National anti-nuclear campaign online meeting: Saturday morning May 27
The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen our collective anti-nuclear campaign work with an emphasis on the risks that AUKUS will:
- i) strengthen the push for domestic nuclear power (at the expense of the necessary and happening renewable energy transition)
- ii) facilitate national and international nuclear waste dumping in Australia
- iii) facilitate more uranium mining and potentially other steps in the nuclear fuel cycle such as uranium enrichment
- iv) undermine federal Labor’s commitment to signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
- We won’t be discussing the deeper militarism and foreign policy concerns around AUKUS but will focus on the domestic nuclear sector risks outlined above.
People interested in and involved in anti-nuclear campaigning are invited to attend and help develop a platform to ring-fence and constrain the wider pro-nuclear momentum the AUKUS plan is generating.
Please RSVP to jim.green@foe.org.au or dave.sweeney@acf.org.au
Date and time: Saturday May 27, 10.30am to 12.30 pm eastern time, 10am SA, 8.30am WA. Zoom details below.
For background see the ACF paper: AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear Landscape – ACF – May 2023 .
See also David Noonan’s paper on AUKUS and nuclear waste online.
Schedule: 4 x 30 minute sessions
Nuclear Power ? lead speakers Jim Green (FoE) and Trevor Gauld (ETU)
Waste
— proposed national dump at Kimba: speakers tbc
— intermediate and international waste: David Noonan
Uranium: Mia Pepper (CCWA) and Dave Sweeney (ACF)
Weapons: ICAN speaker/s
Zoom details
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9256268989?pwd=OFVmNkhYdVFSWnhidUFXYVZGSmZxUT09
Meeting ID: 925 626 8989, Passcode: 3101952