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About Nuke Free Future

By Nuclear Free Future | Published: February 1, 2012

Nuke Free Future provides a platform to inform, educate and activate the Australian and 
International community about the effects of the nuclear industry: uranium mining,
nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors and radioactive waste. As responsible citizens and
caretakers of Australia (and the world) we need to take it upon ourselves to inform each
other and take action for a nuclear free future. Governments do not freely provide us with
this information, yet they are making crucial decisions that have a major affect on us all.
Please share this information with your networks, and help protect the environment, our
community and future generations from the long-lasting impacts and deadly risks that
result from the nuclear industry. We proudly support a Nuke Free Future.

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FEATURE: RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN AUSTRALIA, 2012.

By Nuclear Free Future | Published: January 1, 2012

URGENT ALERT: Gillard govt announces Australia’s first nuclear waste dump in NT, despite ongoing Federal Court challenge. Report by Kia Mistilis

 

Children watch their father is screened for radiation at a shelter in Fukushima, Japan on Tuesday March 29. Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant into the soil outside, officials said.

Click to read - A statement from Dr Helen Caldicott, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. (Nobel Peace Prize, 1985) March 25th, 2011

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Nuke Free Future

By Nuclear Free Future | Published: April 1, 2011
  • WE SUPPORT a nuclear free future for Australia: no mines, no weapons, no reactors, no waste.
  • WE SUPPORT the belief that there should be NO expansion of existing uranium mines in Australia.
  • WE SUPPORT the position that there should be NO new uranium mines in Australia.
  • WE SUPPORT the total ban on nuclear energy in Australia and urge the Australian Government to invest in the development of renewable energy sources.
  • WE DEMAND a full guarantee that Australia’s uranium remains unavailable to nuclear weapons; if this guarantee cannot be met, the export of uranium must be stopped.
  • WE URGE the Australian Government to phase out uranium mining in Australia, and abandon plans to create new toxic waste dumps.
  • WE DEMAND that all existing radioactive waste is stored under the strictest international safety standards and that this safety is monitored and maintained, and that no new radioactive waste be produced.
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Important Facts To Keep In Mind

By Nuclear Free Future | Published: July 20, 2010
  • Uranium, like oil, gas and coal, is a finite resource. Renewables are our only in-finite energy options, without the deadly side effects.
  • Nuclear waste remains radioactive for over 200,000 years- there is no safe for storage of radioactive waste.
  • There is no way to guarantee that Australian uranium will not end up contributing to the production of nuclear weapons.
  • Australia is home to an active nuclear power reactor, situated in Lucas Heights, 31km from Sydney’s CBD.
  • If we were to start building more nuclear power reactors in Australia today it would be 15-25 years before any power would be produced.
  • Uranium mining produces thousands of tones of radioactive waste and is highly water intensive.
  • The nuclear industry in Australia is characterised by “a pattern of underperformance and non-compliance” and “changes were necessary in order to protect the environment and its inhabitants from serious or irreversible damage.”  – 2003 Australian Senate Inquiry.
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

By Nuclear Free Future | Published: July 19, 2010

Uranium is made & processed in Australia & then uranium oxide or yellow cake is exported.


Yellow cake is concentrated and made into rods that are used in nuclear power stations to heat water, create steam and drive a turbine that makes electricity.


Radioactive waste left behind from the process needs to be kept away from people and the environment for as long as 250,000 years. *250,000 = approximately 7,500 generations of our children that will be dealing with our waste.


Nuclear power uses uranium as its fuel.


