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Obama and Nobel Prize Laureates seek Nuclear-Ban

Open Letter to the President of the United States of America Barack Obama

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Author:
- INES, INESAP
- Wolfgang Rehfus

Date:
20.1.2009

 ●  Open Letter to the President of the United States of America Barack Obama

 ●  Request to the Swiss government for public information about radioactivity & solution Natural Power


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The objective is the abolition of all nuclear weapons! 

see Mayors for Peace, SolarPeace.org, 5.3.2005

see www.MayorsForPeace.org

 

 

 


 

Quantity and risks of radioactivity caused by nuclear weapons and produced in nuclear power plants are not equal, but comparable.

The 5 Swiss nuclear power plants contain radioactivity in a quantity approximately equivalent to 10'000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs!

Worldwide still about 440 nuclear power plants are in operation. They contain radioactivity in a quantity approximately equivalent to one Million Hiroshima nuclear bombs (the production of two years).

Each nuclear power plant can be misused to fabricate nuclear weapons. 2)

«On January 20, 2009, twelve Nobel Prize Laureates and a former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations addressed US President Barack Obama. In an open letter they remind President Obama of his promise to seek a world in which there are no nuclear weapons. Pointing to the shortfalls of the existing international regime for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, Sir Harold Kroto (Nobel Prize for Chemistry), Member of the Advisory Board of INES, and his co-signers remind Barack Obama of the recent suggestion by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to use the existing Model Nuclear Weapons Convention as a starting point for the path into a nuclear weapons free world.» 1)

The notabilities write: «Much hope has been created in your nation and in the entire world due to your election as President of the United States of America. We are inspired by your public statements, that you will seek a world in which there are no nuclear weapons.»  1)  

Here is a summary with the main points of this letter: 1)


The dangers of existing nuclear arsenals:

  • More than 100,000 Hiroshima bomb equivalents.

  • Dramatically increasing risks of nuclear proliferation to other states and terrorists.

  • Nuclear weapons are inherently inhumane because they can cause the extinction of all humankind.

  • Nuclear weapons have long-term genetic and ecological effects.

The objectives:

  • To achieve a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, enshrined in international law.

  • Start negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention now.

  • A total ban.

  • Complete disarmament of nuclear weapons in all its aspects.

  • Strict and effective international control.

  • Guarantee the irreversibility of disarmament.

  • Non-accessibility to proliferation-prone nuclear materials and technology.

Statements:

«North Korea and other countries should not be given an excuse by the nuclear-weapons-based rationale of those countries that still maintain nuclear arsenals and doctrines.»

«We recall the Advisory Opinion issued on 8 July 1996 by the International Court of Justice on the illegality of the use or the threat of use of nuclear weapons.»

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon gave a landmark speech, entitled “The United Nations and Security in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World”, in which he called on governments to fulfil their nuclear disarmament obligations (24.10.2008, United Nations Day).»

 

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This open letter to the President of the United States of America Barack Obama at the same time explains important reasons presented to the Swiss government in a recent SolarPeace-Letter, in which full public information regarding the «Climate Change caused by Radioactivity» had been requested as a necessary prerequisite for an abolition of all nuclear power plants, which in turn is a necessary step to realise a lasting abolition of all nuclear weapons.

(see next chapter for details)

1) see INESAP - International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, 20.1.2009
 

see Open Letter to the President of the United States of America
Barack Obama
,INESAP - International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), 20.1.2009
 

see International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Peace Nobel Price 1985
 

see The Agenda • Defense, The White House President Barack Obama
 

see The Agenda • Energy & Environment, The White House President Barack Obama

 

Latest Update:

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 awarded to President Barack Obama, Oslo, 9.10.2009

Obama: Nobel Peace Prize ‘a call to action’, NBC News, 9.10.2009

 

