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Media Release: The Unfolding Japanese Disaster
March 18, 2011As we approach the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, it is horrifying to think that the world is now...
Submission on the Darlington New Nuclear Power Plant
February 22, 2011Dear Mr. Graham;
This written submission summarizes the issues that IICPH wishes to raise as an Intervenor at the...
Statement: To stop refurbishment and immediately commence decommissioning of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station
September 17, 2010Please sign on and support this important statement from the Passamaquoddy people.
Thank you for your support.
See also the media...
214 signatures so far.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Myths About Point Lepreau
September 1, 2010
IICPH project manager Willi Nolan at the Point Lepreau Decommissioning Caucus press conference, Fredericton, 1 September 2010
Fredericton, September 1, 2010 – On Wednesday, September 1st, 2010, a coalition of groups (including, amongst others: Concerned Citizens of Saint John, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Fundy Baykeeper, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, People Against Nuclear Energy, Sierra Club of Canada Atlantic Chapter) released important information lacking in the nuclear debate around Point Lepreau. The information will address three myths: that nuclear power is clean, cheap, and needed.
New Model Urgently Needed
October 30, 2010For the protection of human and environmental health, our institutions have failed miserably.
This is particularly true of the threats to...
Lifting the Lid on Radioactive Scrap Metal
October 30, 2010The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) describes ways radioactive scrap is produced. Unfortunately, there is no recognition...
Renewable is Doable for the Whole World!
June 15, 2011Japan has decided to eventually close all its nuclear power plants while phasing in renewable sources of energy. While the...
Comments on CNSC Hearing on Radioactive Steam Generators
October 30, 2010“I consider any attempt to transport radioactive steam generators contaminated with nuclear material through the Great Lakes to be of...
Chief Akagi Speaks Out on Lepreau
October 30, 2010Chief Hugh Akagi of the Passamaquoddy First Nation has demanded that the Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Plant be removed from...
Statement from Rosalie Bertell to CNSC re steam generators
October 26, 2010IICPH fully endorses the statements made by Dr. Rosalie Bertell in her letter to the CNSC concerning the proposed granting of a Transportation License to Bruce Power to permit the transport of 16 steam generators made of radioactive contaminated metal through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River on the way to Sweden for recycling.
Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident risk
June 13, 2010Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire”
French Nuclear Phaseout Network
Press release – Urgent
Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR...
Inaccurate to call CANDU reactors "emission free"
June 12, 2010Advertising Standards Canada has just posted a decision to its
website declaring that it is inaccurate and unsupportable to call...
NPT Abolition Caucus statement on nuclear power
May 30, 2010United Nations, New York, 2010-05-10
Non-governmental organizations at the NPT Abolition Caucus express dismay at the unashamed pushing of a...
NPT and Nuclear Power
May 21, 2010Since the NPT deals with the right of nations to have access to nuclear power, this issue was discussed...
Just the Latest News on Nuclear Power
December 1, 2009Most Oppose Nuclear Power in Saskatchewan
Sept 15/09 CBC News: “The Future of Uranium public consultation report released Tuesday has...
No Nuclear Renaissance
December 1, 2009Excerpts from an article by IICPH Director Anna Tilman for the Watershed Sentinel
The Nuclear Industry has a dream of...
World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009
September 26, 2009The future of the nuclear energy industry is subject to a large number of media reports, study projects, expert meetings...
Nanticoke Ontario Residents Protest Nuke Plant Proposal
April 25, 2009The largest Ontario coal-fired electricity generating plant scheduled to close down in 2014, is in this Ontario town situated in...
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
March 1, 2008A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
By IEER
Going Green Too Expensive?
October 1, 2007While US regulatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions leave companies that produce electricity using coal uncertain whether to build new...
Pickering B: Too Close For Comfort
January 24, 2007Public Concerns On Pickering B Refurbishment Dismissed
Uranium Mining: Indigenous World Uranium Summit
December 2, 2006The Indigenous World Uranium Summit held in Window Rock, Arizona, Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2006, was a vindication of...
TRITIUM IN OUR WATER
December 1, 2006According to the Canadian Nuclear Association advertisements you see on TV, nuclear power generation is extremely suitable for replacement of...
Nuclear Power is NOT OK!
February 28, 2006IICPH Response to OPA Report
Making Nuclear Clear
February 13, 2005Flyer for review of OPA report on Ontario Power Future
By Marion Odell
Victims of the Nuclear Age
November 1, 1999“The Ecologist” November 1999 (Volume 29, No. 7) from pages 408 to 411
by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH