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wed. june 14: radioactivists meeting
caution - radioactive: turkey, syria, cyprus, lebanon, italy, greece,
egypt, jordan, israel, palestine, armenia, saudi arabia ...
atomic energy of canada limited (aecl) is proposing to export candu
nuclear reactors to turkey - one of the most seismically active areas of
the world. over 18,000 people died after last year's earthquakes in
northern turkey - and in the past few days, there have been more quakes
north of ankara, the country's capital. what would happen if an earthquake
struck a nuclear plant? atmospheric modelling has shown that the fallout
could be dispersed throughout the mediterranean region - and thousands
could develop cancer.
if you would like to help stop this from happening, please consider
joining the radioactivists, an anti-nuclear group that's part of
opirg-carleton. we advocate ecological and peaceful alternatives to
nuclear power, such as wind and solar energy.
next meeting:
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wednesday, june 14, 3 pm
at opirg-carleton, 326 unicentre, carleton university
(oc transpo buses #7, #4)
for more information, click here:
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the radioactivists can be contacted at 520-2757 or <opirg@carleton.ca>
campaign for nuclear phaseout, 789-3634, <cnp@web.ca>, <http://www.cnp.ca/>
nuclear awareness project, (905) 852-0571, <nucaware@web.ca>
diaspora, <http://www.diaspora-net.org/nuclear/>
no more chernobyls!
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please write letters to mp's. ask them to stop exports of candu reactors;
point out the dangers of building nuclear plants in earthquake-prone
countries such as turkey; express your concerns about the risk of nuclear
proliferation created by exports of nuclear technology.
write to: prime minister chrétien; foreign affairs minister lloyd axworthy;
pierre pettigrew, minister of international trade; natural resources
minister ralph goodale; deborah grey, opposition leader; gilles duceppe,
chef du bloc québécois; alexa mcdonough, ndp leader. no postage required.
address: house of commons, ottawa, ontario, k1a 0a6.
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"when you mention the atomic bomb, they are scared that it kills people.
it has not been used since the second world war. having such a bomb in
turkey's hand is security. it provides deterrence."
- enis oksuz, turkish transport minister, march 9, 2000.
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