Conference Program
The conference language is English.
Speakers and Panel Members (or click on the person's name below)
Friday 27th
12:00-13:00 Lunch.
13:00-13:15 Opening by Milkas.
13:15-14:15 The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age, Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Canada; winner of the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Education Award and renowned atomic photographer Robert Del Tredici (founder of the Atomic Photographer's Guild), Canada.
14:15-14:30 Break.
14.45-15:15 Uranium Mining, overview, Peter Diehl, WISE-uranium.
15:15-15:45 Uranium Mining in Africa and France, Bruno Chareyron, CRIIRAD (Commission de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur la RADioactivité / Commission for Independent Research and Information about RADiation), France.
15.45-16:00 Uranium Mining in Sweden, The Ranstad Case, Jan Lindholm, Falbygden's Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsförening) and www.nejtilluranbrytning.nu, Sweden.
16:00-16:15 Break.
16:15-16:45 Nuclear Proliferation, Ulla Klötzer, Women for Peace, Finland.
16.45-17:15 Recycling Nuclear Waste, Diane D´Arrigo, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, USA.
17:15-18:15 Dinner.
18:15-19:30 Workshops
Uranium Mining, moderator, Miles Goldstick, The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement, Sweden. Introduction by John Graham, Tuchone-Canadian from the Yukon Territory, covering the impact of uranium mining on Indigenous people in Canada and the USA (by telephone from his house arrest in Vancouver, BC, Canada, see www.grahamdefense.org).
Recycling Nuclear Waste, moderator Diane D´Arrigo.
Proliferation, moderator, Ulla Klötzer, Finland.
Saturday 28th
09:00-09:30 Decommissioning, David Lowry, U.K., 2001 Nuclear-Free Future Special Recognition Award Recipient.
09:30-10:00 The Decision Making Process for Dealing with Spent Fuel, Gordon Edwards, Canada.
10:00-10:30 Questions.
10:30-11:00 Break.
11:00-12:00 Options for Management of Spent Nuclar Fuel: Very Deep Boreholes, Lisa Hedin, The Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG); Dry Rock Deposit, Nils-Axel Mörner; KBS-3, Olle Olsson, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB)
12:00-13:00 The Environmental Consequences of Final Storage Schemes, Chairperson, Ulla Klötzer, Women for Peace, Finland; panel members: Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Canada; Björn Hedberg, The Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste (Statens råd för kärnavfallsfrågor, Kasam); Olov Holmstrand, The Waste Network, Sweden (Avfallskedjan); Olle Olsson, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB); Diane D´Arrigo, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, USA.
13:00-14:00 Lunch.
14:00-14:20 Low-Level Waste, Releases to Air and Water, Gunnar Lindgren, Environmental Researcher, Sweden.
14:20-14:40 The Radioactive Contamination of the Baltic Sea, Per Hegelund, The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement, Sweden.
14:40-15:00 Nuclear Waste in Russia, Oleg Bodrov, Green World, Russia.
15:00-15:15 Questions.
15.15-15:30 Break.
15:30-16:00 IAEA Waste Dump Project, Antonia Wenisch, Austrian Institute for Applied Ecology, Austria.
16:00-16:20 Euratom and Nuclear Waste Management, Antony Froggatt, UK.
16:20-16:40 Networking, John Mouat, KIMO Project Co-ordinator, KIMO - Local Authorities International Environmental Organisation.
16:40-17:00 Questions.
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 29th
Session open to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) only.
9:30 - 14:00
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