Australia has long been at the forefront of global efforts towards the containment of nuclear threats. Now, in the wake of the American military strikes on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency says the global nonproliferation system is on the brink of collapse. Australian campaigners are calling on the government to step up its advocacy for nuclear disarmament. “It’s an alarmingly dangerous time – the nonproliferation regime is under severe threat,” says Dr Tilman Ruff, who is co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Nobel Prize-winning ...

n 1982, Helen Caldicott, one of Australia’s most prominent anti-nuclear campaigners, spent an hour with Ronald Reagan at the White House, warning the then-president about the dangers of nuclear. “I came out of that saying I thought, because I’m a physician, that he had impending Alzheimer’s,” Caldicott, now 86, says. “Which he did.” Caldicott fears Australia’s memory is also faltering. From her home in regional NSW, Caldicott says people have forgotten that period where anti-nuclear activism was a key cause of the left and nuclear safety fears ran high. Helen ...

By Helen Caldicott In light of Peter Dutton’s enthusiastic endorsement of the latest nuclear reactors, it is pertinent to review this technology in depth. There are three types of SMRs which generate less than 300 megawatts of electricity compared with current day 1000 megawatt reactors. Light water reactors designs – smaller versions of present-day pressurized water reactors using water as the moderator These SMRs will be expensive because the cost per unit capacity increases with decrease in reactor size. To alleviate costs, it is suggested that safety rules be relaxed, ...

by Noel Wauchope, Independent Australia, 11 April 2024 7.30's report on nuclear energy displayed an enormous amount of bias (Screenshot via YouTube) ON 4 APRIL, on ABC's 7.30, regional affairs reporter Jane Norman presented a sort of debate on nuclear power for Australia. An accompanying article was also published on 2 April as a debate about ‘a generational divide’. The show was quite gripping, with excellent visual snippets of Australia's history of nuclear issues and promotional visualisation of the industry's proposed new small modular reactors (SMRs). The essence of this debate seemed to be that old people ...

Guest Speaker: Helen Caldicott, World Renowned Peace Activist & Author Moderated by Martin Sheen, Actor & Peace Activist Sponsored by the JFK Peace Speech Committee and the Community Church of Boston Monday February 19, 2024 7pm-8.30pm EST Register for Zoom Link The first hour of our Program, moderated by Martin Sheen, will feature an award-winning film in which Dr. Caldicott discusses the danger of nuclear weapons. We will view the screening of President Kennedy's American University address followed by remarks from Dr. Caldicott on the relevance JFK's speech has for us ...

By Charlotte Dennett, CounterPunch, January 23, 2024 “There’s something about the sound of a mothers scream, you just never forget.” That was a comment from actress Ellen Moore when interviewed about her role in a recently released documentary about the 1982 movie The Day After, a spellbinder that had over a hundred million Americans glued to their TV sets, watching how a nuclear bomb devastated a rural community in Lawrence, Kansas. And that’s how director Jeff Daniels opens his new documentary, modestly titled Television Event. The camera pans in on a quiet suburban ...