TierraVida Foundation toghether with the organisations CEDHA, Eco-Sitio (from Villa María), Greenpeace, Los Verdes-FEP and Red Nuestra Córdoba launched a plataform to demand that the Province of Córdoba abandon nuclear activities.
Last December 13th, TierraVida Foundation toghether with the organisations CEDHA, Eco-Sitio (from Villa María), Greenpeace, Los Verdes-FEP and Red Nuestra Córdoba launched a platform to demand that the Province of Córdob aabandon nuclear activities before January 1st 2014.
The #CordobaNoNuclear Campaign will power actions to disseminate and make visible the nuclear problem of the province, specifically in regard to the life extension of the nuclear reactor Embalse, 100 kilometers from the city, theneed for Dioxitek’s closure and strict compliance of the ban onuranium miningestablished by the 9526 Act.
From the site www.cordobanonuclear.org we invite Cordoba’s society to join this campaign for a cleaner and safer province in energy matters. Membership is opento all individuals, groups, movementsor organizationsin the province who wish to join as sponsors and activists of this initiative.
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Thecountry is facingan energy crisisthat forces him toredefine the way forwardin the coming decades. Argentina can deepen the fossil and nuclear paradigm that led to the current crisis, or start atransition to renewable, clean and safe energies to ensure their supply.
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The Embalse Nuclear Power Plant is an unprecedented casein the country. It is the first atomic plant that reaches the end ofits useful lifeand Argentina should define the policy that needs to be adopte dregarding the country’s obsolete reactors: definitive closure, or extendits operationfor more 30 years.
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Extending the plant’s operationis not desirable fromthe stand point of energy nor cost. As for their electric production, the plant contributes less than 3% of the national total. Law 26.190 establishes an 8% renewableby 2016, a figure that would replace and surpass the contribution of Embalse. Also, the actual costs of extending are actor like Embalseare in the order of U.S.$ 4,300million, an investment that would be better capitalized if add ressing the development of clean energy sources, safe and renewable.
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Cordoba has already began the transition to abandon atomic energy. In 2008 passed the Act 9526 which prohib it smining of uranium and thorium. Meanwhile, the municipality of Córdoba city has enacted Ordinance No.8133 about land use, which prohibits a uranium purification plant like Dioxitek, from being located in a neighborhood category 2, such as Alta Córdoba, and in 2012 agreed the closure and relocation of the plant. It is necessary to ensure compliance with these objectives, and further dropping atomic activities by closing the Embalse Plant.
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While medical radioisotope productioncan not be done without encouraging the use of small reactorsof this type, we believe that this problem is not comparable with the danger, the economic and energy unreasonable nessand the proliferation of weapons of war that do generate the above activities. The platform”Cordoba No Nuclear” is not opposed to the medicinal uses of nuclear energy.