For a future

without
nuclear weapons and nuclear energy

25 years after the horrible Chernobyl catastrophe, we – organizations and groups of

the international peace and social movement – are urgently speaking out against the
irresponsible and inhuman advocacy for nuclear energy.

In view of the euphoria for nuclear energy shown by almost all governments, and the
ominous endorsement of nuclear energy in the Final Document of the Non-
Proliferation Treaty Review Conference of May 2010, we emphasize:

Nuclear energy:
• is not a technology that can be sufficiently controlled;
• is threatening the environment;
• is not a solution to prevent climate change;
• is adversarial to democracy;
• is extremely expensive counting the overall costs;
• is hazardous to health with unaddressed human costs;
• is without a waste disposal concept and without a full clean-up concept from
the mines to the plant grounds.

Particularly problematic is that nuclear energy is a principal pre-requisite for the

proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Countries that are technologically able to run a nuclear “cycle” are not only capable
of producing nuclear energy, they also gain access to the materials for nuclear
weapons production. Advanced nuclear technology thus increases the danger of
nuclear annihilation both for humanity and the entire planet.
The nuclear chain – beginning with uranium mining, through the operation of nuclear
power plants and its waste disposal, and ending with the production and use of
nuclear weapons – represent a tremendous danger for health and life itself. Uranium
mining also has a devastating effect on Indigenous populations.

Consequently, those who seek a world without nuclear weapons must also abandon
nuclear energy.

25 years after Chernobyl, we call on all governments of the world:

• to immediately negotiate a nuclear weapons convention;
• to abandon nuclear energy, to shut down all nuclear power plants, to stop the
construction of new reactors and instead to invest massively into the use of
renewable energies.

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Developed by the working group Nuclear Energy of Abolition 2000
Agreed on the telephone conference on 27th of January 2011.

My organization supports the appeal “For a future without nuclear weapons and
nuclear energy”:

ORGANIZATION Name of contact person EMAIL

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