Jan Beránek

Already at that time, back in 1989, he had established together with his friend Jakub Patocka an environmental organization Hnuti DUHA (Rainbow Movement), which later (1993) became the Czech branch of Friends of the Earth[1] Soon after the political changes in Czechoslovakia in November 1989, he became a full-time political and environmental activist, and subsequently abandoned the studies.

[2] Has been actively working on issues related to energy, climate change and nuclear power since his studies in late 1980s, with initial focus on the energy policies and the Soviet-designed nuclear power plants in the Czech Republic and other Eastern European countries.

He wrote and contributed to several publications about energy and nuclear power, including three commissioned by national and local governments.

Earlier, he was also involved in detecting and analyzing radioactive contamination at sites in Spain, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.

[3] Since 2017, he has been searching for the fate of his distant relative Silvestr Němec, an interwar employee of Baťa in Singapore, who died in February 1942 as a member of a military unit of Czechoslovak volunteers in city during the Japanese invasion.