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1 ‘Beyond Nuclear’ Conference
Mechanics Institute Manchester 19th March 2016

2 Aims & objectives To commemorate the Fukushima & Chernobyl anniversaries To understand better the ongoing impacts of both disasters To bring the latest science on the disasters to a wider audience To open up the UK and European nuclear policy debate To highlight and promote the alternatives to nuclear power and fossil fuels for a low carbon future To understand how the UK can pursue renewable energy alternatives from other European energy models

3 Session 1 – the international debate on new nuclear
Chaired by Councillor Kate Chappell Manchester City Council Executive Member for the Environment Sean Morris, UK & Ireland NFLA Secretary Messages from Mikhail Gorbachev and Naoto Kan Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear, USA How can we go ‘beyond nuclear’ around the world? David Reinberger, Vienna Ombus-Office & CNFE, Vienna City Council The Austrian legal challenge to the European Commission on Hinkley C

4 Session 2 – health & ecological impacts of Fukushima & Chernobyl
Chaired by Dr Helen Wallace Executive Director of GeneWatch Dr Ian Fairlie, Independent consultant on radiation in the environment Health effects after the Chernobyl & Fukushima nuclear disasters: a comparison Dr Keith Baverstock, University of Eastern Finland What underpins the health effects of radiation at low doses: mutation or genomic instability Professor Tim Mousseau, University of South Carolina Do nuclear disasters generate a ‘Garden of Eden’ for wildlife? Lessons from the Chernobyl & Fukushima disasters

5 Session 3 – Developing strategy and moving forward
Chaired by Councillor Rilba Jones Executive Member for Health & Equalities, Hull City Council Professor Keith Barnham, Imperial College London The Burning Question – delivering a UK renewables revolution Reinhard Uhrig, Global 2000 / Friends of the Earth Austria The Austrian energy debate and why it has embraced renewables Dr Angelika Claussen, IPPNW Germany Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ and how it is delivering a renewable revolution


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