Antinuclear

Rudd govt cowardly about nuclear waste obligations

Australia is contractually obliged to take back from France the reprocessed nuclear waste from ANSTO’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.

The Rudd government, like the Howard government is just too cowardly to explain this truth to the Australian people, and then to act sensibly and honorably.

The government could choose Commonwealth land, take back the existing waste, close down Lucas Heights, and finish this problem.

But, no. The Rudd government will con and bribe the citizens least able to resist, – the aborigines, – in the Territory least able to resit, the Northern Territory.

If that were not enough of cowardice and hypocrisy, the Rudd government is then likely to use ANSTO to open the door to the return of radioactive wastes to Australia. A very lucrative industry for a few big players, including the uranium mining companies.

No sensible housewife would even plan a meal in the knowledge that the house would be left with permanent, unfixable, toxic waste. But then what government would ask the opinion of a sensible housewife?

October 31, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes