[E-rundbrief] Info 1160 - Peace-Nobelprize for the EU - antinuclear protestletter

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1160 - Friedensnobelpreis 2012 an die EU - 
Protestbrief von Anti-Atom-Initiativen an das Nobelpreiskomitee in Oslo.

Bad Ischl, 27.11.2012

Begegnungszentrum fuer aktive Gewaltlosigkeit

www.begegnungszentrum.at

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Friedensnobelpreis 2012 an die EU

Protestbrief von Anti-Atom-Initiativen im Oesterreichischen Netzwerk 
Atomkraftfrei an das Nobelpreiskomitee in Oslo.

Vorbemerkung:

Reinhard Uhrig, Mitarbeiter von GLOBAL 2000, hat gemeinsam mit mir 
meinen Vorschlag eines Protestbriefes an das 
Friedensnobelpreis-Komitee im folgenden Brief umgesetzt. Er wird von 
der Mehrheit der Anti-Atom-Initiativen im Oesterreichischen Netzwerk 
Atomkraftfrei unterstuetzt (siehe unten!).

Unsere Kritik an der EURATOM-Politik der EU wurde zuletzt am 
17.11.2012 in Linz in der Konferenz "Europaweiter Atomausstieg: Eine 
Frage von EURATOM!" verstaerkt artikuliert.

Bis jetzt hat das Nobelpreiskomitee  - ausser mit einer 
Empfangsbestätigung - darauf noch nicht geantwortet.

Matthias Reichl
Begegnungszentrum fuer aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
Bad Ischl
27.11.2012

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To
The Nobel Peace Prize
Henrik Ibsens gate 51
NO-0255 Oslo
Norway

Vienna, 25.10.12

Re: Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union and Nuclear Power

Dear Sir or Madam,

we have been surprised by the decision of the Nobel Peace Prize 
Committee to award this year’s prize to the European Union. However, 
numerous organizations have commented upon the military aspects of the 
EU in relation to this award 
(www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58434), but one aspect has 
so far not been addressed: the radioactive harm the European Union 
continues to promote against its citizens and the environment by 
promoting nuclear power.

One of the founding contracts of the Union is the Treaty establishing 
the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) of 1957. This treaty 
ensures the promotion of civilian nuclear power under the false 
assumption that nuclear power can be controlled by mankind, or, as the 
preamble of the treaty states:

„nuclear energy represents an essential resource for the development 
and invigoration of industry and will permit the advancement of the 
cause of peace“.

In the last 55 years, this treaty has led to biased subsidies for 
“peaceful” nuclear power research and development as well as for 
nuclear power plants, no full liability for operators of nuclear 
plants as well as tax exemptions, distorting the level playing field 
for energy and totally ignoring the insurmountable problem of nuclear 
waste that continues to threaten the existence of mankind for hundreds 
of thousands of years to come. Also, there is an intrinsic link 
between the development of “peaceful” nuclear power plants and the 
nuclear weapons programs of some member states that cannot be denied.

The peaceful intentions of the European Union have thus led to harming 
its citizens through routine emissions of nuclear power plants in 
“normal” operation, through the danger posed by nuclear incidents and 
accidents, and through the unresolved problem of nuclear waste. The 
problems of nuclear power have most notably exposed by the Chernobyl 
catastrophe that polluted 40 % of the surface of the EU above 4000 
radioactive decays of Cesium per square meter.

The European Union will only be at peace with its citizens and its 
environment when it stops irradiating them – and gives up the pretence 
of “peaceful” uses of nuclear power.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee should thus reconsider awarding the 
European Union the prize until the EU has transformed its EURATOM stance.

Yours sincerely

Matthias Reichl
Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
Wolfgangerstr. 26
4820 Bad Ischl

Dr Reinhard Uhrig
GLOBAL 2000
Neustiftgasse 36
1070 Wien

Roland Egger
atomstopp atomkraftfrei leben
Promenade 37
4020 Linz

Hermann Oelberg
A F A Z – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Atomkraftfreie Zukunft
Gumppstrasse 12
6020 Innsbruck

Gabriele Schweiger
Mütter gegen Atomgefahr – Freistadt

Heinz Stockinger
Thomas Neff
PLAGE Plattform gegen Atomgefahren Salzburg
Nonntaler Hauptstr. 86
5020 Salzburg

Irmgard Schmied
Plattform wald4tel.atomkraftfrei

organised in the Oesterreichischen Netzwerk Atomkraftfrei

Contact address for this letter:

GLOBAL 2000 | Neustiftgasse 36 | 1070 Wien | Österreich | M: +43/699 
14 2000 18 | Fax: +43/1/812 57 28 | reinhard.uhrig at global2000.at | 
www.global2000.at


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