Earthlife says it is shocked by government’s approval to build a nuclear power plant and to allow uranium enrichment in Namibia. “There are many reasons speaking against nuclear power generation in our country,” said Earthlife, this week... Earthlife said high-level nuclear waste remains radioactive for a long time. Worldwide there is no solution of safe disposal, it said. Earthlife added that nuclear waste is a problem that does not go away because it remains dangerous for at least 200 000 years. 

“Thus we burden many generations to come with a problem we create today. There is a risk of low-level radiation in all stages of the nuclear power process.  Research shows that low-level radiation does have health and environmental implications,” it said.
Earthlife said nuclear accidents are mostly a combination of technological and human failure, so they can never be ruled out completely.  A nuclear accident can have terrible impacts on many generations to come, it said. “The consequences of the nuclear explosion at the power station of Chernobyl 20 years ago still burden many people and the environment.”
Earthlife said the nuclear industry lobby and pro-nuclear politicians wants people to believe that nuclear power is climate friendly.
“This is not true.  On the international market no carbon credit is given for nuclear power generation,” it said.
Earthlife said the whole fuel cycle of nuclear power, from mining uranium to the decommissioning of the power station, releases three to four times more carbon dioxide per unit of energy produced than renewable energy.
“Nuclear energy is, on average, between two and four times more expensive than electricity produced from fossil fuels.  The enormous costs of decommissioning the nuclear power station and dealing with nuclear waste are not included.  The social and environmental costs associated with nuclear power, from uranium mining to disposal of nuclear waste, are never included in the project costs,” Earthlife said.