Good intentions…taking back nuclear waste, international environmental law, “….former Labor Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s point man on nuclear non-proliferation, echoed last month’s assertion by former Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Bob Hawke that the country had to view the establishment of a nuclear waste industry as a moral, financial and environmental response to climate change by expanding its role in the atomic energy fuel trade and taking back all waste generated in foreign nuclear power plants derived from the uranium it sells on the global market.
Evans’ proposal is at odds with the current policies of the Rudd government, which maintains that it will not import nuclear fuel waste,
March 15, 2010
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holding it from Darwin and from Canberra is a good way of staying a long way away from where the people are genuinely the most angry and have the most to lose
Senators urged to visit planned waste dump site – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 15 March 2010, The Greens say a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government’s proposed radioactive waste management legislation will not visit the site of the proposed dump.The only location the Government is now considering is Muckaty Station, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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Uranium Major Niger Urged to Review Contracts, ABC News, NIAMEY (Reuters) 14 March 2010, – The new junta ruling in Niger, one of the world’s biggest uranium producers, should review and possibly renegotiate dozens of resource exploitation contracts, civil rights groups said on Saturday. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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one key document, an anthropological report, is missing.
Earthquake fears over nuclear dump site, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Jane Bardon and Emma Masters, Mar 12, 2010 Reports into the suitability of the site chosen by the Federal Government for a nuclear waste dump say more scientific investigation is needed into the threat of earthquakes around the Tennant Creek region. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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Medical students unaware of radiation hazard, IBTHealth -15 Mar, 2010, Over half of medical students and junior doctors underestimate the amounts of radiation involved in regularly ordered scans with 25 per cent wrongly accept that magnetic resonance imaging emits radiation. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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CT scans overuse causes cancers: report, The West , AAP, March 15, 2010, Senior radiologists have called for doctors to stop the indiscriminate ordering of CT scans, which can cause cancer.Medical research has found that more than 400 new cases of cancer a year in Australia are attributable to diagnostic radiology. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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