Today we are commemorating the victims of nuclear disasters,
the innocent victims of Novozemesky and Semipalatisnky nuclear
testing sites, those who got under the radioactive cloud from
Chernobyl, dozens of thousands of Chernobyl liquidators who
passed out prematurely, submariners who died in the accident
with the Komsomolets submarine and other submarines, and the
victims of the disaster and pollution from the Mayak plant
and other nuclear facilities.
The state has been trying to forget and avoid responsibility
for the life and health of hundreds of thousands Russian citizens
living in the territories with radioactive pollution, such
as Bryansk, Tula, Oryol, Kaluga, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk,
Irkutsk and other regions, Yakutia, Altai, Matitime, Baikal
and Krasnoyarsk areas, as well as to forget about the consequences
of dozens of underground “peaceful” nuclear tests conducted
in Russia.
We can not agree with the ideas that “it is high time to
forget Chernobyl and the consequences of the cold war” neither
from moral grounds nor from academic views: all these consequences
of nuclear pollution will affect the health of several further
generations. These policies led to the situation when many
thousands of involuntary hostages of the nuclear sector can
not get just compensations.
The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO considers the
following problems be the most acute:
- delaying the solution of the problem of evacuation of residents
of the villages on the brinks of the nuclear polluted Techa
river in the Chelyabinsk region due to the Mayak disaster;
- imports of foreign uranium into Russia for complementary
enrichment and increasing the aggregate radioactive waste
in Russia;
- plans targeted at turning Russia into a radioactive waste
dump for the world;
- curbing and limiting the research on medical and ecological
consequences of nuclear accidents and disasters;
- ongoing pumping of liquid radioactive waste into geological
horizons in three Russia’s regions.
In the cold war period dangerous radioactive pollution of
the country took place under the slogan of spreading communist
ideas in the world and fight against US imperialism. Today’s
radioactive threats are connected solely with the greed of
the atomic sector heads.
The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO considers
- support of nuclear projects in Iran, Myanmar and a number
of other countries with quite irresponsible political regimes
be politically reckless and contradicting to the principles
of provision of national security of Russia;
- construction of floating nuclear power stations dangerous
and economically unprofitable and their spreading in the world
be politically irresponsible and leading to the collapse of
the nuclear non-proliferation regime;
- crediting of construction works of foreign nuclear power
stations from the Russia’s state budget be inadmissible;
- construction of nuclear power stations in Russia in accordance
with the principle “exporting electricity, profits for Rosatom
and radioactive waste for Russia” be unacceptable;
- development of uranium deposits in the Baikal basin be inadmissible.
On the Memory Day of Nuclear Disasters Victims the Russian
United Democratic Party YABLOKO states that revision of the
system of compensations and benefits to the nuclear disasters
victims and their descendants on the basis of objective data
on chromosomal disorders and accumulated radiation doses is
required.
Aid to the victims of disasters in Russia’s nuclear sector
should become a moral and political priority of the society
and the state.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chairman of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Action commemorating the victims of nuclear disasters. Press
Release, April 25, 2010
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YABLOKO for Nuclear
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