Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2023

Posted: 21st August 2023

The threatened dumping of 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear site into the ocean is just the latest example of our compunction to trash our planet and destroy animal habitats. It has to stop, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. And in a remarkable statement in Vienna, Austria suggests that commercial nuclear power does not belong in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Their homes are not our dustbin

The radioactive water release into the Pacific from the Fukushima nuclear site follows a despicable pattern of human beings expecting other creatures to offer up their homes as our garbage cans. After exploding atomic bombs, dumping plastics in the oceans, clear-cutting forests and more, isn’t it time we stopped our arrogant destruction of Planet Earth? Banning the Fukushima dumping would be a start. MORE

Nuclear power too closely tied to military, says Austria

“We see the use of nuclear power differing significantly from any other application of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” said an Austrian spokesperson during the recent NPT PrepCom meeting in Vienna in a direct challenge to the Treaty’s Article IV that promotes the right to civil nuclear power. “Any expansion of nuclear power necessarily increases the risk of proliferation,” Austria argued, while emphasizing it is also no use to the climate crisis and has a deadly unsolved waste problem. MORE

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