Step Off the Nuclear Fuel / Fool Cycle!

Stop nuclear power in Australia: Renewables not reactors!
Stop uranium mining: Leave it in the ground!
Stop nuclear weapons and wars: Reject the US nuclear umbrella!
Stop nuclear waste: No waste dump in Australia!

 
• Australia should stop exporting nuclear dangers at home and abroad by ceasing the export of uranium from our 3 mines at Roxby Downs and Beverley in South Australia, and Ranger in the Northern Territory. A major increase in uranium exploration is underway with plans to make BHP Billiton's Roxby Downs the biggest uranium mine in the world. Uranium directly leads to radioactive waste and nuclear weapons risks. Its not clean, safe or needed. Leave it in the ground!

• Australia cannot afford and does not need nuclear power. In terms of water usage alone, nuclear is unaffordable in the driest continent on Earth. However, the Prime Minister's hand picked pro-nuclear panel proposes 25 reactors by 2050 but refuses to say where or who will pay. Nuclear power has never been commercially viable without massive taxpayer subsidies anywhere. Invest in renewable energy not reactors!

• Australia should stop participating in the US war-fighting machine and should reject the US nuclear umbrella. Australia should get out of Iraq and unconditionally reject nuclear weapons and the US nuclear umbrella. Nuclear weapons increase tension, start wars, do not enhance our security and are useless against today's real security threats. Reject the US nuclear umbrella!

• Australian's do not buy the lie that nuclear reactors are a solution climate change: building reactors emits large amounts of greenhouse gasses; they take too long to build and enough of them cannot be built to offset carbon emissions in the next 20 years, the vital time period in which change needs to take place. Nuclear waste that lasts for 250,000 years is simply not green or clean!

For more information contact

Friends of the Earth  ph 03 9419 8700

Australian Conservation Foundation  ph 03 9345 1111

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons ph 03 8344 1637