“In less than one minute I’m on the other side of the fence, I follow the road on the ‘cold zone’ and walk to the gate.” Anja Hermans, a Belgian environmental activist, discovered it was duck soup to get on the premises of the nuclear power plant at Doel near Antwerp. She wrote down her observations, took pictures and warned the authorities, trying to blow the whistle on the sloppy safety of the nuclear sit ...

Documents have emerged in the German press showing that policeman Karl Heinz Kurras, who shot student Benno Ohnesorg during a demonstration in West-Berlin in 1967, was a spy for the East-German secret police STASI. After trial, Kurras was acquitted due to lack of evidence. The shot that killed Ohnesorg on June 2 1967,  was to gain profound influence on the history of post-war Germany.  Soon after the fatal ...

“Did you know people are protesting every day in front of the WHO offices in Geneva against access of the International Atomic Energy Agency to all WHO communications with a right to veto nuclear related content?” A friend who sent me a clipping on Chernobyl children, came up with the question. Unaware of the tightly-knit relationship between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and WHO, I did some ...

by Adelei van der Velden, freelance journalist “If they will really follow through on this ridiculous plan, I will definitely move,” says Anne[1]. She is one of the many angry inhabitants of Barendrecht, a Dutch village at some 15 minutes by train to Rotterdam, Europe’s largest harbour. She’s angry because a project is planned to store CO2 in empty gas fields under her hometown of Barendrecht. In the Nether ...