Joint Project Workshop 2005
Nuclear renaissance with old NPPs: PLEX and nuclear waste
2005, September 28 - September 30
Vienna, Austria
25 representatives of 18 organisations came together and discussed good arguments and common strategies against plans for a nuclear renaissance. The workshop participants came from: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danmark, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Slovak Republic,and Sweden.
First Session
Problems and risk of PLEX(Plant Life Extension):
Lecture by Helmut Hirsch,
(Scientific consultant / Germany, member of Austrian and German expert commissions, author of Greenpeace reports)
Discussion:
NGO strategies against PLEX projects – status of PLEX projects in different countries
Second Session
Euratom research: nuclear fission, nuclear waste
Presentation by Markus Meissner, AIAE (Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology)
International nuclear waste disposal: IAEA report on multinational approach to nuclear fuel cycle:
Presentation by Antonia Wenisch AIAE (Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology)
Third Session
"Atomic Cafe": learn from each other –developing common strategies against arguments and plans of the nuclear lobby
