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Australian govt will not allow import of nuclear wastes

Rudd slams door on nuclear waste industry  THE AUSTRALIAN Christian Kerr  October 07, 2009 THE Rudd government has rejected calls from former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans for Australia to take back the waste from the uranium it sells.
A spokesman for Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, regarded as a strong supporter of the uranium industry, yesterday referred The Australian to the relevant section of the Labor Party platform. It reads: “Labor will remain strongly opposed to the importation and storage of nuclear waste that is sourced from overseas in Australia.”…………

A site for Australia’s own low-and medium-level nuclear waste is yet to be determined. Low-level radioactive material is presently stored at 105 locations around the country. Labor remains committed to its election pledge to repeal the Howard government’s radioactive waste management act, which would allow the commonwealth to overrule the Northern Territory and locate a waste facility in the Top End.

Rudd slams door on nuclear waste industry | The Australian

October 7, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international, wastes | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive