As citizens of this planet inspired by the
Second
Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World,
conducted in Montreal from August 8 to August 12, 2016, we are
collectively calling for a mobilization of civil society around
the world to bring about the elimination of all nuclear weapons,
to put an end to the continued mass-production of all high-level
nuclear wastes by phasing out all nuclear reactors, and to bring
to a halt all uranium mining worldwide.
This call goes out to fellow citizens of all countries worldwide
who see the need, whether as an individual or as a member of an
organization, for a nuclear-fission-free world. We are committed
to building a global network of citizens of the world who will
work together, using the internet and social media to overcome
isolation, to provide mutual support and to coordinate the
launching of joint actions for a world free of nuclear fission
technology, whether civilian or military.
We will begin by creating communication channels to share
information and educational tools on legal, technical, financial,
medical, and security-related matters linked to military and
non-military nuclear activities. We will pool our resources
across national boundaries in a spirit of cooperation, allowing
us to contribute to the formulation of a convergent and unified
response to counteract the plans of the nuclear establishment
that operates on a global scale to multiply civil and military
nuclear installations worldwide and to dump, bury and abandon
nuclear wastes.
We recognize each nuclear weapon as an instrument of brutal and
unsurpassed terror, designed to kill millions of innocent men,
women and children at a single stroke. We realize that
even a
limited nuclear war can provoke sudden extreme climate change on
a global scale, crippling agricultural production and threatening
the survival of all higher forms of life. We are grimly aware
that a nuclear-armed world will surely destroy itself and
set in
motion a process that will undo four billion years of evolution.
We are determined to help guide the world away from the brink of
nuclear annihilation.
To endorse the declaration send name, location, and e-mail
address to <ccnr@web.ca>
We recognize each nuclear reactor as a repository of the most
pernicious industrial waste ever known; waste so radioactive that
it spontaneously melts down if not continually cooled; waste
that, when targeted by terrorists or saboteurs, or by
conventional warfare, will render large portions of the earth
uninhabitable for centuries; waste that contains material that
can be used as a nuclear explosive at any time in the future, for
thousands of years to come.
We recognize uranium
as the key element behind all nuclear
weapons and all nuclear reactors, and we endorse the call by the
International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
and by the
2015
Quebec World Uranium Symposium for a total
global ban on the mining and processing of uranium.
We will use our networks
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to pressure governments everywhere to put an end to nuclear
fission technology;
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to expose the dangers associated with the export and transport of
nuclear materials and nuclear waste;
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to puncture the myths used to prop up and justify our irrational
nuclear addiction;
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to tell the sobering stories of nuclear victims and nuclear
refugees;
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to emphasize our moral responsibilities not to burden future
generations with a poisonous nuclear legacy;
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to warn governments without nuclear facilities to realize the
dangers and avoid becoming enmeshed in this technology;
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to disseminate the findings of engineers, doctors, biologists,
ecologists, physicists and concerned citizens having special
knowledge and appreciation of nuclear dangers;
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to promote and popularize the wide variety of renewable energy
alternatives that are green and sustainable;
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to launch lawsuits and to support whistle-blowers to halt the
most egregious examples of nuclear malfeasance;
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to promote non-violent conflict resolution, and
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to denounce the illegal, immoral, and insane obsession with
nuclear weapons arsenals.
We invite all people, groups and organizations involved in the
effort for a world without nuclear fission and uranium mining, to
commit themselves to this effort. We also ask them to endorse
this declaration and to transmit it widely in their networks.
This declaration is partly inspired by the
Tokyo Appeal issued by
the First Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Free World
held in Tokyo and Fukushima in March 2016.
List of endorsers:
http://ccnr.org/declaration_endorsers.pdf
To endorse the declaration send name, location, and e-mail
address to <ccnr@web.ca>.
ENDORSERS OF THE MONTREAL DECLARATION
ENDOSSEURSDE LA DÉCLARATION DEMONTRÉAL
ORGANIZATIONS / ORGANISMES
ORGANIZATIONS / ORGANISMES
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Agrupacio per a la Protecció del Medi Ambient (APMA)
[Association for Environmental Protection (from Catalan)]
Vilanova i la Geltru, Catalonia [Spain]
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Alliance for a Green Economy
Syracuse, New York [USA]
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Alliance to Stop Fermi-3
Livonia, Michigan [USA]
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American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Cambridge Massachusetts [USA]
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L’Appel du 26 avril
[France]
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Les Artistes pour la Paix (APLP)
Montreal Quebec [Canada]
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L’Association de Protection de I’Environnement des Hautes Laurentides (APEHL)
Mont-Laurier Quebec [Canada]
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Associação Alternativa Terrazul
[Brazil]
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The Atomic Photographers’ Guild (APG)
Montreal Quebec [Canada]
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ATTAC France
Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financiere et I’Aide aux Citoyens
[France]
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ATTAC Japan
Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Aid to Citizens
[Japan]
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Australian Conservation Foundation
Carlton [Australia]
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Awakening/art & culture
Orlando Florida [USA]
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Ballerina Management Institute Trust (BMIT)
Maharashta [India]
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Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
Dhaka [Bangladesh]
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Beyond Nuclear
Takoma Park Maryland [USA]
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Bike4Peace.com
Corvalis Oregon [USA]
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Bluewater Valley Downstream Alliance
Mila, New Mexico [USA]
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Boston Downwinders
Boston Massachusetts [USA]
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Bruce Peninsula Environment Group (BPEG)
Binbrook Ontario [Canada]
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Brut de béton production [english translation]
[France]
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
London England [United Kingdom]
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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)
Toronto Ontario [Canada]
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Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR)
[aka Le Regroupement pour la surveillance du nucleaire (RSN)]
Montreal Quebec [Canada]
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Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ)
Toronto Ontario [Canada]
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Toronto Ontario [Canada]
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Caney Fork Headwaters Association
Pleasant Hill Tennessee [USA]
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Cape Downwinders Cooperative
Cape Cod Massachusetts [USA]
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Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
[Center for Encounter and Active Non-Violence]
[Austria]
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Centre d’information Inter-Peuples (CIIP) [english translation]
Grenoble [France]
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Chernobyl Hostages NPO
Zhitomir [Ukraine]
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Citizens Environmental Coalition
New York NY [USA]
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Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping (CARD)
Albuquerque, New Mexico [USA]
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Citizens Resistance at Fermi 2 (CRAFT)
Redford, Michigan [USA]
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Class Action Against the Nuclear Reactor Builders (CAANRB)
South-East Asia [Japan]
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Clean Green Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Clean Green Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Coalition Against Nukes (CAN)
New York NY [USA]
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Coalition For a Ban on Uranium Weapons
[Belgium]
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Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes
Monroe Michigan [USA]
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Le Collectif antinucléaire de Vaucluse [english translation]
[France]
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Committee for Future Generations
Beauval, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County (CCRC)
Pembroke, Ontario [USA]
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Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
Santa Fe, New Mexico [USA]
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Concerned Citizens Committee of Manitoba (CCC)
Winnipeg, Manitoba [Canada]
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Congregation of Our Lady’s Missionaries
Toronto, Ontario[Canada]
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La Coordination antinucléiare du Sud-est (CAN-SE) [english translation]
[France]
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Cornucopia Network, NJ-TN Chapter
New Jersey - Tennessee [USA]
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Council of Canadians - Quill Plains (Wynyard) chapter
Archerwill, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Council of Canadians - Saint John chapter
Saint John, New Brunswick [Canada]
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Cumberland Countians for Ecojustice
Pleasant Hill, Tennessee [USA]
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Delhiin Mongol Nogoon Negdel (DMNN)
[Mongolia]
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Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio
Ohio [USA]
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Don’t Waste Michigan
Monroe, Michigan [USA]
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Durham Environment Watch
Durham Region, Ontario [Canada]
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Durham Nuclear Awareness (DNA)
Durham Region, Ontario [Canada]
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Echo-Echanges ONG France-Japon
Paris [France]
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Ecological Options Network (EON)
Bolinas, California [USA]
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Federation of Rainbow Warriors
Margao, Goa [India]
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Foundation Earth
Washington, DC [USA]
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Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) [english translation]
Bangkok [Thailand]
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Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH)
Copenhagen [Denmark]
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Folkkampanjen mot Kärnkraft-Kärnvapen [english translation]
[People’s Campaign Against Nuclear Power/Nuclear Weapons]
Stockholm [Sweden]
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Glossop Peace Group
Glossop [United Kingdom]
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Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance
Cape Town [South Africa]
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Grup de Cientifics i Tècnies per un Futur No Nuclear
[Group of Scientists and Engineers fora Non-Nuclear Future]
Barcelona (Catalonia) [Spain]
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Helen Caldicott Foundation
North Carolina [USA]
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Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Collective (ICUCEC)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Ossining, New York [USA]
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Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkriegs
[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) - Germany]
Berlin [Germany]
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International Institute of Social Studies
The Hague [Netherlands]
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Just One World
Toronto, Ontario [Canada]
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Kizuna Japon
Montreal, Quebec [Canada]
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Lliga per a la defensa del Patrimoni Natural (DEPANA) [english translation]
Barcelona [Spain]
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Making Peace Vigil (Regina)
Regina, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World
New York, New York [USA]
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Maryland United for Peace & Justice
Baltimore, Maryland [USA]
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Massachusetts Peace Action
Cambridge, Massachusetts [USA]
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Mouvement Contre le Crime Atomique (MCCA)
[The Movement Against Atomic Crime]
[France]
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Movimiento frente a la Amenaza Nuclear Bolivia
[Movement Against the Nuclear Threat in Bolivia]
La Paz [Bolivia]
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Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MUSE)
Grants Mineral Belt, New Mexico [USA]
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Museum of Hidden History
Washington D.C. [USA]
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National Middle East Committee (WILPF-US)
[Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom]
Boston, Massachusetts [USA]
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Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility
of the United Church of Christ
Pleasant Hill, Tennessee [USA]
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New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
Brattleboro, Vermont [USA]
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New England Peace Walk
New England [USA]
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No Nukes Asia Action
South-East Asia [Japan]
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No Nukes Asia Forum Japan
[Japan]
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Nonviolent Conflict Workshop (NVCW)
Bangkok [Thailand]
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Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)
Chicago, Illinois [USA]
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Nuclear Free Future Award Foundation (NFFAF)
Munich [Germany]
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Nuclear Hotseat
Los Angeles, California [USA]
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
Takoma Park, Maryland [USA}
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Nuclear Watch South
Atlanta, Georgia [USA]
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Nukewatch
Luck, Wisconsin [USA]
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Occupy Bergen County (New Jersey)
New Jersey [USA]
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Ohio Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment (CARE)
Ohio [USA]
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On Behalf of Planet Earth
Watertown, Massachusetts [USA]
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Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Toronto, Ontario [Canada]
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Partera International
Shelburne, Ontario [Canada]
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Pax Christi Boston
Boston Massachusetts [USA]
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Peace Action New York State
New York State [USA]
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Peace and Planet Network
Cambridge, Massachusetts [USA]
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Peace - NB
New Brunswick [Canada]
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PeaceQuest Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Pelindaba Working Group
[South Africa]
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Physicians for Global Survival
[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Canada]
Ottawa Ontario [USA]
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Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee (PHCHCC)
Port Hope Ontario [Canada]
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Project Ploughshares Saskatoon
Saskatoon Saskatchewan [Canada]
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Radiation Truth
New York NY [USA]
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Le Regroupement pour la Surveillance du Nucléaire (RSN)
[aka Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR)]
Montreal Quebec [Canada]
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Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
Boulder Colorado [USA]
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RootsAction.org
[USA]
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San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
California [USA]
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Squamish Environment Society (SES)
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Squamish British Columbia [Canada]
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Squamish Climate Action Network (SCAN)
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South Africa Coalition Against Nuclear Energy (CANE)
[South Africa]
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Tussey mOUnTaiNBACK 50 Mile Relay and Ultramarathon
Pennsylvanie [USA]
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Uranium Watch
Moab Utah [USA]
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The Walk For a New Spring
New England [USA]
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Women Against Nuclear Power
Helsinki [Finland]
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Women For Peace
Helsinki [Finland]
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Women For Peace
Uppsala [Sweden]
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Boston Massachusetts [USA]
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World Beyond War
Charlottesville Virginia [USA]
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XO Nuclear: Brasil Livre de Usinas Nucleares [english translation]
[Brazil]
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Youth Arts New York / Hibakusha Stories
New York NY [USA]
Selected comments by endorsers of the Montreal Declaration
Quelques commentaires par les endosseurs de la declaration
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The Movement Against the Nuclear Threat is based in the city
of La Paz, but interacts with different groups in other regions of
Bolivia. We believe that our movement is unique and the strongest
group in Bolivia, which has already had significant achievements
in raising awareness of the nuclear problem in Bolivia so as to
push back the initial plans of the government in the nuclear
field. In the group we are trying to work more organically, and
we have no official representatives. Our concerns are about the
almost imminent incursion of our country on implementation of
nuclear technology for power generation, mining of radioactive
elements under a non-transparent information process, in an
alliance (with character of state top secret file) between the
Bolivian government and the Russian federation, through the
RosAtom Corporation
and its subsidiaries. We believe that this
aggressive policy is not by chance and we must find spaces to
share our experiences and achieve a global coalition for future
generations and mother earth.
Fabrizio Uscamayta
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Nous la signons. «Echo-Echanges ONG France-Japon»
est le nom de notre association qui a été une des
locomotives pour réaliser le premier Forum Social
Thématique à Tokyo [en mars 2016] et j’ai
été un des facilitateurs. Kolin Kobayashi,
Paris.
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I have done many hours of research on the uses of nuclear energy
and feel we are already beyond the point where anything can be
done to stop the harm done to nature and life itself. People just
don’t realize that it’s the particulates, and the radiation from
these minute atomic particles, that pose the greatest threat. I
am fully in support of a nuclear fission and fusion free world. I
hope it’s not too late. Brian Bower
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To avoid the final apocalyptic scene of lovers clutching one
another in a nuclear meltdown (in the fine 2013 French film
‘Grand Central’), I like many others before and still
more after me, firmly endorse the Montreal Declaration to End the
Nuclear Fission Age (World Social Forum, 2016) -- including Arms,
Wars and financially- profit- or strategically-driven politicized
waste management, rather than one of collective responsibility
and non-profit nature. Raymond Stone Iwaasa,
Kaienkéhè:ka, Québec.
Afin d’éviter I’ultime scène
apocalyptique du bon film français ‘Grand
Central’ (2013) ou les amants s’embrassent en pleine
fonte d’un réacteur, moi, Raymond Stone Iwaasa,
j’appuye, tout comme plusieurs ont fait avant, et encore
plus feront après moi, ‘La Declaration de
Montréal’ issue du Forum Social Mondial (2016) --
incitant globalement la fin de l’âge de fission
nucléaire et tout armement, guerre ainsi que des
spéculations ou manigances financières ou
politiques liées aux déchets plutôt que leur
gestion collective responsable et non lucrative. Raymond
Stone Iwaasa, Kaienkéhè:ka, Québec.
