Articles
The Dangers of Stumbling Down the Nuclear Path
Helen Caldicott, Canberra Times, July 2 2007
Australia is in grave danger. Not only has the labor party joined the coalition’s open-slather uranium mine policy, but the Prime Minister is mooting domestic uranium enrichment, construction of 25 nuclear reactors on the East Coast, storage of foreign radioactive waste in Australia and reprocessing spent radioactive nuclear fuel in a "closed nuclear fuel cycle" ... read more
NT takeover is nuke dump ploy: Caldicott
The Age, July 2 2007
Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott says the federal government's intervention in the Northern Territory is a ploy to allow the dumping of nuclear waste in the outback ... read more
Nuclear Power and Uranium Mining
Helen Caldicott, Adelaide Advertiser, June 29 2007
Contrary to industry propaganda nuclear power contributes substantially to global warming. Fossil fuels used to mine and enrich uranium, construct and decommission the reactor, transport and store the intensely radioactive waste for eons of time produce global warming gases ... read more
Nuclear CO2 Warming Costs
Helen Caldicott, UPI Outside View, May 21 2007
The fact is, it takes energy to make energy -- even nuclear energy. And the true "energetic costs" of making nuclear energy -- the amounts of traditionally generated fuel it takes to create "new" nuclear energy -- have not been tallied up until very recently ... read more
Is BMD Futile?
Helen Caldicott, UPI Outside View, May 18 2007
The first military use of outer space was the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The second was defensive systems designed to stop them. Missile defense against ICBMs has never worked. Despite five decades of failure, the idea has continued to haunt military planners since the Cold War began ... read more
The Greatest Australian Hero
Saab Lofton, COA News, May 9 2007
Dr. Helen Caldicott and Superman have a couple of things in common--both of them were born in 1938 and they're both die hard anti-nuke activists (see the movie Superman IV: The Quest for Peace if you don't believe me). They obviously differ in gender and hometowns - the extraterrestrial "man of steel" was raised on a Kansas farm whereas Dr. Caldicott came from Melbourne, Australia (hence the title of this piece) ... read more
Fuel plan beset by fossilised thinking
Helen Caldicott, The Australian, July 24 2006
AUSTRALIA is perfectly placed to be the real energy superpower: the instigator and global leader in renewable electricity production. A country bathed in sun and ferociously windy in many locations, Australia could, with political will and vision, usher in a safe, carbon-free and nuclear-free future. Instead, ... read more
We should not be exporting uranium because you are exporting cancer
Erin O'Dwyer, Sydney Morning Herald, July 6 2006
Not recognised among Australia's 100 most influential people, anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott still stands tall on the world stage, Erin O'Dwyer writes. "We've gone backwards decades under Bush and Howard" ... read more
Campaigner attacks nuclear inquiry's credibility
Kerry O'Brien interviews Helen Caldicott, 7.30 Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV, July 3 2006
Helen Caldicott, can I begin with, I suppose, the most obvious question. You had an enormous following in the early 80s. The impetus of your campaign tended to peter out as the threat of nuclear holocaust dissipated. You retired to your coastal garden and to spend more time with family. Why the comeback? ... read more
Nuclear Power's Sick Legacy
Helen Caldicott, The Age, April 17 2006
The noted American writer Mary McCarthy once famously observed of the equally noted but politically discredited playwright Lillian Hellman: "every word she utters is a lie, including 'and' and 'but' ". As we have seen over the past 10 years, the same can be said of the Howard Government from the children-overboard scandal to "there will never be a GST" to "yes, there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq". Now - joined by misguided and misinformed members of the ALP and a few scientists who should know better - the Government is embarked on another mendacious, ill-advised, and downright dangerous enterprise: transforming Australia into a nuclear-powered, uranium-exporting nation, deploying as a rhetorical fig leaf the spurious message that nuclear power is emissions-free, green, and safe and will save Australia - and indeed the world - from the effects of global warming. Let's pull away that tattered fig leaf and look at the facts ... read more
Once a Sunset Industry, the Uranium Lobby Paints a Green Dawn
Helen Caldicott, Sydney Morning Herald, August 11 2005
Global warming has been a great gift to a nuclear industry that was on its knees. Its reputation was so dismal that Wall Street investors gave it a wide berth, its only salvation the public teat ... read more
Don't Play Power Games with Our Lives
Helen Caldicott, The Age, June 29 2005
Two thousand years ago Hippocrates laid down a dictum: "primum non nocere" - or "first, do no harm" - meaning it is a physician's moral duty to induce no harm or injury to a patient during treatment ... read more
A Star War that Fails the Test
Helen Caldicott & Craig Eisendrath, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15 2005
On May 18, Tim Weiner reported in the New York Times that the Air Force is seeking President Bush's approval for a national-security directive that would bring the country closer to deploying offensive and defensive weapons in outer space ... read more
Outside View: Huge Costs of Nuclear Power
Helen Caldicott, The Houston Chronicle, May 25 2005
There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases ... read more
No Weapons in Space
Helen Caldicott & Craig Eisendrath, The Baltimore Sun, May 19 2005
The Bush administration is clearly moving toward putting weapons in outer space. It has spent about $500 million a year in research on those potential weapons in the past few years ... read more
Nuclear Proliferation
Helen Caldicott & Scott Harris, Znet, April 14 2005
The Bush administration has taken a hard line against nations they say are engaged in the development of nuclear weapons ... read more
Nuclear Power is the Problem, Not a Solution
Helen Caldicott, The Australian, April 13 2005
There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases ... read more
NPRI President Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq, USA
Lisa Richwine, Reuters, June 25 2004
The U.S. military should clean up depleted uranium ammunition scattered across Iraq to prevent future health problems such as cancer and birth defects ... read more
McNamara: Nuclear War Still Possible; NY No. 1 Target, USA
Jon E. Dougherty, Newsmax.com, June 3 2004
The threat of devastating nuclear attack by Russia against the United States has not diminished, warns former Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara ... read more
Still on Catastrophe's Edge
Robert McNamara and Helen Caldicott, Los Angeles Times, April 26 2004
As we continue to grapple with the United States' vulnerability to terrorist attack, we fail to recognize the most serious danger, one that is overlooked by politicians and emergency management agencies alike ... read more