2) see «The spent fuel from nuclear plants contains enough plutonium to fabricate about 30 nuclear weapons from a single year of operation of each power reactor.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), «The Future of Nuclear Energy,», Chicago, 25./26.9.2008 (Copy )
 

see «The quantity of radioactivity, which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity spread by a nuclear bomb - significantly larger.» (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist), Atomkraftwerke und Jod-Tabletten: "Risiken und Nebenwirkungen ...", SolarPeace.org, 12.11.2004
 

see «Since a reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt nuclear explosion, and fuel in a reactor has typically been there for an average of two years, a typical nuclear reactor has in its core the long-lived radioisotopes from 30 megatons of fission.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), «Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?», Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001 (see copy page 5 )
 

see Hiroshima nuclear bomb à 12.5 kt (Copy ), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Peace Nobel Price 1985)
 

vgl. 'Only 3,3% of the energy consumed world-wide is produced in the 440 nuclear power plants', Internationale Energieagentur in Paris, IEA, 01.07.2005; vgl. auch Die Träume der Atomlobby, Dr. Franz Alt, 2004

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Change your power ...!
Change your electricity to renewable energies ...

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist) 3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request for public information regarding radioactivity and its solution

Extract from a letter to the Swiss government: 3)
(
Wolfgang Rehfus, SolarPeace.org, 1.12.2008)

Please inform the population of Switzerland regarding the «Climate Change caused by Radioactivity»:

• A nuclear power plant produces each day the same amount of radioactivity than 4 nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima!

• The 5 Swiss nuclear power plants contain radioactivity approximately the size of 10'000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs! This in the production of 2 years.

• The usual Swiss mix of electricity contains an average of 40% nuclear power, in the canton of Zurich it is even 79% nuclear power, and causes accordingly large amounts of radioactivity.

This inconceivable amount of radioactivity – this «Climate Change caused by Radioactivity» – threatens and destroys the foundations of life for our and all future generations. The physical half-lives are completely irrelevant, as they are eternal from a human perspective. Also irrelevant is the calculated probability for accidents, as the potential for damage is far too gigantic. The nuclear physicist Garwin says: «Reactor accidents ... too horrible to think about.» A trustworthy banker would advice: «We do not buy these shares» and insurances don't cover this risk anyway.

Upon the election of Barack Obama, it was the German politician Hans Dietrich Genscher, who reminded strongly and multiple times to the global top priority: The  complete abolition of all nuclear weapons!

Beside the financial crises and despite the «Climate Change caused by CO
2», we should not forget this. And we shouldn't forget as well, that this – the  abolition of all nuclear weapons – finally is only possible together with the abolition of all nuclear power plants, therefore the switch to Natural Power (electricity from renewable energies) is a pre-requisite. The nuclear conflict in Iran is one but not the only example of this undividable
relation between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. The change in Washington reveals global opportunities, however we need to use and support them actively.

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Extract from a SolarPeace-Letter to the members of the Swiss government, 1.12.2008.  Please see the sources used in «Natural Power – Lifestyle and Necessity» 2)

3) see also «Natural Power – Lifestyle and Necessity», SolarPeace.org, 2.5.2008
 

see «The quantity of radioactivity, which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity spread by a nuclear bomb - significantly larger.», (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist), Atomkraftwerke und Jod-Tabletten: "Risiken und Nebenwirkungen ...", SolarPeace.org, 12.11.2004
 

see «Since a reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt nuclear explosion, and fuel in a reactor has typically been there for an average of two years, a typical nuclear reactor has in its core the long-lived radioisotopes from 30 megatons of fission.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), «Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?», Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001 (see copy page 5 )
 

see Hiroshima nuclear bomb à 12.5 kt (Copy ), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize)
 

see EKZ electricity mix (79% nuclear power), Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich EKZ, 2007
 

see 15 % of all Swiss households use Natural Power. The sale has increased by 63 % in 2007., Swiss Agency for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, 14.8.2008 (Copy )


see "Renewable Energy instead of Nuclear Energy", Dr. Franz Alt, 2007

 

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