Presentations from Cher30byl – Fuku5hima: Beyond Nuclear, 19-20 March

For complete videos of each presentation, see the Greater Manchester & District CND website.

Saturday 19 March

Session 1 – presentations

Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech on the Chernobyl disaster and new energy futures, read out by Alexander Likhotal, CEO and President of Green Cross International (pdf)

Green Cross International Interview with former Japanese PM Naoto Kan on the Fukushima disaster and new energy futures (pdf)

Sean Morris, NFLA, presentation of conference aims and objectives and conference speakers (PowerPoint)

Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear USA – why we need to look to go ‘beyond nuclear’ (PowerPoint)

Session 2 – presentations

Dr Ian Fairlie, independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment – Chernobyl and Fukushima, a comparative study (PowerPoint)

Dr Keith Baverstock, Department of Environment Science, University of Eastern Finland and former Head of WHO Radiation Protection Programme for Europe – What underpins the health effects of radiation at low doses? (PowerPoint)

Professor Tim Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina – Do Nuclear Accidents Generate a “Garden of Eden” for Wildlife? Lessons from the Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters (PowerPoint)

Session 3 – presentations

Professor Keith Barnham, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College – how do we develop a low carbon, non nuclear energy revolution? (PowerPoint)

Reinhard Uhrig, Global 2000 – the Austrian energy debate and why has it embraced renewables? (PowerPoint)

Angelika Claussen, IPPNW Germany – Is Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ delivering a renewable revolution? (PowerPoint)

Sunday 20 March

Campaigners day – presentations

Pete Roche, NFLA Policy Advisor and No2Nuclearpower.co.uk – An overview of the UK anti-nuclear movement and possible ways forward (PowerPoint)

Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear USA – an assessment of the American anti-nuclear movement (PowerPoint)

Andre Lariviere, Sortir du Nuclear – a map of nuclear sites in France, below