A World Without Nuclear Weapons – Sign the Declaration
On Wednesday, President Obama signed a historic treaty with Russian President Medvedev to cut nuclear arsenals by a third and get serious about preventing other countries from moving forward with their nuclear programs. And next week, world leaders will come together for a historic summit to tackle this very challenge.
But the right-wing hawks are up in arms. They're trying to scare the country into thinking that having more nuclear weapons makes us safer.
President Obama needs to know we have his back as he takes a bold stand on this issue. Can you sign this petition from our friends at Global Zero to support eliminating these dangerous weapons from the face of the earth?
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=87797&id=19773-3624164-dpr2A4x&t=3
Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Please join me in writing to Prime Minister Harper, urging him to work for a world free of nuclear weapons.
http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=4471
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Sign the petition against CANDU 6 nuclear reactors
Romania has currently one nuclear power plant with two functional reactors in Cernavoda (South-East of Romania). Cernavoda is situated in an area with high earthquake risk. The Romanian Government plans to build two more nuclear reactors (Cernavoda 3 and 4 ). These reactors are of an outdated Canadian design, the CANDU 6.
The design of CANDU 6 is under critique because of several key flaws:
- It has a positive reactivity coefficient – one of the design factors leading to the Chernobyl catastrophe. Because of this, CANDU reactors are not allowed inthe USA, Germany or France;
- Because it uses heavy water, it leaks more of the radioactive substance tritium into the environment than other designs. This could be dangerous for vulnerable people like pregnant women and children under four years old living in the nearby town of Cernavoda;
- It is relatively easy to divert spent fuel from the reactor. India used a similar design to obtain plutonium for its nuclear bomb in 1974. We don't want Cernavoda to become a model for other countries who may be interested in nuclear weapon production.
Sign the petition here: http://www.greenpeace.org/romania/campaigns/nucleare/signthepetition