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I am the president of the Fish Lake Metis. Our traditional
territory encompasses the land north of Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan - also the entire territory that is now the Prince
Albert National Park. Fish Lake is a provincial heritage site. We
took part in the Wanska walk from Pinehouse to Regina in 2011,
that brought awareness to 245 Saskatchewan communities that the
Nuclear Waste Management Organization was looking for a "willing
host community" to accept a repository to store high level
nuclear waste. We are also a part of the Committee for Future
Generations. Thank you so very much for all of your efforts.
Bryan Lee, president, Fish Lake Metis. [Note: The
“Wanska walk” and subsequent mobilizations throughout
the province of Saskatchewan resulted in that province rejecting
the idea of siting of a permanent repository for high-level
nuclear waste there.]
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I, Ronald (Ron) Campbell Craven born in Toronto Ontario Canada
and presently living in Osoyoos British Columbia Canada hereby
endorse the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear Fission Free
World. I do so, not for my benefit Ñ as I expect to be long
deceased before this can be achieved Ñ but for the benefit of the
human race which is certain to destroy itself if this declaration
cannot be achieved before enough nuclear tragedies occur to make
the effects overwhelming to life on this wonderful planet which
God had prepared for our enjoyment. All life on this planet is a
blessing and should be protected from the greed and hunger for
power that induces powerful people to risk everything God has
given us so generously. It is the primary requirement of every
person on the planet to dedicate his/her energy directly or
indirectly to this goal and I urge everyone who becomes aware of
this Declaration to set aside as much as possible all other
endeavors and dedicate their undivided attention to this purpose
for it is the one endeavor that can prevent extinction of the
human race along with all other higher forms of life on Planet
Earth. Please keep me informed of any activities that are planned
to bring this objective to fruition. Ron Craven, Osoyoos BC.
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We on the National Middle East Committee know that our president
has endorsed the declaration for all of WILPF
[Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom]. But we like the
declaration so much that we want to endorse it also. It expands
our Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-Free-Zone in the Middle East to
all of the world. Wonderful! God bless you for what you are
doing. Ellen Rosser.
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I strongly support the Declaration for a Nuclear Fission-free
World. I also oppose the Government’s position on cluster bombs.
Eleanor Roosevelt was right back in 1964 when she said all
nuclear internationally should be under control of United
Nations. At least, that is how I feel. I think she was light
years ahead of her time and her book
Tomorrow is Now,
written then, is one that I would not part with for anything.
Shirley Bush, Toronto.
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I shall try to limit my response in words, but I must express the
joy of reading of a movement that promises to focus energies on
human potential for peace-making. Since the late ’40’s when I
attended meetings with atomic physicists in Chicago who were
pleading for control of this deadly weaponry, I do what I can
with my limited facilities. I now live in rural Michigan as
simply as possible, learning and supporting co-operative
endeavors. I cannot donate or travel very far for gatherings, but
I can write letters to editors and some attention-getting poems,
but, at 88 years, most of my unfinished projects may remain
unfinished, however I am gaining more courage to speak out and
Wild Democracy has the language I wish to learn to explain to
anyone with a listening ear the laborious path to a peaceful
planet. Thank you all for the spiritual “high”.
Bless you, Ruth B. Dimmitt, Michigan.
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L’application actuelle du nucléaire est une erreur
magistrale de notre part. Il ne devrait y avoir ni honte et ni
regrets à l’arrêt complet du cycle
nucléaire tel qu’on le connaît. Mieux vaut
faire demi-tour que de s’effondrer dans un précipice.
Quand verrons-nous ce danger immédiat? Votre ami Pierre
Bouchard, Ontario.
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Hi, Please include CCNS
[Concerned Citizens for
Nuclear Safety]
as a sign-on to the Montreal Declaration. The declaration
contains powerful intent and wonderful language to bring people
together for a nuclear-fission-free world. Best, Joni Arends,
Santa Fe, NM, downwind and downstream of Los Alamos National
Laboratory - the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
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Mes félicitations pour ton texte tout à fait
génial! Je i’endosse avec enthousiasme et avec
fierté! Das ist eine Sternstunde der Menchheit! Avec
mes salutations, Michel Duguay, Québec QC.
