In this issue:
- Workers
- A new WISE trade union initiative
- Three major Australian unions to boycott uranium mining
- Transport Workers Union of Australia
- Canadian workers against uranium mining
- Uranium and the nuclear cycle
- Repression
- West Germany; trial against anti-nuclear "leaders" begun
- First anti-nuke activists seek political asylum
- Soft Energy
- Study says 3 million jobs in solar power
- Inhaber report "incompetent" and "inaccurate"
- The Farallones institute
- Netherlands durable energy organization
- Sun power: make it work
- Windmill for villagers
- New alternative energy organization founded
- Alternative energy educational center in Norway
- Australia: solar housing project
- An autonomous house near the Malville Superphoenix - France
- Tactics
- Anti-nuclear local government in Ascó, Spain
- Spain: anti-nuclear demonstrators clash with young fascists
- South Wales groups successfully thwart industry plans
- Nuclear Free Zones Campaign, Australia
- West Germany: powerline cutting
- Farmers and Lapp herders endangered by hydro projects in Northern Norway
- Mining and Natives peoples
- Scotland Orkney islands drilling opposed
- German firms mining on Aboriginal land contested
- Another successful day in court!
- Boycott the ANZ Bank
- Opposing a French mine in Australia
- Australia: "stop Fraser on uranium, land rights now"
- Enrichment
- New group uses non-violent tactics against the ultra-centrifuge plant, Netherlands
- Did Urenco help arm Pakistan?
- Reactors
- Harrisburg accident sets off chain reaction around the world
- Austria: march to Zwentendorf
- Australia: research reactor shut down
- Basque country; anti-nuclear week
- Reactor 'safety' calendar
- Torness gathering, may 4-7th together we can stop it!
- Denmark; campaigning to close Barsebäck
- Resources
- Report says atom cannot lessen dependence on fossil fuels
- No Nukes
- Bilanz und perspectiven zum widerstand gegen atomanlagen
- Der Störfall ist der Normal-fall
- Energy Crisis Bibliography
- URJA
- Households and energy
- Citizens cooperate to halve energy use
- Waste
- Gorleben: mushrooming opposition manifold actions
- Increased storage of burned out fuel rods at plant sites in the Netherlands and West Germany
- Local demos against waste disposal throughout England
- Scottish contest waste dumping
- Test drilling announced in Ontario/Canada
- Radioactive waste dumps re-discovered
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN WISE (TO DEMYSTIFY THE LANGUAGE!)
NPT - Non-Proliferation Treaty NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USA)
ICRP - International Commission on Radiological Protection
Rad - Radiation absorbed dose Rem - Roentgen equivalent man
AEG - Allgemeine Elektricitaets-Gesellschaft Aeg- Telefunken (West Germany)
AGR - Advanced gas-cooled reactor
B & W - Babcock & Wilcox Co (US)
BWR - Boiling Water reactor
GE - General Electric (USA)
HTGR - High-temperature gas-cooled reactor
LGR - light-water cooled graphite moderated reactor
LMFBR - liquid metal fast breeder reactor
PWR - Pressurised water reactor
CANDU - Canadian Deuterium Uranium reactor
URENCO - Uranium Enrichment Co.
WIPP - Waste Isolation Pilot Project
WISE V editorial group: Bar Madwin,
John Lambert, Lin Pugh, Frank van
Zaanen, Ann Kirschenmann, Guy Thornton.
Front cover artwork: Moniek van der Kroef
Lay-out: Dolf Middelhoff, Moniek van der Kroef
Self-typed by the collective
Printed by: De Bevrijding
Copyright WISE 1979
All information is freely available for republication in Movement press, mentioning the source. We would be pleased to be sent a copy.
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