powerful testimony of Hibakusha. They joined delegates from across the world to discuss the growing global nuclear dangers and how to strengthen international opposition to the escalating war drive that is accompanying the expansion and modernisation of nuclear weapons.
September 13/14 – Global Network 33rd Annual Space Zoom Conference- “NATO-US prepare for war on China “.
Keynote Speaker K. J. Noh
| Saturday/Sunday September 13/14(Depending on where you live) Registration required |
| Please note the time of the meeting in your part of the world just below. To register just click here Honolulu, HI @ 2:00 pm Sept 13 Los Angeles, CA @ 5:00 pm Sept 13 New York, NY @ 8:00 pm Sept 13 London, United Kingdom @ 1:00 am Sept 14 Stockholm, Sweden @ 2:00 am Sept 14 Delhi, India @ 5:30 am Sept 14 Manila, Philippines @ 8:00 am Sept 14 Seoul, South Korea @ 9:00 am Sept 14 Tokyo, Japan @ 9:00 am Sept 14 Hagåtña, Guam @ 10:00 am Sept 14 Sydney, Australia @ 10:00 am Sept 14 Auckland, New Zealand @ 12:00 noon Sept 14 |
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Let’s keep radioactive waste away from our river!
Nuclear Power? -Never again
(Switzerland –https://www.greenpeace.ch/de/handeln/atomkraft-nie-wieder/+)
PETITION – Close Down the Monticello Nuclear Reactor on the Mississippi River!
Now until to February 10, 2026 Radioactive waste storage in France: the debate is finally open! How to participate?
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