Friends of the Earth Australia’s Nuclear-Free Campaign

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Friends of the Earth Australia has been campaigning against the nuclear industry – and promoting safer solutions – for over 40 years.

If you’d like to get involved, contact your local  anti-nuclear campaign group or contact FoE’s national nuclear campaigner Jim Green 0417 318 368 jim.green@foe.org.au

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Latest:

• The Dutton Coalition’s nuclear power plan

• Please click here for info on the federal govt plan for a national nuclear waste dump near Kimba in SA. August 2023 update: The federal government abandoned the plan for a national nuclear waste dump at Kimba — see this article: ‘Aboriginal Australians defeat nuclear dump’
• Nuclear powered submarines for Australia?
• Nuclear threats in Ukraine due to Russian invasion
• The Politics of Nuclear Waste Disposal: Lessons from Australia. Published by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network. In this report, Jim Green and Dimity Hawkins explore Australia’s long and complex engagement with nuclear waste issues. With the failure to remediate atomic bomb test sites, and repeated failures to establish a national nuclear waste repository, the approaches of successive Australian governments to radioactive waste management deserve close scrutiny.
• April 2024: Coalition “in a panic” about response to confused and unpopular nuclear power plan
• April 2024: Peter Dutton’s nuclear push is a “suicide note” playing mostly to right wing echo chambers
• March 2024: The demise of nuclear power in Australia’s AUKUS partner countries
• Nuclear goes backwards, again, as wind and solar enjoy another year of record growth. Nuclear power went backwards in 2023 while renewables enjoyed record growth for the 22^nd year in a row.
• ‘Bulls, bears and ignorant nuclear propagandists’ (Substack article on nuclear power’s stagnation/demise)
• Vale Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, fierce advocate for his people and a nuclear free Australia
• Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure (Nov. 2023 article)
• June 2023: Small Modular Reactors and ‘Advanced’ or ‘Generation IV’ Reactor Concepts, 31-page FoE briefing paper
• Jan 2023 – Submission to Senate nuclear power inquiry by FoE and 10 other Australian environment groups.
• ACF Oct. 20-22 briefing paper: ‘Wrong reaction: Why ‘next-generation’ nuclear is not a credible energy solution’ and related article ‘Coalition nuclear power bill “dead on arrival,” but somehow the debate lives on’
• Celebrating some wins of the anti-nuclear movement: – Kungkas stop the nuclear dump ‒ FoE exposes uranium cartel ‒ Jabiluka stopped! ‒ SA as the world’s nuclear waste dump ‒ No dump at Muckaty.
• Nuclear power myth-busting Q&A
• Nuclear Waste and Floods
• Small Modular Reactors, 2021 briefing paper
• Nuclear Power’s Economic Crisis and its Implications for Australia, Dec. 2021 report by Friends of the Earth Australia
• Kimba nuclear dump: Premier Marshall must enforce SA law, 29 Nov 2021
• Nuclear medicine and the proposed national radioactive waste dump
• BHP’s Roxby Downs Act condemned by the Federal “A Way Forward” Report (short briefing paper by David Noonan, November 2021)
• Oct 2021 – Correcting Alan Finkel’s nuclear errors
• Oct 2021 – Friends of the Earth submission to federal government re proposed national nuclear waste dump at Kimba, SA
• Bob Carr – Nobody’s really interested in the nuclear option, Oct. 2021 article.
• Small nuclear reactors, huge costs, Oct. 2021 article in RenewEconomy
• Nuclear power’s long decline in shadow of wind and solar, Sept. 2021 article in RenewEconomy
• On April 26, the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the Electrical Trade Union launched a new website www.nofuture4nuclear.org. The ETU represents over 70,000 electricians, apprentices, electrical and power workers. Please sign up at www.nofuture4nuclear.org  to receive occasional updates and please share on social media: Twitter, Facebook, See also the 2019 statement opposing nuclear power in Australia with 50+ signatory groups including overwhelming support from Australia’s trade unions.
• Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima and now fuels global insecurity (March 2021 article in The Ecologist)
• 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster (briefing paper by Dr. Philip White, Feb. 2021)
• Australia’s uranium sales fuel insecurity (2-page briefing note by David Noonan, Feb. 2021).
• Legislation banning nuclear power in Australia should be retained (Feb. 2021 article in RenewEconomy)
• October 2020 – Updated Friends of the Earth Australia statement: Nuclear Power – No Solution to Climate Change
• August 2020: Australian government threatening to weaken uranium assessment/approvals processes under EPBC Act amendments. Briefing paper by David Noonan
• Check out the ‘Don’t Nuke the Climate’ website, facebook, instagram, twitter 
• Book review: Michael Shellenberger’s reheated critique of climate ‘alarmism’
• Video collection – Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear films (mostly historical)
• The case for strengthened regulation of Australia’s uranium industry: April 2020 submission to EPBC Review Committee
• Exposing ‘small modular reactor’ economic misinformation from Ben Heard and other nuclear lobbyists
• NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s nuclear falsehoods (March 2020)
• Supporters of nuclear need a reality check: it’s staggeringly expensive (FoE opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 2020)
• Legislation banning nuclear power in Australia should be retained (Feb. 2020 Online Opinion article)
• Oct. 2019 – detailed joint NGO submission to NSW nuclear inquiry covering nuclear power and uranium mining
• Dec. 2019 – join NGO submission regarding proposed Olympic Dam mine expansion.
• Set of short infosheets on planned expansion of SA Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium mine.
• Queensland conservatives emerge as voice of reason in nuclear debate. Seriously!
• Sept. 2019 – civil society statement opposing nuclear power in Australia with 50+ signatory groups (environment, health, faith and indigenous groups plus wonderful support from trade unions).
• Sept. 2019 – Australian environment groups’ submission to federal nuclear power inquiry (lots on nuclear economics, ‘generation IV’ concepts, small modular reactors etc).
• The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is fuelling climate change, and WMDs (article in RenewEconomy)
• Small modular reactors and the nuclear culture wars (article in RenewEconomy)
• 2019 – updated links to lots of Australian and international literature on clean energy options
• July 2018: Aboriginal First Nations and Australia’s pro-nuclear ‘environmentalists’. Self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists share the same retrograde attitudes towards Aboriginal people as government and industry.
• June 2018 – New report – Perth-based Paladin Energy’s uranium mines in Africa
• Proposed national nuclear waste dump in SA – Friends of the Earth submission to Senate Inquiry.
• Nuclear lobbyist Ben Heard promoting floating nuclear power plants that will be used to exploit fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic.
• A journey to the heart of the antinuclear resistance in Australia: 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia (written by Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will)
• Feb 2018 – Standing Strong 2015-17: How South Australians won the campaign against an international high-level nuclear waste dump. Fabulous new e-book produced by Friends of the Earth and other groups.
• Feb 2018 – Mirarr Traditional Owners in the NT are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the mass movement that defeated the Jabiluka uranium mine. The first initiative to mark the anniversary is a ‘Standing Strong’ calendar – to order the calendar and to see an online (PDF) version click here.
• August 2017: The new version of the Australian Nuclear Map is available – click here to see the map and click here to visit the website. To order A2 posters email us.
• April 2017 – FoE submission to NT inquiry: Radiation Risks and Fracking

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