I was in Ukraine when you sent the message about the excellent resolution of the Abolition Caucusus. If it is not too late I wish to sign up on behalf of the Center for Safe Energy. (See below)
Please let me know what else is being done against the spread of nuclear power stations, the production of MOX fuel and the reckless management of nuclear waste. these are my concern. I work with very fine activists in the former Soviet Union on these issues.
Please keep me on your mailing list.
Fran Macy
NGO Resolution and Recommendations of the Abolition Caucus
to Delegates to Prep Com 1 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2000 Review Concerning Article IV -- re: The "Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy" of the Non-Proliferation Treaty 11 April 1997
Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that entered into force in 1970, recognizes an "inalienable right" to all the Parties to the Treaty to "develop, research, produce and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes". This point was reaffirmed and expanded upon in Decision II, Points 14-20 of the agreements of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference.
We acknowledge, however that there is an inextricable link between the "peaceful" and "military" uses of many nuclear technologies and materials.
Further, we are aware that the proliferation of the peaceful atom has caused the widespread distribution of nuclear technology and therefore fissile materials and tritium with potential military applications.
We note with concern that not only are there unacceptable economic, environmental, social and public health costs with atomic power, there is additionally, still no solution for the growing problem of nuclear waste.
Additionally, numerous incidents and accidents at civilian nuclear plants including accidents with transboundary consequences have irreversibly contaminated large parts of our earth.
We therefore resolve firmly that there is a higher "inalienable right" that must be guaranteed and that is the right to a clean and healthy environment with safe land, food, water and sustainable and renewable energy technologies for all people and future generations.
This right to a clean, healthy and safe environment has been agreed to and reaffirmed in the statements and documents from numerous international meetings and conferences of governments and NGO's, including, among others:
1. The Women's Action Agenda 21 of Miami (November 1991)
2. The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit (June 1992)
3. The Salzburg Declaration of the World Uranium Hearing (September 1992)
4. The Abolition 2000 Statement (April 1995, with over 700 signatories as of April 1997.)
5. The Platform for Action of the 4th World Conference of Women, Beijing (Sept.1995)
6. The Resolution of the No More Chernobyls Conference, Kiev (April 1996)
7. The Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Summit Statement, Albuquerque, New Mexico(November 1996)
8. The Moorea Declaration of the Abolition 2000 Conference, Maharepa Village, Moorea, Te Ao Maohi (French Polynesia) (January 1997)
9. The United Nations Development Progamme Report - "Energy After Rio"(February 1997) in preparation for the Rio+5 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (scheduled for June 1997)
Therefore we recommend:
1. Immediate governmental initiatives for the creation of a new UN International Solar* Energy Agency, to promote energy efficiency programs and renewable energy technology transfer.
2. The creation of a new working group to review Article IV of the NPT, in order to address the civilian-military ambivalence as the inherent danger of nuclear power to proliferation. The promotion of nuclear power by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA Article I) should cease. The transfer of nuclear technologies should halt. This recommendation includes limiting the mission of the IAEA to safeguarding nuclear materials and facilities.
3. An international halt on the construction of new nuclear power plants (NPP's). The phase out of all existing plants and the ending of spent fuel reprocessing and the reuse of plutonium as MOX fuel. The end to all ongoing and planned uranium mining activities. We are especially alarmed about the export of the economically failed Western nuclear industries into Eastern Europe and Asia, given that most Western countries have a virtual moratorium on construction of new NPP's.
4. Respect for Indigenous Peoples right to self-determination and political independence including their right to end all ongoing and planned nuclear waste dumping on their lands, and prohibit on the transport of nuclear materials through their territories.
* We use the title "Solar Energy Agency" instead of "Renewable or Sustainable" because wind, biomass, ocean wave, and other like technologies derive their energy potential directly from the sun. There is a similar proposal put forward by the NGO EuroSolar.
ENDORSED BY THE FOLLOWING NGO'S AND INDIVIDUALS:
please note if you are signing as an individual, with organization for identification only by marking an asterisk* next to your name
Individual Name Organization
Address Country
Francis U. Macy Center for Safe Energy
2812 Cherry Street Earth Island Institute
Berkeley, CA 94708 San Francisco, California USA
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Francis U. Macy
Director, Center for Safe Energy
Earth Island Institute
300 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
Telephone 510-540-7120
Fax 510-649-9605
E-mail fmacy@igc.apc.org
