NUCLEAR REVIVAL?
PUBLIC RESISTANCE NEEDED!

The nuclear industry and its supporters in governments are hoping for a nuclear revival in Europe, wrongly claiming the problems of nuclear power are solved and nuclear energy even could play a role in limiting climate change. While this is far from true, an increasing number of European countries consider a nuclear comeback, and in Finland the first new reactor in Western Europe since 15 years is being built.

But nuclear power is the problem, and not the solution!

Nuclear power is the most dangerous form of energy. Almost two decades have passed since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and yet, people are still suffering the long-term consequences of its health and environmental impacts. A similar disaster can happen anytime anyplace. The problems of long-term storage & treatment of radioactive waste as well as the release of radioactive substances into air and water during normal operation remain unsolved. And nuclear power is economically insane. Not a single nuclear power plant was ever built without direct or indirect subsidies, paid by taxpayers and increasing the profits of the nuclear industry. MORE ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER

We need you again: one million Europeans against nuclear power

European NGOs, lead by Atomstopp, Friends of the Earth Europe, Global 2000, Sortir du Nucléare, WISE, Women for Peace -- and more than 200 supporting NGOs -- have now joined forced to challenge the political leaders of the EU and European countries, demanding that nuclear energy should have no role to play in Europe's energy mix. In particular we demand that no further taxpyers' money is wasted to subsidse the most dangerous form of energy and that the outdated EURATOM treaty, that obliges the European Union to support the development of nuclear energy in Europe, is finally abolished. EXPLORE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CAMPAIGN

We aim to collect one million signatures against nuclear power in Europe. Signatures are collected online, but also during street actions across Europe throughout the year, for example during the "Weeks of Action" 15 April to 7 May 2006 at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP!