Downloads related to "Safeguards"
Nuclear power: bequeathing more problems for future generations. Dr Sue Wareham March 2011
Text of presentation by Dr Sue Wareham OAM given at a Forum organised by Christians for an Ethical Society in Canberra, on 24 March 2011. The topic - health and other risks of the nuclear industry; and in particular the safety record of nuclear power; was unfortunately made more relevant by the destruction of Japan's Fukushima reactors by the tsunami and earthquake on 11 March and the subsequent nuclear crisis. 8pp: please contact MAPW for references or any queries.
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Executive Summary, An Illusion of Protection: ACF & MAPW, 2006
Ourlines key findings and recommendations of this important report which documents the unavoidable limitations of safeguards on nuclear materials, in particular in relation to export of uranium to China. 12-page booklet published by MAPW and the ACFi in 2006. (Full report also available here.)
An Illusion of Protection: ACF & MAPW, 2006
This important report documents the unavoidable limitations of safeguards on nuclear materials, in particular in relation to export of uranium to China. 46-page booklet published by MAPW and the ACFi in 2006. (Executive Summary also available here.)
MAPW 2008: Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change
This presentation documents environmental impacts of uranium mining and of the other steps to production of nuclear power; health and nuclear weapons risks; and sustainable alternatives. Prepared by La Trobe University student Courtney Deains, for MAPW, with support from Dr Bill Williams and Dr Jim Green.(See also the alternative brief version.)
MAPW 2008: Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change (short version)
This presentation presents key points on carbon emissions and other environmental impacts involved in production of nuclear power; other risks; and sustainable alternatives. More detail is included as notes and references. (A longer version has more slides.) Prepared by La Trobe University student Courtney Deains, for MAPW, with support from Dr Bill Williams and Dr Jim Green.
MAPW 2008: Nuclear weapons, nature and society
In this report, MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham, argues that nuclear weapons represent mankind’s ultimate confrontation with the natural environment that sustains us. Areas covered include nuclear accidents, nuclear waste and the effects of nuclear tests. Prepared for the Biosensitive Futures website of the Nature and Society Forum, November 2008.
MAPW Media Release: Doctors applaud withholding uranium from Russia
18 September 2008: MAPW welcomes the recommendations by Australian government's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, that Australia does not proceed with uranium sales to Russia until far more stringent measures are in place to separate Russia's civilian and military nuclear facilities.
Nuclear safeguards: Scientists drop a nuclear bombshell. 2008
Lax nuclear safeguards pose a key threat for Australia and the world. This article published in the Adelaide Advertiser, 22 April 2008, was written by MAPW Vice-President Dr Bill Williams, with Professor Jim Falk.
Falling behind: international scrutiny of the peaceful atom - 2008
How well can the IAEAi safeguard existing civilian nuclear energy facilities against the threat of nuclear proliferation? How sound are the agency's inspection efforts to prevent the possible diversions of fresh and spent fuel rods from reactors and of nuclear materials directly useable to make bombs from nuclear fuel making plants? A new NPECi report identifies the IAEAi safeguards system's key structural and operational deficiencies and pinpoints where additional funding would strengthen IAEAi safeguards and where it would not; and gives detailed recommendations to make the IAEAi safeguards system more credible and effective. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center's Executive Director Henry Sokolski summarises the report in this presentation. (Full report available on the NPEC website).
Research reactors and nuclear weapons capability. Dr Jim Green - 2000
Dr Jim Green discusses the links between research reactors and nuclear weapons proliferation, including plutonium production, diversion of highly enriched uranium, weapons related research, production of isotopes for use in nuclear weapons and finally the political elements of weapons proliferation. Dr Green was then a member of Sutherland Shire Council's Nuclear Reactor Taskforce.
NPT — Nuclear Proliferation Traders. Jean McSorley - 2000
Jean McSorley, independent anti-nuclear campaigner since 1980, discusses the 2000 NPTi Review Conference and “peaceful uses of nuclear technology”. Paper from MAPW Conference 2000.
Understanding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (print quality). MAPW - 2007
This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (Printer quality version - larger file size).
Understanding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (online reading only). MAPW - 2007
This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (The version linked below is to be read online only - to download a print quality version please click here).
Securing our survival: (summary). MAPW and ICAN - 2007
This is a 4-page overview of Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention (2007), which sets out and explains an updated Model Convention aiming eliminate nuclear weapons.
Yellowcake Country? Australia's uranium industry. 2006
Yellowcake Country? is a detailed report on Australia's uranium industry prepared by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative in 2006. It raises environmental and health risks, and the threat of nuclear war.
Proliferation dangers associated with nuclear medicine (HEU). MAPW - 2008
The near-universal use of weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium (HEUi) to produce radiopharmaceuticals used in medicine, is a significant hazard. This peer-reviewed paper argues that health professionals should stop the use of HEUi in medicine, as a vulnerable pathway to creating a 'terrorist bomb'. Produced by MAPW doctors Bill Williams and Tilman Ruff, it was published in 2008.
