Antinuclear

The International Peace Walk – Towards a Nuclear Free Future is a three month walk that will begin on February 11^th from the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  The walk will follow a route where communities and the environment are being affected by the nuclear industry. This will include the notorious Three Mile Island nuclear reactor site.

The walk will then finish at the United Nations in New York for the beginning of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference   (NPT) on May 2^nd 2010. This review conference happens every five years and momentum is now building around the world for negotiations to move forward the agenda of nuclear disarmament.

FANG member Marcus Atkinson says “While nuclear disarmament is something we should all be concerned about, we also need to look at the whole cycle of the nuclear industry. Nuclear weapons are the final product of an industry that has destroyed Indigenous peoples lands through out the world, caused the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people and left whole cities uninhabited. There is no “Peaceful Use” of  nuclear technology as the process from the very beginning of the cycle is so destructive, and heavily reliant on fossil fuels, CFC’s and chemical products that it can never be truly seen as our solution to climate change.”