PBMR - No New Nuclear Power Plants for South Africa! - Petition

The following petition will be handed over to the South African government during the Rio+10 United Nations summit in Johannesburg, South Africa (august 26 - september 4, 2002)

Earthlife! Africa and WISE Amsterdam will use the occasion of the summit to put pressure on the southafrican government and the electricity company Eskom to step out of the dangerous adventure of nuclear power. At the summit some 65.000 people from all over the globe are expected to be in Jo'burg; Ministers, heads of state, journalists, ngo's, civil servants, activists.

Help us block te PBMR - take action. Sign the petition and stay in contact with us if you want to know what else is planned in Jo'burg.

You can also download and print the petition as a pdf [45 kB], zipped pdf [40 kB], word97 [38 kB] or zipped word 97 [16 kB] document. and send it to: Nuclear Energy Costs the Earth Campaign, Box 11383, Jhb, 2000 South Africa or to: Box 176, Observatory, 7935, Cape Town, South Africa.

For more background on the PBMR please read the following articles.

• THE PBMR: "Old wine in a new bottle" Factsheet; Containing basic information on the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor to be build in South Africa, published by NIRS
• New generations: The high temperature reactor Published by WISE Amsterdam on November 21, 1997
• South Africa to build new nuclear reactors Published by WISE Amsterdam on June 4, 1999
• Eskom's PBMR partly defeated, not dead yet Published by WISE Amsterdam on October 15, 1999
• Update on south Africa's nuclear nightmare Published by WISE Amsterdam on July 17, 2001
• Exelon pulls out of pebble-bed projectPublished by WISE Amsterdam on May 3, 2002

We, the undersigned, call upon the South African government to turn away from an unsafe nuclear development path, particularly the proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, the associated fuel and transport programmes, and the proposed Radioactive Waste Smelter at Pelindaba.

We urge the South African Government to re-direct the funds to safe, clean, sustainable and proven alternatives, such as energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, of which South Africa has in abundance.

 
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