Statement from Australian National Nuclear Free Movement Conference, 8 April 2011: As the word ‘Fukushima’ moves across the headlines and radioactive fallout
moves across Japan and pours into the ocean and as the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident approaches, representatives of Australia’s nuclear free movement gathered in Melbourne. Read more »

Tilman Ruff, March 24, 2011: The March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and complicating nuclear crisis throw into sharp focus concerns about exposure to ionising radiation. What is it, how is it harmful, how much is too much? Inside a nuclear reactor, the radioactivity is increased about a million times as some of the uranium or plutonium is converted to a cocktail of hundreds of different radioactive elements. Read more »

EVENT, March 17, 2011: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Japanese for Peace and the Medical Association for Prevention of War held a candlelight vigil in Melbourne on Thursday March 17 in sympathy for the Japanese victims of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant. Read more »

Melbourne, 14 March 2011: The unfolding tragedy in Japan has highlighted the dangerous reality of nuclear power and its potential severe health consequences, said the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) and International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) today in a joint statement. Read more »

Phillip Adams, March 6th, 2011: I WAS born in July 1939, as the Nazis planned the invasion of Poland. While in kindergarten the Manhattan Project built three atomic bombs. Number one, affectionately known as “The Gadget”, was detonated in New Mexico in July 1945, a few days after my sixth birthday.  Read more »