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Australian environmentalists, Aboriginal, medical experts to attend global nuclear conference in Japan

Activists at nuke talkfest,  By DAMIEN McCARTNEY,  Northern Territory News  11 Jan 2012  A PROTESTER and an environmentalist are on their way to a global nuclear conference in Japan. Justin Tutty and the Environment Centre’s Cat Beaton will travel through Fukishima, Yokohama, Hiroshima and Okinawa. The pair will be joined by South Australian traditional owner Peter Watts and Medical Association for the Prevention of War representative in Melbourne, Margaret Bevis.

Mr Tutty said he and Ms Beaton would make a presentation on the role of Australian uranium in the global nuclear cycle. “We will be talking a lot about the link between Ranger Mine uranium and the destroyed Fukishima reactors,” he said.
The group also will meet survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima,and residents around the US military base in Okinawa.

January 12, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Opposition to nuclear | Opposition to nuclear