The leaders of the Green Russia faction of the YABLOKO party Alexei Yablokov and Alexander Nikitin participated in the meeting of the Global Nuclear Legacy project in Budapest on May 29-31.
Over 40 representatives of the anti-nuclear movement from the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, and the CIS countries came to Budapest. The meeting joined together victims of the nuclear industry, ecologists and specialists from the nuclear sphere who openly inform the society of the dangers of the industry.
The participants brainstormed the effects on humans and nature, as well as the risks of the different chains of the nuclear fuel cycle, work of nuclear power stations, production and test of nuclear weapons. The key issue was how to inform the society of the concealed effects arising in the development of the nuclear industry. The meeting decided to begin preparatory work for a series of public hearings that have to take place in the USA, Western Europe and Russia. The closing event of the action should be Global Hearings, it will be timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Member of the Bureau of the Green Russia faction N.Mironova, Chelyabinsk, was elected member of the organisational committee of the hearings.
See also:
Yabloko for Environmental Safety
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