Antinuclear

Australia’s nuclear waste danger

Obama’s visit later this year may well lead to Australia becoming an international nuclear waste dump – THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY and RADIOACTIVE WASTES – our theme for June 2010 With the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill, the Australian government is  setting Australia up for a possible later step in the sorry story of nuclear wastes.

The decision to impose a nuclear waste dump on Northern Territory Aboriginal land has been followed quickly by an agreement between the Australian government and President Obama, on sharing nuclear technology. And this will now be followed by Obama’s visit to Australia – just at the time when Obama is in deep trouble over the USA’s growing mass of nuclear wastes.

At the same time, Obama has set up a (somewhat pro-nuclear industry) “Blue Ribbon Panel” to find out what on earth to do with USA’s nuclear wastes

Australia is still signed up to the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation , (that’s the new name for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership), by which uranium -selling countries agree to take back nuclear wastes from overseas countries

June 25, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, uranium, wastes | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, Muckaty, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium