Antinuclear

Nuclear news- last week and the coming weeks

Today, as I write this, Martin Ferguson is speaking on ABC Radio, Darwin. He’s explaining how the Federal Government will put a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station, while at the same time will  repeal the Howard Government’s Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act.

So the Muckaty nuclear waste dump will be 1. voluntary (i.e. asked for by some aborigines), and 2. will be for returning Australia’s “own” wastes, originating from Sydney’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor. (No question of radioactive wastes going to any of the States, or on Commonwealth or “whiteys'” land)

Sounds fine, doesn’t it?  Let’s wait and see what happens when Obama gets to Australia in March, to talk about uranium sales to USA, under the GNEP, whereby wastes are to go back to the uranium’s place of origin.

February 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium