PLAGUE

PLAGE is an apronym and describes the Salzburg platform against nuclear dangers . The members of the PLAGE call themselves "PLAGEgeister".

history

PLAGE was founded on May 20, 1986, shortly after the Chernobyl disaster (April 26, 1986), as a Salzburg platform against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant . By 1987, 120,000 Salzburg signatures had been collected against the reprocessing plant (a total of almost 900,000 objections, 453,000 of them from Austria). In the spring of 1989 the decision was made that the reprocessing plant would not be built. After the WAA ended in 1989, the platform was renamed the Platform Against Nuclear Hazards (PLAGE) .

activities

• In 1987, PLAGE received the Salzburg State Environment Prize .
• In 1988 and 1999, PLAGE collected 400,000 signatures against the Temelín nuclear power plant .
• In 1990 the PLAGE donated medical equipment and medicines worth over 2 million shillings to the victims of Chernobyl.
• In 1991, PLAGE was awarded the Konrad Lorenz Prize .
• In 1991 the longest banner in the world was made against the Temelín nuclear power plant. The 10.6 km long sign of resistance was rolled from Týn to Temelín . In 1993 it was entered in the Guinness Book of Records .
• In 1997 PLAGEgeist Thomas Neff discovered radioactive tachometer disks in ÖBB locomotives . Through his consistent action, together with the ÖBB, he achieved the changeover to harmless speedometer disks and the renovation of the "radiant" workplaces. For this, ÖBB workforce and Neff received the Upper Austria environmental award in  1998.
• 2000 Wackersdorf memorial on Mozartplatz in Salzburg 
  The 2.5 m high “Wackersdorf memorial” in which original parts of the notorious “building fence” around the former “WAA fortress” are used, was erected on July 20, 2000 between Mozartsteg and Mozartplatz (Monument costs around € 5,500). Present were u. a. Hans Schuierer (former District Administrator of Schwandorf), Josef Reschen (former Mayor of Salzburg) and Mayor Heinz Schaden . Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber was invited.
  "The fence of the offense" is dedicated to the responsible citizens, active politicians, personalities from Robert Jungk to Archbishop Karl Berg and the "unknown chaotic".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wackersdorf Monument ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - (PLAGE - Platform against nuclear dangers Salzburg) 
2. ↑ The WAAhnMal ( memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB) - (PLAGE-News, July 12, 2000) 

Web links

• PLAGE - (official site)