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SUNDAY 23 APRIL 2006 15:00 – 15:30 Registration 16:00 – 16:15 20 Years after Chernobyl: Welcome A Reflection will lead us “Back to a New Way of
Thinking”, featuring well-known artists from Ukraine and other
European countries. Halyna Stefanowa, artist from Kyiv, recites texts by the Belarussian writer Swetlana Alexijewitsch as well as poems written by the Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko that also inspired the composition of the requiem “Pripjat. Still Life” by Ukrainian Roman Hurko.
A round table will follow with contributions by the Ukrainian
writer and politician Vladimir Javorivsky, the Ukrainian
journalist Maria Mycio as well as the American filmmaker
Maryann De Leo (Chernobyl Heart). Additionally, there will be the opening of two photo exhibitions:
“Chernobyl – 20 years, 20 lives” by the Danish photographer
Mads Eskesen, introduced by his wife Lilya and “Chornobyl
today. Remembrance for the Future” by the Czech photographer Vaclav
Vasku. MONDAY 24 APRIL 2006 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:20 Welcome - Ralf Fücks – Board of Directors
of Heinrich Boell Foundation, Germany 9:20-10:00 Opening Speech - Prof. Dimitry Hrodzinsky – National Commission on the radioactive protection of the people of Ukraine, Ukraine - Renate Künast - Floor Leader, Alliance 90/The Greens, National Parliament, Germany 10:00-11:45 Panel I: CHORNOBYL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES On September 5th 2005, the IAEA and WHO jointly released the report "Chornobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts" which stated inter alia: „As of mid-2005 … fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to radiation from the disaster…..” The IAEA/WHO report sparked widespread censure from radiation experts in the region and the rest of the world who criticized the IAEA and WHO for underestimating the real consequences of the Chornobyl disaster. In reaction to the IAEA/WHO report, new independent studies were commissioned on the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. The findings of these studies will be contained in an independent scientific report "The Other Report on Chernobyl" (TORCH), to be presented to this panel and the Conference. The TORCH report evaluates the environmental and health impacts of Chornobyl from the point of view of independent scientists, and comments on the many scientific limitations of the IAEA/WHO reports. Speaker 1: Dr. Ian Fairlie, Independent Consultant on Radiation in the Environment (presentation of the study), United Kingdom Speaker 2: Prof. Dimitry Hrodzinsky – National Commission on the radioactive protection of the people of Ukraine, Ukraine Chair: Prof. Alexey Yablokov – Chairman of political party “Green Russia”, Russia 11:45-12:00 Coffee break 12:00-13:30 Workshops I The Workshop I topics are organized according to the structure of the TORCH Project. The aim of the workshops is to analyze the specific issues beyond the analysis provided through the TORCH Project on the basis of a Keynote introductory overview and an additional topical presentation. Workshop I A: Environmental
Impact and Status of Reactor Site Speaker 1: Dr. Ed Lyman, Senior Staff Scientist in the Global Security programme, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), USA Speaker 2: John Large, Large and Associates, London Chair: Dr. Gerald Kirchner, German Ministry for Radiation Protection, Germany Workshop I B: Collective
and Individual Dose Evaluations Speaker 1: Prof. Keith Baverstock, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Finland, formerly WHO, United Kingdom Chair: Dr.
Ian Fairlie, Independent Consultant on Radiation in the Workshop I C: General State
of Health After Chornobyl Speaker 1: Dr. Angelika Nyagu, President of Physicians of Chernobyl Speaker 2: Alex Kuzma, Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, Ukraine Chair: Anna Golubovska-Onisimova – President, Mama 86, Ukraine Workshop I D: Different
Kinds of Cancer Speaker 1: Dr. Carmel Mothersill, Research Chair, McMaster University, Canada. Speaker 2: Prof. Wolfgang Köhnlein, Institute for Radiation Biology, Germany Chair: Adi Roche, Chernobyl Children's Project International, Ireland Workshop I E: Non-Cancer
Effects Speaker 1: Dr. Yury Bandazhevski, Honoris Causa Doctor of the Mediterranean University, Belarus Speaker 2: Oksana Garnets, UNDP, Ukraine Chair: Dr. Angelika Claussen, IPPNW, Germany 13:30 - 13:45 Presentation:
Nuclear Problems in and around the Chernobyl Zone. 13:45-15:00 Lunch Break (lunch provided at the conference venue) 15:00-16:30 Panel II: NUCLEAR ENERGY
TODAY – “OPINIONS, MYTHS AND FACTS” Which fundamental risks are inherent in the use of nuclear power (age, reprocessing, nuclear waste treatment, risk of terrorist attacks, possible proliferation)? Has the development of new technology increased security of nuclear power plants? Can the use of nuclear power actually ensure that nuclear technology can not be (ab)used for military purposes? Speaker 1: Antony Froggatt: Global perspectives for nuclear power (including "nuclear reactor hazards?), Independent European Energy Consultant, United Kingdom Speaker 2: John Large, Large and Associates,
London Speaker 3: Shaun Burnie, Greenpeace International: Dangers of nuclear reprocessing, nuclear waste and proliferation, UK Speaker 4: Satu Hassi, Member of European Parliament, Finland Chair: Tobias Muenchmeyer, Greenpeace, Germany 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:00 Workshops II Workshop II A: Nuclear
Economics Speaker 1: Osgur Gurbuz, Turkish Greens (Yesiller), Turkey Speaker 2: Steve Thomas, Senior Research Fellow at the Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich, London, United kingdom Chair: Scott Denman, Co-Director, Collaborations/Comprehensive Strategic Communications Services & Training Workshop II B: Nuclear Wastes
and Nuclear Reprocessing Speaker 1: Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, USA Speaker 2: Sergiy Kurykin, Head of Public Collegium within State Committee for Nuclear Regulation, Ukraine Speaker 3: Detlef Appel, PanGeo – Geowissenschaftliches Büro, Germany Chair: Ivan Blokov, Greenpeace Russia, Russia Workshop II C: Nuclear Proliferation The threat of nuclear technology and know-how as subject for military and terrorist activity. Speaker 1: Alexander Nikitin, Bellona, Russia Speaker 2: Regina Hagen, International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation(INESAP), Germany Speaker 3: Dr. Abdul Hameed Nayyar, SDPI, Pakistan Chair: Reiner Braun, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility, Germany Workshop II D: Nuclear Power in Eastern Europe Characteristics, recent debates and strategies for the region Speaker 1: Ada Amon, Energia Klub (Budapest), Hungary Speaker 2: Andriy Martynyuk, Director, Ecoclub, Ukraine Speaker 3: Pavol Siroky, For Mother Earth (Za Matku Zem), Slovakia Chair: Vladimir Slivyak, Ecodefense, Russia Workshop II E: Sarcophagus and Shelter Speaker 1: Volodymyr Usatenko, former member of the Ukrainian parliament, Ukraine Speaker 2: Yury Urbansky, National Ecological Center of Ukraine Speaker 3: Konstantin Checherov, senior scientist, Russian Scientific Center "Inctitute of Kurchatov" Chair: Dr. Helmut Hirsch, Scientific
Consultant for Nuclear Safety and Risk 18:00-19:00 Break 19:00–20:30 Debate: Energy Policy Beyond Nuclear Ambitions: Linking Visions With Reality In view of increasing oil prices, growing energy demand of upcoming industrial countries as well as the threat of climate change, the global discussion on energy policy intensified during the last months. In countries across the world, the debate on the extension of nuclear energy is being revitalised as can be seen not only in Eastern Europe, but also from EU-countries such as Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, and the U.S., China, India and elsewhere. Due to the economic agreement between Germany and Russia on the construction of a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea (September 2005) and after the Russian-Ukrainian quarrel on gas delivery (beginning of this year) the nuclear lobby of the region was strengthened. Even in Ukraine, the country which suffered most from the consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe, energy policy focuses on the extension of nuclear power. In May last year, the construction of eleven new nuclear reactors until 2030 was proposed and the early commissioning of the two reactors in Rivne and Khmelnytsky is planned. In 1986, the Chornobyl catastrophe kicked off both the environmental and the democracy and independence movement in Ukraine. Paradoxically, in the context of energy dependency from Russia, low energy efficiency and the need to secure jobs and supplies, debates for alternative policies are yet to be rooted. - How is energy-policy in Ukraine
and other Eastern European countries characterized? Speakers 1: Volodymyr Usatenko, former member of the Ukrainian parliament, Ukraine Speakers 2: Olga Milova, Institute for Energetics and Finances, Russia Speakers 3: Mykola Karpan, leader of the expert programs of the Ukrainian Chornobyl Party. Chair: Jens Siegert, Director of Heinrich Boell Foundation, Moscow office, Germany
TUESDAY 25 APRIL 2006 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-10:30 Panel III: Roadmap to a Sustainable Energy Future Energy economics, security of supply as well as the risks of global warming and nuclear disasters represent the major orientation marks for a pathway towards a sustainable energy future. Renewable energy sources as well as energy efficiency will play major roles in strategies for a sustainable energy future. Which role does the world-wide development of renewable energy, as well as efficiency-strategies play? What examples for successful application of alternative strategies do exist? Which energy-strategies are discussed today in Eastern-European countries, specifically in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia? What impact do EU strategies have on it's member countries and neighbors? What examples for successful application of alternative strategies do exist and how can they be transferred to countries such as Ukraine? Speaker 1: Denis Hayes, Earth Day Network, USA Speaker 2: Dr. Reinhard Loske, Member of the German Bundestag, Alliance90/The Greens, Germany Speaker 3: Stefan Kohler, German Energy Agency (DENA), Germany Chair: Sascha Mueller Kraenner, Director for Europe and North America at the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Germany 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Workshops III Workshop III A: Clean Energy Alternatives: Why Nuclear Power is no solution for tackling climate change Speaker 1: Ilya Popov, Center for Nuclear Ecology and Energy Policy of the International Socio-Ecological Union in Moscow, Russia Speaker 2: Dr. Klaus Illum, ECO Consult, Denmark Chair: Michael Mariotte – Nuclear Information and Resource Service, USA Workshop III B: Sustainable Energy Roadmap for Ukraine Speaker 1: Andriy Konechenkov, Renewable Energy Agency, Ukraine Speaker 2: Ken Bossong, Ukrainian-American Environmental, USA Chair: Jorg Haas, Department Head Ecology and Sustainable Development of teh Heinrich Boll Foundation, Germany Workshop III C: International potential of renewable energy and strategies for implementation Speaker 1: Hans-Josef Fell, member of the German Bundestag, spokesperson on Energy Policy, Alliance 90/The Greens, Germany Speaker 2: Ed Smeloff, Sharp Electronic Corporation, Former chief of San Francisco Public Utility Commission, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, USA Chair: Steve Sawyer - Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Workshop III D: Energy Efficiency Speaker 1: Prof. Victoria Vereshchak, Dnepropetrovsk University, Ukraine Speaker 2: Prof. dr. hab. Adam
Gula, the AGH-University of Science and Chair: Peer de Rijk, World Information Service on Energy, Amsterdam 12:30-13:30 Concluding Discussion - Ralf Fücks, Board of Directors of Heinrich Boell Foundation, Germany - Rebecca Harms – Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, Germany - Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970, chairman of Earth Day Network, USA - Anna Golubovska-Onisimova, President, Mama-86, Ukraine 13:30-15:00 Lunch break (lunch provided at the conference venue) 15:00-16:30 PARALLEL NGO-Networking Session Facilitation: Antony Froggatt & Michael Mariotte 15:00-16:30 PRESS CONFERENCE 16:30-16:45 Coffee 16:45-18:00 NGO-Networking Session Facilitation: Antony Froggatt & Michael Mariotte Venue: House of Teachers, Volodymyrska 57, Kyiv Information: Tetyana Murza, tanyam@nirs.org, +380-97-595-2346 Conference languages: English, Ukrainian and Russian. All plenary sessions with simultaneous interpretation to all languages, workshop with standard interpretation. Steering Committee: Agnieszka Rochon, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung-Warsaw, Tetyana Murza, Ecoclub, Michael Mariotte, NIRS, Peer de Rijk, WISE-Amsterdam, Rebecca Harms, The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, Yury Urbansky, National Ecological Center of Ukraine, Anna Golubovska-Onisimova, Mama-86, Vladimir Slivyak, Ecodefence, Tobias Muenchmeyer, Greenpeace, Angelika Claussen, IPPNW
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