Macron announced the relaunch of the nuclear program. This relaunch is
supposed to start with two EPR2 reactors in Penly, near Rouen. This is
what motivated the choice of this city. ---- Stop the civil and military
relaunch ---- We already told you in the last issue the saga of
Flamanville, the only EPR (almost) built on French territory. A bitter
technological failure, a financial abyss and a reactor that poses safety
problems before it has even started (with complaints of fraud to boot).
And the saga is not over. At the time of writing, Flamanville has been
authorized to start, and has even started twice already, and had to stop
twice, once for "human error" and the other for "safety problem".
This does not prevent Macron from announcing 6 EPR2 (in Penly,
Gravelines and Bugey), and even then, at this point, 14. He also
announced without batting an eyelid the construction of SMRs, while
there are only two in the world (one Russian and one Chinese), one of
which operates on a barge in the Arctic Ocean (practical, for cooling).
Finally, he wants to extend the current reactors until they are no
longer needed, beyond 40 years, while the planned duration for some was
20 years. And as for the military revival, it is planned to immerse
lithium in the Civaux reactor to better manufacture the tritium needed
for bombs, which tends to evaporate (in whose lungs, in your opinion?).
It is to stop this furious and murderous madness that a national
coordination was created, and has already organized days of action last
year. There is no money for schools or hospitals, there is no money to
help farmers in a conversion to organic farming, but to pour thousands
of tons of concrete and metal for projects that no one is sure will be
carried out, in a race towards the biggest, most useless and most
dangerous projects, there is money there, and it is counted in billions.
No ecological fight possible without an anti-nuclear fight
Nuclear power has always posed as the savior of the planet. It was
supposed to save us from oil dependence in the 70s, today it claims to
save us from global warming. The regular reader of Courant Alternatif
knows to what extent this claim is an aberration, knows that on the
contrary nuclear power aggravates climate change. However, this idea has
more or less passed among many climate activists. Or, at the very least,
that nuclear power is not an urgent problem of the moment. This can be
partly explained by the incessant media bombardment that we have been
subjected to for several decades. And in particular by the propaganda of
Jancovici's schift project, a pseudo-ecological office financed by
Veolia and the biggest concreters in France. But this is not the only
explanation. We must indeed reject a vision of the world that is
scientistic in the manner of engineers. It is not enough to compare how
much carbon is emitted by each type of energy. Nuclear electricity is a
heavy, gigantic and unwieldy production that involves creating energy
needs in the face of its supply: electric heating in the past, the
electric car today. Nuclear power necessarily implies the frenzied
electrification of the world.
Nuclear power is the quintessence of what we reject in this society:
a hypercentralized energy with which no self-management is imaginable;
a sophisticated and dangerous technology that puts us in the hands of
the power of experts;
a nuclear society can only be a police society because of the risks
involved;
gigantic projects, irreversible on the scale of several centuries, and
several millennia if we are interested in waste.
At a time when some people talk about composition, of weaving alliances
that would serve as protective shields, let us not forget that the
closer we get to power, the less anti-nuclear we are. There have been
green ministers in the past in governments of the plural left, none of
them have ever opposed this subject. And that is normal. When we aim for
power, we are not going to deprive ourselves of one of its instruments.
Sylvie
The program
Saturday, October 12
10:30 a.m.: opening of the anti-nuclear associative village (stands,
shows, catering at free prices) - Quai rive gauche de la Seine (access
via Quai Cavelier de La Salle)
2:30 p.m.: departure of the stroll
5:00 p.m.: Launch of the concerts
Sunday, October 13 at 11:00 a.m.
Meet on the beach of St Martin en Campagne opposite the Penly nuclear
power plant
We will plant sticks there, symbols of our anti-nuclear resistance and
we will build a wall of shame of the deadly nuclear industry
Bring something to picnic
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supposed to start with two EPR2 reactors in Penly, near Rouen. This is
what motivated the choice of this city. ---- Stop the civil and military
relaunch ---- We already told you in the last issue the saga of
Flamanville, the only EPR (almost) built on French territory. A bitter
technological failure, a financial abyss and a reactor that poses safety
problems before it has even started (with complaints of fraud to boot).
And the saga is not over. At the time of writing, Flamanville has been
authorized to start, and has even started twice already, and had to stop
twice, once for "human error" and the other for "safety problem".
This does not prevent Macron from announcing 6 EPR2 (in Penly,
Gravelines and Bugey), and even then, at this point, 14. He also
announced without batting an eyelid the construction of SMRs, while
there are only two in the world (one Russian and one Chinese), one of
which operates on a barge in the Arctic Ocean (practical, for cooling).
Finally, he wants to extend the current reactors until they are no
longer needed, beyond 40 years, while the planned duration for some was
20 years. And as for the military revival, it is planned to immerse
lithium in the Civaux reactor to better manufacture the tritium needed
for bombs, which tends to evaporate (in whose lungs, in your opinion?).
It is to stop this furious and murderous madness that a national
coordination was created, and has already organized days of action last
year. There is no money for schools or hospitals, there is no money to
help farmers in a conversion to organic farming, but to pour thousands
of tons of concrete and metal for projects that no one is sure will be
carried out, in a race towards the biggest, most useless and most
dangerous projects, there is money there, and it is counted in billions.
No ecological fight possible without an anti-nuclear fight
Nuclear power has always posed as the savior of the planet. It was
supposed to save us from oil dependence in the 70s, today it claims to
save us from global warming. The regular reader of Courant Alternatif
knows to what extent this claim is an aberration, knows that on the
contrary nuclear power aggravates climate change. However, this idea has
more or less passed among many climate activists. Or, at the very least,
that nuclear power is not an urgent problem of the moment. This can be
partly explained by the incessant media bombardment that we have been
subjected to for several decades. And in particular by the propaganda of
Jancovici's schift project, a pseudo-ecological office financed by
Veolia and the biggest concreters in France. But this is not the only
explanation. We must indeed reject a vision of the world that is
scientistic in the manner of engineers. It is not enough to compare how
much carbon is emitted by each type of energy. Nuclear electricity is a
heavy, gigantic and unwieldy production that involves creating energy
needs in the face of its supply: electric heating in the past, the
electric car today. Nuclear power necessarily implies the frenzied
electrification of the world.
Nuclear power is the quintessence of what we reject in this society:
a hypercentralized energy with which no self-management is imaginable;
a sophisticated and dangerous technology that puts us in the hands of
the power of experts;
a nuclear society can only be a police society because of the risks
involved;
gigantic projects, irreversible on the scale of several centuries, and
several millennia if we are interested in waste.
At a time when some people talk about composition, of weaving alliances
that would serve as protective shields, let us not forget that the
closer we get to power, the less anti-nuclear we are. There have been
green ministers in the past in governments of the plural left, none of
them have ever opposed this subject. And that is normal. When we aim for
power, we are not going to deprive ourselves of one of its instruments.
Sylvie
The program
Saturday, October 12
10:30 a.m.: opening of the anti-nuclear associative village (stands,
shows, catering at free prices) - Quai rive gauche de la Seine (access
via Quai Cavelier de La Salle)
2:30 p.m.: departure of the stroll
5:00 p.m.: Launch of the concerts
Sunday, October 13 at 11:00 a.m.
Meet on the beach of St Martin en Campagne opposite the Penly nuclear
power plant
We will plant sticks there, symbols of our anti-nuclear resistance and
we will build a wall of shame of the deadly nuclear industry
Bring something to picnic
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4258
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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