- The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 [soon after the Hiroshima bombing]. This age was begun by the then US president Eisenhower when he launched his "Atoms for Peace" program.

- However, the use of nuclear power has never been "peaceful". Half a century has passed since Eisenhower's speech, yet our planet with a disturbing legacy of nuclear waste – which will remain radioactive for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

- No safe solution for nuclear waste disposal exists anywhere in the world today; moreover nuclear installations [both military and civil] have a sad record of accidents.

- Nuclear reactors emit by products that can be gathered and used for the fabrication of nuclear weapons.

- Originally the processing was a military technology to construct atomic weapons.

- Every nuclear plant creates plutonium, high grade uranium-235 isotopes and MOX [mixed oxide] w

- Most of the current proposals dealing with nuclear waste involve it being buried. However, whether the storage, the store itself or the surrounding rocks will offer sufficient protection for thousands of years is highly doubtful.

- This is a complicated and hazardous chemical process that creates a tremendous amount of radioactive waste much greater in volume than that contained in the nuclear reactor.

- Reprocessing facilities in France [La Hague] and in the UK [Sellafield] are the largest sources of radioactive pollution upon the European continent.

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