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September 2009

The price tag of nuclear power
This report highlights the huge pricetag of nuclear power, and the many hidden costs related to: public liability, waste storage and the opportunity costs of not investing in renewables or energy efficiency.

May 2008
Voodoo Economics
Building a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK would mean spending large sums of taxpayers money.

January 2008
Completing the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia
Factsheets in English, German and Dutch.

October 2007
Face your demons Towards full liability for nuclear power plant operators

March 2007
Euratom's 50th anniversary
Read more about the outdated, pro-nuclear EU treaty and see the action gallery

March 2007
Nuclear Power: Only problems. No solutions Joint publication for European Petition against Nuclear Power


March 2006
"New Energy Policy for Europe: sticking with the dirty dinosaurs?"
Friends of the Earth Europe comments on the European Commission's Green Paper on Secure, Competitive and Sustainable Energy for Europe

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 Remember Chernobyl

26 April: СнегиоЬчІ Dач

Chernobyl Commemoration
Read more about the European Action Weeks against nuclear power
15 April - 7 May 2006

Safe energy for Europe

The Safe Energy for Europe campaign works for the phase out of nuclear power, Europe's most risky energy source.

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Nuclear power is the problem, not the solution!

Europe must stop wasting taxpayers' money to protect a dangerous and expensive technology. 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, nuclear power, despite its widespread use also in Europe, remains the most dirty and dangerous form of energy.

Instead of nuclear power, Europe needs massive investments in energy efficiency and renewable energies. Any sensible energy policy must have these two elements at its heart.

The nuclear industry hopes for a nuclear come-back - despite its dangers, despite its astronomical costs. A disaster like the Chernobyl accident, now more then 20 years ago, can happen anytime anyplace. Since Chernobyl, there were over 20 serious nuclear accidents around the world. A solution for the long-term storage & treatment of radioactive waste has yet to be found. Radioactive material from nuclear power generation can be used to build nuclear weapons. And, globalised terrorism makes nuclear power stations and the uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear material a serious security hazard.

Euratom? non merci!

Besides these risks, nuclear power is alsoeconomically insane. Not a single nuclear power plant was ever built without direct or indirect subsidies, paid by taxpayers and increasing the profits of the nuclear industry. Nuclear power is also no solution to climate change: each Euro invested in nuclear energy would save ten times more greenhouse gases if it was invested in energy efficiency measures instead.

Despite this, and despite the fact that many EU Member States and the majority of their citizens are not in favour of nuclear energy, the so-called EURATOM Treaty officially obliges all EU countries to promote nuclear power. Clearly, this treaty must be abolished, it being an old relic that has no role to play in a modern Europe.




 
 Take Action!
No Taboos! Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs wanted to hear your opinion about the nuclear hype...

 Press Releases

29.05.09 NGOs walk out of industry dominated nuclear talking shop

22.05.08 Friends of the Earth Europe concerned about industry bias of the European Nuclear Energy Forum >> read more

23.01.08 Public Eye Denounces Areva and Glencore, Praises Hess Natur >> read more

10.12.07 EU Commission doesnt reject Bulgarian nuclear plans >> read more

04.12.07 Nuclear lobby shamed for worst greenwashing in Europe >> read more

06.11.07 Action at Bank of New York Mellon in Brussels to oppose investment in Uranium Weapons >> read more

06.07.07 FoE Flanders opens "uranium mine" in front of Belgian Christian Democratic Party headquarters - Report shows environmental and human rights consequences of uranium mining >> read more

 
 Open letter

Time to Abandon Nuclear Power's Special Status: FP7 must increase funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency
NGOs open letter
(Nov 2005)

   
 On the streets


1st of June 2008, Helsinki: Cut emissions without nukes!
Helsinki: Cut emissions without nukes!


         

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