NUCLEAR MELTDOWN EVACUATION DRILL OF DUBLIN!
Irish Globalise Resistance | 20.02.2002 18:50
APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITYGlobalise Resistance- NUCLEAR MELTDOWN EVACUATION DRILL OF DUBLIN!
Globalise Resistance-EVACUATION DRILL OF DUBLIN!
APPEAL FOR ALL BRITISH GROUPS TO COME TO DUBLIN IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST SELLAFIELD
What happens when Sellafield melts down, Minister
Jacob?
Prop making, costume making, theatrical rehearsal in NCAD- Meltdown, evacuation drill and Die IN in front of minister's office- 3pm March 9th
Globalise Resistance in Dublin has brought together lots of ideas for building the anti-globalisation movement in Ireland.A big issue in Ireland is the threat that the Sellafield Nuclear power plant poses for people and the environment here.
Our plan is to run a "nuclear meltdown drill".
We will assemble at 3pm at the Central Bank where
speakers will explain the threat of Sellafield and
then at a co-ordinated moment "nuclear wardens" in
overalls and masks will come into the crowd with
sirens and horns in a trial-run nuclear meltdown
scenario – everyone will have half an hour to escape!
We will be building a Sellafield reactor core for the meltdown drill, and are asking anyone who knows anything about flares, coloured smoke, theatrical primal screaming, the uniforms of the Ministry of Disasters and the Civil Offence, gasmasks, sound systems, fake newspaper headlines and articles a la Orson Welles for the day, nuclear body shadows, horror make up, blood capsules, burned clothes,
mutations ETC ETC ETC to help bring materials, paints, props ETC ETC
Everyone on the demo will be given emergency plans
which will tell you what to do in the event of a
nuclear fall out from Sellafield:
Get to the Fianna Fail headquarters within half an
hour and protest (or after half an hour has passed,have a die in…?)
Wardens will get everyone running to mount streetraising the alarm on the way.
Lots of other details to be worked out but that's theidea…
We will challenge Joe Jacob (Irish minister for disasters) through the media
beforehand to be there at the drill with his alternative emergency plan!
Also, we plan to put outlines of dead bodies all over the streets of Dublin the night before the protest to show the scale of the carnage that would happen.
We had provisionally decided to have the demo on March 9th
APPEAL FOR ALL BRITISH GROUPS TO COME TO DUBLIN IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST SELLAFIELD
What happens when Sellafield melts down, Minister
Jacob?
Prop making, costume making, theatrical rehearsal in NCAD- Meltdown, evacuation drill and Die IN in front of minister's office- 3pm March 9th
Globalise Resistance in Dublin has brought together lots of ideas for building the anti-globalisation movement in Ireland.A big issue in Ireland is the threat that the Sellafield Nuclear power plant poses for people and the environment here.
Our plan is to run a "nuclear meltdown drill".
We will assemble at 3pm at the Central Bank where
speakers will explain the threat of Sellafield and
then at a co-ordinated moment "nuclear wardens" in
overalls and masks will come into the crowd with
sirens and horns in a trial-run nuclear meltdown
scenario – everyone will have half an hour to escape!
We will be building a Sellafield reactor core for the meltdown drill, and are asking anyone who knows anything about flares, coloured smoke, theatrical primal screaming, the uniforms of the Ministry of Disasters and the Civil Offence, gasmasks, sound systems, fake newspaper headlines and articles a la Orson Welles for the day, nuclear body shadows, horror make up, blood capsules, burned clothes,
mutations ETC ETC ETC to help bring materials, paints, props ETC ETC
Everyone on the demo will be given emergency plans
which will tell you what to do in the event of a
nuclear fall out from Sellafield:
Get to the Fianna Fail headquarters within half an
hour and protest (or after half an hour has passed,have a die in…?)
Wardens will get everyone running to mount streetraising the alarm on the way.
Lots of other details to be worked out but that's theidea…
We will challenge Joe Jacob (Irish minister for disasters) through the media
beforehand to be there at the drill with his alternative emergency plan!
Also, we plan to put outlines of dead bodies all over the streets of Dublin the night before the protest to show the scale of the carnage that would happen.
We had provisionally decided to have the demo on March 9th
Irish Globalise Resistance
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whats so bad about nuclear?
21.02.2002 08:33
nothing has the energy capacity of oil, and that's about to be on the eternal downslope of production..
I'm not an expert of alternative energy sources, but every concievable form will need to be used if we're going to get anywhere near the massive letdown of oil's complete consumption...
France is 80% nuclear and they haven't had too many problems that i nkow of.. if its designed and maintained well I don't see much of a chance of accident happening, and fast-breed reactors could concievably produce fissle matterial out of depleted material, so there's a potential of extended energy sources out of it.
I understand the complaints of it, I guess the benefits and risks should be weighed with each case of making one.
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re: whats so bad about nuclear?
21.02.2002 13:42
For example, consider the Chernobyl disaster. It was a small-to-medium sized nuclear accident, nowhere near a full meltdown. The fallout affected Scottish agriculture for 10 years, and the area around the reactor is still practically uninhabitable (I say practically because many people do still live there. They just die a lot and suffer hideous birth defects.) So, the question you have to ask is "Do we want to run a small risk of blowing ourselves and our neighbours to kingdom come?"
The other great problem with nuclear power is the waste. What do you do with something that remains deadly for 250,000 years? Seal it up? Bury it? We're talking geological timescales here - about 50 times longer than the accepted history of human civilisation. Do you think you can just chuck it down a mine shaft and put up a sign saying "Do not enter before 300,000 AD"?
Here's an interesting fact: currently in the UK, nuclear generation is the MOST expensive form of electricty generation (a fact that is usually concealed by writing off the costs of construction and waste handling). It's the world's most dangerous and complex means of boiling water.
As for alternative energy sources, you have to remember that there has been very little research done, as compared to the massive state-sponsored nuclear power / weapons programmes that have been running for the last 50 to 60 years. The other major factor you seem to overlook is energy efficiency: currently, over 50% of the energy used in this country is WASTED. So a combined programme of investment in alternative energy and energy efficiency could very well replace our current generating mix if pursued with sufficient will.
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