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Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
Nuclear Links

Auteur	Students against nuclear energy, 3rd world
Datum
Classificatie	6.01.0.20/43 (BELANG MONDIAAL)
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Introduction

This pamphlet offers a new perspective on the worldwide nuclear debate. Third World 
First and SANE have jointly produced it for the anti-nuclear and development groups, 
also for anyone not in a group but concerned about world poverty, nuclear power or 
both.
It has been claimed that nuclear power offers to the world's poor a 'cheap, safe, 
and long lasting' energy source. But in a divided world, where poverty and wealth, 
injustice and violence, are the common images-what is the impact of the nuclear 
cycle?
The media talks of a world in crisis -a food crisis, an employment crisis, and 
an energy crisis. How desperate are these crises? What solutions are proposed? 
Must nuclear power be adopted as part of a solution?
Many third world countries are developing nuclear energy programmes. How 
important is this 'commercial energy' to the needs of the poor? Why are third 
world governments choosing the nuclear option? Is it because they want prestigious 
high technology? Are they seeking to 'progress' from civil nuclear power to nuclear 
weapons capacity?
The nuclear chain is a global chain. Mining uranium and dumping nuclear waste in 
the third world can remove some of the more obviously unpleasant aspects of the 
nuclear cycle from our own country. But as long as we make use of nuclear energy 
we are threatened. To export the nuclear hazard is hypocritical. Why should the 
third world be used as a nuclear waste-bin? Throughout the world people suffer 
from the nuclear cycle - it threatens their living-standards and lives.
The effects of nuclear power on the poor gives a clearer-and more objective-view 
of its dangers. A view not rooted in our own fears but in the experience of all. What 
changes would provide efficient and sustainable energy for all - without the danger 
of nuclear war? How can we work to achieve this? What campaigns should we 
support? This pamphlet isolates and explains the key issues in the energy and arms 
debates. The political and economic forces impelling the world into dependence 
upon nuclear technology are revealed. Is peace dependent on deterrence strategy? 
Can energy supply only be ensured by building more reactors, and extending the 
nuclear chain? Is this path inevitable?

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