Dear WISE

Although environmental issues become one of major public concerns, nuclear power seems getting upper hand in recent year. Many things like go back to the old days, nuclear proponents use fussy arguments trying to confuse the public and politicians.
Only solid facts can dispel these distortions.
Thanks you very much WISE for your hard work, and for supporting us in the past.

Gloria Kiang-Jung Hsu, Taiwan Environmental Protection Union

Dear Friends

Thanks for the excellent publication and for the action you keep carrying out against the idiocy of nuclear business.

We must set up a campaign against EDF which is throwing away public money in the madness of the EPR, the acquisition of British Energy and, worst, the acquisition of Constellation.

Continue your crusade against the criminality of nuclear business.

Fulcieri Maltini
FM Consultants Associates, Italy

“We enjoy the Nuclear Monitor - there's usually a fight between myself and the deputy editor to see who gets to read it first! The only people who really know what the global nuclear industry is up to”.

Mark Allington, Senior Reporter, The Ecologist

“I have found over the years that the information provided is reliable, scientifically sound and presented in a professional and clear manner…. I do not know of any other publication which can match it for relevance, careful screening, brevity and reliability…”

Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Canada. Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award

“We always appreciate and value the information contained in the Nuclear Monitor about the world outside of Japan. We also would like to pay respect to the staff of WISE for their efforts in maintaining and developing such a professional and powerful organization”.

Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, Japan

Hello, All we need is WISE, yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
all we need is WISE ....

Happy Birthday! Go on for another 30 years...

Yours, Georg Löser, President of ECOtrinova e.V.
Germany

The WISE Nuclear Monitor is the most informative and worthwhile item I have ever subscribed to, long may it continue.

Dr.Paul Griffiths, United Kingdom

Many congratulations to WISE on reaching your 30th anniversary. Campaigning against nuclear power is not as sexy as the days in the 1980s when everyone had a "Nuclear Power? No Thanks" sticker in the back window of their Citroen 2CV. Memories of Chernobyl are fading, and talk of a "nuclear renaissance" distracts attention from the real solutions to the climate crisis and threats to energy security. In these dangerous times, the "nuclear monitor" has become an invaluable source of information for (and from) the international struggle against nuclear power and other links in the deadly nuclear chain. Your tireless campaigning against nuclear power, and for a positive energy future, continue to inspire us, For these reasons, we need WISE more than ever. I look forward to helping you celebrating the end of the nuclear nightmare before you reach 40...

David Heller, Friends of the Earth Flanders & Brussels

Hi -- just wanted to pass on that Ned Doyle -- Director of the Southern Energy Environment Expo and close NIRS ally cited the last two Nuclear Monitors (which he called "outstanding") as the basis for his invitation for me to come back on his weekly radio show -- for a two part interview!

Mary Olsen, NIRS USA

Earthlife Namibia congratulates you and all staff members of WISE to the 30th anniversary and sends best wishes for the future. Please except a big hug from all Earthlife members. You are doing high-quality and much needed work. I wish to use this opportunity to thank WISE for the excellent and most educational editions of Nuclear Monitor which we receive since many years. The information is of great help to us and strengthens our anti-nuke campaign. I also want to thank you for great assistance – together with SOMO - before, during and after the Namibian conference “Uranium – a blessing or a curse”, organized by Earthlife and LaRRI in November 2008. The effects of the conference bear fruit already by triggering off serious discussions on the nuclear industry and uranium mining. Information about the dangers of uranium spreads and local people are getting more concerned than ever before, hopefully resulting in public resistance towards the nuclear industry. We trust that many more fruitful activities between WISE and Earthlife are in the pipeline and that together we eventually bring the nuclear industry to its knees.

Warm regards,
Bertchen Kohr for all Earthlife members

I am part of a group which weekly presents an environmental and peace program on the local community radio (3ccc) in central Victoria, Australia, and we regularly base our program on the information so clearly produced by you. We often receive commendations from listeners who are surprised that they are unable to obtain such detailed information from the mainstream media.

Pat Finegan, Radio 3ccc, Australia

Anti-nuclear and alternative energy struggles have achieved many victories over the past decades, and it is important to reflect on these to draw inspiration and strength for the next leg of the campaigns.

WISE, itself, has much to feel proud of. It has a reputation for being a source of innovation, a virtual think tank which has played an invaluable role in providing the arguments and ideas which have helped achieve many victories across the world. Particularly in The Netherlands, the coordinating center for WISE, it has been midwife to a number of activist groups, and has provided the training ground for some of the best known environmental activists in the country today.

The Transnational Institute (TNI) and WISE have had a long-standing relationship. Both are international organizations coordinated from Amsterdam, TNI's traditional focus has been on nuclear weapons and the security establishment, while WISE's has been on nuclear energy and grassroots opposition.

TNI extends hearty congratulations to WISE International on the occasion of WISE's anniversary, and looks forward to exploring opportunities for collaboration on anti-nuclear and alternative energy in the future.

Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute, Paulus