Antinuclear

Move to set up Australia’s nuclear waste import industry

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 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international | antinuclear, Australia, Gareth Evans, nuclear, nuclear weapons