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  • 25 Years since Chernobyl

    Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty-five years since Chernobyl</b> Ground Zero, Kazakhstan, is the site where the Soviets detonated their first nuclear bomb in August 1949. <img src= KURMANOVA, RUSSIA|Ramzis Faisullin, 16 years old. 'I don't like to go to school, because the boys call me names. The girls avoid me and don't want to go out with me. I hope I will not have children who look like me. GOMEL, BELARUS| Sisters Irina (19) and Yelena (24) Patuchenko, were both diagnosed with brain tumors in 1988. Both girls now have thyroid problems. Mother Marina Pastuchenko: 'We didn't eat mushrooms. We didn't swim in the river. After the... MINSK, BELARUS|Twin brothers Michael and Vladimir Larida, 16 years old. Michael, with hydrocephalus, is five minutes older than Vladimir, who is deaf. MUSYUMOVO RUSSIA|The contaminated River Techa. 'They never told us anything. Before the 1990's we used the water of the Techa for everything. We swam and washed carpets in it. We took it to water the plants in the garden. Sometimes the authorities chased us away, but they said why. We were... PRIPYAT, UKRAINE|Abandoned kindergarten Some areas in the closed zones around Chernobyl are so heavily contaminated that they will have to remain closed off for up to 900 years. GOMEL, BELARUS|Alexandra Prokopenko, 9, with her father Vitaly. Alexandra has hydrocephalus. Her father is the only one strong enough to hold Alexandra when she sits up to eat. MUSLYUMUVO, RUSSIA|Start of the duck hunting season. Picnic during the duck hunt Almost all men hunt or go fishing during the weekends. LAKE BALAPAN, KAZAKHSTAN|The Sultanat family has a farm near Lake Balapan, the location of 115 nuclear tests. During on the tests, their house collapsed. The children go to school in Semopalatinsk because it is less contaminated there... GOMEL, BELARUS|Annya Pesenko before her brain tumor reappeared. Her mother explains, 'Especially the places where we inject her medication are very painful. We have to use force and press the skin to keep the medicine in.' Last month Annya was rushed to the hospital and kept on artificial breathing at the intensive care unit for seventeen days. This has become almost routine since the brain tumor reappeared in 2000. Annya can hardly move and is unable to turn over or sit up on her own. She lies back onto her pillows, wilted and too weak to move, surrounded by her cuddly animals. SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAKHSTAN|Ardak, 33 years old is suffering from a rare bone disease that makes his body shrink. His doctors don't know what is wrong. ROGIN, BELARUS|Before the sun rises Ludmilla gets her horse and wooden milk-cart ready to start her rounds in the village of Rogin. She walks behind, lifting the lids off the metal containers of milk to check that there are no flies or dirt. The milk from the villages gets checked for radiation levels. If the levels are too high the milk is mixed with uncontaminated milk until the radioactivity is below the set limit. After the Chernobyl accident Rogin provided shelter to evacuees from the heavily contaminated village of Bragin. 'But Rogin turned out to be polluted as well... All of us still go there to collect mushrooms and berries' says Ludmilla. Signs along the roads still warn of the radiation danger. SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAKHSTAN|Ayauszhay, 7 months old, was abandoned in a hospital by her parents. She was suffering from hydrocephalus and died two days after she was photographed. CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA|According to professor Gennady Vasilievich Brukhinat at the medical facility of Chelyabinsk, Russia, most of the congenital diseases are caused by 'debilitating circumstances in the unborn child's environment.' HOSPICE CENTRE, MINSK, BELARUS|Vadim Selighanov (14) from Orsh has sarcoma of the prostate gland. SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAKHSTAN|Bayan Beisengalieva (15). She was six years old when doctors found a brain tumor. This picture was taken a year after another tumor had been discovered. RECHITSA, BELARUS|Zhenya Podgol (9), Liuba Alexseyenko (11) and Kristina Vitanova (9), are mentally handicapped. Socially and economically isolated, many parents are unable to care for their children and forced to place them in state institutions. MUSLYUMOVO RUSSIA|Elvira Gainullina: 'He was so sick and had to take so many medicines he didn't want to live anymore.' She and her friends are placing flowers at the grave of their mutual friend Rais, who killed himself at the age of 22. LAKE BALAPAN|Created by an atomic bomb.

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