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Dear Friends, I just read the Montreal Declaration and I am
profoundly moved with gratitude for this comprehensively written
piece which is probably the single most important goal we could
have (and Global Warming). I would like to be a signer to this
Declaration. As an individual. I will share it with some others
and ask them to consider signing either as an individual or as
part of a group to which they may belong! I love the Message of
the Montreal Declaration and I would love to sign it as an
individual, but I no longer have the stamina to do anything
significant of the things listed. I am now 91 years old and
simply do not have the energy that some my age still seem to
possess. But I am grateful for what I have and I appreciate more
than I can express the work you are doing to eliminate nuclear
weapons and nuclear power and all the terrible problems
associated with them and their manufacture, storage, disposal(?),
etc. Many blessings, Sister Gladys Schmitz, Minnesota.
REPLY: Thank you Sister Gladys for this heart-warming message of
support. I am sure that your spiritual energy is at least as
valuable if not more valuable than the physical and mental energy
of us “youngsters” (I myself am 76 - a spring chicken!). I am
glad to know that you are from Minnesota, you are the first from
that state to endorse the declaration. Peace, Gordon Edwards.
Thank you for your wonderful reply. I am glad to keep this
intention included in prayer. And whenever I see some little
thing I can actually to help by other action, I will be very
happy to do it. This issue has been a serious concern for me for
many decades - since shortly after our bombing [of Japan]! Thank
you for accepting my note as an endorsement which I certainly do
in my heart! Thank you again for all your work in preparing and
promoting this. You are doing WELL at 76 - a good Spring chicken!
Blessings, S. Gladys
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P.S. About 1950 I attended a large science exposition at the new
Rochester civic auditorium. Down one of the adjoining halls
various films were running. One 16 mm set-up was showing one of a
set of 3 films done by the Military (maybe the war dept?) for the
doctors in the military. Film one showed the physics of the bomb,
and the results of its use in the experiments in the NV desert.
(or wherever) Film 2 showed the devastation in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki – the leveling of the city, the burned people etc. Just
TERRIBLE! Film 3 showed the effects of radiation sickness on
victims, the burns up close, many slides of tissue, etc. Each was
about an hour long. It could be ordered free from a catalog and I
did that for a couple years. Suddenly in 1954 it was no longer
available. I have always been sorry that I did not keep the
catalog. In the 70s and 80s I tried to see if I could track it
down, but I was unsuccessful and have never heard of any others
who had seen the films. Have you ever heard of them?
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Je suis entièrement d’accord pour un monde sans
fission nucléaire, je vous envoies mon soutien pour le
devenir de notre planète, et I’avenir de
I’homme pour les années qui viennent. Merci à
vous d’être là pour réaliser un monde meilleur.
Marie-Annick.
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The thinking behind and wording of the Montreal Declaration are
sensitive and elegant. I’m glad to have had the opportunity to
help bring it out into the world. Looking forward to future
collaborations.
Joseph Gerson.
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J’habite un petit village dans la montagne appelé
Saint Jean de Vaulx, à 30 km de Grenoble, région
Rhône-Alpes. Je soutiens cet appel de Montréal et je
vais le diffuser le plus largement possible. Amicalement, Marc
Ollivier.
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Yeh for all of us! A wonderful declaration, a superb piece of
work. Lee McKenna.
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Oui! l’Association
de Protection de L’Environnement des
Hautes-Laurentides (APEHL) endosse la
déclaration de Montréal puisqu’elle demande
la fin de l’exploration et un moratoire permanent sur
l’exploitation de l’uranium au Québec. Merci
pour cette belle initiative devenue action collective mondiale
par la reprise du flambeau des collègues militants
anti-nucléaires brésiliens, Salutations amicales,
François Lapierre.
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Hello, I’m Tony Langbehn, Convenor of
Maryland
United for Peace and Justice. We have endorsed the
declaration and are committed to the effort. Thank you!
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This is so excellent! Connie Kline
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Bonjour. J’ajoute ma voix à celle de toutes
celles et tous ceux qui appellent de leur vœux un monde
sans armes nucléaires et je signe la Déclaration
de Montréal: Nathalie RÉMOND
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Thanks so much for your work on this crucial issue. It is an
especially important matter for folks who reside in Saskatchewan
to become involved in, since so much of the world’s uranium comes
from mines in Saskatchewan. Florence.
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I want to endorse this proposal and thank those who worked
diligently to make it possible. Kimon Kotos.
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As a member of the human race, I endorse the Montreal
Declaration. Regards, Judith Taylor.
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Thanks for the great work being done to turn down the nuclear
industries including weapons and uranium exploration & mining.
Best Regards until radioactive proliferation is reversed, Peter
Chataway
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Bonjour à vous, je suis Daniel Gingras membre de la
Société Saint-Jean Baptiste de Montréal
section Ledger Duvernay et secrétaire de
I’Assemblée Patriotique d’Amérique
frangaise [et] membre du conseil d’administration des
Artistes pour la Paix. Je désire vous exprimer mon accord
avec cette déclaration que je trouve comme étant
absolument essentiel afin de pouvoir vivre en santé et
sécurité ce qui se veut directement en lien avec la
déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme qui je
pense devrait être droits humains dans un soucis
d’égalité homme et femme. Bien à vous,
Daniel Gingras
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I wonder if a nuclear-free world is possible. Not likely in my
lifetime – I’m 86. Shirley Grant.
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Okay, include me. I must say it’s the first time I had heard it
proposed to eliminate even all research reactors. But I guess it
makes sense, considering the potential for misuse. Cheers.
Chandler Davis.
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I endorse the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free
World. Thanks for being a much needed leader on this issue!
Michel Goudreau, Gaspésie.
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Super! Le Mouvement contre le crime atomique (MCCA) a
deja signé! J’enverai le “link” en
Francais aux autres. Amitiés, Peter Van der Does.
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organization – dedicated to artistry, heritage,
imagination and the public interest – and the annual
convener of Abolition 2020- Hiroshima / Nagasaki Commemoration
in Orlando, Florida, I, Nelson Betancourt, enthusiastically
endorse the Montreal Declaration for a nuclear-fission-free
world. On a personal level, I am involved in this work
because my father died of delayed radiation after working in
the atomic test site in Amchitka, Alaska. Sincerely,
Nelson Betancourt.
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Thank you for all your work. This is the most important
initiative in both the climate change and peace movements. I hope
it quickly will be signed on to around the world, and soon by us
in the U.S. I will do my best to spread the word not only among
the Friends but in all my other contacts. Barbara Kuesell, New
York Quaker.
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The declaration makes the crucially important point that any
playing around with nuclear materials is too dangerous to risk.
This “action” should be left to the interior of our
friend, the sun. “He” knows how to handle it! I
gladly endorse the declaration. Gregory Laxer, Vietnam War Resister.
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It is with great appreciation that I am writing to endorse the
declaration made at the World Special Forum in Montreal, earlier
in August of this year. Thanks for all you’re doing, Jerry.
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I am writing to whole-heartedly endorse the Montreal Declaration
for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World. Thank you very much for your
work and efforts on behalf of All Life on Earth. Dave Ratcliffe
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The Montreal Declaration is a timely, important call to mobilize
our collective energies in the hope and certainty that public
will is the force that can stop the disastrous addiction to
nuclear threat and power before it is is too late. The future of
civilization depends on elimination of nuclear weapons, and,
given the inextricable link between nuclear weapons and nuclear
power, both must go. An instrument that promotes awareness,
understanding, and action is a great gift to our world. Phyllis
Creighton.
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Je suis membre d’un reseau créé à
cette même fin par un collectif de Japonais résidant
en France : Yosomononet, et me sens directement concernée
(comme devrait l’être toute personne doté
d’un peu de lucidité) par les suites de la
catastrophe de Fukushima Dai-ichi en mars 2011, et plus
globalement par la menace monstrueuse que représente pour
la planète l’arsenal de toutes les bombes nucleates
déjà prêtes à devenir
opérationnelles. Je vous remercie donc de bien vouloir
continuer à me transmettre l’état
d’avancement de votre démarche par courrier
électronique indiquée ci-dessus. Dominique
Palmé.
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I also would like to endorse the Montreal declaration. Thank you
ever so much for organizing this great declaration. Kimiko
Hinenoya (Japan).
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J’appuie sans réserve la Déclaration de
Montréal pour un monde libéré de la
fission nucléaire. Bravo pour cette initivative. Au
plaisir, Guylaine Maroist.
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Quite an impressively -- written statement! Keith Gunter.
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Keep up the wonderful and crucially important work! Peace and
blessings, Ellen
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God bless you for your great work! Peace and blessings, Ellen
Rosser, Ph.D.
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We will do our best to promote activities of anti-Nuclear weapons
and Nuclear Power Plants. Let’s make a strong International
Solidarity! Choi Seungkoo
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I wish to endorse this vitally important, eminently sensible
declaration. Lucy Lee Grimes Evans.
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Conscient de la dangerosité du nucléaire
militaire et du nucléaire civil, je suis favorable au
désarmement nucléaire sur toute la planète
et au développement des énergies renouvelables pour
abandonner définitivement l’énergie
nucléaire. J’approuve totalement les orientations de
la Déclaration de Montréal pour un monde
libéré de la fission nucléaire. Thierry
Plouzennec.
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Federation of Rainbow Warriors, Margao, Goa, India would like to
be a signatory to the subject declaration. We are strengthening
local communities through information and organization to be
self-reliant and self-governing units, in order to conserve and
protect our land, water and environment for future generations.
We are strongly for a nuclear free world and support all
resistances to existing and proposed nuclear installations.
Thanking you, Rony Dias.
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THANK YOU for this gorgeous truth telling statement. Sheila Parks
Ed.D.
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Great work you are doing. We
[Pilgrim Coalition]
are busy shutting down Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth,
MA. Wondering why you focused on nuclear fission. I would
think that in the end fusion will be just as dangerous. Just
a way to siphon funding from real renewables like wind and
solar. Paula Sharaga.
REPLY: There are 3 types of nuclear energy: fission, fusion
and radioactivity. (1) Existing and projected nuclear weapons and
nuclear reactors all use nuclear fission. Fission technologies
all depend on uranium and a uranium derivative, plutonium. This
makes it conceivable to maintain a ban on fission technology by
preventing access to uranium and plutonium. (2) Viable nuclear
fusion reactors do not exist. Thermonuclear weapons (“H
Bombs”) use nuclear fusion, but they cannot function
without fission to ignite the fusion reaction. So nuclear fusion,
in itself, is not a present danger. Fusion is also a lot harder
to prevent because the raw material is hydrogen, which is
everywhere. (3) Radioactivity (“gamma ray” energy and
“alpha and beta” particles emitted by unstable atoms)
is used in scientific research, in medical practice, and in
several industrial applications. There are dozens of naturally
occurring radioactive elements, as well as a large number of
artificially-created isotopes. The production and use of these
isotopes does not require nuclear fission. So large numbers of
scientists can easily endorse the call to eliminate nuclear
fission technology without compunction. (4) If we wish to get rid
of those aspects of nuclear energy that constitute a real threat
to human survival, without alienating hordes of “otherwise
sympathetic” people in science, medicine and industry, this
can be done by eliminating only nuclear fission technologies.
Other uses of nuclear energy pose separate challenges that can be
addressed separately. Gordon Edwards.
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