World Information Service on Energy

The World Information Service on Energy (WISE) is an anti-nuclear group founded in 1978 to be an information and networking center for citizens and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues. The organization advocates the implementation of safe, sustainable solutions such as energy efficiency and, renewable energy.

World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
Formation1978
HeadquartersAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Director
Peer de Rijk
Websitehttps://www.wiseinternational.org/

Since 2001, WISE is affiliated with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).[1]

International Offices

WISE has relay offices in Amsterdam, Argentina, Austria, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Ukraine.[2] The bi-weekly WISE News Communique merged with the NIRS Nuclear Monitor into the Nuclear Monitor[3] and covers the resistance movements working against nuclear power worldwide as well as chronicling the failings of the nuclear industry.

The WISE-International network has been started by WISE-Amsterdam in 1976. WISE-Paris was created in 1983 as part of this network. By the early 1990s the two offices had gone different ways and the international network was de facto dissolved, each of the organisations keeping its name and developing its own activities (including, for WISE-Amsterdam, maintaining a network of correspondents in different countries).

Paris

WISE-Paris[4] is an anti nuclear group that's part of the World Information Service on Energy, established in 1983 because of the perceived lack of independent and reliable information in France concerning energy systems and policy, in particular in the nuclear field.

WISE-Paris archives include several thousand national and international studies, technical, scientific and annual reports, tens of thousands of conference papers, newspaper and magazine articles from the general and technical press, and access to over a thousand electronic databases.

Its former executive director, Yves Marignac has been awarded in 2012 by the Nuclear-Free Future Foundation in the category "Solution".[5]

References
  1. WISE on NIRS (accessed dec 2021)
  2. "Imagine a world without nuclear power... | Wise International".
  3. "Read WISE News Communiques articles". www.antenna.nl. Archived from the original on 1999-10-11.
  4. "Plutonium Investigation". www.wise-paris.org. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  5. "Award - Start NFF Homepage (en)". www.nuclear-free.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
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